Kkondae Intern, the Korean television series starring actors Park Hae-jin and Kim Eung-soo, won several major awards at the 30th edition of the MBC Drama Awards, which was broadcast on South Korean TV channel MBC TV on December 30. While Kkondae Intern won the Best Drama of the Year award, Park won the Daesang, or the Grand Prize, for his performance in the show.
This is the first time that Park has won the award.
“I’m not sure if it’s okay for me to receive this award. It’s the Daesang, and I feel a weight on my shoulders. This was my first project with MBC since I received the Best New Actor award 12 years ago in 2008. Thank you for this great award,” Park Hae-jin said, as reported by Soompi.
Park won the Best New Actor award in 2006 with the KBS (Korean Broadcasting System Netwok) drama Famous Chil Princesses.
Kkondae Intern is a workplace comedy-drama that revolves around a man who seeks revenge from his former bosses for making his life miserable during his days as a fresher.
The MBC Drama Awards, presented annually by the Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation to honour outstanding Korean dramas aired on its network, was held at the MBC Public Hall in Seoul on Tuesday.
Kkondae Intern actor Kim Sun-young won Best Supporting Actress, while actor Kim Eung-soo won the Top Excellence Award.
Another show that did well at the awards was the thriller, Kairos, which won four awards.
Kairos stars actors Shin Sung-rok and Man Gyu-ri won the Top Excellence Award for an Actor in a Monday-Tuesday Drama Or Short Drama, and the Excellence Award for an Actress in a Monday-Tuesday Drama or Short Drama, respectively. Another Kairos actor, Ahn Bo-hyun, won the Best New Actor Award.
365: Repeat the Year was next in line with three wins, with the Top Excellence Award for an Actress in a Monday-Tuesday Drama Or Short Drama going to actor Nam Ji-hyun, the Excellence Award for an Actress in a Monday-Tuesday Drama or Short Drama going to Lee Joon-hyuk , and the Best Supporting Actor award going to Lee Sung-wook.
Find Me in Your Memory won two awards, with Kim Seul-gi winning the Excellence Award for an Actress in a Wednesday-Thursday Drama, and Kim Dong-wook and Moon Ga-young winning the Best Couple Award.
Kim Hye-joon of CHIP-IN and Shim Yi-young of My Wonderful Life won the Best New Actress award and the Golden Acting Award, respectively.
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Im Soo-hyang, who stars in When I Was the Most Beautiful, won the Top Excellence Award for an Actress in a Wednesday-Thursday Drama.
Lim Joo-hwan won the Excellence Award for an Actor in a Wednesday-Thursday Drama for her performance in two TV series, namely, The Game: Towards Zero and The Spies Who Loved Me.
As per a Soompi report, all the Covid-related restrictions and precautions were in place, including compulsory mask wearing, social distancing rules, setting up of individual partitions between tables, and trophies being placed on tables for winners to pick up, so as to minimise hand-to-hand contact.
The award ceremony will be made available online on the platform Viki.