Korean series Extraordinary Attorney Woo and Squid Game were the big winners at Busan International Film Festival’s Asia Contents Awards (ACAs), which featured a star-studded red carpet and welcomed back international guests for the first time since the event’s inaugural edition in 2019.
Extraordinary Attorney Woo took the Best Content Award, the top prize of the ceremony, as well as Best Actress for Park Eun Bin, who heads the show in the role of a young female lawyer with autism.
The series was broadcast in Korea on the ENA cable channel where it set the record for the highest ratings in the channel’s history.
Netflix also started streaming the show in select territories from June, after which it topped the streamer’s non-English language weekly rankings for two months straight.
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