So it’s the final day May 4th in the public voting for the 2024 Baeksang Art Awards Popularity Award and it’s not only an open vote the website also listing the current votes for each person. Anyone nominated for an individual acting or entertainer award is eligible and combines both movies and television candidates into one top vote getter for the male and female categories. As of now, the winners are basically locked in, for the ladies its rookie TV star An Yu Jin (Yujin) of the girl group IVE is leading the female votes with 1.2M with runner up Kim Go Eun at 285K and third place Go Yoon Jung with 188K. Yujin is nominated for a TV variety show award and as with any idol nominated for a Baeksang he/she almost always takes home the Popularity Award due to the massive fandom. On the guy side, Kim Soo Hyun has an astonishing 5.45M votes leading over second place Kim Sun Ho at 3.19M, and funnily enough both have won this award before. Kim Soo Hyun who took home both movie and television Popularity Award in 2014 (before Baeksang combined the two categories into one award) for when he nominated for Secretly, Greatly and You From Another Star, and Kim Sun Ho in 2021 for in the year for Hometown Cha Cha Cha.
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I said it earlier and agree with netizens that this is as best a chance as any for widely acclaimed actor Namgoong Min to finally get his Baeksang Arts Award Best Actor trophy to take home. This year’s nomination for … Continue reading
It was the night for prestige sageuk drama My Dearest over at the MBC Year End Drama Awards. Male lead Namgoong Min won the Daesang for his performance in the drama, Best Couple with Ahn Eun Jin, which also took … Continue reading
SBS held the first drama awards of 2023 among the three big networks and it was a muted affair due to the days earlier passing of top actor Lee Seon Kyun. All the stars wore black except for one white … Continue reading
This week Tencent held its own 2023 Tencent Video All Star Awards to celebrate the actors and actresses who did a Tencent project this year. It’s like the network drama years in South Korea so all attendees are there basically … Continue reading
This weekend was the 2023 iQiyi Scream Awards held in Macau and the young and pretty C-stars were out in attendance. This was a streaming platform event so the winners isn’t anything more that the platform paid to do their … Continue reading
I didn’t follow the K-movies this year so I don’t even know if any of the winners were the right ones lol but I still love awards ceremonies for the glitz and glamor. It was the usual level of awards … Continue reading
I really appreciate the South Korean awards being willing to share the voting thought process and tabulations after the ceremony, it lends more legitimacy to the winners even if there is always bound to be behind-the-scenes elbowing at play. The … Continue reading
Last year in 2022 was the first ever Blue Dragon Series Awards as the awards body until then was exclusively a movie awards ceremony. So this year in 2023 its only the 2nd annual Blue Dragon Series Awards and last … Continue reading
This Friday’s Baeksang Awards in Seoul was probably a night of little to no surprises (just one big one) and a lot of satisfied winner picks. The Park Eun Bin and Song Hye Kyo race for Best Actress ended with … Continue reading
For the upcoming 2023 Baeksang Awards held next week, the K-drama race for Best Actor is really Lee Sung Min‘s to lose with maybe dark horse Son Seok Gu, and Best Actress is a two way slog between Park Eun … Continue reading
So the Baeksang Awards nominations came out today for the 2023 ceremony and I am very very pleased with it. The supporting and new star awards in the TV categories capture all the buzzed about roles and performances so I … Continue reading
Weibo Night 2022 is over and done with and I’ve heard plenty of juicy gossip but for a front of the stage kerfluffle nothing is bigger than Hu Ge and Crystal Liu being crowned Weibo King and Queen, respectively. The … Continue reading