'Running Man' star Yoo Jae-suk wins grand prize at MBC Entertainment Awards

This year’s award recognised Yoo Jae-suk’s dedication and performances on MBC’s hit programme 'Hangout With Yoo'. Photo: Handout

Top comedian Yoo Jae-suk, arguably the biggest television celebrity in Korean broadcasting, won the grand prize at the MBC Entertainment Awards on Wednesday (Dec 29).

This year’s award makes it the 16th grand prize win for the 49-year-old comedian if combined with his previous awards from the country’s three major broadcasters - at KBS in 2005 and 2014, at SBS in 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2015 and 2019, and at MBC in 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2014, 2016 and 2020.