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2025 International Streaming Festival
The 2025 International Streaming Festival (Korean: 2025 국제스트리밍페스티벌), presented by Ministry of Science and ICT and Busan Metropolitan City, took place from August 22 to August 25, 2025, at BIFF Theater, Busan Cinema Center, Busan, South Korea.
| 2025 International Streaming Festival |
|---|
| Global OTT Awards |
| Official poster |
| The achievements of excellent content made for TV, OTT, and online across Asia |
| Opening: August 22, 2025 (2025-08-22) Closing: August 25, 2025 (2025-08-25) Global OTT Awards: August 24, 2025 (2025-08-24) |
| BIFF Theater, Busan Cinema Center, Busan, South Korea |
| South Korea |
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| Joo Jong-hyuk |
| Lee Hye-sung |
| Asia Contents Awards & Global OTT Awards |
| 2019 |
| 6 – When Life Gives You Tangerines |
| When Life Gives You Tangerines |
| Nine Puzzles |
| Bai Jingting |
| Bai Lu |
| KISF |
| YouTube channel of BIFFLG U+ u+ Mobile TV |
The 2025 International Streaming Festival (Korean: 2025 국제스트리밍페스티벌), presented by Ministry of Science and ICT and Busan Metropolitan City, took place from August 22 to August 25, 2025, at BIFF Theater, Busan Cinema Center, Busan, South Korea.
The main event of the International Streaming Festival the Global OTT Awards is an enhanced and restructured version of Asia Contents Awards & Global OTT Awards, previously held in conjunction with the 2023 and 2024 Busan International Film Festival. It debuted as an official event of the 2025 International Streaming Festival and waw jointly hosted by the Korea International Streaming Festival and the Information and Communication Industry Promotion Agency. It was held on August 24, 2025 at Film Archive Outdoor Theater at 19:00 (KST).
The awards ceremony hosted by actor Joo Jong-hyuk and announcer Lee Hye-sung was held on August 24, 2025. Best Creative award was won by When Life Gives You Tangerines.
Bai Jingting winner of the People's Choice Award (Male)
Bai Lu winner of the People's Choice Award (Female)
Nominees and winners (winners will be denoted in bold):
Awards were announced on August 24, 2025.
| Best Creative | Best OTT Original |
|---|---|
| When Life Gives You Tangerines – Netflix | |
| Black Warrant – Netflix | |
| Mad Unicorn – Netflix | |
| Northward (TV series) – iQIYI | |
| Our Unwritten Seoul – tvN | Nine Puzzles – Disney+ |
| Born for the Spotlight – Netflix | |
| Family Matters – Coupang Play | |
| The First Frost – Youku | |
| Study Group – TVING | |
| Yesterday's You – Viu | |
| The Outlaw Doctor – PTS | |
| 4°C – TV+ | |
| Saving Grace – Prime Video | |
| Timeless Love Letters for My Classmates – Yomiuri Telecasting | |
| What If – Viu | World of Street Woman Fighter – CJ ENM |
| Kian's Bizarre B&B – Netflix | |
| Old Taste Detective 5 – meWATCH | |
| SNL Korea Season 7 – Coupang Play | |
| Yao Xiaofeng – Northward – iQIYI | |
| Shim Na-yeon – Good Boy – JTBC | |
| Nottapon Boonprakob – Mad Unicorn – Netflix | |
| Volodymyr Yanoschuk – The Train – Channel DIM | |
| Kim Won-seok – When Life Gives You Tangerines – Netflix | Lim Sang-choon – When Life Gives You Tangerines – Netflix |
| Tokuo Koji & Ichinoe Yoshino – Light of My Lion – TBS Television | |
| Kang Pool – Light Shop – Disney+ | |
| Chang Shi-hsien & Wen Yu-fang – The Outlaw Doctor – PTS | |
| Lee Kang – Our Unwritten Seoul – tvN | |
| Ho Ching-yi – What If – Viu | |
| Kentaro Sakaguchi – What Comes After Love – Coupang Play | |
| Berik Aichanov – 4°C – TV+ | |
| Bai Jingting – The First Frost – Youku | |
| Park Bo-gum – Good Boy – JTBC | |
| Nattarut Noparattayaporn – Mad Unicorn – Netflix | |
| Joo Ji-hoon – The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call – Netflix | Park Eun-bin – Hyper Knife – Disney+ |
| Bai Lu – Northward – iQIYI | |
| Park Bo-young – Our Unwritten Seoul – tvN | |
| IU – When Life Gives You Tangerines – Netflix | |
| Hirose Suzu – Who Saw the Peacock Dance in the Jungle? – TBS Television | |
| Oh Jung-se – Good Boy – SLL | |
| Wang Qianyuan – Drifting Away – iQIYI | |
| Francis Ng – Escape From the Trilateral Slopes – Youku | |
| Ryota Bando – Light of My Lion – TBS Television | |
| Choi Dae-hoon – When Life Gives You Tangerines – Netflix | Yeom Hye-ran – When Life Gives You Tangerines – Netflix |
| Chung Hsin-ling – Born for the Spotlight – Third Man Entertainment, Netflix | |
| Wen Qi – I Am Nobody: The Showdown Between Yin & Yang – Youku | |
| Ono Machiko – Light of My Lion – TBS Television | |
| Jang Young-nam – Our Unwritten Seoul – Studio Dragon, tvN, TVING | |
| Kang You-seok – Resident Playbook – tvN, TVING | |
| Zahan Kapoor – Black Warrant – Applause Entertainment, Netflix | |
| Hirunkit Changkham & Wongravee Nateetorn – High School Frenemy – GMMTV | |
| Shi Pengyuan – A Life For A Life – iQIYI | |
| Choo Young-woo – The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call – Netflix | Chung Su-bin – Friendly Rivalry – STUDIO X+U (LG U+) |
| Suri Lin – Born for the Spotlight – Third Man Entertainment, Netflix | |
| Xu Ruohan – The Best Thing – iQIYI | |
| Lee Su-hyun – Family Matters – Coupang Play | |
| I Am Nobody: The Showdown Between Yin & Yang – Youku | |
| Heavenly Ever After – SLL | |
| Light Shop – Disney+ | |
| What a Wonderful World – iQIYI | ADO – Who Saw the Peacock Dance in the Jungle? – TBS Television |
| 'Heavenly Ever After' – Lim Young-woong – Heavenly Ever After – SLL | |
| 'The First Frost' – Mayday – Nan Hong – Youku | |
| 'Sunset' – 10cm – Our Unwritten Seoul – Studio Dragon, tvN, TVING | |
| 'That Day' – Tomorrow X Together – Resident Playbook – eggiscoming, tvN, TVING |
Source:
| Rising Star of the Year | |
|---|---|
| Shi Pengyuan – A Life For A Life – iQIYI | |
| Lee Su-hyun – Family Matters – Coupang Play | |
| Life Line – Independent | BINGE Korea |
| Bai Jingting for The First Frost | Bai Lu for Northward |
- Official website (in Korean)
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