'Broke Rookie Star' starring ASTRO's Rocky as main character wins Best Actor and Best Web Series Of All Genres award

SEOUL, November 8 (Yonhap) -- The drama "Broke Rookie Star," starring boy group ASTRO's ," starring boy group ASTRO's Rocky, won two crowns at "LAWEBFEST 2022," the world's biggest web series (web drama) film festival.
 
The drama "Broke Rookie Star" won the Best Actor and the Best Web Series Of All Genres award at the movie awards festival, which was held at the third floor Ari Hall, KCCLA, in Los Angeles, U.S., on November 5, according to the committee of the 2022 "LAWEBFEST" on November 8.

Park Byung-geon, the CEO of the production company PH E&M, which produced the drama "Broke Rookie Star," and who participated in the awards festival, "This award is dedicated to the victims of the Itaewon tragedy," he said. "It is an award that supports Koreans."
 
Kang Young-man, the Executive Chairman of the festival, said, "It is the first time that a Korean drama has won the grand prize since the LA Web Festival began in 2009," adding that "it will serve as an opportunity for Korean Wave content to gain more momentum in the global market."
 
"Broke Rookie Star" also won the Best Actor and the Best Web Series at the international web content festival "Seoul Web Fest 2022" in August this year. It pleasantly depicts the desperate survival of an unpopular member in a popular group.

Korean pieces got four awards out of 30 total awards.

The short movie "Jajangmyeon Thankyou," co-produced by Shin Seong Hoon and Park Young-hae, actor Lee Tae-sung's mother, got an award among short movies. It is based on the true story of a disabled married couple and has recently received favorable reviews at overseas film festivals.
 
The Yeosu tourism promotion web drama "Rainbow," produced by Yeosu City, Jeollanam-do Province, won the Best Drama Award.
 
Director Lee Hye-yeon's "Actresses' Diary" won the Best Sketch Comedy Award.
 
Web dramas, a short form of content broadcast online, are called web series in foreign countries with various genres, unlike Korea, which is biased toward dramas. As the mobile market grows, 50 web series film festivals are being held around the world.
 
The LA Webfest, which was held on November 4 and 5 (local time), was co-hosted by the "LA Webfest 2022" executive committee and the Korean Cultural Center in Los Angeles.
 
"We are proud to hold a web festival in LA, the center of Hollywood, and to promote Korean web content widely," said Jung Sang-won, head of the Korean Cultural Center in LA. "We hope that more diverse Korean web content and excellent Korean content pieces will be known around the world."
 
LAWEBFEST 2022: Award Ceremony [https://youtu.be/Fp3DCyS-_Ms]

 
(This article is translated from Korean to English by Dowon Kim.)
 
 
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