From Asia to the World... Busan City Hosts International OTT Awards Ceremony

Busan City and the Ministry of Science and ICT are hosting the international awards ceremony ‘2023 ACA & Global OTT Awards’ to encourage and support the global expansion of the domestic online video service (OTT) industry.

This awards ceremony is an integrated event combining the Asia Contents Awards (ACA), which targets TV, OTT, and online content across Korea and Asia, and the newly introduced international OTT festival this year. It will be held at the Busan Cinema Center at 6 p.m. on October 8 during the Busan International Film Festival, with global content creators and artists invited.

Transformed into a global awards ceremony, the candidate regions for content have been expanded from Asia to worldwide, reorganizing the existing 12 award categories and adding 5 new categories.

The award categories include 10 competitive categories such as Best Creative Award, Best OTT Original, Best Actor and Actress in Leading and Supporting Roles, and the newly established Reality & Variety category, as well as 7 invitational categories including Lifetime Achievement and Popularity Awards, totaling 17 categories.

Additionally, considering the recent production of diverse content on online video service platforms and their streaming worldwide, award categories targeting platforms will also be added.

Busan City Hall.

The call for entries will be held from August 1 to 21, and candidates and works selected through preliminary and final screenings by category will be announced on the official website in September. The awards ceremony will then be held in October with various celebratory performances.

Detailed information about the call for entries and application guidelines can be found on the official website.

Kim Ki-hwan, Director of the Culture and Sports Bureau of Busan City, said, “The newly reorganized and expanded international awards ceremony this year will serve as a stepping stone for overseas expansion opportunities by promoting not only excellent domestic and international content creators and artists but also outstanding domestic platforms.”

He added, “Going forward, our city will continue efforts not only to discover well-made content domestically and internationally but also to enhance global recognition.”

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.