Winners for the ‘2011 Seoul International Drama Awards’!

On August 31st, Asia’s outstanding drama series were honored and highlighted at the ‘2011 Seoul International Drama Awards‘ ceremony, held at the KBS Hall in Yeouido, Seoul.

The big winner of the night was the Chinese drama, ‘Three Kingdoms‘, which took home the honorary grand prize that evening.

In the category of best picture, Romanian drama ‘In the Name of Honour‘ (which deals with women in honor killings) and Brazilian drama ‘Passione‘ each received the Top Excellence and Excellence Awards, respectfully.

For the personal awards category, veteran actress Na Moon Hee received the Best Actress Award for her role in the short story drama, ‘It’s me, Grandma‘.

JYJ’s Park Yoochun, who made his acting debut through ‘Sungkyunkwan Scandal‘, received the Asia Popularity Award as well as the Hallyu Drama Actor Award, for a total of two awards.

In the Hallyu drama category, ‘Secret Garden‘ took the honorary “Triple Crown”. Producer Shin Woo Chul won the Hallyu Drama Directing Award, writer Kim Eun Sook won the Hallyu Drama Writer Award, and singer Baek Ji Young received the Best Soundtrack award for her original OST song, “That Woman“.

Meanwhile, ‘Mary Stayed Out All Night‘ and ‘Sungkyunkwan Scandal’ also won the Top Excellence and Excellence Best Picture Awards as well.

A total of 204 dramas from 37 countries competed at the 2011 Seoul International Drama Awards, which was first launched back in 2006.

Check out the complete winners list below!

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+ International Category +

> Best Picture Awards:

Grand Prize (Daesang): ‘Three Kingdoms’ (China)
Top Excellence (Feature): ‘In the Name of Honour’ (Romania)
Excellence (Feature): ‘Passione’ (Brazil)
Top Excellence (Miniseries): ‘Luther’ (England)
Excellence (Miniseries): ‘The Pillars of the Earth’ (Germany)
Top Excellence (Short): ‘Shades of Happiness’ (Germany)
Excellence (Short): ‘When Harvey Met Bob’ (Ireland)
Special: ‘Eagle Four’ (Afghanistan), ‘The Amazing Extraordinary Friends 5′ (New Zealand)
Invitational: ‘The Walking Dead’ (USA)

> Personal Awards:

Best Director: Miguel Alexandre, ‘Shades of Happiness’ (Germany)
Best Writer: Albert Espinosa, ‘The Red Band Society’ (Spain)
Best Actor: Jianbin Chen, ‘Three Kingdoms’ (China)
Best Actress: Na Moon Hee, ‘It’s Me, Grandma’ (Korea)
Asia Popularity: Park Yoochun (Korea), Xiaotong Yu (China), Ryunosuke Kamiki (Japan), Man Shu Jian (Taiwan), Charmaine Sheh (Hong Kong)

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Domestic Category

> Best Picture Awards:

Hallyu Drama Top Excellence: ‘Mary Stayed Out All Night’
Hallyu Drama Excellence: ‘Sungkyunkwan Scandal’

> Personal Awards:

Best Hallyu Drama Director: Shin Woo Chul, ‘Secret Garden’
Best Hallyu Drama Writer: Kim Eun Sook, ‘Secret Garden’
Best Hallyu Drama Actor: Park Yoochun, ‘Sungkyunkwan Scandal’
Best Hallyu Drama Actress: Moon Geun Young, ‘Mary Stayed Out All Night’
Best Hallyu Drama Soundtrack: Baek Ji Young, ‘Secret Garden’ OST – “That Woman”

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World Star Park Yoochun Is Popular With Everyone, Regardless Of Nationality

The press conference of the 2011 Seoul Drama Awards was held on the 29th of August at 10:30a.m. at the Taepyungro Press Center in Seoul.

The event was attended by Director Lim Kwon Taek (judging panel), Professor Martine Frost (Professor of Paris University Diderot), Maxime Paquet (Korean representative of Korea Connection), Lee Seung Geun (Korean representative of Korea Connection), Head of Romania’s Hallyu fans, Cabrera Miluska (Head of Peru’s Hallyu fans) and fifty international Hallyu fans.

Meanwhile, the 2011 Seoul Drama Awards is an international drama festival in its sixth year that encompasses dramas from more than 30 countries around the world.

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110829 Yoochun at Seoul Drama Awards 2011

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MC: Mr. Park Yoochun, please say some words of your thoughts and feelings.

Yoochun: Thank you very much. A lot of people have gathered here. First of all, I would like to say that I am very happy to be receiving an award of such enormity. The people that contributed to the votes this time was people all over Asia, which is why it has a more deeper meaning and at the same time, I feel a certain pressure. It’s been like this from before but I feel that recently the Korean wave and our Korean contents has been receiving a lot of love so I think it is our duty, along with the staff and all production people to return this love by creating good products. Not just to simply display our culture in our products and give it out to the world, but to also understand the cultures from the countries that receive such love from and to put our efforts into this. This is how I feel we can return the feelings that we are getting from our viewers. Also beginning from now, I want to become a Park Yoochun who will work even harder. Thank you very much.

MC: Who is your rival amongst the stars in this Korean wave?

Yoochun: Rival? Recently…right now I can say that it’s the actor in SBS drama “Protect the Boss” (Jaejoong). Tomorrow I think I’ll be visiting their set, and althought he and I are very close he is someone that always has his guard up.

 

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110829 Park Yoochun Wins SDA Popularity Award – Heavy Burden On Shoulders

Winner of the Netizen’s Popularity Award for the Seoul Drama Awards 2011, JYJ Member Park Yoochun said,  “I’m thankful, but there’s a heavy burden on my shoulders” expressing his gratitude in his greeting.

On the early afternoon of 29 August, Park Yoochun attended the Seoul Drama Awards 2011 press conference at the 20^th Floor of the Seoul News Center, at the International Meeting Hall.  He will be receiving the netizen’s popularity award on 31 August during the Seoul Drama Awards  2011 ceremony, held in the KBS Hall in Yeouido, Seoul.

On his winning of the netizen’s popularity award, Park Yoochun said, “Firstly, for me, who is still lacking, I’m really thankful for such a big award. As these votes came from all over Asia, the meaningfulness, as well as burden on my shoulders become greater. I think that the artists and staff working hard together to produce good works is a way of repaying the fans.”

Following that, he said “This is not just a global promotion of cultural content, but the reason why these people show love for hallyu, and working hard to understand those countries’ culture, these are also ways of repaying (their love.)” he supplemented.

Park Yoochun, who put up a great performance in last year’s KBS drama “SungKyunKwan Scandal, won by a landslide in the Korean actors category of the online popularity poll which was held between 18 July to 16 August, for a period of approximately one month.

To this, Park Yoochun said, “I just started out as an actor, so I still have a lot of greed. To do the tasks that I am given well, to work hard on my activities, and to be able to make a small contribution to the hallyu culture gives me a great sense of pride.”

On his secret to overseas popularity, he said. “I’m not exactly sure why there is so much love from overseas fans. More so than others, language is a big issue. I faced many problems with language in the 5 years of doing activities in Japan, and now there are even more language barriers to cross. Although I can’t express myself in various countries’ languages, I still hope that they can see my effort,” he said, evaluating himself.

Also, when asked about a strong rival, Park Yoochun picked fellow JYJ member Kim Jaejoong, who is now appearing in the SBS Wednesday-Thursday drama “Protect the boss.” Park Yoochun said, “I’m going to the shooting location tomorrow. Although we have a good relationship, I’m cautious of him” he said jokingly.

This year, is the 6^th year it’s been held, the Seoul Drama Awards 2011 will be jointly organized by the Seoul Drama Awards committee and the Korean Broadcasting corporation, and is an annual affair. The comittee led by(Director) Im Kwon Taek includes professionals from dramas and movies all over the world, judging short films, series and long films, evaluating 39 works. The Seoul Drama Awards will be held in the Seoul Yeouido KBS Hall on 31 August, and will be aired on SBS.

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110829 Yoochun at Seoul Drama Awards 2011

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MC: Mr. Park Yoochun, please say some words of your thoughts and feelings.
Yoochun: Thank you very much. A lot of people have gathered here. First of all, I would like to say that I am very happy to be receiving an award of such enormity. The people that contributed to the votes this time was people all over Asia, which is why it has a more deeper meaning and at the same time, I feel a certain pressure. It’s been like this from before but I feel that recently the Korean wave and our Korean contents has been receiving a lot of love so I think it is our duty, along with the staff and all production people to return this love by creating good products. Not just to simply display our culture in our products and give it out to the world, but to also understand the cultures from the countries that receive such love from and to put our efforts into this. This is how I feel we can return the feelings that we are getting from our viewers. Also beginning from now, I want to become a Park Yoochun who will work even harder. Thank you very much.

MC: Who is your rival amongst the stars in this Korean wave?
Yoochun: Rival? Recently…right now I can say that it’s the actor in SBS drama “Protect the Boss” (Jaejoong). Tomorrow I think I’ll be visiting their set, and althought he and I are very close he is someone that always has his guard up.

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110829 Park Yoochun, Seoul Drama Awards 2011 Press Conference

The Seoul Drama Awards 2011 Press Conference occurred on August 29th at the International Conference in Seoul. Seoul Drama Awards is an awarding ceremony where all dramas come together and compete. In this press conference, actor Park Yoochun and director Im Kwon Taek also participated. The award ceremony will take place on August 31st and will be hosted by Ryu Si Won at the Yeouido KBS Hall.

Park Yoochun revealed his thoughts about the Most Popular Award to be given during the Seoul Drama Awards. Park Yoochun participated in the Seoul Drama Awards 2011 Press Conference and stated, “I’m so happy to be able to receive such a huge award. Because they are from votes throughout all of Asia, it has even a more profound meaning, putting more of a weight on my shoulders.” He continued to say, “With this Korean wave that is occurring, we are receiving a lot of love for our Korean media and content. So at this point, I think together with the staff we have to create products that we can give in return for the love of the fans. Not only to just display our compositions, but I think it’s also necessary to put our efforts into understanding the reason as to why we are receiving all this love.”

Park Yoochun also commented when asked about his rival for this award, “Kim Jaejoong who is appearing on the SBS drama “Protect the Boss” is my rival”, Park Yoochun laughed. “Tomorrow I was thinking of going to visit their set. He’s someone that is very close to me but at the same time always has his guard up.” Park Yooochun joked.

On another note, Seoul Drama Awards 2011 will occur on August 31st from 5:10pm at the KBS Hall, and SBS will be having a live stream.

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JYJ’s Yoochun chooses Jaejoong as his rival

On August 29th, JYJ’s Yoochun attended the press conference for the ‘2011 Seoul International Drama Awards‘ at the International Conference Hall in Seoul. 

When asked by reporters who he considered his rival as a Hallyu star, Yoochun replied, “He’s actually close to me.  He’s currently filming the drama ‘Protect the Boss‘ and I’ll be visiting tomorrow to see him.  Even while filming, he’s on alert.”

The person he chose is none other than fellow member Jaejoong, who’s currently playing the role of ‘Cha Moo Won’ on ‘Protect the Boss’.

Yoochun also won the online popularity poll held by ‘Yahoo! Korea’ for the ceremony with 480,000 votes.  On winning, he said, “I’m honored to receive such a big award.  Because the poll was held all across Asia, it’s that much more meaningful but also that much more pressuring for me.”

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110825 JYJ Park Yoochun Will Represent Hallyu Stars, Attending The Seoul Drama Awards Press Conference

Park Yoochun is scheduled to attend the press conference for the Seoul Drama Awards at Taepyeongno News Center on the morning of 29 August, and will accept interviews, as well as hold a fan meeting.

A hallyu star popularity poll was conducted on the Seoul Drama Awards website, and Park Yoochun was selected among the 115 nominees as the most popular actor in Asia, with approximately 480 thousand votes. Following Park Yoochun (Sungkyunkwan Scandal) is Jang Geun Suk (Mary Stayed Out All Night), Kim Jae Won (Can You Hear My Heart) in second and third place, and in the Korean Actress Category, Moon Geun Young (Mary Stayed Out All Night) took top position, followed by Park Min Young (SungKyunKwan Scandal) and Ha Ji Won (Secret Garden.)

On the day of the press conference, attendees will include Director Im Kwon Taek from the review committee as well as the chairman and 40 members of the Korean Connection, Seven university lecturers from Paris, France, hallyu fanclub leaders from Romania and Peru, as well as others. During this event, the special features and direction of various works will be introduced, as well as an awards ceremony and various supplementary activities are scheduled. Aside from related personnel, there will be over 60 fanclubs attending this press conference. They will be introducing “Hallyu culture in the eyes of hallyu fans,” and after this activity a fanmeeting with Park Yoochun will be held.

This year is the sixth year that the Seoul Drama Awards is being held, with the aim of introducing the highest-rated dramas to various countries. This year, 37 different countries and a total of 204 works have participated, and famous directors, actors and other related persons from all over the world will be participating in this activity. 11 countries and 79 works from Asia, 15 countries and 68 works from Europe, 2 countries and 10 works from the Pacific continent, 5 countries and 29 works from the American continent, as well as 3 countries and 16 works from the Middle East have participated, with Mongolia and Romania participating in this Awards show for the first time.

The Seoul Drama Awards aims to strengthen the position of Korean dramas in the international market as well as to encourage cultural exchange between the countries, and this year nominated works includes “Walking Dead” from America, “Router” from England, “Three Kingdoms” from China, “Shades of Happiness” and “The Pillars of the Earth” from Germany, and “When Harvey met Bob” from Ireland. Domestic drama nominees include “Dream High,” “My Girlfriend is a Nine-Tailed Fox.” “Shiny Shiny Shining” and others.

On 31 August, the Seoul Drama Awards will be held in the Seoul Yeouido KBS Hall, gathering the actors and producers from the nominated works as well as drama fans from all over the world, and will be aired on SBS.

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110720 JYJ’s ‘Found You’ Is Chosen As The SDA’s ‘Most Popular Drama OST’

JYJ’s ‘Found You’, the OST for KBS 2TV’s ‘SungKyunKwan Scandal’, has been chosen as the Seoul Drama Awards’ ‘most popular drama OST’.

According to the Seoul Drama Awards(SDA) on the 20th, ‘Found You’ came out on top with 19,071 votes in the ‘Seoul Drama Awards 2011 Popular Drama OST’ online poll that was held from June 29th till July 20th on Cyworld.

‘Found You’ is a love song that talks about finding the love of one’s life and has been praised for tapping into emotions with flowing melodies and voices.

The song became a hot topic amongst fans as it combined the voices of Park Yoochun, Kim Jaejoong and Kim Junsu.

‘Found You’ was followed by ‘That Man’ by Hyun Bin in SBS’ ‘Secret Garden’ with 15,646 votes  while Yang Yo Seop’s ‘I Care for that Person’ from MBC’s ‘My Princess’ came in at third with 9,930 votes.

Meanwhile, the 2011 Seoul Drama Awards will showcase a competitive battle between 204 productions from 37 countries with the catchphrase ‘Drama Road’.

Contrary to last year’s awards, awards will be given out in seven categories that include the Best Drama, the Second Best Drama and the ‘Best Theme’.

The awards ceremony will take place on August 31st at the KBS Hall in Yeoido.

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110720 Nominees For The 2011 Seoul Drama Awards

The preliminaries for the 2011 Seoul Drama Awards (SDA)have been conducted and the results are out!

The organizing committee for the SDAs announced on July 20th at 11 AM, the results of the preliminaries through a press conference. Under the theme of “Drama Road”, this year’s SDA ceremony has been confirmed to cover 204 works from 37 different countries.

Non-Korean dramas up for awards include the US mini-series “The Walking Dead”, British mini-series “Luther”, Chinese full-length piece “Three Kingdoms”, and German short film “Shades of Happiness”.

From the domestic works side, there are the mini-series “Dream High” and “My Girlfriend Is A Gumiho” and the full length projects “Twinkle Twinkle Shining”.

In the Male Actors category, the nominees include Iris Elba from “Luther” and Chun Jenbin from “Three Kingdoms”. In the Female Actress category, Maria Furtwängler from “Shaes Of Happiness”, Laura Linney from “The Big C”, and Na Moon-hee from the one-act play “Grandma, it’s Me”.

In the Hallyu Drama section, there will be seven awards given out. Nominated projects must have been aired from April 1st of 2010 to April 30th of 2011, with exports of $3 million or more. The contenders are “Sungkyungwan Scandal”, “Baker King Kim Tak-gu”, “Mary Stayed Out All Night”, “Dream High”, “Dongyi”, “Queen of Reversals”, “My Princess”, “Kim Su-ro”, “Giant”, “Athena: Goddess of War”, “Secret Garden”, “My Girlfriend Is A Gumiho”, and “Bad Guy”.

Of course the category that always attracts special interest is the Grand Award for best actor and best actress.

The male nominees are Jang Geun-seok for “Mary Stayed Out All Night”, Park Yoo-chun for “Sungkyungwan Scandal”, Song Seung-heon for “My Princess”, Hyunbin for “Secret Garden”, and Kang Ji-hwan for “Coffee House”.

The female nominees are Park Min-young for “Sungkyungwan Scandal”, “Moon Geun-young for “Mary Stayed Out All Night”, Kim Tae-hee for “My Princess”, Lee Yo-won for “49 Days”, and Ha Ji-won for “Secret Garden”.

The soundtrack songs up for recognition are “Found It” by JYJ from “Sungkyungwan Scandal”, “Please My Bus” by Jang Geun-seok from “Mary Stayed Out All Night”, Jungyup’s “Nothing Happened” from “49 Days”, Baek Ji-young’s “That Woman” from “Secret Garden”, and “The One” by Lee Seung-cheol for “Baker King Kim Tak-goo”.

The final results will depend 70% on the votes of the 1 million international Hallyu fans signed up for en.korea.com and 30% on the international broadcasting contents buyers’ votes.

This is with the exception of the Hallyu Drama category’s Director Award and Writer Award, which will be determined by the votes of domestic reporters.

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