New Year 2024 begins with the announcement of the JTBC Drama Awards 2023, which will honor K-drama actors and shows on the network. Welcome to Samdalri, Destined With You, and King The Land are a few dramas nominated for various awards.
Earlier, networks like MBC and KBS held live broadcasts of their drama awards. The 2023 JTBC Drama Awards, on the other hand, have not announced any live-streaming details yet. So far, the network has informed viewers that the winners will be announced on Wednesday, January 3, 2024.
JTBC is one of the biggest networks in the Korean entertainment industry. Some of the hit dramas are part of the network and are on the nominations list.
2023 JTBC Drama Awards winners to be based on people’s vote
JTBC released the 2023 JTBC Drama Awards nominations list on their official X (formerly Twitter) handle on December 26, 2023. It mentioned that the winners will be based on people’s votes. The voting lines were open from December 26 to December 31, 2023, and the network will announce the winners on January 3, 2024.
Under the Best Couple Award category, Welcome to Samdalri’s Ji Chang-Wook and Shin Hye-Sun are nominated. The other nominated couples include:
- The Interest of Love: Moon Ga-Young, Yoo Yeon-Seok
- The Good Bad Mom: Lee Do-Hyun, Ahn Sun-Jin
- King the Land: Lee Jun-Ho, Im Yoon-Ah
- Destined With You: Rowoon, Jo Bo-Ah
- Behind Your Touch: Lee Min-Ki, Han Ji-Min
- Strong Girl Nam-Soon: Lee Yoo-Mi, Ong Seong-Wu
Last year, the aforementioned shows became instant hits. While Welcome to Samdalri is still ongoing on JTBC and Netflix, Destined With You and Strong Girl Nam-Soon were the highest-rated K-dramas of 2023. King the Land was also one of the best rom-com dramas of last year.
Interestingly, Destined With You’s Rowoon has already bagged several honors in the latest KBS Awards 2023. He bagged Top Excellence (Actor), Best Couple Award, and Popularity Award for his show, The Matchmakers.
Meanwhile, JTBC Drama Awards 2023 is set to announce winners on Wednesday.