Seo Jang-hoon's funeral is over..'Millionaire in the Neighborhood', KBCSD Press Award for Excellence in TV Broadcasting

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EBS's "Seo Jang-hoon's Neighborhood Millionaires" was recognized for its planning skills and in-depth coverage of the sustainable economic model, and won the 20th KBCSD Press Award for Excellence in TV Broadcasting.

Director Kim Dong-yeol, PD Kim Min-ji, PD Kim Dong-young, writer Lim Jung-hwa, and writer Lee Young-joo of "Seo Jang-hoon's Neighborhood Millionaires" were honored with the Excellence Award in TV Broadcasting at the 20th KBCSD Press Awards held at the Grand Intercontinental Hotel in Samseong-dong, Seoul on February 27.

KBCSD is a corporate CEO council leading the nation's sustainable development. Since 2007, the 'KBCSD Press Award' has been awarded every year to raise public awareness of sustainable social development through newspapers and broadcasting and to discover and encourage excellent reports that have contributed to the spread of ESG management of companies. The award, which marks its 20th anniversary this year, is considered a representative media award system that spreads the discourse on sustainable development.

The screening was conducted for content reported and broadcasted between December 2024 and November 2025. The review was conducted around the core agenda of digital transformation, climate crisis, and resource circulation, and three articles in the newspaper report section and three programs in the broadcasting section were finally selected. Kim Myung-ja, chairman of KAIST, who headed the judging committee, said in a general review, "We focused on planning and reporting capabilities to shed in-depth light on key tasks of sustainable development, such as climate crisis response, energy transition, industrial innovation, resource circulation, and social responsibility, and to suggest directions and solutions for industry and society."

"Seo Jang-hoon's Neighborhood Millionaire" won the Excellence Award in TV broadcasting for "CEO Who Used Article 3 Becomes Rich from Garbage" (broadcasted on June 4, 2025). The broadcast was highly praised for convincingly showing that resource circulation can be the basis for creating new economic value beyond environmental protection through examples of sustainable business models based on resource recycling and circular economy by converting waste resources that were treated as garbage into new resources.

Meanwhile, "Seo Jang-hoon's Neighborhood Millionaires" previously won the Entertainment and Entertainment TV Award and the Writer Award at the 2025 Korean Broadcasting Awards. In addition to this, the KBCSD Press Award was awarded, proving its presence once again as a representative cultural entertainment program that contains interesting character stories and social messages in a balanced way.

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