2nd Blue Dragon Series Awards (2025)

21 July 19, 2023July 19, 2023

2nd Blue Dragon Series Awards

by missvictrix

Last year we saw Korea’s famous Blue Dragon Film Awards expand to include streaming content and miniseries with their new Series Awards arm. Now, the awards are in their second year, and this year’s winners? Well, there are some names here that make me want to pump my fist in the air in victory. And then there are some that just feel like popularity nominations. But I’m nice, so I won’t name names.

Here’s the list of noms and winners for the drama-specific categories (the awards period ran from May 2022-May 2023).

GRAND PRIZE (DAESANG)

Song Hye-gyo (The Glory)

BEST DRAMA

The Glory
Bargain
Narco-Saints
Weak Hero Class 1
Big Bet

BEST ACTOR

Jin Seon-gyu (Bargain)
Ha Jung-woo (Narco-Saints)
D.O. (Bad Prosecutor)
Choi Min-shik (Big Bet)
Lee Sung-min (Shadow Detective)

BEST ACTRESS

Jeon Yeo-bin (Glitch)
Song Hye-gyo (The Glory)
Jung Ryeo-won (May It Please the Court)
Suzy (Anna)
Kim Seo-hyung (Recipe for Farewell)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Park Sung-hoon (The Glory)
Chang Ryul (Bargain)
Jo Woo-jin (Narco-Saints)
Kim Jun-han (Anna)
Lee Dong-hwi (Big Bet)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Im Ji-yeon (The Glory)
Lee Elijah (Bait)
Jung Eun-chae (Anna)
Kim Joo-ryung (Big Bet)
Kyung Soo-jin (Shadow Detective)

BEST NEW ACTOR

Kim Ki-hae (Duty After School)
Moon Sang-min (Duty After School)
ASTRO’s Cha Eun-woo (Island)
Park Ji-hoon (Weak Hero Class 1)
Bae In-hyuk (Cheer Up)

BEST NEW ACTRESS

Shin Ye-eun (Revenge of Others)
Cha Joo-young (The Glory)
Kwon Eun-bin (Duty After School)
Han Ji-hyun (Cheer Up)
EXID’s Hani (Hit the Spot)

Song Hye-gyo

Suzy, Ha Jung-woo

Im Ji-yeon, Lee Dong-hwi

Shin Ye-eun, Park Ji-hoon

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Tags: awards, Bargain, Big Bet, Ha Jung-woo, Im Ji-yeon, Lee Dong-hwi, Narco-Saints, Park Ji-hoon, Shin Ye-eun, Song Hye-gyo, Suzy, The Glory, Weak Hero Class 1

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1 kiara

July 19, 2023 at 3:20 PM

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What the what? BD is more credible with films IMO.

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2 Minnie🫘👩🏻‍🚀Pioneer and Teacher 👩🏻‍🏫🌱🏹

July 19, 2023 at 4:06 PM

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How is Cha Eun Woo a new actor? From what angle? What did they smoke?

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Britney

July 19, 2023 at 9:44 PM

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I think their version/definition of "new actor" is someone who hasn't been nominated for this particular award or field

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Unaspirated

July 20, 2023 at 6:00 AM

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Yeah, this is how you get Seo In-guk nominated for best new actor at the Baeksangs this year. It's a weird category in general.

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3 panshel

July 19, 2023 at 4:27 PM

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@missvictrix Best Drama was won by Big Bet, not The Gloryin bold.

Park Ji-hoon winning Best New Actor makes me jump for joy. He was robbed of a nomination in the Baeksang Arts Awards.

Im Ji-yeon deserves to sweep all the Best Supporting Actress awards.

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missvictrix

July 19, 2023 at 4:59 PM

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It was! I'm not sure why I bolded The Glory, but sorry for the scare ^^

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4 pliplipli

July 19, 2023 at 6:07 PM

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wasnt extraordinary woo allowed to be nominated for anything? or just robbed? lol at first I thought it was just because this was streaming exclusive, but cheer up was a SBS drama iirc so....

happy for park jihoon. weak hero was really good and he was the driving force behind it.

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mindy

July 19, 2023 at 6:17 PM

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It is supposed to be streaming exclusive, not sure what Cheer Up is doing there!

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panshel

July 19, 2023 at 7:43 PM

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Cheer Up was produced by Wavve. That's why KBS drama Bad Prosecutor was also nominated.

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pliplipli

July 20, 2023 at 9:11 AM

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so the criteria is just being produced by streaming platform and not streaming exclusive. that's random lol

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5 jillian

July 19, 2023 at 8:41 PM

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The Glory is still winning awards..

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jillian

July 19, 2023 at 8:43 PM

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Good for them.
I wish they are less conservative with the red carpet looks. They usually stick with black or white.

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6 mmmmm

July 19, 2023 at 9:43 PM

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The way I see it this is more like a popularity award: the awards were distributed equally among many contenders.

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Britney

July 19, 2023 at 9:47 PM

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Sorry, I'm missing something. How was it a popularity contest if the awards were distributed equally?

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mmmmm

July 19, 2023 at 9:56 PM

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Ash. Wrong word choice. Thanks for pointing that out. I only meant the awards are distributed equally among contenders (the way many big public channels in SK give awards to their shows at the end of the year award ceremony). As I haven’t watched The Glory, I’m not sure its quality warrants a Daesang but it’s obviously the most popular among all the noms.

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7 Britney

July 19, 2023 at 9:58 PM

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Aww, I remember seeing older comments about how Suzy couldn't emote and now look at her, a blue dragon winner for her acting.
That's nice

From what I remember of the drama, I don't think it was exactly a powerful performance but it was certainly different for her and she did well. Two things that stand out to me: she did sign language and there's a moment when she acted towards a maid a similar way she had been treated in the past and that was kinda interesting. It was a fully becoming the mask moment but it was also shattering an illusion, even momentarily. I don't know if I explained that well at all haha but yeah, that was a scene that I remember.

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8 Britney

July 19, 2023 at 10:08 PM

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I don't get what exactly the criteria for this is. It's only for performances on streaming sites?

I saw Yu Jae Seok won an award; so that's because he's done shows on Netflix & Disney+? (And/or Korean equivalents)

Hmm, interesting. So there's the station awards and now streaming awards? Lots of opportunities for awards haha

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9 Kurama

July 20, 2023 at 12:46 AM

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Hum... the nominated and the winner are quite disapointing. I wonder how Recipe for Farewell wasn't nominated for more categories and Kim Seo-hyung didn't win. It's the only one drama for me that really deserved to be nominated.

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10 Scottie

July 20, 2023 at 2:42 AM

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The winners are almost all from 'gritty' dramas, this is an interesting choice. I am especially pleased for Ha Jung-woo and Narco Saints. Suzy is a deserving winner for Anna as is Park Ji-hoon.

I am not sure, if the shortlist should have included a few other dramas, but overall, it is not a bad result.

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missjb

July 20, 2023 at 4:44 AM

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I notice too These kind of awards tend used to favor gritty drama / intense roles.

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11 A. McG.

July 22, 2023 at 5:31 AM

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Big Bet deserved those wins. Lee Dong-hwi deserve more nominations for his role.

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