Popular brand, Sports Chosun organized the second Blue Dragon Series at Paradise City, Incheon, on July 19, 2023, KST, after the smashing success of the first ceremony. Blue Dragon series is the first and only award ceremony in South Korea that specifically felicitates the content and actors of the streaming platforms (OTT). The glitzy award show was hosted by Girl’s Generation’s YoonA and Jun Hyun Moo, and broadcasted in South Korea on its national TV station, KBS 2, and worldwide, the show was live on KB 2’s official YouTube channel.
After the roaring success of the first series of the award ceremony, Sports Chosun returned with the second series of The Blue Dragon Awards. The ceremony has a long list of nominated actors and actresses solely from the OTT platforms. The award nomination included all the dramas aired between May 1, 2022, and May 31, 2023. This year Blue Dragons introduced several new award categories like the Daesang Award (Grand Prize), Original Sound Track (OST) Award and Why Not Award, which is given to an artist, whose work positively changed streaming services. Also, this time round, the logos of numerous streaming platforms were featured during the award show. This suggests that all the nominated dramas and artists come from acclaimed OTT platforms and collaborated with Blue Dragon.
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This time, The Glory won big in the award ceremony; Song Hye Kyo bagged the Daesang (Grand Prize), and her co-star, Lim Ji Yeon won the Best Supporting Actress award. The Best Drama award went to Big Bet, while Siren: Survive the Island took the Best Variety Program award. Bae Suzy won the Best Actress award for her remarkable performance in Anna, while the Best Actor award went to Ha Jung Woo for his role in Narco-Saints. The Best Rookie Actor and Actress awards were won by Park Ji Hoon for Weak Hero Class 1 and Shin Ye Eun for the series Revenge Of Others, respectively.
Just like every award show of the year, Song Hye-Kyo and The Glory dominated the Blue Dragon award ceremony as well. Not only Hye-Kyo received the prestigious Daesang award, which is way above the Best Actress Award, but her co-star, Lim Ji-Yeon received the award for the Best Supporting Actress.
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Other shows that did extremely well in the Blue Dragon Awards are Big Bet, Weak Hero Class 1, and in the non-fiction category, SNL Korea Season 3 is the clear winner.
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Along with the iconic presenter duo, YoonA and Jun Hyun Moo, the award function featured many hosting gigs from talents like Park Chan-yeol, Kim Go-Eun, Kim Shin-rok and more. The ceremony even sizzled with the solo performance of Hwasa on her songs TWIT and Maria. La Chica’s choreographers from Run The Word (Girly) and Bsa performed to congratulate her.
The Blue Dragon Series Award was a star-studded affair which saw the South Korean stars at their glamorous best. Congratulations to all the winners!
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