Our Graduates’ Astounding Accomplishments in Film, Drama, and Theater at the 57^th Baeksang Arts Awards

The artists who graduated from the K-Arts honored our school by sweeping seven awards in the fields of film, drama, and theater at the 57th Baeksang Arts Awards.

Director Lee Jong-pil (Bachelor in Filmmaking, School of Film, TV & Multimedia) won the Best Film Award with Samjin Company English Class (2020). It is a comedy-drama film about three female friends investigating their company’s illegal business. Lee made his debut in 2013 with Born to Sing (2013). As Samjin Company English Class (2020) attracted 157 million audiences despite the COVID-19 pandemic situation, his another success after The Sound of a Flower (2015), Lee solidified his position as a top-grossing director.

Director Hong Eui-jeong (Bachelor in Multimedia, School of Film, TV & Multimedia) seized the Best Director Award with Voice of Silence (2020), which questions the boundary between good and evil. Hong made her debut with a short film, Habitat (2018), and she earned the New Director’s Award at the 41st Blue Dragon Film Awards with her first feature film.

Actor Park Jung-min (Department of Acting, School of Drama) earned the Best Supporting Actor Award with his role as Yui in director Hong Wonchan’s Deliver Us from Evil (2020). Actress Park Ju-hyun (Bachelor in Acting, School of Drama), who played as Bae Gyu-ri in Extracurricular (2020) on Netflix, acquired the Best New Actress Award in Television.

The Technical Award in Television went towards costume designer Jo Sang-kyeong (Bachelor in Stage Design, School of Drama), who adroitly directed costume designs in tvN’s drama series, It's Okay to Not Be Okay (Psycho, But It’s Okay) (2020). Earlier in her career, Jo had won the Best Costume Designer Award in Asian Film Awards with her work in The Handmaiden (2016) and another one again in the Grand Bell Awards with her contribution in Illang: The Wolf Brigade (2018). She actively engages in various projects, crossing fields of theater and screen.

The play “College Scholastic Ability Test 2021: Humanities and Social Sciences” by playwright Jung Jinse (Bachelor in Playwriting, School of Drama) took the Best Short Play Award in Theatre. This February, Jung also adapted the original play “Hamlet” into an online version, re-produced by the National Theater Company of Korea. Showing his competence, Jung is emerging as the next generation’s theater director.

The play, “We Are (Not) Kidding,” written by the late playwright Lee Eun-yong (Bachelor in Playwriting, School of Drama) and presented by Theatre, Definitely, was granted the Baeksang Play Award. Theatre, Definitely is a theater company organized by Khoo Jahye. Co-produced by the Seongbuk Cultural Foundation, the work won praise for casting a question of being at the boundary in the black-and-white-thinking society through a topic of transgender.