The Asia Contents Awards & Global OTT Awards 2024 (ACA & G.OTT Awards 2024) unveiled the lineup of hosts, presenters and performers.
The ACA & G.OTT Awards 2024 is organized by the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) and National IT Industry Promotion Agency and will be held at 6 p.m. KST on Oct. 6 at the BIFF Theater of the Busan Cinema Center in South Korea.
Actor Kang Ki-young and K-pop idol and actress Tiffany Young will be the hosts of the awards ceremony.
Kang Ki-young and Tiffany Young (right) (Photos from ACA & G.OTT Awards 2024)
Kang Ki-young appeared in “Extraordinary Attorney Woo,” which won the ACA Best Content Award in 2022.
Tiffany is nominated this year for Best Newcomer Actor (female) category in the ACA & G.OTT Awards for “Uncle Samsik.”
Among the presenters are Korean actors Ryu Seung-ryong and Lee Jung Ha, who each received the Best Lead Actor (male) Award and Best Newcomer Actor (male) Award in last year’s ACA & G.OTT Awards for their performance in “Moving.” Chen Yan-Fei will also be a presenter alongside Zhou Dongyu.
Also joining as presenters are Taiwanese actor Austin Lin, whose performance in “I WeirDO” “Marry My Dead Body” gathered the attention of an international audience; Vivian Sung, who previously visited Busan in 2015 for “Our Times”; Shenina Cinnamon; and Yusuf Mahardika.
(Clockwise from top left) Ryu Seung-ryong, Lee Jung Ha, Austin Lin, Shenina Cinnamon, Chen Yan-Fei, Zhou Dongyu, Vivian Sung and Yusuf Mahardika (Photo from ACA & G.OTT Awards 2024)
The performers at the ceremony will be Korean band Nerd Connection and K-pop group TRI:BE.
TRI:BE (top) and Nerd Connection (Photo from ACA & G.OTT Awards 2024)
Meanwhile, for the People’s Choice Award, a new award category this year, a total of about 600,000 votes were made by global voters collected through Kinolights.
The recipients are Kim Hye-yoon and Byeon Woo-seok of the drama “Lovely Runner.”
Byeon Woo-seok and Kim Hye-yoon in "Lovely Runner" (tvN)
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