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Actor Lee Seung-gi and Joo Sang-wook became the main characters of this year’s KBS Drama Awards.
Lee Seung-gi and Joo Sang-wook jointly won the grand prize at the “2022 KBS Drama Awards” held at KBS New Building in Yeouido-dong, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul on the 31st.
Lee Seung-gi, who won the grand prize for drama ‘Love as the Law’, attended the event with a shaved head.
He explained: “There are many people who assume that my haircut is a change in my personal mindset, but I shaved my head because I was making the movie ‘Big Family’ in which I played the role of a monk.”
Lee Seung-gi said, “This year has probably been the most difficult year in my life. In fact, I seem to have thought hundreds of times whether I should come to the awards ceremony today or ask for your understanding and not attend “.
He said, “As many of you know, I have a personal matter, so it bothers me to come to a festival like this and laugh like that, and sitting with a blank expression doesn’t feel like a duty, so I think he was acting on a whim.”
“There’s only one reason I decided to participate,” she said. “Because a drama is made by a team, I thought the efforts of the staff and actors who put their sweat, effort and soul into this drama shouldn’t be ignored because of my personal problems,” he said.
Lee Seung-gi said, “I think the award I received this year is meant to commend the contributions of the staff and actors who made ‘Love as the Law’.”
Lee Seung-gi, who has been involved in a legal battle with his former agency Hook Entertainment over not receiving a single penny of music usage compensation in the past 18 years since his debut, also expressed his honest feelings to about.
Lee Seung-gi said, “Next year, the year after, and for the young people who will be sitting here 10 or 20 years later, to find the right to take for granted, I decided that I would not approve on this kind of work that I had to fight and win,” adding: “Many people encouraged me. It gave me a lot of strength,” he said.
Lee Seung-gi, who debuted his first album ‘Dream of a Moth’ and title song ‘Because You’re My Woman’ in 2004, gained explosive popularity in a short period of time as soon as he debuted , causing the “big sister” syndrome.
Subsequently, he took on the role of the crown prince in the drama “Famous Child Princesses” (2006) and began to gain fame as an actor, and in the variety show “1 Night 2 Days” (2007), he unexpectedly received great love by viewers for its “gap” look.
Lee Seung-gi appeared in the dramas ‘My Girlfriend is a Gumiho’ (2010), ‘The King 2 Hearts’ (2012) and ‘Vagabond’ (2019).
He hosted the variety shows ‘Strong Heart’, ‘Master in the House’ and ‘Singer Gain’.
Joo Sang-wook, who won first prize with Lee Seung-gi for drama ‘Taejong Lee Bang-won’, said, “I made my debut 25 years ago with a small role in a KBS youth drama, and I am so grateful to receive this award.”
Then, he said, “The weight and pressure of the historical drama was so heavy that I couldn’t handle it myself.”
He also thanked his family.
Referring to his mother, daughter and mother-in-law, he finally expressed his affection, saying, “I love my one and only wife, Cha Ye-ryun, who is always by my side.”
Joo Sang-wook made his debut in 1998 with KBS 1TV’s ‘New Generation Report – Adults Don’t Know’.
Since then, he has appeared in the dramas ‘Queen Seondeok’ (2009), ‘Good Doctor’ (2013), ‘Glamorous Temptation’ (2015) and the films ‘My Wife Got Married’ (2008) and ‘The Three Musketeers of Corea’ (2014).
The following are the winners in each category other than grand prize.
▲ Top Excellence Award Park Jin-hee, Ha Ji-won, Kang Ha-neul, Do Kyung-soo ▲ Excellence Award for Miniseries Kang Han-na, Lee Hye-ri, Lee Joon ▲ Excellence Award for Feature Drama Park Ji -young, Lee Ha-na, Yoon Si-yoon, Lim Ju-hwan ▲ Best Couple Award Kang Ha-neul, Ha Ji-won, Kim Seung-soo, Kim So-eun, Na In-woo & Seohyun, Do Kyung -soo, Lee Se-hee, Yoon Si-yoon, Bae Da-bin, Lee Seung-gi, Lee Se-young, Lee Joon-na, Kang Han-na ▲ Lee Se-hee, Jeong Su Popularity Award -jeong, Kang Ha-neul, Do Kyung-soo ▲ Outstanding Award for Daily Drama category Park Ha-na, Cha Ye-ryun, Baek Seong-hyeon, Yang Byeong-yeol ▲ Supporting actor Park Ji-yeon, Ye Ji-won, Seong Dong -il, Heo Seong-tae ▲ Drama Special TV Cinema Award Shin Eun-soo, Cha Hak-yeon ▲ Newcomer Kang Mi-na, Seohyun, Jeong Ji-so, Byun Woo-seok, Lee Yu-jin, Chae Jong-hyeop ▲ Youth Acting Award Yoon Chae-na, Jung Min-joon
/yunhap news
