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K-World Dream Awards

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K-World Dream Awards
Current: 2025 K-World Dream Awards
Awarded forOutstanding achievements in the music industry
LocationSeoul
CountrySouth Korea
Presented byTV Daily
Formerly called
  • Soribada Best K-Music Awards (2017–2020)
  • K-Global Heart Dream Awards (2022–2023)
First awardSeptember 20, 2017; 8 years ago (2017-09-20)
Television/radio coverage
Networkhellolive

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.

History

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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

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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

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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]
5th 2022 K-Global Heart Dream Awards August 25, 2022 Jamsil Students' Gymnasium Seoul, South Korea [12]
6th 2023 K-Global Heart Dream Awards August 10, 2023 KSPO Dome [13]
7th 2024 K-World Dream Awards August 22, 2024 Jamsil Arena [5]
8th 2025 K-World Dream Awards August 21, 2025 [14]

Grand Prize (Daesang)

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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
5th 2022 NCT Dream
6th 2023 Stray Kids
7th 2024 NCT 127 Aespa
8th 2025 Stray Kids IVE

Main Prize (Bonsang)

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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
5th 2022 Heize Itzy Ive Kang Daniel NCT Dream Oh My Girl Psy The Boyz Tomorrow X Together — — — —
6th 2023 Ateez Enhypen Itzy Seventeen Seulgi STAYC Stray Kids Taeyong The Boyz Zerobaseone — — —
7th 2024 Aespa Bibi Itzy Kiss of Life Lee Mu-jin NCT 127 Plave QWER Tomorrow X Together Zerobaseone — — —
8th 2025 Illit Ive Le Sserafim NCT Wish QWER Stray Kids Tomorrow X Together TripleS Xdinary Heroes — — — —

Rookie Award

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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
5th 2022 Ive — —
Kep1er
Le Sserafim
6th 2023 BoyNextDoor — —
Xikers
Zerobaseone
7th 2024 NCT Wish — —
TWS
8th 2025 AHOF Dragon Pony —
Hearts2Hearts
KickFlip
KiiiKiii

Popularity Award

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Ed. Year Winner(s)
Male Female
1st 2017 Exo —
2nd 2018 Wanna One Mamamoo
3rd 2019 BTS Twice
4th 2020
5th 2022 BTS Kang Daniel Twice IU
6th 2023 BTS Twice
7th 2024 Exo Kim Jae-joong Unis Jeon Yu-jin
8th 2025 Stray Kids Park Ji-hyeon Unis Jang Won-young

Genre Awards

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Trot Grand Award

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

Trot Artist Award

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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
8th 2025 Park Seo-jin Park Ji-hyeon

Rising Trot Award

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

Hip Hop Artist Award

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Ed. Year Winner
2nd 2018 Mino
5th 2022 Be'O
6th 2023 Zico

R&B Artist Award

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

Rock Band Award

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Ed. Year Winner
3rd 2019 YB

Best OST Award

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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
5th 2022 Heize "The Last" Our Blues
6th 2023 Paul Kim "You Remember" The Glory
7th 2024 Crush "Love You With All My Heart" Queen of Tears
8th 2025 Huntrix[15] "Golden" KPop Demon Hunters

Music Video Award

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Ed. Year Winner(s)
1st 2017 Zanybros
2nd 2018 Zanybros
5th 2022 DreamCatcher Golden Child SF9 Le Sserafim
6th 2023 Fromis 9 The Boyz
7th 2024 Aespa Young Posse
8th 2025 Illit TripleS

Music Producer Awards

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Producer Award

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Ed. Year Winner
1st Stray kids
2nd 2018 bangchan
3rd 2019 Rhymer
4th 2020 Kim Do-hoon
5th 2022 Psy
6th 2023 Yoon Young-ro
7th 2024 Shinsadong Tiger
8th 2025 Seo Hyun-joo

Songwriter Award

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Ed. Year Winner(s)
4th 2020 Lee Han-gil Turns Out Comatose
5th 2022 Turns Out Comatose

Best Hip Hop Maker Award

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

Special Hallyu Awards

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Artist of the Year Award[c]

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Ed. Year Winner
4th 2020 Twice

Music of the Year Award[c]

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Ed. Year Winner
4th 2020 Red Velvet

Stage of the Year Award[c]

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Ed. Year Winner
4th 2020 Kang Daniel

Artist Award

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

Performance Award

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

Global Entertainer Award

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

Social Artist Award

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

Global Hot Trend Award

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

Next Artist Award

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

Other Awards

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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
9th 2025
Global Artist Award Tomorrow X Together

Most Wins

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The following artists received five or more awards:

Rank Artist(s) Awards
1 Twice 10
BTS
Stray Kids
4 Red Velvet 8
5 Mamamoo 6
Ive
Tomorrow X Together
8 Monsta X 5

Notes

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  1. ^ a b c Two were given for the Grand Award & Digital Grand Award categories, respectively.
  2. ^ a b c d 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. ^ a b c 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.

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