2017 MBC Drama Awards explained

2017 MBC Drama Awards
Award:	MBC Drama Awards
Date:	December 30, 2017
Host:	Main: Special MC:
Best Drama Serial:	The Rebel
Free Award Type:	Grand Prize (Daesang)
Free Award:	Kim Sang-joong
Network:	MBC
Duration:	230 minutes
Last:	2016
Next:	2018

The 2017 MBC Drama Awards, presented by Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) took place on December 30, 2017. It was hosted by Kim Sung-ryung and Oh Sang-jin.^{[1] [2]}

Winners and nominees

Grand Prize (Daesang)	Drama of the Year
Kim Sang-joong – The Rebel Choi Min-soo – Man Who Dies to Live Ha Ji-won – Hospital Ship Heo Joon-ho – Jang Hyuk – Money Flower Jo Jung-suk – Two Cops Uhm Jung-hwa – You Are Too Much Yoo Seung-ho –	The Rebel Man Who Dies to Live Missing 9 Money Flower Radiant Office Two Cops
Top Excellence Award, Actor in a Weekend Drama	Top Excellence Award, Actress in a Weekend Drama
Jang Hyuk – Money Flower Kim Kap-soo – Man in the Kitchen Kim Jaewon – Father, I'll Take Care of You Kim Ji-hoon – Bad Thief, Good Thief Ji Hyun-woo – Bad Thief, Good Thief Jun Kwang-ryul – You Are Too Much	Lee Mi-sook – Money Flower Choi Soo-young – Man in the Kitchen Kim Mi-sook – Man in the Kitchen Seohyun – Bad Thief, Good Thief Uhm Jung-hwa – You Are Too Much
Top Excellence Award, Actor in a Miniseries	Top Excellence Award, Actress in a Miniseries
Yoo Seung-ho – Choi Min-soo – Man Who Dies to Live Ha Seok-jin – Radiant Office Heo Joon-ho – Um Ki-joon – I'm Not a Robot	Ha Ji-won – Hospital Ship Baek Jin-hee – Missing 9 Go Ah-sung – Radiant Office Kang Ye-won – Man Who Dies to Live Kim So-hyun –
Top Excellence Award, Actor in a Soap Opera	Top Excellence Award, Actress in a Soap Opera
Go Se-won – Ahn Jae-mo – Enemies from the Past Kwon Hyun-sang – Sunwoo Jae-duk –	Kim Mi-kyung – Kang Sung-yeon – Lee Yoon-ji – Park Si-eun –
Top Excellence Award, Actor in a Monday-Tuesday Drama	Top Excellence Award, Actress in a Monday-Tuesday Drama
Jo Jung-suk – Two Cops Kim Ji-seok – Children of the 20th Century Im Si-wan – The King in Love Kim Sang-joong – The Rebel Kim Young-kwang – The Guardians Yoon Kyun-sang – The Rebel	Lee Ha-nui – The Rebel Han Ye-seul – Children of the 20th Century Im Yoon-ah – The King in Love Lee Hye-ri – Two Cops Lee Si-young – The Guardians
Excellence Award, Actor in a Weekend Drama	Excellence Award, Actress in a Weekend Drama
Jang Seung-jo – Money Flower Choi Jong-hwan – Bad Thief, Good Thief Kang Tae-oh – You Are Too Much On Joo-wan – Man in the Kitchen	Jang Hee-jin – You Are Too Much Lim Ju-eun – Bad Thief, Good Thief Park Eun-bin – Father, I'll Take Care of You Seo Hyo-rim – Man in the Kitchen Shin Eun-jung – Bad Thief, Good Thief
Excellence Award, Actor in a Miniseries	Excellence Award, Actress in a Miniseries
Shin Sung-rok – Man Who Dies to Live Choi Tae-joon – Missing 9 Kang Min-hyuk – Hospital Ship Kim Dong-wook – Radiant Office Kim Myung-soo – Lee Dong-hwi – Radiant Office	Han Sun-hwa – Radiant Office – Hospital Ship Lee So-yeon – Man Who Dies to Live Wang Ji-won – Hospital Ship Yoon So-hee –
Excellence Award, Actor in a Soap Opera	Excellence Award, Actress in a Soap Opera
Kang Kyung-joon – Sisters-in-Law Cha Do-jin – Sisters-in-Law Kim Ji-han – Golden Pouch Lee Ha-yool –	Song Seon-mi – Hahm Eun-jung – Sisters-in-Law Kang Byul – Lee Joo-yeon – Sisters-in-Law Shin Da-eun – Backflow
Excellence Award, Actor in a Monday-Tuesday Drama	Excellence Award, Actress in a Monday-Tuesday Drama
Kim Seon-ho – Two Cops Hong Jong-hyun – The King in Love Lee Sang-woo – Children of the 20th Century Oh Min-suk – The King in Love	Chae Soo-bin – The Rebel Im Se-mi – Two Cops Jang Young-nam – The King in Love Kim Seul-gi – The Guardians
Golden Acting Award, Actor in a Weekend Drama	Golden Acting Award, Actress in a Weekend Drama
Ahn Gil-kang – Bad Thief, Good Thief – Father, I'll Take Care of You Kim Chang-wan – Father, I'll Take Care of You Lee Seung-joon – Father, I'll Take Care of You	Shin Dong-mi – Father, I'll Take Care of You Jung Hye-sun – You Are Too Much Kim Bo-yeon – You Are Too Much Kim Soo-mi – Man in the Kitchen Lee Jung-eun – Bad Thief, Good Thief Yoon A-jung – You Are Too Much
Golden Acting Award, Actor in a Miniseries	Golden Acting Award, Actress in a Miniseries
Oh Jung-se – Missing 9 Kim Kwang-kyu – Hospital Ship Kwon Hae-hyo – Radiant Office Park Chul-min –	Jang Shin-young – Radiant Office – Hwang Seung-eon – Man Who Dies to Live Park Joon-geum – Hospital Ship
Golden Acting Award, Actor in a Soap Opera	Golden Acting Award, Actress in a Soap Opera
Ahn Nae-sang – Golden Pouch – Sisters-in-Law Lee Jung-gil –	Song Ok-sook – Geum Bo-ra – – Sisters-in-Law Lee Hye-sook –
Golden Acting Award, Actor in a Monday-Tuesday Drama	Golden Acting Award, Actress in a Monday-Tuesday Drama
Jeong Bo-seok – The King in Love Ahn Se-ha – Children of the 20th Century Kim Byeong-ok – The Rebel Lee Si-eon – Two Cops Shin Dong-wook – The Guardians	Seo Yi-sook – The Rebel Kim Sun-young – The Guardians Moon Ji-in – Two Cops Ryu Hyun-kyung – Children of the 20th Century
Popularity Award, Actor	Popularity Award, Actress
Kim Myung-soo – Jang Hyuk – Money Flower Jo Jung-suk – Two Cops Kang Min-hyuk – Hospital Ship Kim Ji-seok – Children of the 20th Century Yoo Seung-ho – I'm Not a Robot Yoon Kyun-sang – The Rebel	Kim So-hyun – Chae Soo-bin – I'm Not a Robot Ha Ji-won – Hospital Ship Han Ye-seul – Children of the 20th Century Im Yoon-ah – The King in Love Lee Ha-nui – The Rebel Lee Hye-ri – Two Cops
Best New Actor	Best New Actress
Kim Jung-hyun – The Rebel Kim Seon-ho – Two Cops Kim Ki-bum – The Guardians Kim Myung-soo – Jo Sung-hyun – You Are Too Much Lee Ho-won – Radiant Office Lee Seo-won – Hospital Ship – The Rebel	Lee Sun-bin – Missing 9 Seohyun – Bad Thief, Good Thief Hahm Eun-jung – Sisters-in-Law Han So-hee – Money Flower Kwon Mina – Hospital Ship Lee Joo-yeon – Sisters-in-Law Lee Sang-hee – Children of the 20th Century Lee Soo-min – The Rebel Ryu Hyo-young – Golden Pouch
Best Young Actor/Actress	Best Character Award, Best Villain
– The Rebel Nam Da-reum – The King in Love Jo Yeon-ho – Jung Soo-in – The Rebel Lee Chae-mi – Lomon – The Guardians – Father, I'll Take Care of You Yoon Chan-young – The King in Love	Choi Tae-joon – Missing 9 Geum Bo-ra – Blow Breeze Han Soo-yeon – Heo Joon-ho – Seo Yi-sook – Bad Thief, Good Thief
Best Character Award, Fighting Spirit Acting	Best Character Award, Comic Character
Kim Myung-soo – Kim Sang-joong – The Rebel Lee Joo-woo – Lee Si-young – The Guardians Ryu Won – Missing 9	Jung Kyung-ho – Missing 9 – Father, I'll Take Care of You Kim Seon-ho – Two Cops Kim Soo-mi – Man in the Kitchen Shin Sung-rok – Man Who Dies to Live
Writer of the Year
Hwang Jin-young – The Rebel

Presenters

Actor Kim Sang-joong gave a memorial speech for late Kim Ji-young (1938–2017), late Kim Young-ae (1951–2017), late (1960–2017) and late Kim Joo-hyuk (1972–2017).^[3]

Order	Presenter	Award	Ref.
1		Best New Actor/Actress	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDm9A0ZEqPQ
2	Jung Da-bin,	Best Young Actor/Actress	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srrNAEOtgaQ
3		Writer of the Year	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV2T4j_Ls_0
4		Best Character Award
5		Golden Acting Award in a Weekend Drama/Miniseries	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4lSxmFb34whttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD5utxe_I8g
6		Golden Acting Award in a Soap Opera/Monday-Tuesday Drama	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUF71BTs3OAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAevF9dq6VU
7		Popularity Award	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Wf0FJA_E3U
8		Excellence Award in a Weekend Drama/Miniseries
9		Excellence Award in a Soap Opera/Monday-Tuesday Drama
10		Top Excellence Award in a Weekend Drama/Miniseries	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArE8hqU7nwUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7LJDmOxmkshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9xBRkln13Uhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4LKdhCH6_o
11		Top Excellence Award in a Soap Opera/Monday-Tuesday Drama	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2VpD3_guqAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL9WmkbF6Ig
12		Drama of the Year
13		Grand Prize (Daesang)

Special performances

Order	Artist	Song	Ref.
1		Yes I Am (나로 말할 것 같으면)	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42feAAsHgmo
2		OST Medley: Don't Ask (묻지 말기로 해) Too Young To Die (죽어도 좋아) Let Me Cry From The First Time You and Me (처음부터 너와 나)	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLhlNVjN28Ahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIw7Wv9FSpE
		Crazy Sexy Cool (니가 불어와)

See also

• 2017 KBS Drama Awards
• 2017 SBS Drama Awards

Notes and References

1. News: Yoo Ji-hye. [공식입장] 오상진X김성령, MBC 연기대상 MC확정...30일 생방송]. OSEN. December 20, 2017. December 30, 2017. ko.
2. News: Jang Ah-reum. [N디데이] MBC연기대상 Dday…김상중에 장혁까지, 예측불가 수상후보]. News1 Korea. December 30, 2017. December 30, 2017. ko.
3. News: Park So-young. [2017 MBC연기대상] 故김주혁·김영애·김지영·이미지 추모.."영원한 배우"]. OSEN. December 30, 2017. December 30, 2017. ko.