Unlike other year-end drama awards organised by top Korean networks like KBS, SBS and MBC, the fourth big name has walked its own walk by announcing the 2023 JTBC Awards winners merely online without any official ceremony held offline. The news came out on January 3, 2024, when the ‘JTBC Love’ X page (formerly Twitter) published a list of victors from the previously unveiled nominations that were outed on the same social media platform on December 26. The online voting period for fans of the former year’s drama titles broadcasted on JTBC was open from December 26 to December 31, 2023.
2023 JTBC Drama Awards Winners List
JTBC Strongest Pet in the Universe Award: ‘Lion’ from The Good Bad Mother + ‘Tiger’ from The Good Bad Mother + ‘Doggy Sam-dal’ from Welcome to Samdal-ri + Cat and ‘Black Eye’ from Behind Your Touch (All nominees win)
JTBC Best Female Lead: Cha Jung-sook from Doctor Cha (played by Uhm Jung-hwa)
Other Nominations:
- Go Ah-in from Agency (Lee Bo-young)
- Jin Yeong-soo from The Good Bad Mother (Ra Mi-ran)
- Kang Nam-soon (Lee Yoo-mi) from Strong Girl Nam-soon
- Hwang Geum-joo (Kim Jung-eun) from Strong Girl Nam-soon
- Gil Joong-gan (Kim Hae-sook) from Strong Girl Nam-soon
JTBC Image of a Guilty Human Being/Guiltiest Person Award: Ryu Shi-oh from Strong Girl Nam-soon (Byeon Woo-seok)
Other Nominations:
- Choi Chang-soo (Jo Sung-ha) from Agency
- Seo In-ho (Kim Byung-chul) from Doctor Cha
- Park Jong-bae (Park Hyuk-kwon) from Behind Your Touch
- Go Eun-bi (Kim Ah-young) from Welcome to Samdal-ri
JTBC Best Karaoke/Great Prosperity Award: Three Musketeers – Sa-rang, Pyung-hwa, Da-eul – from King the Land (played by Im Yoon-ah, Go Won-hee and Kim Ga-eun)
Other Nominations:
- Shin Sung-han (Cho Seung-woo) from Divorce Attorney Shin
- Lee Hong-jo (Jo Bo-ah) from Destined With You
- Kang Hee-sik (Ong Seong-wu) from Strong Girl Nam-soon
- Jo Yong-pil (Ji Chang-wook) from Welcome to Samdal-ri
JTBC Bittersweet Sorrow/Bittersweet Supporting Man Award: Kim Seon-woo from Behind Your Touch (played by Suho)
Other Nominations:
- Roy Kim (Min Woo-hyuk) from Doctor Cha
- Bang Sam-sik (Yoo In-soo) from The Good Bad Mother
- Kwon Jae-kyeong (Ha Jun) from Destined With You
- Boo Sang-do (Kang Young-seok) from Welcome to Samdal-ri
JTBC Best Combination Award or Best Squad Award: King The Land‘s Six Siblings
Other Nominations:
- Shin Seong-han, Jo Jeong-sik, Jang Hyeong-geun (Cho Seun-woo, Jung Moon-sung, Kim Sung-kyun) from Divorce Attorney Shin
- Ye-jin and Seo-jin (Gi So-yoo and Park Da-on) from The Good Bad Mother
- Yook Dong-joo and Lee Kang-san (Jung Woo and Bae Hyun-sung) from Miraculous Brothers
- Narcotics special team (Young Tak, Ryu Ha-seong, Song Jin-woo and Jung Seung-gil) from Strong Girl Nam-soon
- Science Ninja Team Gatchaman (Ji Chang-wook, Shin Hye-sun, Kang Young-seok, Lee Jae-won and Bae Myung-jin) from Welcome to Samdal-ri
2023 JTBC Best Couple Award: Gu-won and Cheon Sa-rang from King The Land (Lee Jun-ho and Im Yoon-ah)
Other Nominations:
- Ha Sang-soo and Ahn Soo-yeong (Yoo Yeon-seok and Moon Ga-young) from The Interest of Love
- Choi Kang-ho and Lee Mi-joo (Lee Do-hyun and Ahn Eun-jin) from The Good Bad Mother
- Jang Shin-yoo and Lee Hong-jo (Rowoon and Jo Bo-ah) from Destined With You
- Bong Ye-boon and Moon Jang-yeol (Han Ji-min and Lee Min-ki) from Behind Your Touch
- Kang Nam-soon and Kang Hee-sik (Lee Yoo-mi and Ong Seong-woo) from Strong Girl Nam-soon
- Jo Yong-pil and Jo Sam-dal (Ji Chang-wook and Shin Ye-sun) from Welcome to Samdal-ri.
JTBC Highest Viewership Award: Doctor Cha with 18.5%
Check Out the JTBC Drama Awards 2023 Winners Post
Congratulations to all the 2023 JTBC Awards Winners!
congratulation to all the winners!, specially to KTL & Global Netflix’s K-queen rom-com YoonA.
i love ktl, king the land is the best kdrama 2023 with the best and most realistic couple
YoonA is the best actor 2023, jtbc award should also give her the daesang, she deserves it.
P.S. I’m an american, my family and I watched KTL because of YoonA, and even traveled to thai because of YoonA’s king the land.
my best couple is rowoon and jo bah ah
thanks for your comment 🙂