'Guardian' sweeps DramaFever Awards

Actor Gong Yoo from tvN hit drama “Guardian: The Lonely and Great God” won the Best Actor category. / Korea Times file

By Eom Da-sol

Korean TV drama “Guardian: The Lonely and Great God” won five awards at a U.S. online award show dedicated to Asian TV.

At the fifth annual DramaFever Awards on Wednesday, the hit tvN drama series from the last year swept the top honors.

Gong Yoo, who played the main character Kim Shin, won the Best Actor category. Lee Dong-wook and Yoo In-na won the Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress categories respectively, while Gong and Kim Go-eun won the Best Couple category. The drama also won the Best Melodrama category.

DramaFever, the biggest Asian TV show streaming website in the U.S., presents the awards every year based on visitors’ votes. This year, more than 3.2 million votes were cast across 19 categories.

Lee, Yoo and Kim expressed their appreciation.

“Guardian was a very meaningful project to me,” Yoo said in a video posted on the site. “I am so thankful that so many viewers loved the series. I will work hard to become an even better actress.”

Song Hye-gyo won the Best Actress category for her role in KBS 2TV’s hit drama “Descendants of the Sun” (2016). Korean TV shows and actors won 17 categories out of 19.