Blue Dragon Series Awards in Seoul announce winners amid vote‑fraud cleanup

The 5th Blue Dragon Series Awards ceremony was held in Seoul. Organisers announced that the voting platform Celeb Champ had detected and removed multiple fraudulent accounts, invalidating roughly 140,000 votes for lead actor Hyun Bin. After the deduction, Hyun Bin still topped the Best Actor poll with over 930,000 votes, followed by Kim Sun‑ho and Park Ji‑hoon.

The ceremony also confirmed the popularity award winners: Byun Yo‑seok won the male popularity prize while Ko Yoon‑jyoung received the female popularity award. Japanese actor Fukase Sota made a surprise appearance as presenter, delivering his speech in Korean and congratulating Kim Sun‑ho and Ko Yoon‑jyoung on stage.

Final award decisions combined the adjusted public votes with scores from a professional judging panel, ensuring the results reflect both fan input and expert evaluation.