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Seoul International Drama Awards 2024 now open to entries

Published Mar 13, 2024 04:12 am

The Seoul International Drama Awards 2024, a worldwide drama festival, opened the submission of entries for this year’s event. 

Seoul Drama Awards Organizing Committee, led by the Chairman Park Min, announced the tentative schedule for the year:  the entry submission is from March 11 to May 16), judging and the online fan voting (June to July), and the awards ceremony and the related events in October.

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 SDA 2023 Golden Bird Prize winner Choi Min-Sik Choi of "Casino" (SDA)

The SDA 2024 runs two main categories: International Competition and the K-Drama Competition. 

The International Competition selects outstanding works from around the world including K-dramas but the K-Drama Competition is only for domestic programs that chooses the best dramas produced by Korean production companies or broadcasters. 

Entries should initially be broadcast or released between June 1, 2023 and June 30, 2024.

The Outstanding Asian Star and the Outstanding Korean O.S.T winners will be selected 100 percent by fan voting. 

The Golden Bird Prize. which was established last year, will be chosen by SDAOC to honor remarkable achievements or influential works in the industry. 

Last year’s Golden Bird Prizes were awarded to Choi Min-Sik Choi for the Disney+ film “Casino, who has recently been the biggest hit in Korean box office with “Exhuma,” and “Casino,” directed by Yoon-Sung Kang.

The festival will take place in Banpo Hangang Park in Seoul. It will include talk concerts with award-winning production teams, and various promotion events for upcoming Korean dramas.

Annually, more than 50 countries participate in the Seoul International Drama Awards, which started in 2006 as the world's first drama-specialized awards. 

SDA plays a significant role in discovering high quality dramas around the world. 

The 2023 Grand Prize winner “The Fragile Colossus” was selected as the Best TV Movie at the C21 International Drama Awards held in London on Nov. 30. Also, Nima Javidi, who won Best Screenwriter award for “The Actor,” received the Best Director award at the 22nd Iran Hafez Awards.

The committee said that “due to the popularity of K-dramas, overseas interest in the international drama festival held in Korea is also hot.” 

“Since from the big titles of worldwide market to the diverse genres are waiting for the submission, it is worth looking forward to this year’s festival as well,” the SDAOC said. 

Among the winners at the 18th Seoul International Drama Awards (SDA) were Park Eun-bin, Filipino actress Kathryn Bernardo, Thai actor Gun Atthaphan Phunsawat and the hit drama “The Glory.” 

The Seoul International Drama Awards ceremony is held annually in the fall, and this year's ceremony will be broadcast live on SBS TV.

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