Crash Landing on You’s Hyun Bin’s big K-drama win – he takes APAN Star Awards’ grand prize for role in hit romantic drama
- On receiving the top prize, Hyun thanked his co-star Son Ye-jin, who is his life partner off set. The series Crash Landing on You won three prizes in total
- Itaewon Class won drama of the year award, while popularity awards went to Kim Soo-hyun and Seo Yea-ji, the leads of It’s Okay to Not Be Okay
Initially expected to take place in November 2020, the APAN (Asia-Pacific Actors’ Network) Star Awards ceremony was finally staged on January 23. This year’s grand prize winner was Hyun Bin, for his role as the North Korean army captain Jeong-hyeok in the hit Korean romantic drama Crash Landing on You .
Accepting his award on stage, Hyun expressed his gratitude to co-star Son Ye-jin, who is now also his real-life partner off set. The series picked up three prizes, with Kim Young-min co-winning for best supporting actor and Kim Sun-young earning the award for best supporting actress.
The drama of the year award went to the boundary-pushing youth series Itaewon Class , which also picked up the popularity award for best OST, which went to BTS singer V (aka Kim Tae-hyung) for his song Sweet Night.
The popularity awards, which had previously been announced, went to Kim Soo-hyun and Seo Yea-ji, the leads of It’s Okay to Not Be Okay , which won a total of four prizes, the most of the night. Seo also won the excellence award for actress in a miniseries, and Oh Jung-se was the other best supporting actor award winner.
The top excellence awards for miniseries performers went to actress Kim Hee-sun in Alice and actor Kang Ha-neul for his role in When the Camellia Blooms. Park Hae-joon of The World of the Married picked up the excellence award for Actor in a miniseries.