Broadcaster and painter Kian 84 (Kim Hee-min Kian84) became the first non-artist to win the MBC Entertainment Awards, and won MBC's highest honor award.
On December 30, Korean media reported that at 8:30 pm on the 29th, at the "2023 MBC Broadcasting Awards" held at the MBC Public Hall in Sangamdong, Mapo-gu, Seoul, Qian 84 enjoyed the joy of this year's award among many award candidates. This year's "2023 MBC Broadcasting and Performing Arts Awards" award ceremony was hosted by Jeon Hyun-mo, Dex, and Lee Se-young.
At the "2023 MBC Broadcasting Awards" ceremony on the same day, the best performer, Qian 84, won the grand prize without dispute, and as a former webtoon writer, he also set a record as the first non-celebrity to win the MBC Entertainment Awards.
At the same time, he swept three major awards, winning the Best Couple Award and the Program of the Year Award, showing his mainstream status. Qian 84, who often appears in MBC's representative variety show "I Live Alone" and has established an unrivaled role, has become a strong candidate for the award this year with the success of the new show "Born in the World" that combines his own works.
The unpretentious character was integrated into the travels, the emotion of completing the "I Live Alone" marathon, and the friendship with the Bolivian family of Polpi was also deeply impressed by MBC Every1's "Welcome, This is My First Time in Korea", and the audience was able to freely show their unique personality, which brought a lot of laughter to the audience, and achieved the feat of winning three awards, including the Artist of the Year Award, the Entertainment Program of the Year Award, and the Best Couple Award.
In his acceptance speech, Qi An 84 recalled his memories with his father and attracted attention, he said: "I have watched MBC programs since I was a child, and when I was in the army, I also watched "Infinite Challenge", the atmosphere at home was not good, but Shi was laughing on TV, so I was prepared, but on the other hand, I also wanted to show my father", Kian 84 expressed his thoughts about his father, he said: "I failed to be filial to my father and give him pocket money." It would be great to see him doing well, and hopefully I could have done a little bit better for him while he was alive, but I'm sorry I wasn't able to do that."
Regarding winning the grand prize, Qian 84 said, "When I saw Jaeok and Jeon Hyun Mao, it felt like I was in a dream, I still couldn't believe it, I was an only child, I was very selfish, but I thought I should live by giving a little more, and when I signed autographs for the children, I asked them, what is your dream?, my mother's friend's son said that he was in a difficult situation, and after thinking for 30 minutes, I drew a four-leaf clover, and I hope 2024 will be a lucky year." I don't know how long I'll be livestreaming, but I'll do my best if people like it."
For Qi'an 84 to become the first non-artist to win the MBC Performing Arts Awards, he frankly said that seeing Liu Jae-seok and Jeon Hyun-mao is like a dream, what do you think?