SHORTLIST TO SPOTLIGHT: HOW CHIANG CHI AND ‘HAD I NOT SEEN THE SUN’ SIGNAL TAIWAN’S STREAMING SHIFT The upcoming Global OTT Awards in Busan highlight where Asia’s creative momentum is heading. This year, the Best Newcomer category underscores a clear trend: the erasure of regional borders through streaming economics. Among a competitive shortlist featuring South Korea’s Bang Hyo-rin and Thailand’s Rebecca Patricia Armstrong, Taiwanese actress Chiang Chi stands out—not just for her performance, but for what her breakthrough represents for Taiwan’s media footprint. Chiang’s nomination stems from Had I Not Seen the Sun, a Netflix psychological noir that rejects standard television procedural tropes. Instead of relying on neat cliffhangers, the series anchors its tension in fragmented memory and structural trauma. Chiang plays Chou Pin-yu, a documentary researcher whose fixation on a cold serial murder case slowly dissolves the line between objective journalism and personal obsession. It...