Asia Contents Awards & Global OTT Awards

Asia Contents Awards & Global OTT Awards (Korean: 아시아콘텐츠어워즈&글로벌OTT어워즈; abbreviated ACA & G. OTT) is an awards ceremony organized by Busan International Film Festival and Korea Radio Promotion Association. Formerly known as Asia Contents Awards, it is an annual event inaugurated in 2019. It joined hands with the International OTT Festival, the Ministry of Science and ICT and Busan Metropolitan City in 2023, who co-hosts the event. Rebranding itself as "Asia Contents Awards & Global OTT Awards (ACA & G.OTT Awards)", it has expanded its horizon from Asia to the world. It now has 17 award categories including 5 newly added awards. The Awards celebrates 10 awards in competition and 7 awards by invitation such as Lifetime Achievement Award and Rising Star of the Year. Recognising the contribution of the streamers, it presents awards to the OTT service providers also.^[1]

Asia Contents Awards & Global OTT Awards
Current: 2025 International Streaming Festival
Awarded for	The achievements of excellent content made for TV, OTT, and online across Asia
Date	August
Country	South Korea
Presented by	Ministry of Science and ICT Busan Metropolitan City
Formerly called	Asia Contents Awards
First award	2019; 6 years ago (2019)
Final award	2025
Website	Official website

2023 edition of the awards ceremony took place on October 8, 2023, at BIFF Theater, Busan Cinema Center, Busan, South Korea.^[2]

Ceremonies

Year	Date	Venue	City	Host	Ref.
Asia Contents Awards (ACA)
2019	October 6, 2019	Sohyang Theater, Dongseo University	Busan, South Korea	Yoo Teo and Kim Sae-yeon	[3]
2020	October 25, 2020	online		Nichkhun and Kim Sae-yeon	[4]
2021	October 7, 2021			Mark Tetto and Kim Sae-yeon	[5]
2022	October 8, 2022	BIFF Theater, Busan Cinema Center	Busan, South Korea	Jung Hae-in and Kim Sae-yeon	[6]
Asia Contents Awards & Global OTT Awards (ACA & G.OTT Awards)
2023	October 8, 2023	BIFF Theater, Busan Cinema Center	Busan, South Korea	Kim Kang-woo and Nancy	[7][8]
2024	October 6, 2024			Kang Ki-young and Tiffany Young	[9][10]
Global OTT Awards
2025	August 24, 2025	BIFF Theater, Busan Cinema Center	Busan, South Korea		[11]

Awards category

There are 19 award categories including 5 newly added awards in 2023 and 2 added in 2024. The Awards celebrates 11 awards in competition and 8 awards by invitation.^[12][13]

Open competition

• Best Creative: This award honours a content with notable achievement among the nominations.
• Best OTT Original: This award is for the outstanding OTT Original content among the nominations.
• Best Asian TV Series: An outstanding Asian TV series among the nominations gets this award.
• Best Reality and Variety: The outstanding reality and variety show among the nominations for the year is the recipient of this award.
• Best Director
• Best Writer
• Best Lead Actor & Actress
• Best Supporting Actor & Actress
• Best Newcomer Actor & Actress
• Best Visual Effects
• Best Original Song: Introduced from 2024, it features memorable tracks that have resonated with the audience.

Invitation

• Creative Beyond Border: This award is given to honor the content that has pioneered a new genre on OTT.
• New Technology: This award honors outstanding platform that utilize emerging ICT technology.
• Special Contribution for K-Content: To honour the platforms, networks, production houses, and artists who contribute to the proliferation of Korean content worldwide, this award is given.
• Special Contribution for OTT Industry: This award honors the OTT service providers and partners who have contributed to the development of OTT industry worldwide.
• Lifetime Achievement Award: This award is given to a TV station, media platform, production house, or a creative artist who has made notable contributions worldwide.
• ACA Excellence Award: A creative artist who makes notable contributions around the world is honoured with this award.
• Rising Star of the Year: The most notable artist among the nominations gets the rising star award.
• People’s Choice Award: Introduced in 2024, this award will allow fans to vote for their favorite actors.

Winners open competition

Kim Hee-ae winner of 2020 Best Lead Actress Award for The World of the Married

Park Eun-bin winner of 2022 Best Lead Actress Award for Extraordinary Attorney Woo

Winners of Best Lead Actress Award

Lee Jung-ha winner of New Actor Award for Moving

Go Youn-jung winner of Best Newcomer Actress for Moving

Winners of 2023 Best Newcomer Award

Ariel Lin, winner of 2024 Best Lead Actress award for Imperfect Us

Tanya Chua, winner of 2024 Best Original Song for "Learn to Live Again" from Imperfect Us

Best Creative

Year	Winner	Creator	Country	Ref.
2019	Mr. Sunshine	Studio Dragon	South Korea	[14]
2020	The World of the Married	JTBC Studios	South Korea	[15]
	The Bad Kids	iQIYI	China	[16]
2021	Move to Heaven	Netflix	South Korea	[17]
2022	Extraordinary Attorney Woo	ENA, Netflix	South Korea	[18]
2023	Moving	Disney+	South Korea	[19]
2024	Blossoms Shanghai	Tencent Video	China	[20]

Best OTT Original

Year	Winner	Creator	Country	Ref.
2021	The Long Night [zh]	iQIYI	China	[17]
2023	Weak Hero Class 1	Wavve	South Korea	[21]
2024	Boyhood	Coupang Play	South Korea	[20]

Best Asian TV Series

Year	Winner	Creator	Country	Ref.
2023	Scoop	Matchbox Shots, Netflix	India	[22]
2024	1286	Salem Social Media	Kazakhstan	[20]

Best Reality and Variety

Year	Winner	Creator	Country	Ref.
2023	Physical 100	Netflix	South Korea	[23]
	Let's Feast Vietnam	BHD Vietnam Media Corp	Vietnam
2024	2 Faces	Workpoint Group	Thailand	[20]
	Jinny's Kitchen 2	Egg is Coming	South Korea

Best Asian Drama

Year	Winner	Creator	Country	Ref.
2019	Faculty	Mediacorp	Singapore	[24]
	Hormones: The Series Season 3	GTH	Thailand
2020	Last Madame	Ochre Pictures	Singapore	[25]
	When the Camellia Blooms	Pan Entertainment	South Korea
2021	Girl from Nowhere Season 2	GMM 25, Netflix	Thailand	[5]
Best Asian Animation
2021	Heaven's Design Team	Asahi Production	Japan	[5]
2022	The Orbital Children	Production +h	Japan	[18]
Best Asian Documentary
2022	The Atom Araullo Specials: Young Arms	ENA / GMA Network	Philippines	[26]

Best Short-Form/Web Drama

Year	Winner	Creator	Country	Ref.
2021	Sheker	Salem Social Media	Kazakhstan	[27]

Best Lead Actress

Year	Winner	Work	Country	Ref.
2019	Yao Chen	All Is Well	China	[24]
	Maja Salvador	Wild Flower	Philippines	[28]
2020	Kim Hee-ae	The World of the Married	South Korea	[16]
	Haru Kuroki	Nagi's Long Vacation	Japan
2021	Song Jia	A Love for Dilemma	China	[5]
2022	Park Eun-bin	Extraordinary Attorney Woo	South Korea	[29]
2023	Karishma Tanna	Scoop	India	[22]
2024	Ariel Lin	Imperfect Us	Taiwan	[20]

Best Lead Actor

Year	Winner	Work	Country	Ref.
2019	Lei Jiayin	The Longest Day in Chang'an	China	[24]
	Kim Nam-gil	The Fiery Priest	South Korea
	Takayuki Yamada	The Naked Director	Japan
2020	Joseph Chang	The Victims' Game	Taiwan	[16]
	Ju Ji-hoon	Kingdom Season 2	South Korea
2021	Lee Je-hoon	Move to Heaven	South Korea	[30]
2022	Ryohei Suzuki	Tokyo MER: Mobile Emergency Room	Japan	[18]
2023	Ryu Seung-ryong	Moving	South Korea	[19]
2024	Hu Ge	Blossoms Shanghai	China	[20]

Best Supporting Actress

Year	Winner	Work	Country	Ref.
2022	Sora Ma	This Land Is Mine	Singapore	[31]
2023	Lim Ji-yeon	The Glory	South Korea	[32]
2024	Yeom Hye-ran	Mask Girl	South Korea	[20]

Best Supporting Actor

Year	Winner	Work	Country	Ref.
2022	Park Hae-soo	Squid Game	South Korea	[18]
2023	Hsueh Shih-ling	Taiwan Crime Stories	Taiwan	[32]
2024	Ahn Jae-hong	Mask Girl	South Korea	[20]

Best Director

Year	Winner	Work	Country	Ref.
2023	Xin Shuang	The Long Season	China	[32]
2024	Kamila Andini, Ifa Isfansyah	Cigarette Girl	Indonesia	[33]

Best Writer

Year	Winner	Work	Country	Ref.
2019	Park Hae-young	My Mister	South Korea	[24]
	Lu Shih-yuan	The World Between Us	Taiwan
2020	Kim Eun-hee	Kingdom Season 2	South Korea	[34]
2021	Yoon Ji-ryeon	Move to Heaven	South Korea	[30]
2022	Wang Xiaoshuai, Yang Yishu	The Pavilion	China	[18]
2023	Kang Full	Moving	South Korea	[19]
2024	Joo Hwa-mi	The Atypical Family	South Korea	[33]

Best Newcomer Actress

Year	Winner	Work	Country	Ref..
2019	Sananthachat Thanapatpisal	Hormones: The Series	Thailand	[24]
	Kemisara Paladesh
	Sabrina Zhuang	Mountains and Ocean	China
	Morita Misato	The Naked Director	Japan
2020	Plearnpichaya Komalarajun	One Year:The Series	Thailand	[16]
	Jeon Mi-do	Hospital Playlist	South Korea
2021	Koe Yeet	Titoudao	Singapore	[35]
	Go Min-si	Sweet Home	South Korea	[5]
2022	Bao Shangen	Love Behind the Melody	China	[18]
2023	Go Youn-jung	Moving	South Korea	[19]
2024	Nimura Sawa	Shut Up	Japan	[33]

Best Newcomer Actor

Year	Winner	Work	Country	Ref..
2019	Jin Xiong Hao	Mountains and Ocean	China	[24]
2020	Paris Intarakomalyasut	In Family We Trust	Thailand	[16]
	Rong Zishan	The Bad Kids	China
2021	Win Morisaki	The Real Thing	Japan	[5]
2022	Ryusei Yokohama	The Journalist	Japan	[36]
2023	Lee Jung-ha	Moving	South Korea	[19]
2024	Chae Jong-hyeop	Eye Love You	Japan	[33]
	Kim Yo-han	A Killer Paradox	South Korea

Best Visual Effects

Year	Winner	Creator	Country	Ref.
2020	Kingdom Season 2	AStory	South Korea	[16]
2021	Sweet Home	Studio Dragon, Studio N	South Korea	[5]
2022	Squid Game	Netflix	South Korea	[18]
2023	Moving	Disney+	South Korea	[19]
2024	Parasyte: The Grey	Netflix	South Korea	[33]

Best Original Song

Year	Winner song	Series	Singer	Country	Ref.
2024	"Learn to Live Again"	Imperfect Us	Tanya Chua	Taiwan	[37]

Winners – invitation

Kim Hye-soo winner of 2020 Excellence Award

Fan Bingbing winner of 2022 Excellence Award

Winners of Excellence Award

Kim Hye-yoon winner of 2024 People's Choice Award (Female)

Byeon Woo-seok winner of People's Choice Award (Male)

Winners of People's Choice Award

Rising Star of the Year

Year	Winner	Work	Country	Ref.
2019	Fang Rong	Faculty	Singapore	[38]
2020	Dilraba Dilmurat	Eternal Love of Dream	China	[16]
	Kirti Kulhari	Four More Shots Please!	India
	Sayani Gupta
	Maanvi Gagroo
	Gurbani Judge
	Ririn Dwi Ariyanti	Dewi	Indonesia
2022	Kim Min-ha	Pachinko	South Korea	[39]
	Ling Man Lung [zh]	In Geek We Trust [zh]	Hong Kong	[18]
2023	Wen Junhui	Exclusive Fairy Tale	China	[40]
	Buffy Chen	Wave Makers	Taiwan
2024	Anson Kong	Warriors Within 2	Hong Kong	[33]
	Ayaka Miyoshi	Globe-Trotter Travel Guidebook	Japan
	Jo Yoon-su	The Tyrant	South Korea

People's Choice Award (Male)

Year	Winner	Work	Country	Ref.
2024	Byeon Woo-seok	Lovely Runner	South Korea	[41]

People's Choice Award (Female)

Year	Winner	Work	Country	Ref.
2024	Kim Hye-yoon	Lovely Runner	South Korea	[41]

Lifetime Achievement Award

Year	Winner	Work	Country	Ref.
2019	Raymond Lee Wai-Man	Flying Tiger	Hong Kong	[24]
2020	Amuse Inc.	Entertainment company	Japan	[16]
	ABS-CBN	Commercial broadcast network	Philippines
2022	Tatsuo Kawamura	Producer	Japan	[18]
2023	Kim Jong-hak	Director and producer	South Korea	[32]

Excellence Award

Year	Winner	Work	Country	Ref.
2019	Kim Jae-joong	Singer, songwriter, actor and director	South Korea	[24]
2020	Kim Hye-soo	Hyena	South Korea	[16]
	Yuko Araki	Actress and model	Japan
2021	Song Kang	Sweet Home	South Korea	[5]
2022	Fan Bingbing		China	[18]
2023	Yuya Yagira	Gannibal	Japan	[32]

Creative Beyond Border

Year	Winner	Creator	Country	Ref.
2021	Bad Genius: The Series	GDH 559	Thailand	[17]
	Alice in Borderland	Netflix	Japan
2023	EXchange Season 2	TVING	South Korea	[21]
	One Day Off	Wavve	South Korea
2024	Shaman: Whispers From The Dead	TVING	South Korea	[33]

New Technology

Year	Winner	Work	Country	Ref.
2023	TVING	OTT video streaming platform	South Korea	[21]
2024	Kocowa	OTT video streaming platform	United States	[33]

Special Contribution for OTT Industry

Year	Winner	Work	Country	Ref.
2023	Watcha	OTT video streaming platform	South Korea	[21]

Special Contribution for K-Content

Year	Winner	Work	Country	Ref.
2023	Viu	OTT video streaming platform	Hong Kong	[21]
	Wavve Americas		USA

Best Creator

Year	Winner	Work	Country	Ref.
2022	The Pinkfong Company	Entertainment company	South Korea	[18]

Achievement Award

Year	Winner	Work	Country	Ref.
2022	Song Byung-joon	Composer	South Korea	[18]

ACA Jury's Special Award

Year	Winner	Creator	Country	Ref.
2021	Naoki Hanzawa	TBS	Japan	[42]

See also

• List of Asian television awards