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★ Rookie Award (Comedy)
- Choi Hyo Jong (Male)
- Kim Young Hee (Female)
★ Rookie Award (Show/Variety)
- Kim Seung Woo (Male)
- Lee Si Young (Female)
★ Best Idea Award
- Gag Concert (‘Two Minute Debate’)
★ Best Teamwork Award
- ‘Happy Together Season 3′
- Park Myung Soo
- Eun Ji Won
- Lee Sang Duk (‘Gag Concert’)
- Lee Don Kyung (‘Love’s Request’)
★ Radio DJ Award
- Yoo Hee Yeol
★ Service Award
- ‘Hope’s Road’ Team
★ Special Award
- Park Kolleen
★ Producer’s Choice: Special Award
- Kim Saeng Min
★ Best Comedy Runner-Up
- Park Young Jin
- Heo Anna
★ Best Comedy Award
- Kim Byung Man
- Park Ji Sun
★ Show/Variety Runner-Up
- Lee Soo Geun
- Goo Hara
★ Show/Variety Award
- Lee Seung Gi
- Hwang Soo Kyung
★ Viewer’s Choice: Best Program Award
- ‘Happy Together’
★ Entertainment Daesang
- Lee Kyung Kyu
Aside from the award winnings, there were also hot performances by JYP, 2PM’s Nichkhun and Junho, miss A, Shin Bong Sun, and KARA!
Ladies and Gentlemen: this teaser is finally worth it! You have a chance to see your favorite stars in their scene excerpts. (Unlike those last teasers)
K-pop’s hottest stars transform into wannabes right before your very eyes! Follow them on their journey to stardom a second time in this new drama.
Check out “Dream High” teaser number three here:
You can view all the latest official photos from the drama here
Source: Dream High’s Official Website
Credit: popseoul
by Liz
BEAST, G.NA and 4Minute will be in Malaysia for a concert on Jan 13 at Stadium Negara, thanks to DiGi, a local mobile service provider. The highly-anticipated event will see three K-pop acts sharing a platform in Malaysia!
WILD: Come 2011, Malaysians will be rocked by not one or two, but THREE K-pop acts!
The media launch of the DiGi Live K-pop Party 2011 is on Dec 5 (Sunday) at One Utama New Wing, Ground Floor (outside the Armani Exchange store). It starts at 12:00pm and ends at 8:00pm.
“To kick start our venture, we will be unveiling exclusive opportunities for our customers to meet the three performing acts in person in conjunction with the media launch of DiGi Live K-pop Party 2011 this Sunday,” said Moharmustaqeem Mohammed, the Head of Segment Marketing.
BEAST, G.NA and 4Minute are artistes under the Cube Entertainment (CE) agency, a subsidiary of JYP Entertainment. In Jan 2010, CE inked a deal with Universal Music where the latter holds the right to license and distribute music by CE’s artistes in the Asia-Pacific region.
And so, DiGi in collaboration with Universal Music Malaysia is geared up to kick start 2011 with a K-popped! bang. Are you game for it?
Credit: k-popped
2PM’s Taecyeon and Wooyoung, miss A’s Suzy, T-ara’s Eunjung and IU are among the top idol stars in the nation at the moment. Consequently, their schedules are jam-packed with promotions, interviews, and other engagements that accompany their high-fluted status.
It’s led the drama coordinators to lament that trying to match up the differing schedules is like trying to pick a star from the sky.
KBS’s chief drama producer, Ko Ki Won expressed, “They are some of the most popular idols around now, and are very busy people. It’s very difficult to arrange a suitable filming time, where we can get at least 3 idol stars on camera. Each time, we would be faced with a situation where one of them would be unable to make it. Some of them are making their comebacks, while others need to travel overseas for promotions – it’s a very ardous task to coordinate schedules.”
Taecyeon and Wooyoung have to manage their Japanese promotions with 2PM, as the group just released a new album there. Suzy must balance her overseas schedules with miss A as well, while IU and Eunjung are currently in the midst of their comeback promotions.
It’s a frustrating task for both the drama coordinators and the idols, but regardless, production for the drama appears to be chugging along.
Check out the latest subbed preview for “Dream High”, and let’s hope that things smooth out for the cast and staff on board.
Source: JoongAng Daily
Credit: allkpop
by Casper
The 2009 drama came to an end with the shooting of Lee Byung Hun’s character, ‘Kim Hyun Joon,’ and left viewers blind to the identity of his shooter. The “IRIS” series was recently re-delivered in a 2-hour film version, which held concise cuts of scenes from the drama’s 20 episodes. In a shocking twist, Kim So Yeon’s character, ‘Kim Sun Hwa,’ was revealed to be the sniper.
Sun Hwa was a member of ‘IRIS,’ a secret worldwide organization aimed at keeping status quo between warring nations. She was revealed to be working under North Korean rogue general, ‘Yeon Ki Hoon’ (played by Choi Jong Hwan ) who also belonged to ‘IRIS’. The theater version of the story was edited so that ‘Yeon Ki Hoon’ had survived, although he was killed in the actual drama. Sun Hwa’s affections for Hyun Joon in the drama was played up to be a sort of act in the film version.
Kim So Yeon’s continued appearance in the spin-off drama, “Athena“, has spotlighted further attention on her identity as Lee Byung Hun’s killer, since she is now a character that holds the key that has turned the story in a totally different direction.
Representatives of “Athena” had previously stated that Kim Sun Hwa would connect “IRIS” and “Athena,” making viewers wonder how her identity in “IRIS” would be explained in “Athena.” Park Cheol Young (played by Kim Seung Woo), was also killed in the film version, but he is expected to be making a special appearance in “Athena,” further adding curiosity to the overall plot.
The IRIS spin-off, “Athena” will debut though SBS from December 13th.
ahhh... i hate to see this~ after watching IRIS 20 episodes and make me cried why they revealed her as the killer?! why? why? why?!
The two played the roles of ‘Yeorim’ and ‘Geol Oh’, which received massive support from fans of the drama as the representative ‘male couple.’ One scene in particular even created a ‘gay scandal’ between the two. Yeorim, who observed Geol Oh putting his life on the line in order to find the person who wrote the fake handbill, tearfully made the following outburst:”What does that make me, the person by your side? Fine, live as you want and get out of my sight.”
Although both actors and producers clarified the scene to be an expression of their deep friendship, it seems as if viewers took it differently, landing the two a nomination for the awards show.
A representative of KBS’s variety team revealed, “Due to the aggressive recommendations and support the press corps have shown, we were able to confidently put the ‘Song Joong Ki and Yoo Ah In’ couple as nominations for the ‘Best Couple Award’. We predict that they will receive just as many user votes as the other hetero couples in the viewers votes.”
Even though the couple is said to be ‘just friends’, if the two should win the award, it would prove to be a great step towards a positive reception of the queer community in Korea!
Stay tuned to allkpop for the results of the “2010 KBS Drama Awards”, scheduled to be broadcasted on December 31st.
Source + Photos: Sports Chosun via Nate
Finally! The controversy and conspiracy theories can be laid to rest now. Yahoo has investigated the allegations of voting discrepancies, and have discounted any votes from any suspicious IP address, which did not just appear in the votes for any one star but throughout the nominees pool. As a result, Yahoo released the definite and confirmed winners for its 2010 Buzz Awards. Congratulations to Jang Geun Seok (Korea Male Star and Asia Star), and Moon Geun Young (Korea Female Star)!
Jang Geun Seok is coming off a stellar year with You’re Beautiful and now Mary Stayed Out All Night, and Moon Geun Young got a lot of exposure earlier this year for Cinderalla Unni. Seriously, this news makes me giddy as a school girl again. The thought of Geun-squared showing up to accept their awards together is giving me the fangirl shakes. I would pay money for them to show up dressed and in the character of Mu Gyul and Mae Ri. How adorable would that be? Out of this world adorable.
But I worry that neither may be able to attend the awards show on December 17, 2010 in Hong Kong. M3 is pretty much on a live-shoot schedule now, and I don’t know if they drama can afford to lose its two main actors for 2 days, minimum, right when that week would require them to likely film the final few episodes of the drama.
Drama gods, please make it happen that the most adorable and chemistry-laden K-drama couple this year can give me some awards show fanservice. Unless we’re talking Baeksangs, I normally don’t pay attention to these popularity contests. Right now I care only because Jang Geun Seok and Moon Geun Young have stolen my heart. Oh my darlings Mae Ri and Mu Gyul!
As a nod to these important events in the K-pop realm, allkpop has decided to initiate our first ever “allkpop Awards” this year, and we’re inviting fans from all over the world to determine the results!
That’s right – the votes will be 100% determined by international K-pop fans.
In order to ensure that the results are achieved in a fair manner, we’ve established a system in which votes can be submitted once a day per category via Twitter or Facebook.
Fans can vote as many times as they like over the course of the awards voting period, but again, only one vote per category per day will be counted.
We are aiming to make this an award that accurately represents the opinions of the international K-pop community, so check out the nominees below, and help decide K-pop’s best of 2010!
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