Jo In Sung Wins the Daesang at the 2014 APAN Star Awards

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• I don't know about this award show after park shin hey wins award for excellence in acting for heirs. I love park shin hey but an award for acting is dubious to me. Now I am looking at all the other winners with tainted lens. The matrix is one if my favorite movie but would I give Keanu reeve an acting award for it? Hell no.

• Hah...Ji Hyun Woo best fashionista????!!! How come???!!!

  Park Shin Ye should act in different departments or drama characters then I could agree she deserve any awards in acting department.

• Jin Se Yeon got the popularity award....?

  I'm wondering if this is one of those award shows where if you don't attend it's unlikely you'll receive an award...

  • Most Korean award shows won't give you anything unless you commit to showing up, unless you are on the level of Jun Ji Hyun I guess.

    Anyway Dr Stranger was so bad it's almost funny to see how fast the cast (the ones who can actually act anyway) came out with their next projects - Lee Jong Seok, Park Hae Jin and Kang Sora are all in dramas airing now and which are way more well received than DS.

    • Even if you are on the level of jeon ji hyun you will not also recognize if you dont show up.SIDA cancelled the best actress category because jeon ji hyun is not attending she is the winner but the award dont give to her and look at her award in apan hallyu star award.what is that award?looks like a special award only.

  • The attendees to begin with here are only the ones who won something. The winners were told beforehand.

    • @gina Lol I enjoyed Misaeng, Bad Guys, and Pinocchio so much. And Kang Sora is good in this drama, she was not the best in Doctor Stranger.

      Anyway as far as I know Jin Se Yeon in filming her first leading lady in movie Police Family. So no worry about her acting project, just hope she will be better

    • oh so that's the way it works in Korea?
      i always thought it was like the TW ceremonies where you get an award if you turn up (rather than you turn up because you get an award) :|

  • So if I understood well, they didn't give out the Daesang for a female actress because JJH did not come/did not show up? That is why we probably only see JIS's name then? Or maybe I misunderstood: does the Daesang only go to one person (per year), whether male or female? (And I think Ms. K. had said in a previous post that she thought the Daesang would go to JJH, however if she did not show up, it would go to JIS? I can't remember EXACTLY what Ms. K. said, but I am thinking that it was something like that, no?)

    • The Daesang usually only goes to one person a year, no matter their sex. Once in a crazy blue moon there might be 2 winners.

• Park Shin Hye won over Go Ara? WHAT?

  • Yey! Park Shin Hye won an award over Go Ara?? Sorry but who is Go Ara? #justasking

    • The girl who was nominated for best actress at Baeksang awards while Park Shin Hye wasn`t . Also the girl who got record rating for cable drama and gave far superior performance than PSH. Now you know.

  • Not exactly a fan of Park Shin Hye myself, but how is Go Ara any better?

    • In this case she is. Go Ara gave much stronger and more memorable performance than PSH , i can`t believe anybody would even consider PSH role in The Heirs award worthy. It was honestly her worst performance, she was better in all her previous dramas.

    • Go Ara's role was much more challenging - a wider array of emotion, covering a longer time span, a great deal of character growth to portray. She really did a great job of portraying the highs and lows of growing up. PSH had a one-dimensional character who showed absolutely no growth.

      But then, I expected this because with a few exceptions Korean awards are all about popularity.

  • Go Ara is currently out of the country that he inability to attend could have contributed to her not getting the award.

    • Damn typos.

      *Go Ara is currently out of the country so her inability to attend could have contributed to her not getting the award.

  • Ckckckc..go ara is famous for her bad acting and people always bash her. Now that THE ROLE SHE PLAY WRITTEN GOOD yet she didn't receive any award, people blame someone even said she couldn't attend so the award can go to the one attending. Then, lower the award credibility. What amazing defend!

• Not as bad as I imagined before, I feel good enough with APAN's outcome.
  First, I'm happy for JIS, yap he deserves it and even more, I'm thankful for his speech where he mentioned a lot about my gongvely, he is such very humble man and wish he will get better and greater in future.

  happy DO win best new actor, he deserves it :) and happy for LKS too ^_^

  I feel relieve that my gongvely lose to Kim Hee Ae which is the strongest competitor alongside soog yoon ah so I feel less disappointed hehe

  But again with KSH win top excellent actor (while it's pretty clear jang hyuk and YAI acted better than him) and PSH win excellent actress (while in fact Go Ara is very much better than her), remind my self to not expect for a fully creditable korean award :P

  oh well, at least, APAN you've done better job compare to KDA :P

  this off topic, but one question miss koala, do you think Pinocchio would be included in 2014 SBS awards?

  • Pinocchio will be included in the SBS year end awards. Don't expect it to win any top prizes though. Daesang will come down between Jeon Ji Hyun and Jo In Sung.

    • thank you ms koala :)

      I dont thinking about LJS winning top prize but about best couple...
      I wonder if SBS will still give best couple award based on vote to only one winner or something change from previous year..? :P

• i'm ok with PSH but her performance in heirs was pretty meh, i'm not sure how she got that.

  but really, JSY with popularity award?! I CAN'T UNDERSTAND THAT SORRY.

  and KSH just casually winning everything sighhhs.

• A mixed bag as always. Great that Kim Hee Ae got some love; absurd that Go Ara was passed over, etc.

  It must sting for the organizers, though, that the two biggest stars nominated didn't care even a little bit about their awards show, and went abroad to attend very, very important events! :)

• I'm sooo happy for Kim Ok Bin! She truly deseverd that award!

  • Me too! Glad this drama went well for after the disaster that was Blade and Petal. Haven't finished it yet but Yoona's Street has been a delight so far

  • I'm in LOVE with her after Yoona's Street (still watching though) and the fact that she sings in a rock band is just....*swoons* I'm so happy she got some recognition!!!

    These awards seem better than most I've seen in terms of winners.

    Any idea what the equivalent of The Oscars for movies and The Golden Globes for TV (or both if combined for) are in the Korean Acting world? Is this the closest thing?

• The lifetime achievement award going to Choi Jin Shil has me teary-eyed and curious. Why now, 6 years after her tragic death?

  • I know! I freaked out when I saw that, but in a good way. Pretty much the same reaction as you. Has it really been 6 years? Time flies. Still miss her effortless acting. It does seem a little late, but better late than never.

  • I just looked her up...wow, what an unbelievably tragic end. It brings to mind Robin Williams suicide which still hurts to think about.

    I noticed awhile ago that there were quite a lot of k-celeb suicides in the early to mid 2000's. I just wonder what was going on back then. I'm so glad it doesn't happen as much anymore.

    • Just fyi, and to summarize her tragic life from what I've collected, she was married to a famous baseball player and together they raised 2 young children. However behind the outward perfect family image, she was a victim of domestic abuse, proven by hospital records. She decided to unveil her situation, asking for a divorce. Not only was she seen as scandalous, she was sued for breach of contract for "ruining her image" and the products she was promoting, resulting in huge debts. She had also invested important amounts of money that went down, thus putting her in an even more tremendously difficult financial situation. As for the reasons for her decision to put an end to her life, only she would have the answers, which she may have left behind in a note.
      Her husband eventually committed suicide too, leaving their children with a terrible inheritance, having to pay their parents' debts and carrying a burdening past on their frail shoulders.

• "Kim Ok Bin winning an acting award is sweet." It very likely may not be what was intended at all, but this came to across to me sounding patronising, as if it was a sweet gesture, nothing more.

  The reality is, her performance in Yoona's Street was outstanding and "Kim Ok Bin winning an acting award" for it was simply what she deserved, nothing more. Her win was one of those happy exceptions when actual talent and merit secured the award.

  I've still got 9 episodes to go, but unless it completely implodes in those 9, Yoona's Street remains one of my top five Dramas for sheer quality, and her lead role was a huge part of that.