The 2026 K-World Dream Awards Lineup Is Set. It's Also the Show's 10th Anniversary.
The 2026 K-World Dream Awards will feature ATEEZ, P1Harmony, RIIZE, AHOF, AND2BLE, SeeYa, QWER, Illit and Rescene, organizers confirmed this week. The ceremony takes place Aug. 27 at KINTEX in Goyang, South Korea, marking the show's 10th year since launching in 2017.
Broadcasters Jun Hyun-moo and Jang Do-yeon will host for a fourth consecutive year, continuing a run that started with the show's rebrand from its original name, the Soribada Best K-Music Awards. Over the past decade, the ceremony has grown from a chart-focused music award show into a broader platform for promoting Korean content globally, running for two consecutive years at Seoul's Jamsil Indoor Stadium before this year's move to KINTEX.
This year's performer lineup mixes established acts with newer additions to the K-pop landscape. ATEEZ, P1Harmony and RIIZE anchor the bill as the most globally recognized names among the nine confirmed performers, while AHOF, AND2BLE and Rescene represent some of the ceremony's newer-generation bookings. Illit's inclusion continues a busy August for the group, which wraps its first Japan tour in Tokyo later this month before an international date in Hong Kong. SeeYa and QWER round out the confirmed lineup, though organizers have not ruled out additional names being added before the event.
Ticket packages for international fans are already circulating through third-party travel platforms, offering standing and seated options at KINTEX, though official pricing and on-sale details from the show's organizers have not yet been published directly.
The 10th anniversary framing gives this year's ceremony slightly more weight than a typical August installment. Past editions have used the show to hand out awards based on a mix of chart performance and industry voting; recent years crowned NCT 127, aespa and Zerobaseone as top winners in 2024, and Stray Kids in 2025. Whether this year's honorees follow a similar pattern won't be clear until the full award categories and nominees are announced closer to the Aug. 27 date.
