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Byeon Woo-seok and Kim Hye-yoon won the 'Outstanding Asian Star' Korea Popularity Award at the Seoul International Drama Awards 2024. Byeon Woo-seok topped the male actors with 9,987,150 votes, followed by Kim Soo-hyun.
Kim Hye-yoon led the female actors with 6,296,840 votes. Their popularity soared due to the success of Lovely Runner. Kim Soo-hyun and Kim Ji-won, from the drama Queen of Tears, also gained significant fan support. Both shows broke records and were well-loved this year.
Lovely Runner co-stars Byeon Woo-seok and Kim Hye-yoon swoop the votes for Seoul International Drama Awards 2024 'Outstanding Asian Star' Korea Popularity Award
The voting for all categories stopped at 11:59 pm on July 14. With 9,987,150 votes, Byeon Woo-seok who is currently on his Asia Summer Letter Tour came on the top.
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With his presence in the Prada Winter/Autumn 2025 Menswear Collection Fashion Show to his Asia Tour, Byeon Woo-seok has stayed in the news and is in constant contact with his fans. Fans love how Byeon Woo-seok makes the effort to interact with them, even recreating movements from Lovely Runner.
Kim Hye-yoon won the top spot for female actors with 6,296,840 votes. Known for Extraordinary You and Lovely Runner, she made a strong impression on fans. While Woo-seok couldn't attend the cast and crew's vacation for Lovely Runner, Kim Hye-yoon enjoyed it, sharing photos and videos afterward.
Lovely Runner's final episode had a 5.8 percent viewership rating and surpassed Queen of Tears to become the most popular K-drama after its 9th and 10th episodes. The show, which aired from April 8 to May 28, 2024, featured Byeon Woo-seok as Ryu Sun-Jae and Kim Hye-yoon as Im Sol. It has been widely discussed for its achievements.
The lead vocalist for the made-up K-pop group Eclipse is Sun-Jae. Once, he prevented Im Sol from giving up on her life. She has been his devoted follower ever since. One day, upon discovering Sun-Jae's demise, she experiences a miraculous time travel back fifteen years to the high school years of the characters. Im Sol makes the decision to take advantage of the chance to save Sun-Jae's life going forward.
Queen of Tears cast follows right behind
Kim Soo-hyun secures the second spot among male actors with 9703599 votes while Kim Ji-won also shares the same spot among female actors with 5981436 votes.
Queen of Tears became a groundbreaking debut, first supported by the production company Studio Dragon and the South Korean network tvN. From March 9 to April 28, the series was available on TVING and Netflix.
It was one of the top 10 most-watched non-English programs for the week of May 27–June 2. The South Korean broadcasting firm stated that Queen of Tears' conclusion broke the previous record of 21.68% held by the wildly popular Crash Landing On You in 2019 with an astounding audience rate of 24.85% domestically after the show aired.
