May 2026 Korean entertainment roundup: 62nd Baeksang Arts Awards plus four major premieres

The 62nd Baeksang Arts Awards (May 8, 2026)

The 62nd Baeksang Arts Awards were held on Friday, May 8, 2026 at COEX Hall D in Seoul, hosted by Shin Dong-yup, Bae Suzy, and Park Bo-gum. The ceremony was broadcast live by JTBC and live-streamed by Naver. This edition marked the addition of a competitive Musical Division for the first time, created in partnership with the Korea Musical Theatre Association to mark the 60th anniversary of Korean musical theater.

Grand Prize (Daesang)

• Television Grand Prize: Ryu Seung-ryong, The Dream Life of Mr. Kim (김씨네 인생).
• Film Grand Prize: Yoo Hae-jin, The King's Warden (왕의 호위무사).

Television highlights

• Best Drama: You and Everything Else (Netflix). The series is in the DubSori catalog at /series/you-and-everything-else.
• Best Actor: Hyun Bin, Made in Korea.
• Best Actress: Park Bo-young, Our Unwritten Seoul (외사신 - Oesashin). The series is in the DubSori catalog at /series/our-unwritten-seoul.

Film highlights

• Best Film: No Other Choice, directed by Park Chan-wook.
• Best Actor: Park Jeong-min, The Ugly.
• Best Actress: Mun Ga-young, Once We Were Us.
• Best New Actor: Park Ji-hoon, The King's Warden.
• Best Director: Yoon Ga-eun, The World of Love.
• Gucci Impact Award: The King's Warden.

The King's Warden was Korea's highest-grossing film of 2025–2026 at the time of the awards, with 16.8 million admissions on Korean Film Council records.

May premieres

Four notable Korean dramas premiered during May 2026:

• My Royal Nemesis (May 8, Netflix). A romantic-fantasy comedy starring Lim Ji-yeon and Heo Nam-jun. The premise: a Joseon-era villainess's soul is transported into the body of a present-day actress who then becomes entangled with a modern tycoon. Eight-episode run on Netflix.
• Azure Spring (May 11, KOCOWA+ / Viki / Viu). A youth slice-of-life series with Kang Sang-jun and Ye Ri.
• The Wonderfools (May 15, Netflix). A superhero-comedy mash-up set in 1999, starring Park Eun-bin and Cha Eun-woo. The pitch: "flawed superhumans" who cause as much chaos as they prevent.
• Reborn Rookie (May 30, JTBC). A body-swap drama in which a chairman's soul is exchanged with that of a young employee at his own company.

What this means for English-language access

The Baeksang TV winners that DubSori already tracks - You and Everything Else and Our Unwritten Seoul - both stream on Netflix with English subtitles; neither carries an English dub at the time of writing, which is consistent with how Netflix has handled most of its Korean prestige drama. The film winners (The King's Warden, No Other Choice, The Ugly, Once We Were Us) had not yet announced English-territory streaming distribution as of the awards date.

DubSori will track each title's English dub and subtitle status as the streaming-rights moves are announced. The verification methodology - visit the streaming page, confirm the audio language options, record the date - is the same for awards winners as for any other title.