16th Korea Drama Awards

16th Korea Drama Awards
16th Korea Drama Awards
	Official poster
Awarded by	Korea Drama Festival Organizing Committee; Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism; South Gyeongsang Province; Jinju;
Date	October 11, 2025
Site	Gyeongnam Culture and Arts Center, Grand Performance Hall, Jinju, South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea
Official website	Korea Drama Awards
Television coverage
Network	Seokyeong Broadcasting; Korea Drama Festival YouTube channel;

The 16th iteration of the Korea Drama Awards is an awards ceremony for excellence in television in South Korea. It was held on October 11, 2025, as an event of the Korea Drama Festival at Gyeongnam Culture and Arts Center, Grand Performance Hall, Jinju.^[1]

Nominations and winners

The nominations were announced on August 27, 2025, for the dramas of all genres airing domestically from October 2024 to September 2025.

Sources:^[2]

Grand Prize (Daesang)	Best Drama
Ahn Jae-wook – For Eagle Brothers	Our Movie Doubt When Life Gives You Tangerines Resident Playbook The Tale of Lady Ok Our Movie Our Unwritten Seoul Good Boy The Haunted Palace Love Scout Tastefully Yours Buried Hearts When the Phone Rings
Top Excellence Award, Actor	Top Excellence Award, Actress
Yook Sung-jae – The Haunted Palace Kang Ha-neul – Squid Game 2 / Squid Game 3 / Tastefully Yours Park Bo-gum – When Life Gives You Tangerines / Good Boy Park Hyung-sik – Buried Hearts / Twelve Ahn Jae-wook – For Eagle Brothers Yoo Yeon-seok – When the Phone Rings	Park Bo-young – Our Unwritten Seoul Lee Se-young – What Comes After Love / Motel California IU – When Life Gives You Tangerines Lim Ji-yeon – The Tale of Lady Ok Chae Soo-bin – When the Phone Rings Han Ji-min – Heavenly Ever After / Love Scout
Excellence Award, Actor	Excellence Award, Actress
Lee Hyun-wook – Shark: The Storm / The Queen Who Crowns Park Jin-young – The Witch / Our Unwritten Seoul Lee Jun-young – Melo Movie / When Life Gives You Tangerines / Weak Hero Class 2 / Pump Up the Healthy Love Park Ji-hoon – Weak Hero Class 2 Jung Joon-won – Resident Playbook Choi Woo-shik – Melo Movie	Kim Ji-yeon – The Haunted Palace Kim So-hyun – Good Boy Go Youn-jung – Resident Playbook Lee Hye-ri – Friendly Rivalry Cha Joo-young – The Queen Who Crowns Han Ji-eun – When the Stars Gossip / Study Group
Best New Actor	Best New Actress
Choo Young-woo – The Tale of Lady Ok / Head over Heels Heo Nam-joon – When the Phone Rings / When the Stars Gossip Kang Yoo-seok – Resident Playbook / When Life Gives You Tangerines / Law and the City Kim Min-kyu – Bitch x Rich Ryeoun – Namib / History of Scruffiness / Weak Hero Class 2 Bae Na-ra – Weak Hero Class 2 / Tastefully Yours	Chung Su-bin – Friendly Rivalry Hong Hwa-yeon – Buried Hearts / Tastefully Yours / I Am a Running Mate Kim Eun-bi – Our Movie Roh Jeong-eui – The Witch / Crushology 101 Shin Si-a – Resident Playbook Chae Won-bin – Doubt
Hot Star Award (Male)	Hot Star Award (Female)
Byeon Woo-seok	Chung Su-bin
Best Couple	Global Star Award
Lee Hye-ri and Chung Su-bin - Friendly Rivalry	Byeon Woo-seok
Best OST Award	Multi-tainer Award
Young Tak – “Unpredictable Life” for For Eagle Brothers	Park Jae-chan
Lifetime Achievement Award	Villain Award
Kim Yong-rim	Oh Jung-se - Good Boy
Scene Stealer Award (Female)
Lee Ho-jung^[3]

References

^ "코리아드라마페스티벌". 코리아드라마페스티벌 (in Korean). Retrieved August 27, 2025.
^ 박, 지혜 (August 27, 2025). "이혜리 박형식 안재욱 접전... '16회 코리아 드라마 어워즈' 투표 28일 시작". bnt뉴스 (in Korean). Retrieved August 27, 2025.
^ 손, 봉석 (October 13, 2025). "배우 이호정 '16회 코리아 드라마 어워즈' 신스틸러 부문 수상". 스포츠경향 (in Korean). Retrieved October 22, 2025.

External links

KDA at Daum (in Korean)

[1] "코리아드라마페스티벌". 코리아드라마페스티벌 (in Korean). Retrieved August 27, 2025.

[2] 박, 지혜 (August 27, 2025). "이혜리 박형식 안재욱 접전... '16회 코리아 드라마 어워즈' 투표 28일 시작". bnt뉴스 (in Korean). Retrieved August 27, 2025.

[3] 손, 봉석 (October 13, 2025). "배우 이호정 '16회 코리아 드라마 어워즈' 신스틸러 부문 수상". 스포츠경향 (in Korean). Retrieved October 22, 2025.

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