The King’s Affection is now the First Korean Drama ever to win International Emmys Awards for Telenovela

The historical drama The King’s Affection is now crowned with the title of becoming the first Korean drama to bag an award at the 50th International Emmy Awards.

On November 21 local time, at the opening ceremony of the International Emmy Awards held in New York, The King’s Affection bagged the Best Telenovela Award. The show won a reputed award among the fierce competition, beating other nominees like Two Lives from Spain, You Are My Hero from China, and others.

The show received appreciation and praise for its beautiful storytelling and riveting way of conveying the drama’s message. It revolves around the life of a girl compelled to disguise herself as a man after the untimely death of her brother.

Unique and incredible storyline The King’s Affection

The gender-bender drama The King’s Affection showcases the story of twins. Set in the Joseon era, giving birth to twins was considered taboo. Subsequently, the Crown Prince’s wife gave birth to the twins.

The Crown Prince’s wife sends their daughter away to protect her from getting killed. Years later, the daughter somehow comes back and eventually becomes the Crown Prince. When her brother meets an untimely death, her mother compels her to disguise her as the Crown Prince to protect herself.

The drama featured actress Park Eun-bin and SF9’s Rowoon. They succeeded in engrossing the audience with their compelling acting skills.

Park Eun-bin played the role of Lee Hwi and Rowoon played the role of Jung Ji-won. Jung Ji-won was seen protecting and helping out Lee Hwi in the drama from perilous circumstances.

The head of the production network for the drama also commented on the win. Lee Geon-joon, who heads the KBS Drama Center, commented:

Lee Geon-joon proudly states that he feels responsible when Korean Dramas receive so much love from fans all over the globe. He states:

K-drama fans celebrating the grand win

Fans are completely satisfied with The King’s Affection win at the International Emmy Awards. Some fans even claimed that the drama would win the moment Park Eun-bin pulled off her character.

Korean Dramas and their consumption is increasing rapidly worldwide. The powerful storytelling, captivating visuals, and incredible acting of the actors are winning the hearts of the audience.

Congratulations to the entire production team of The King’s Affection on their win.

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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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