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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