K-World Dream Awards

The K-World Dream Awards (Korean: 케이 월드 드림 어워즈) is an annual music award show in South Korea. The award ceremony was first known the Soribada Best K-Music Awards (소리바다 베스트 케이뮤직 어워즈) in 2017 until discontinued due to the host Soribada delisting possibility in 2021. The award ceremony revived in 2022 with different host and rebranded as the K-Global Heart Dream Awards (케이 글로벌 하트 드림 어워즈) then renamed again in 2024 to the current name.

K-World Dream Awards
Current: 2024 K-World Dream Awards
Awarded for	Outstanding achievements in the music industry
Location	Seoul
Country	South Korea
Presented by	TV Daily
Formerly called	Soribada Best K-Music Awards (2017–2020) K-Global Heart Dream Awards (2022–2023)
First award	September 20, 2017; 7 years ago (2017-09-20)
Television/radio coverage
Network	hellolive

History

Soribada Best K-Music Awards was hosted by the digital music platform Soribada to celebrate the best and brightest of K-pop releases.^[1] The first awards ceremony was held in September 2017 and awarded to the musics released between September 2016 and August 2017.^[2] In 2021, the organizing company changed and the award ceremony was revived as the K-Global Heart Dream Awards after the bankruptcy of Soribada.^[3][4] In 2024, the awards ceremony was renamed to the K-World Dream Awards.^[5]

Judging criteria

Winners are determined through Soribada's internal data, online and mobile votes from fans across the world, as well as ratings from professional adjudicators and critics.^[6][7]

List of ceremonies

Edition	Award ceremony	Date	Venue	City	Ref.
1st	2017 Soribada Best K-Music Awards	September 20, 2017	Jamsil Students' Gymnasium	Seoul, South Korea	[8]
2nd	2018 Soribada Best K-Music Awards	August 30, 2018	Olympic Gymnastics Arena		[9]
3rd	2019 Soribada Best K-Music Awards	August 22–23, 2019			[10]
4th	2020 Soribada Best K-Music Awards	August 13, 2020	Online Ceremony		[11]
6th	2022 K-Global Heart Dream Awards	August 25, 2022	Jamsil Students' Gymnasium	Seoul, South Korea	[12]
7th	2023 K-Global Heart Dream Awards	August 10, 2023	KSPO Dome		[13]
8th	2024 K-World Dream Awards	August 22, 2024	Jamsil Arena		[5]
9th	2025 K-World Dream Awards	August 21, 2025			[14]

Grand Prize (Daesang)

Ed.	Year	Winner(s)
1st	2017	Exo[a]		Twice[a]
2nd	2018	BTS[a]
3rd	2019	BTS[b]	Twice[b]	Red Velvet[b]	Mamamoo[b]
4th	2020	BTS

Main Prize (Bonsang)

Ed.	Year	Winner(s)
1st	2017	B.A.P	BtoB	Exo	GFriend	Hwang Chi-yeul	Mamamoo	Monsta X	Red Velvet	T-ara	Twice	VIXX	–	–
2nd	2018	AOA	Bolbbalgan4	BTS	Mamamoo	Momoland	Monsta X	NCT 127	NU'EST W	Red Velvet	Twice	Wanna One	–	–
3rd	2019	AB6IX	BTS	Chungha	Ha Sung-woon	Kim Jae-hwan	Mamamoo	Momoland	Monsta X	NCT 127	Twice	Red Velvet	Park Ji-hoon	–
4th	2020	AB6IX	Astro	BTS	GFriend	Iz*One	Kang Daniel	Lim Young-woong	Mamamoo	NCT Dream	Twice	Oh My Girl	Red Velvet	Victon
6th	2022	Heize	Itzy	Ive	Kang Daniel	NCT Dream	Oh My Girl	Psy	The Boyz	Tomorrow X Together	—	—	—	—
7th	2023	Ateez	Enhypen	Itzy	Seventeen	Seulgi	STAYC	Stray Kids	Taeyong	The Boyz	Zerobaseone	—	—	—

Rookie Award

Ed.	Year	Winner(s)
		Group	Band	Trot
1st	2017	Wanna One	—	—
		Pentagon
2nd	2018	The Boyz	IZ	Kangnam
		Nature		Seol Ha-yoon
		Stray Kids
3rd	2019	Itzy	—	Song Ga-in
				Hong Ja
		TXT		Kim Soo Chan
				Jung Mi Ae
4th	2020	Cravity	—	—
		MCND
		TOO

Popularity Award

Ed.	Year	Winner(s)
		Male	Female
1st	2017	Exo	—
2nd	2018	Wanna One	Mamamoo
3rd	2019	BTS	Twice
4th	2020
5th	2024	Exo[15]	UNIS

Genre Awards

Trot Grand Award

Ed.	Year	Winner(s)
3rd	2019	Jin Sung	Hong Jin-young

Trot Artist Award

Ed.	Year	Winner(s)
1st	2017	Tae Jin-ah	Hong Jin-young
2nd	2018	Tae Jin-ah	Hong Jin-young
3rd	2019	Tae Jin-ah

Rising Trot Award

Ed.	Year	Winner(s)
4th	2020	Kim Soo-chan	Second Aunt Kim Da-vi

Hip Hop Artist Award

Ed.	Year	Winner
2nd	2018	Mino

R&B Artist Award

Ed.	Year	Winner(s)
2nd	2018	Crush
3rd	2019	Park Bom	Yang Da-il

Rock Band Award

Ed.	Year	Winner
3rd	2019	YB

Best OST Award

Ed.	Year	Winner	Song	Drama
1st	2017	Ailee	"I Will Go to You Like the First Snow"	Goblin
2nd	2018	Jeong Se-woon	"It’s You"	What's Wrong with Secretary Kim
4th	2020	Gaho	"Start Over"	Itaewon Class
8th	2024	Crush	"Love You With All My Heart"	Queen of Tears

Music Video Award

Ed.	Year	Winner
1st	2017	Zanybros
2nd	2018	Zanybros

Music Producer Awards

Producer Award

Ed.	Year	Winner
1st	2017	Iggy, Yongbae
2nd	2018	Kim Do-hoon
3rd	2019	Rhymer
4th	2020	Kim Do-hoon

Songwriter Award

Ed.	Year	Winner(s)
4th	2020	Lee Han-gil	Turns Out Comatose

Best Hip Hop Maker Award

Ed.	Year	Winner(s)
3rd	2019	Groovy Room	dress

Special Hallyu Awards

Artist of the Year Award^[c]

Ed.	Year	Winner
4th	2020	Twice

Music of the Year Award^[c]

Ed.	Year	Winner
4th	2020	Red Velvet

Stage of the Year Award^[c]

Ed.	Year	Winner
4th	2020	Kang Daniel

Artist Award

Ed.	Year	Winner(s)
1st	2017	BTS
2nd	2018	Monsta X	Red Velvet
3rd	2019	WJSN	Lovelyz
4th	2020	TXT	Itzy

Performance Award

Ed.	Year	Winner(s)
1st	2017	NCT 127	Gugudan
2nd	2018	Samuel	DIA
3rd	2019	Ateez	Loona
4th	2020	The Boyz	(G)I-dle

Rising Hot Star Award

Ed.	Year	Winner(s)
1st	2017	WJSN	Wanna One	—
2nd	2018	Hyeongseop X Euiwoong	YDPP	—
3rd	2019	N.Flying	Stray Kids	The Boyz
4th	2020	Nature	Loona	GWSN
6th	2022	AleXa	Blitzers	The New Six

Icon Award

Ed.	Year	Winner(s)
1st	2017	Red Velvet
2nd	2018	NU'EST W
3rd	2019	Oh My Girl	Park Ji-hoon
4th	2020	Oneus	WJSN

Voice Award

Ed.	Year	Winner(s)
1st	2017	Han Dong-geun
2nd	2018	Wheesung	GB9 (Social)	Seo J (Social)
3rd	2019	Jeong Se-woon	Lee Chang-min	Lee Woo (Social)
4th	2020	Kim Jae-hwan	Kim Woo-seok	Ha Sung-woon

Music Star Award

Ed.	Year	Winner(s)
1st	2017	Sonamoo	KNK
2nd	2018	Chungha	UNB
3rd	2019	CLC	Nature

Global Entertainer Award

Ed.	Year	Winner(s)
2nd	2018	7Senses
3rd	2019	Zero 9	SNH48

Social Artist Award

Ed.	Year	Winner(s)
2nd	2018	BTS
3rd	2019	Hwasa	NCT 127

Global Hot Trend Award

Ed.	Year	Winner(s)
3rd	2019	ASTRO
4th	2020	Stray Kids	Iz*One

Next Artist Award

Ed.	Year	Winner(s)
3rd	2019	Oneus	Newkidd	A.C.E
4th	2020	DKB	AleXa	—

Other Awards

Edition	Year	Award	Winner(s)
1st	2017	Photogenic Award	DIA
		Global Career Achievement Award	Eru
2nd	2018	Trend Queen Award	Seo In-young
		People's Choice Award	Exo
3rd	2019	New Wave Award	Monsta X	(G)I-dle
		Art-tainer Award	Nam Woo-hyun	Weki Meki
4th	2020	New K-Wave Real Fan Award	Kang Daniel
		Global Artist Award	Astro

Most Wins

The following artists received five or more awards:

Rank	Artist(s)	Awards
1	Twice	10
	BTS
2	Red Velvet	8
3	Mamamoo	6
4	Monsta X	5

Notes

1. Two were given for the Grand Award & Digital Grand Award categories, respectively.
2. Four were given for the Artist of the Year, Music of the Year, Stage of the Year, and Live Performance of the Year categories, respectively.
3. Formerly a grand award category, it has been demoted off its grand award category status to a grand award final nominee consolation award category since 2020.