JTBC Drama Awards 2023: Complete nominations list, how to vote & all you need to know

On December 26, the nomination list for the JTBC Drama Awards 2023 was announced, including a smash-hit series released by the South Korean broadcasting channel this year, leading to a buzz among the K-drama community.

The South Korean nationwide pay television network, JTBC, was launched on December 1, 2011. It is a generalist channel which includes different television series, news broadcasting and variety shows, catering to a broader spectrum of audiences.

Below are the nominations for series in the JTBC Drama Awards 2023 and instructions on how fans can vote for their favorite shows.

List of nominations for JTBC Drama Awards 2023

The JTBC Drama Awards 2023 are conducted by the broadcasting channel's social media account, JTBC Love, where they have uploaded a Google Form listing the nominations to give recognition to the series that will emerge as the winners after voting.

The voting period for the JTBC Drama Awards 2023 will be from December 26 to December 31, 2023. The announcements for the winners will be made on January 3, 2024.

1) Universe's strongest Puppy Award

The Good Bad Mom's Lion
The Good Bad Mom's Tigeer
Welcome to Samdalri's Gaesamdal
Behind Your Touch's Meongi
Behind Your Touch's Cat

2) The Best Female Lead

Agency's Lee Bo-young
Doctor Cha's Uhm Jung-hwa
The Good Bad Mom's Jin Young-soon
Strong Woman Kang Nam-soo's Lee Yoo-mi, Kim Hae-sook & Kim Jung-eun

3) The image of a guilty human being

Agency's Jo Sung-ha
Doctor Cha's Kim Byung-chul
Behind Your Touc's Park Hyun-kwon
Strong Woman Kang Nam-soon's Byeon Woo-seok
Welcome to Samdalri's Jo Yun-seo

4) Heungryu Captain Award

Divorce Attorney Shin's Cho Seung-woo
King The Land
Strong Woman Kang Nam-soon's Ong Seong-wu
Welcome to Samdalri's Ji Chang-wook
Destined With You's Jo Bo-ah

5) Bittersweet sorrow

Doctor Cha's Min Woo-hyuk
Behind Your Touch's Kim Junmyeon (Suho)
The Good Bad Mom's Yoo In-soo
Destined With You's Ha Joon
Welcome to Samdalri's Kang Young-seok

6) Best Combination Award

Divorce Attorney Shin
The Good Bad Mom
King The Land
Brothers of Miracles Strong Woman Kang Nam-soon
The Good Bad Mom

7) Best Couple Award

Understanding Love's Ha Sang-su & Ahn Soo-young
The Good Bad Mom's Choi Kang-ho & Mi-joo Lee
King the Land's Gu-won & Cheon Sa-rang
Destined With You's Lee Hong-jo & Jang Shin-yu
Behind Your Touch's Jang-yeol & Bong Ye-bun
Strong Woman Kang Nam-soon's Gang Nam-soon & Kang Hee-shik
Welcome to Samdalri 's Cho Sam-dal & Jo Yong-pil

How to vote for JTBC Drama Awards 2023?

JTBC has provided a Google Form on their X (formerly Twitter) account where fans can vote for the aforementioned categories. K-drama fans can click on the link and choose the correct option they want.

The announcements for the JTBC Drama Awards 2023 winners will be held on January 3, 2024.

About the author

Kirti holds a Bachelor's degree in Journalism & Mass Communication and has been a Kpop writer at SK POP since 2022. She has been following Kpop and Kdramas since the last 6 years and but has worked in the genre only in the last 3-4 years donning several several caps - social media intern, copywriter, article writer and academic writer.

Kirti likes to pen down insightful features based on Korean dramas, especially the 'Ending Explained' categories. It gives her the satisfaction of creating the most authentic content rather than simply replicating what media outlets generally do.

Her process of creating content is time-consuming, yet methodical; she prefers to use original sources of information, which in her case are Korean outlets. She watches entire episodes, writes them down, cross-checks/fact-checks the details/event timelines off the web and eventually creates her copy.

Kirti likes Lee Je-hoon, IU, and Kim Seon-ho since she feels that their dramas are inspiring and have good plotlines. When she is not writing about K-dramas, she can be found watching them.

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Edited by Pritha Ghosh