{"id":174699,"date":"2026-08-30T10:31:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T17:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=174699"},"modified":"2026-08-30T10:31:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T17:31:45","slug":"lee-junho-receives-the-minister-of-culture-sports-and-tourism-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/lee-junho-receives-the-minister-of-culture-sports-and-tourism-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee Junho receives the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lee Junho<\/strong>, a recognized singer and actor, has finally received his flowers for his <strong>enormous contributions<\/strong> to the global reach of Korean culture through the Kpop scene and the K-Drama industry.<\/p>\n<p>On August 28 KST, <strong>Lee Junho attended the 8th Newsis Hallyu Expo (2026 K-EXPO) at Lotte Hotel Seoul to receive a prestigious award: the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Award.<\/strong> This recognition follows his performances in tvN\u2019s<em> \u2018Typhoon Family\u2019<\/em> and Netflix\u2019<em>s \u2018Cashero\u2019<\/em>, as well as his continued musical activities with 2 PM. The idol warmly accepted the recognition with the following speech:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-174719\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Lee-Junhois-now-a-2026-K-EXPO-winner.jpg\" alt=\"The idol is recognized for his K-Dramas\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Lee-Junhois-now-a-2026-K-EXPO-winner.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Lee-Junhois-now-a-2026-K-EXPO-winner-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Lee-Junhois-now-a-2026-K-EXPO-winner-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Lee-Junhois-now-a-2026-K-EXPO-winner-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Lee-Junhois-now-a-2026-K-EXPO-winner-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Lee-Junhois-now-a-2026-K-EXPO-winner-860x484.jpg 860w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>\u201cI sincerely thank you for giving me such a<strong> meaningful award<\/strong>. I was simply pursuing the music and acting that I wanted to do, but I was fortunate that my work aligned with the times and allowed me to introduce Korean culture to the world. I will continue working to become someone who can share the power of K-content more widely through good projects and music.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p>In addition, the idol has just confirmed his participation in the upcoming dramas, <em>\u201cViking\u201d<\/em> and<em> \u201cEmbassy for Foreign Monsters in Korea.\u201d<\/em> He will continue to contribute to<strong> enriching Korean culture<\/strong> and exposing it to the rest of the world! Congratulations to Lee Junho.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee Junho, a recognized singer and actor, has finally received his flowers for his enormous contributions to the global reach of Korean culture through the Kpop scene and the K-Drama industry. On August 28 KST, Lee Junho attended the 8th Newsis Hallyu Expo (2026 K-EXPO) at Lotte Hotel Seoul to receive a prestigious award: the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3102,"featured_media":174700,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2264,16],"tags":[4294],"class_list":["post-174699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-entertainment","category-kpop","tag-lee-junho"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174699"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174720,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174699\/revisions\/174720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}