Eight Distinct Stars Receive Identical Awards at 2025 SBS Drama Awards, Stirring Debate

Eight actors face backlash for sharing rookie awards at 2025 SBS Drama Awards
The 2025 SBS Drama Awards stirred controversy after handing the exact same rookie award to eight different actors and actresses.
Four male actorsโKim Dan (The Winning Try), Kim Moo Jun (Dynamite Kiss), Cha Woo Min (Buried Hearts), and Ha Yu Jun (Spring of Youth)โall won the rookie award together.
At the same time, four actressesโKim Eun Bi (Our Movie), Park Jung Yeon (The Winning Try), Woo Da Bi (Dynamite Kiss), and Hong Hwa Yeon (Buried Hearts)โwere also named rookie winners.
The ceremonyโs atmosphere turned awkward when it was revealed all four male nominees were actually winners. Even the actors looked confused and clapped awkwardly.

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๊น๋ฌด์ค โ ํค์ค๋ ๊ดํ ํด์!
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ํ์ ์ค โ ์ฌ๊ณ์ ๋ด๊น์๋น โ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ํ
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ํํ์ฐ โ ๋ณด๋ฌผ์ฌ
โ ๋ฃจํค (@o3o_rookie) December 31, 2025
The four male winners appeared on screen together, making audiences expect nominees. Instead, all were winners, causing visible confusion on stage.
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์ ์ธ์ ์ฐ๊ธฐ ์์ ๋์ค๊ณ 4๋ช ์ด ์ข๋ฅด๋ฅต ๋์ค๋๋ฐ ์๊ณ ๋ณด๋ ํ๋ณด๊ฐ ์๋๋ผ ์์์ด์ด์ ๋ค๋ค ์ด๋ฆฌ๋ฅ์ ํ๋ฉด์ ๋ฉ๋ฑ๋ฉ๋ฑ ๋ฐ์๋ง ์นจใ ใ ใ ใ ใ ใ ใ
โ ๋ฃจ (@rooclip) December 31, 2025
Giving multiple rookie awards is an SBS tradition. Still, many online criticized it for reducing the awardโs value.

Netizens shared their thoughts:
โThis isnโt even that bold for SBS. Back in the day, they handed them out in huge batchesโactors just kept coming up on stage and it never seemed to end lol.โ
โAwards given out en masse already have zero prestige anyway. Itโs basically just an attendance award.โ
โGiving out a lot of Best New Actor awards isnโt a bad thing though.โ
โDidnโt they give out even more in the past?โ
โSBS is known for handing out a lot of Best New Actor awards.โ

The multiple-winner approach keeps dividing opinions, with some fans calling it normal and others saying it cheapens the prize.