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Best male K-drama actor of 2023 Poll Winner: Song Kang tops, Park Seo Joon takes 2nd place
Song Kang took the lead in My Demon and Sweet Home 2 in 2023. Park Seo Joon made his Hollywood debut with The Marvels. Here are the winners of best male K-drama actor of 2023.
Song Kang took the lead as the best male K-drama actor of 2023. He starred in hits like Sweet Home 2 and My Demon. Park Seo Joon came second. The actor made his Hollywood debut with The Marvels and also starred in hit projects like Dream and Gyeongseong Creature. Here are the results of the full poll.
Song Kang emerges as best K-drama actor, Park Seo Joon follows
On the poll conducted by Pinkvilla for the Best Male K-drama actor, Song Kang took the lead with 38 percent. 2023 was a successful year for the actor as he appeared in Sweet Home 2 and My Demon. He also announced that he would be enlisting in the military soon and that Sweet Home 3 would be his last project before enlistment. My Demon tells the story of a cool-headed successor of a big company, Do Do Hee, and a cheeky demon Jung Koo Won who lives on by making deals with humans. The two get involved in a contract marriage as it will benefit their personal agendas. Sweet Home 2 picked up from when the first season ended. In this season, survivors would be living together in the baseball stadium and will try to survive while monsters lurk outside and also within them. 
Park Seo Joon received 16 percent and took second place. His latest release was Gyeonseong Creature which premiered on December 22. Gyeongseong Creature Part 1 is set in 1945 colonial South Korea when it was under Japanese rule. Jang Tae Sang is a rich man and is considered a well-rounded person who is smart and considered a reliable source of information. Yoon Chae Ok is renowned in her field of finding missing people. In a search for her mother, Yoon Chae Ok crosses paths with Jang Tae Sang. They soon discover a horrible creature in the hospital of doom.
The actor marked his Hollywood debut as he took on the role of Prince Yan in The Marvels. Earlier this year, he also took the lead in the sports comedy Dream along with IU.
Song Joong Ki and Ji Chang Wook tie for 3rd place, Nam Joo Hyuk and Lee Junho tie for 4th
Song Joong Ki's film Hopeless saw its theatrical release in South Korea on October 19. The film which also features the hit singer Bibi, premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival 2023.
Ji Chang Wook's drama Welcome to Samdalri is currently airing. Welcome to Samdalri is the story of a successful photographer Jo Sam Dal who has fallen from grace due to an incident. She returned to her hometown, a place she always wanted to avoid. Here she reunites with her childhood friend Jo Young Pil who is a weather forecaster.
Nam Joo Hyuk took on the role of an action hero for the first time and appeared in Vigilante. The story revolves around Kim Ji Young whose mother was murdered when he was young. Now all grown up, he attends a police university but he has a secret. He takes the law into his own hands and seeks his revenge. The drama is streaming on Netflix. It was his last drama before military enlistment.
Lee Junho took the lead in the romantic comedy King the Land. King the Land tells the story of a son of a big business who inevitably ends up in an inheratance war. He is a smart and intelligent man but is not so good at dating. A girl with a bright smile joins the company and as the two come across each other, romance slowly blossoms. Lee Jun Ho and Im Yoon Ah feature in the series.
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