Park Bo-gum shed tears as he picked up the Best Excellence Award at the 2016 KBS Drama Awards, Saturday. Song Joong-ki of “Descendants of the Sun,” who is Park‘s trusted senior and close friend, teared up seeing the actor give his emotional speech.

Park was given the award together with Park Shin-yang from “Neighborhood Lawyer Jo Deul-ho.”

Park Bo-gum cries during acceptance speech for 2016 KBS Drama Awards (KBS)

Park had garnered international love for his role of Prince Lee Young in “Moonlight Drawn by Clouds.”

“I took it as a great honor already that I was nominated alongside reputable seniors,” said the overwhelmed Park.

“I sincerely thank our beloved viewers for this award.”

Park continued, “It was thanks to the dependable seniors I had that I was able to wrap up the character Lee Young. I would like to thank our scriptwriter for allowing me to meet this great role.”

“I will do my best to live an honest life so that I will always feel proud looking back to this moment,” he said.

Song Joong-ki applauded his speech while on the verge of tears.

Song Joong-ki listens to Park Bo-gum's acceptance speech (Yonhap)

By Lim Jeong-yeo (kaylalim@heraldcorp.com)

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