MBC Drama Awards

{{short description|South Korea Drama Awards}}

{{Other uses|MBC Drama (disambiguation){{!}}MBC Drama}}

{{Infobox award

| name = MBC Drama Awards

| current_awards = 2024 MBC Drama Awards

| image = MBC_Drama_Awards.png

| imagesize =

| alt =

| caption =

| awarded_for = Excellence in Drama and Television Arts

| presenter = Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation

| country = South Korea

| location = Seoul

| year = 1982

| year2 = 2023

| holder =

| website =

| previous = 2023

| main =

| next = 2025

}}

The MBC Drama Awards ({{ko-hhrm|MBC 연기대상||MBC Yeon-gi Daesang}}) is an awards ceremony presented by Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) for outstanding achievements in Korean dramas aired on its network. It is held annually in December.

Unlike its counterparts in KBS and SBS, MBC's highest honor of the ceremony, the "Grand Prize" ({{ko-hhrm|대상||Daesang}}), has been determined through viewer's votes in 2014, 2015 and 2016, not by professional judges.{{cite web|title=MBC Drama Awards 2014 to Decide Grand Prize Winner through Real Time Text Voting|url=https://m.entertain.naver.com/article/109/0002945298|work=OSEN|via=Naver|date=December 4, 2014|access-date=2017-05-18|archive-date=2018-08-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180810143359/https://entertain.naver.com/read?oid=109&aid=0002945298|url-status=live}}{{cite web|title=Winner Of Grand Prize For 2016 MBC Drama Awards Determined By Viewer Votes|url=http://entertain.naver.com/now/read?oid=214&aid=0000716456|website=MBC|access-date=2017-06-29|archive-date=2023-04-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230417131025/https://entertain.naver.com/now/read?oid=214&aid=0000716456|url-status=live}}{{cite web|title=지성-황정음 장혁-오연서, ‘MBC 연기대상’에서 미리 보는 꿀케미?|url=http://www.breaknews.com/sub_read.html?uid=343608§ion=sc4|website=BreakNews|access-date=2017-06-29|archive-date=2023-05-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230523185500/http://www.breaknews.com/sub_read.html?uid=343608§ion=sc4|url-status=live}} The process has been widely criticized.{{cite web|title=MBC Should Be Ashamed of Farcical Awards|url=http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2009/01/02/2009010261013.html|website=English Chosun|access-date=2014-09-26|archive-date=2017-08-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170811104124/http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2009/01/02/2009010261013.html|url-status=live}}