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Friday, February 5, 2010

19th High1 Seoul Music Awards

Girls Generation, Super Junior dominate 19th High1 Seoul Music Awards


Girls Generation and Super Junior topped the 19th High1 Seoul Music Awards held on Feb. 3 at the Seoul Olympic Park Fencing Stadium, bagging three awards each.

The nine-member Girls Generation, which stormed the K-pop scene in 2009 with the hit songs “Gee” and “Tell Me Your Wish,” went home with the Daesang, the highest award in the ceremony.

The group also won a Bonsang and the Digital Music Award for “Gee.”

The Daesang award was given to one of 10 Bonsang recipients, which included—apart from Girls Generation—Baek Ji Young, KARA, SHINee, Davichi, Son Dambi, Kim Tae Woo, 2PM, and Brown Eyed Girls.

The criteria for the Bonsang include digital/album sales (50 percent), voting (20 percent), judges (20 percent), and research (10 percent).

In accepting the top award, Girls Generation thanked SM Entertainment, their families, and fans.

Super Junior won the High1 Popularity Award alongside 2PM, and the Special Hallyu Award.

Super Junior leader Leeteuk expressed gratitude to fans and supporters in his acceptance speech. He also made reference to group members Kibum, Kangin, and Hangeng who are currently on hiatus.

Super Junior fan forum SJ-World quoted Leeteuk: “Thank you so much for giving us these three awards. I really miss the members who can’t be here with us today. I want to thank all the members who have spent the difficult time with me. Also I want to thank our fans; we will come back with a cooler image with our fourth album in 2010.”

The Newcomer awards went to BEAST, After School, and T-ara.

Other winners are: Hip hop award: Drunken Tiger; R&B award: Bobby Kim; Trot award: Park Sang-chul and Park Hyun-bin; and Best Album: Drunken Tiger.

The awardees also performed at the ceremony.

Girls Generation sang “Gee” and their new single “Oh,” while Super Junior performed “Super Girl” and “Sorry, Sorry.”

Boy band SHINee performed “Juliette” and “Ring Ding Dong,” and 2PM performed “Heartbeat.”

Conspicuously shut out from the awards were 2NE1 and G-Dragon, artists under YG Entertainment. Fans were rooting for 2NE1 to receive the Newcomer award and G-Dragon for the Bonsang.

source: manila bulletin
www.mb.com.ph
By JONATHAN M. HICAP
Posted by: Virginia Lentijas Diaz Roque @ 5:28 PM

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