1976 MBC Music Festival: 'Top 10 Male Rookie of the Year'
1977 MBC Music Festival: 'Top 10 Artist of Year'
1997 SBS Seoul Music Award for 'Best Record Producer'
2000 Good Deed Artist Prime Minister Commendation Award
2002 Korean Culture Content Exportation Awards in Music
2003 Korean Culture Content Exportation Awards in Music
2004 SBS Music Awards Festival: 'Producer of the Year'
2005 Certificate of Merit as Honorary Ambassador of LA given by the Mayor of LA
The Most Influential Person to Drive the Entertainment Industry from the weekly newsmagazine <Sisa Journal>
China's South-East Music Chart Awards 'Best Overseas Producer'
The 12th Korean Entertainment and Art Awards'Entertainment and Art Development Award'
2007 1st place as “The No.1 Power in the Entertainment Business” in both overall and music industry from the 3rd anniversary survey of Moneytoday Starnews
‘Global Frontier Award’ from the ‘Global CEO Award Winning Company Case Presentation and Awards’ (organized) by the International Business Society
‘Global CEO Award Winning Company Case Presentation and Awards’ (organized) by the International Business Society: 'Global Frontier Award'
2008 Mnet Golden Disk Award for 'Record Producer of the Year'
2009 Château Mouton Rothschild: 'Commanderie de Bontemps'
2011 1st place as “The Power Leader of Popular Culture” selected by The Herald Business
Seoul Cultural Arts Awards for 'Best Popular Music Producer'
The 2nd Korean Popular Culture and Arts Awards: Order of Cultural Merit (the highest honor awarded at the Korean Popular Culture and Arts Awards)
1st place as “The 100 Powerful People in Korean Popular Music” selected by the “SOUND”, a popular music magazine
The 13th Academic Conference by Business Released Society: The first “Small but Strong Business Entrepreneur Award“
The 2nd Korean Popular Culture and Arts Awards: “The Orders of Cultural Merit” (the highest honor awarded at the Korean Popular Culture and Arts Awards)
The 6th Korea-EU industrial cooperation day: 'Korea-EU Cooperation Award’
The 1st Korea Music Copyright Awards: 'The Best Record Producer'
The 11th Proud Korean Awards: “National Prestige Award”
2012 The 1st Gaon Chart K-Pop Awards 'Kpop Contribution Award'
The Korea Society 55th Anniversary Gala: 'Dinner Culture Award Honoree'
2016 'Best Producer of Asia Award' / Top Chinese Music The Annual Festival
First Korean to receive 'Asia Game Changer Award' / Asia Society
Ranked #1 in 'Cultural Leaders of the Year' / 2016 e-daily Culture Power
2017 First cultural figure to receive '2016 Youngsang Diplomat Award'
'Best Marketer Award' / 2017 Kotler Awards
Selected as "Variety500 2017" by Variety Magazine
2018 Selected as "International Music Leader 2018" by Variety Magazine
2018 Korea-China Management Awards‘Best Marketer’
4th place as “An executive who shows best leadership”
6th place as “An executive who contributes to the nation’s economic development”
10th place as “The best CEO by University students”
2019 Selected as "International Music Leader 2019" by Variety Magazine
2019 Selected as "Variety500 2019" by Variety Magazine
