The 20th Annual Seoul International Drama Awards () festival was held on October 2, 2025 at KBS Hall, Yeouido, Seoul. The host is the Seoul Drama Awards Organizing Committee (Korean Broadcasters Association), and the event is supported by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the Seoul Metropolitan Government, KBS, MBC, SBS, EBS, and CBS. The sponsor is IDOLCHAMP and MUGEN. 101 entries from 50 countries vied for awards in this edition. Hosted by Ok Taec-yeon and Jang Do-yeon.
Event +Events Event Venue Dates MC Notes Drama Festa Banpo Hangang Park and Seokchon Lake West (Songpa Naru Park) Red Carpet KBS Hall, Yeouido MC Bae and Jang Sun-young Award Ceremony Ok Taec-yeon and Jang Do-yeon After party MC Bae and Jang Sun-young
Jury Source:
Preliminaries Luciana Monteiro (Executive Producer of Drama, TV GLOBO) Nicholas Lafferty (Agent at Creative Artists Agency) Şenay Filiztekin Turan (Head of Acquisitions, GLOBAL AGENCY) Yang Lei (Director) Daesic Bae (Secretary-General, Korea Drama Production Association) Doobo Shim (Professor of Media Communication, Sungshin Women's University) Jaehun Jang (DRAMASTUDIO 1 Executive Producer, MBC) Sungsoon Park (Professor of Media & Contents, Pai Chai University) Sukyung Oh (Drama Critic, Regular columnist for SisaIN, Kyunghyang Shinmun, Hankyoreh21 and Cine21) Sinil Kim (1st Chief Producer, TV drama production center) Innam Bach (Director of Division, Broadcasting & Video Content) Youngsoo Park (Head of Drama Production, Studio S)
Final
Bettina Brinkmann Cynthia Fenneman Kentaro Yamato Chan-il Jeon Sangseok Nam Sukjin Yun Junghwan Han
Winners and nominees The nominations for the 20th Annual Seoul International Drama Awards were announced on August 20, 2025. Winners are listed first and denoted in bold.
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International Invitation
+ Ben Stiller ‡
International Competition Program + Adolescence The Son Our Beautiful Summer Unbalanced Love Smetana Champagne – Peppino di Capri Pachinko Adolescence Sunny One Hundred Years of Solitude Asura (Netflix, Japan) Light of My Lion (TBS, Japan) The Eternaut Hyper Knife The Good & The Bad D.I.D. 12 Emerald Hill - The Little Nyonya Story For Eagle Brothers Saving Grace She's The One The Beach S2 The Nightfall
Individual
+ Owen Cooper Adam Scott Giorgos Ninios Han Chin Samuel Le Bihan Benjamin Voisin Cate Blanchett Kim Min-ha Duda Santhos Hsieh Ying-xuan Kim Da-mi Kim Jung-young Rie Miyazawa Hirokazu Kore-eda Philip Barantini Bille August Kim Won-seok Lee Jin-ah Alex Garcia et al. Ben Stiller et al. Bille August Leanne Welham et al. Lucy Tcherniak Yiannis Vasileiadis Dan Erickson Soo Hugh Lim Sang-choon Stephen Graham et al. Danica Domingo et al. Emmanuel Carrere Jan Schomburg et al. José Rivera et al. Katie Robbins
International Invitation: Outstanding Asian Stars
+ Kim Seon-ho Jisoo Kentaro Sakaguchi Yu Bai Daniel Padilla Film Rachanun Mahawan Anna Jobling
K-Drama Competition Category
+ The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call When Life Gives You Tangerines Ju Ji-hoon IU Young Tak – "Unpredictable Life"
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