K-Arts Artists Collect Awards Across Categories in the 59^th Baeksang Arts Awards

The artists of K-Arts came into the limelight with their achievements in the 59^th Baeksang Arts Awards. Director Jung July, MA of Filmmaking, earned the Best Screenplay and the Gucci Impact Award for Next Sohee (2022), a film about a high school student Sohee who undergoes terrifying occasions after starting a job training at a call center and detective Oh Yu-jin who follows traces of her to unveil the truth. The Gucci Impact Award recognizes the film’s contribution to making a better future by giving a voice to unsaid social justice. Jung’s Next Sohee (2022) was selected as the closing film for the 75^th Cannes Film Festival the previous year, having received accolades. Cinematographer Lee Mo-gae, MA of Filmmaking, won the Technical Award with Hunt (2022).

Actor Byun Yohan (BA of Acting) took the Best Supporting Actor in Film for playing the antagonist character of Wakisaka, an adversary to admiral and military general Lee Sun-sin, in Hansan: Rising Dragon (2022). Actress Lim Jiyeon, BA of Acting, won the Best Supporting Actress in TV for playing Park Yeonjin, a notorious villain that gave birth to the buzzword, “Yeonjin-ah,” in Netflix’s The Glory (2022-2023).

In Theater, Doosan Art Center’s theatrical work, “No Winner in This Election” by playwright Lee Yeonju, MA of Playwriting, won the Baeksang Play Award. Another theatrical piece, “A Little Lonesome Monologue and All-Time Fond Songs” by The Now Archive, a theater company led by actress Bae Sunhee, BA of Acting, acquired the Youth Award for Theater. Bae wrote and staged the play.