Actor Oh Chang-seok won the 2025 MBC Drama Awards' excellence in acting award in the daily drama single-episode institutional sector for The Woman Who Swallowed the Sun.
Oh Chang-seok accepted the honor of the excellence in acting award in the daily drama single-episode institutional sector for The Woman Who Swallowed the Sun at the 2025 MBC Drama Awards held at the Sangam MBC Media Center open hall on the 30th. With this award, Oh Chang-seok once again proved he is an actor who has steadily guided the flow of a drama with deep performances in each work.
In The Woman Who Swallowed the Sun, Oh Chang-seok played Kim Seon-jae, the cold-headed legal team leader of a chaebol family who spares no means for success, elevating the drama's tension with a densely layered villain performance. Even within restrained emotions, he delicately expressed the character's desires and anxieties, earning praise for drawing viewers into the story.
After receiving the award, Oh Chang-seok said, I won a rookie award in this seat 13 years ago, and this is the first award I received after that, so the feeling is fresh. I first played a villain three years ago; intellectually I understood it, but instinctively I felt I couldn't accept it. So I wanted to rid myself of it by taking on a villain again this time. In this work, I acted freely in front of the camera as I wanted, got a lot of curses, and felt tremendous exhilaration being criticized by viewers.
He added, I thank director Kim Jin-hyung for helping me run freely. Writer Seol Kyung-eun, the assistant director, the camera director who worked hard, and all my fellow actors worked hard. Thanks to the Dark Angel fans who supported and cheered for a year, I could film with strength. I am grateful and love you. I wish viewers only good things in 2026 and a happy new year, he said, offering his thanks.
Oh Chang-seok, who debuted in the 2008 drama They Live in the World, has shown a wide acting spectrum through numerous works such as Bloodless Tears, Witch's Game, The Sun's Season, Defendant, and Come! Jang Bo-ri. Expectations are growing for Oh Chang-seok's path, who has left a strong impression by delicately depicting the textures of characters in each work.
[Photo] 2025 MBC Drama Awards broadcast capture
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