At the 61st Baeksang Arts Awards held on the 5th, the team behind Netflix’s hit series ‘Fooled’ swept the awards and paid tribute to the late Kang Myung-joo, who appeared in the drama.

At the awards ceremony that day, Yeom Hye-ran, who won the Best Supporting Actress Award for ‘Cheated by a Ghost’, and director Kim Won-seok, who won the Best Picture Award, drew attention by directly mentioning Kang Myung-joo, with whom they worked together.

In the drama, Kang Myung-joo appears as the mother of Park Young-beom, played by Lee Jun-young, and is a character who strongly opposes his marriage to IU.

Prior to this, it was announced on February 28th, before the drama’s release, that he had passed away from cancer.

On this day, Yeom Hye-ran said, “I won the Best Supporting Actress Award, and as you can see, there are so many great supporting actresses.Seniors Kim Yong-rim and Na Moon-hee were great pillars, and senior Kang Myung-joo, who has gone to heaven, and I met many seniors and juniors I have respected since I was doing theater.Regardless of their age, they are really great young actors.I send them my deepest respect and gratitude,” touching the audience.

Director Kim Won-seok also said, “I would like to express my gratitude to all the staff and actors who appeared in the ending credits, but even if it takes some time, I would like to call out the names of the staff members in charge and express my gratitude separately.I think this drama would not have existed without them.”

He then drew attention by saying, “I pay tribute to our pride, actress Kang Myung-joo, who passed away before the drama was released and gave us truly emerald, jewel-like acting.”

Go Kang-myeong debuted in 1992 with the Extreme Experimental Theater’s ‘Kuni, Country’ and showed off her strong presence by appearing in the plays ‘Journey with Oedipus’, ‘Scorched Love’, ‘Coriolanus’, and as a judge in the 2022 drama ‘The Strange Lawyer Woo Young-woo’.


Reporter Lee Jeong- annjoy@donga.com

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