‘2022 Korean Popular Culture and Arts Awards’ ceremony held today (24th) at the National Theater of Korea

The ‘2022 Korean 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 today (24th) at the National Theater of Korea.

The Korean Popular Culture and Arts Awards, which celebrated its 13th anniversary this year, were prepared to inspire the pride of popular 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 a screening committee for the discovered candidates and a government public screening 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 pop culture ▲actress Kang Soo-yeon and director Park Chan-wook, who won the Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival for the film ‘Decision to Break Up’, were selected as recipients of the Eungwan Order of Cultural Merit.

In addition, ▲ writer Heo Young-man, who contributed to the development of popular culture and arts as the godfather of Korean comics such as ‘Sikgaek’, ‘Tazza’, and ‘Bridal Mask’; ▲ Actor Song Kang-ho, who won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival for the first time in Korea through the movie ‘Broker’, 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, an opening performance by choreographer Aiki and dance team HOOK, who played an active part in ‘Street Woman Fighter’, and a congratulatory performance by YooA (Oh My Girl), winner of the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Award at the ‘2021 Popular Culture and Arts Award’, and Paul Kim, a ballad music powerhouse. This is provided.

The 2022 Korea Popular Culture and Arts Awards Ceremony has been booked for general audience participation at the ticket link since November 14th, and will also be broadcast live online through Conjinwon and ‘THE K-POP’ YouTube channels.

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