K-Arts Graduates Triumph at the 60^th Baeksang Arts Awards

The artists from K-Arts demonstrated their prowess as the leaders of K-content production at the 60^th Baeksang Arts Awards, collecting awards across diverse categories.

In Television, director Park In-je (School of Film, TV & Multimedia) won Best Director with “Moving” (2023) which made a great hit on Disney +. “Moving” is about action heroes with supernatural powers. The work also brought Best Screenplay (Television section) to webtoon illustrator Kang Full and Best New Actor (Television section) to Lee Jung-ha.

In the meantime, director Jang Jae-hyun (School of Film, TV & Multimedia) became the winner of Best Director in Film with “Exhuma” (2024). Following an eccentric story that happened to shamans, an undertaker, and a feng-shui master, the film was the blockbuster of 2024. It ended up attracting 10 million viewers.

Kim Go-eun (School of Drama), the winner of Best Actress in Film, was well-received with her role as a young female shaman Lee Hwa-rim in “Exhuma.”

Furthermore, Kim Byung-in (School of Film, TV & Multimedia), who oversaw the sound in “Exhuma,” earned the Best Technical Achievement in Film. In 2020, with “Parasite” (2019), Kim became the first Korean to win Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing in a Foreign Language Feature at the 67^th Golden Reel Awards.

Director Lee Jung-hong (School of Film, TV & Multimedia), who attained Best New Director in Film, succeeded in calling the critic’s attention with “A Wild Roomer” (2022) which portrays strange moments seeped into everyday life through carpenter Gi-hong and his landlord Jeong-hwan.

Gucci Impact Award in Film went to director Cho Hyun-chul (School of Film, TV & Multimedia) for “The Dream Songs” (2022), a film that commemorates the 10^th anniversary of the Sewol Ferry Accident.