Broadcaster Kim Sung-joo and actress Chae Soo-bin will be working together as MCs for the ‘2024 MBC Drama Awards’.

The ‘2024 MBC Drama Awards’, which will be broadcast on Monday, December 30, is a place to look back on the dramas that gave viewers a variety of emotions in 2024.

This year, MBC has received much love for various works, starting with ‘Flowers that Bloom at Night’, ‘Third Marriage’, ‘Wonderful World’, ‘Chief of Investigation 1958’, ‘Brave Yong Soo-jung’, ‘Our Home’, ‘I Hate Pork Cutlet’, ‘Death to Snow White - Black Out’, ‘Such an Intimate Traitor’, ‘Kind Mr. Sun-ju’, ‘The Phone Call You Just Made’. All the actors in the works are predicted to be candidates for the Grand Prize, so attention is focused on who will take home the honor of the Grand Prize.

Amidst expectations of a fierce competition for the Grand Prize just by hearing the names, Kim Sung-joo and Chae Soo-bin have teamed up as MCs, heralding fresh chemistry, raising expectations. In particular, Kim Sung-joo, who has been a solid MC for the ‘MBC Drama Awards’ since 2019, is expected to add to the excitement of the festival by displaying his solid hosting skills at the ‘2024 MBC Drama Awards’.

Chae Soo-bin, who has been thrilling viewers every Friday and Saturday night with her role as sign language interpreter Hong Hee-joo in ‘The Call You Dialed Now’, will be challenging her first MC role since her debut with the ‘2024 MBC Drama Awards’. As she has been actively working in various genres including plays, movies, and dramas, attention is being paid to Chae Soo-bin‘s new activities as a host.

The ‘2024 MBC Drama Awards’ led by Kim Sung-joo and Chae Soo-bin will air on Monday, December 30.

Reporter Choi Yoon-na, Donga.com yyynnn@donga.com