MTV Europe Music Award for Best K-Pop

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MTV Europe Music Award for Best K-Pop
Awarded for K-pop music artists
CountryEurope
Presented by MTV
First awarded2021
Last awarded2023
Currently held by Jungkook (2023)
Most awards BTS, Lisa, Jungkook (1)
Most nominationsBTS, Lisa, Twice, Seventeen (2)
Website ema.mtv.tv

The MTV Europe Music Award for Best K-Pop has been awarded since 2021. It is one of the current Asian categories of the ceremony along with Best Asian Act and the former category Best Korean Act, though it is the first to reward artist(s) of K-pop music as a musical genre, and not as a nationality.

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Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.

† indicates an MTV Video Music Award for Best K-Pop Video–winning artist that same year.
‡ indicates an MTV Video Music Award for Best K-Pop Video–nominated artist that same year.

2020s

YearArtistRef.
2021 BTS [1]
Lisa
Monsta X
NCT 127
Rosé
Twice
2022 Lisa [2]
Blackpink
BTS
Itzy
Seventeen
Twice
2023 Jungkook [3]
Fifty Fifty
NewJeans
Seventeen
Stray Kids
Tomorrow X Together


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