SBS reporters Kim Gyu-ri and Choi Dae-woong of SBS A&T have won the Broadcast Journalist of the Month Award from the Korean Broadcast Journalists Association for their exclusive coverage of a female firefighter's death, which exposed forced drinking and the cover-up of internal inspections within the firefighting organization.

The two reporters traced how the closed public firefighting organization's culture of forcing drinking drove a female firefighter to her death, receiving praise for demonstrating the extreme dangers of collective violence.