Conjinwon, 2022 Korean Popular Culture and Arts Awards Ceremony held

‘Night of pop culture artists who made K-content shine’

The ‘2022 Korea Popular Culture and Arts Award’ hosted by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (Minister Park Bo-gyun, hereinafter Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism) and hosted by Korea Creative Content Agency (Director Cho Hyun-rae, hereinafter Konjin-won) will be held at the National Theater of Korea on the 24th.

The Korean Popular Culture and Arts Awards, which celebrated its 13th anniversary this year, were prepared to inspire the pride of pop culture artists and to enhance the social status of the popular culture and arts industry. It is a government reward system to encourage the efforts and achievements of popular culture artists working in various fields such as singers, actors, comedians, and voice actors, as well as broadcast writers, directors, and producers in the popular culture industry.

This year’s Popular Culture and Arts Award winners went through a public contest process targeting the entire public, and through the screening committee for the discovered candidates and the government public review committee, various activities such as domestic and foreign activities and achievements, industrial contributions, and social contributions during the public period and during that time The matter was comprehensively reviewed by experts and decided by a resolution of the State Council. ▲Cultural Merit (5 people) ▲Presidential Citation (6 people) ▲Prime Minister’s Citation (8 people/team) ▲Culture Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Citation (9 people/team), a total of 28 people (teams) will be awarded.

◆ Man of Cannes director Park Chan-wook, actress Su-yeon Kang, star of popular culture, received the Eungwan Order of Cultural Merit

For the Order of Cultural Merit, the star of popular culture, ▲actress Suyeon Kang, and director Park Chan-wook, who won the Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival for the film , were selected as recipients of the Silver Crown Order of Cultural Merit.

In addition, ▲ writer Heo Young-man, who contributed to the development of pop culture and arts as the godfather of Korean comics such as , , and ; ▲ Actor Song Kang-ho, who won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival for the first time in Korea through the movie , was selected as the recipient of the Order of Cultural Heritage.

◆ Recognition of public culture and arts workers in various fields such as performers, lyricists/composers, choreographers, etc.

The Presidential Commendation is awarded to ▲voice actor Hong Seung-ok ▲performer Byeon Seong-yong ▲actor Kim Yoon-seok ▲writer Park Hae-young ▲singer Kim Hyeon-cheol ▲music director Bang Jun-seok.

▲Actress Seongmin Lee ▲Singer Pilsoon Jang ▲Comic artist Myungsoo Park ▲Singer (Team) Jaurim ▲Director Yeon Sangho ▲Producer Jiyeon Kim ▲Singer Zico ▲Writer Botong Kim

▲Voice actor Kim Young-sun ▲Musical actor Kim Seon-young ▲Planner/Producer Han Seung-won ▲Actress Jeon Mi-do ▲Comic artist Hong Hyun-hee ▲Choreographer Aiki ▲Singer Paul Kim ▲Singer (team) Tomorrow by Together ▲Singer (team) Espa .

At the awards ceremony, there was an opening performance by choreographer Aiki and dance team HOOK, who were active in , and a congratulatory performance by YooA (Oh My Girl), the winner of the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Award at the ‘2021 Popular Culture and Arts Awards’, and Paul Kim, a ballad music player. This is provided.

For the 2022 Korea Popular Culture and Arts Awards Ceremony, reservations have been made for general audience participation at the ticket link from November 14th. ‘ It will also be broadcast live online through the YouTube channel.

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