2025 International Streaming Festival

2025 International Streaming Festival
2025 International Streaming Festival
Global OTT Awards
	Official poster
Awarded for	The achievements of excellent content made for TV, OTT, and online across Asia
Date	Opening: August 22, 2025 ; Closing: August 25, 2025 ; Global OTT Awards: August 24, 2025
Venue	BIFF Theater, Busan Cinema Center, Busan, South Korea
Country	South Korea
Presented by	Ministry of Science and ICT; Busan Metropolitan City; Korea International Streaming Festival; National IT Industry Promotion Agency;
Formerly called	Asia Contents Awards & Global OTT Awards
First award	2019
Most nominations	6 - When Life Gives You Tangerines
Website	www.kisf.kr/kor/
Television/radio coverage
Network	YouTube channel of BIFF; LG U+ u+ Mobile TV;

The 2025 International Streaming Festival (Korean: 2025 국제스트리밍페스티벌), presented by Ministry of Science and ICT and Busan Metropolitan City, will take place from August 22 to August 25, 2025, at BIFF Theater, Busan Cinema Center, Busan, South Korea.^[1]

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 will now debut as an official event of the 2025 International Streaming Festival and will be jointly hosted by the Korea International Streaming Festival and the Information and Communication Industry Promotion Agency. It will be held on August 24, 2025 at Film Archive Outdoor Theater at 19:00 (KST).^[2]^[3]

Awards and nominations

Nominees and winners (winners will be denoted in bold):^[4]

Open competition

Best Creative	Best OTT Original
Black Warrant – Netflix Mad Unicorn – Netflix Northward (TV series) – iQIYI Our Unwritten Seoul – tvN When Life Gives You Tangerines – Netflix	Born for the Spotlight – Netflix Family Matters – Coupang Play The First Frost – Youku Nine Puzzles – Disney+ Study Group – TVING Yesterday's You – Viu
Best Asian TV Series	Best Reality & Variety
4°C – TV+ The Outlaw Doctor – PTS Saving Grace – Prime Video Timeless Love Letters for My Classmates – Yomiuri Telecasting What If – Viu	Kian's Bizarre B&B – Netflix Old Taste Detective 5 – meWATCH SNL Korea Season 7 – Coupang Play World of Street Woman Fighter – TVING
Best Director	Best Writer
Shim Na-yeon – Good Boy – JTBC Nottapon Boonprakob – Mad Unicorn – Netflix Yao Xiaofeng – Northward – iQIYI Volodymyr Yanoschuk – The Train – Channel DIM Kim Won-seok – 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 Lim Sang-chun – When Life Gives You Tangerines – Netflix
Best Lead Actor	Best Lead Actress
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 Kentaro Sakaguchi – What Comes After Love – Coupang Play	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
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Wang Qianyuan – Drifting Away – iQIYI Francis Ng – Escape From the Trilateral Slopes – Youku Oh Jung-se – Good Boy – SLL Ryota Bando – Light of My Lion – TBS Television Choi Dae-hoon – 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 Yeom Hye-ran – When Life Gives You Tangerines – Netflix
Best Newcomer Actor	Best Newcomer Actress
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	Xu Ruohan – The Best Thing – iQIYI Suri Lin – Born for the Spotlight – Third Man Entertainment, Netflix Lee Su-hyun – Family Matters – Coupang Play Chung Su-bin – Friendly Rivalry – STUDIO X+U (LG U+)
Best Visual Effects	Best Original Song
Heavenly Ever After – SLL I Am Nobody 2 – Youku Light Shop – Disney+ What a Wonderful World – iQIYI	'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

References

^ Park, Jin-yeong (July 22, 2025). 박보검·주지훈→박은빈·박보영·아이유, 글로벌OTT어워즈 후보 [Park Bo-gum·Joo Ji-hoon→Park Eun-bin·Park Bo-young·IU, Global OTT Awards Nominees]. Joynews24 (in Korean). Retrieved July 22, 2025.
^ "시상식 소개" [Introduction to the Awards Ceremony]. Korea International Streaming Festival (in Korean). Retrieved July 22, 2025.
^ Lee, Yoon-seo (July 14, 2025). "Busan to host international streaming festival celebrating digital content". The Korean Herald. Retrieved July 23, 2025.
^ "2025 후보작" [Global OTT Awards: 2025 Candidates]. International Streaming Festival. Retrieved July 22, 2025.

External links

Official website (in Korean)

[1] Park, Jin-yeong (July 22, 2025). 박보검·주지훈→박은빈·박보영·아이유, 글로벌OTT어워즈 후보 [Park Bo-gum·Joo Ji-hoon→Park Eun-bin·Park Bo-young·IU, Global OTT Awards Nominees]. Joynews24 (in Korean). Retrieved July 22, 2025.

[2] "시상식 소개" [Introduction to the Awards Ceremony]. Korea International Streaming Festival (in Korean). Retrieved July 22, 2025.

[3] Lee, Yoon-seo (July 14, 2025). "Busan to host international streaming festival celebrating digital content". The Korean Herald. Retrieved July 23, 2025.

[4] "2025 후보작" [Global OTT Awards: 2025 Candidates]. International Streaming Festival. Retrieved July 22, 2025.

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