Full List of Winners: 61st Baeksang Arts Awards (Broadcast/TV)

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May 5
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The winners of the 61st Baeksang Arts Awards have been announced! Drama series that aired on television and streaming platforms from April 1, 2024 until March 31, 2025 were eligible for this year's awards.

Netflix’s decades-spanning slice-of-life drama When Life Gives You Tangerines received the most number of wins, including Best Drama, Best Screenplay (Im Sang-choon), and supporting acting trophies for Yeom Hye-ran and Choi Dae-hoon.

Doubt and Jeongnyeon: The Star Is Born won two awards each.

The biggest winner of the night was Netflix's cooking reality show Culinary Class Wars, which is credited for boosting the ailing Korean restaurant industry.

To reflect the inclusion of online and streaming content, the TV Drama category has been renamed as the Broadcast category beginning this year. The awards ceremony was held at Coex in Seoul on May 5, 2025, with Shin Dong-yup, Bae Suzy, and Park Bo-gum serving as hosts.

Here are the winners in the Broadcast (TV Drama) category:

DAESANG (GRAND PRIZE) Culinary Class Wars

BEST DRAMA

When Life Gives You Tangerines

BEST DIRECTOR

Song Yeon-hwa, Doubt

BEST SCREENPLAY

Im Sang-choon, When Life Gives You Tangerines

BEST ACTOR

Ju Ji-hoon, Trauma Code: Heroes On Call

BEST ACTRESS

Kim Tae-ri, Jeongnyeon: The Star Is Born