Kakao Entertainment Hosts In-House Year-End Awards Ceremony 'Entop Awards'... Selects Major Hit Cases

Kakao Entertainment held its first in-house year-end awards ceremony, 'ENTOP AWARDS 2024,' sharing and celebrating the year's hit cases with its employees, the company announced on the 24th.

The ENTOP AWARDS were established to internally select the best cases among numerous intellectual property (IP) and technological innovation examples presented throughout the year, as well as projects that led the company's growth, and to celebrate them together.

In the Best IP category, selected with employee participation, the honors went to 'Naeil-ui Euddeum: Seonjae Upgo Twieo' (Story IP), aespa's 'Supernova' (Music IP), and 'Pinggyego' (Media IP), respectively.

In the Best Impact category, awarded to projects that contributed to company and brand growth, the 'Music IP Strategy Marketing Project' conducted by the music content division and Kakao Entertainment's launched AI brand 'Helix' were selected. The Best Impact category was chosen by a panel of 10 judges, including the CEO and division heads.

Kakao Entertainment provided various prize money and gifts to the awardees, and also held various events linked to social contribution activities, such as producing and donating massage sticks worth 7.5 million KRW in collaboration with the Seongnam City Senior Citizen Support Center, and donating 7.5 million KRW to the Seongnam City Child Group Home Association through employee events.

The ENTOP AWARDS were organized as the year-end event of 'ENTalk,' a regular town hall brand first introduced in May this year. Kakao Entertainment is strengthening communication between employees and leaders through ENTalk while enhancing company-wide employee understanding of diverse capabilities spanning music, story, and media.

Co-CEOs Kwon Ki-soo and Jang Yoon-jung said, "Through the crew's efforts and newly established communication opportunities, we were able to stabilize the company this year and lay the foundation for future growth. As in this year, we will strive to continuously present 'good content' that will be loved by many people for a long time next year as well."

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