23rd Golden Disk Awards & some more 박효신
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008Last week the 23rd 골든디스크상, the Golden Disk Awards, were held. I’m not entirely sure but apparently the results are calculated by a formula that consists of : 60% music sales, 20% popularity vote and 20% committee evaluation from December 2007 to November 2008. There’s a whole lot of politics under the surface though, some labels in the past have boycotted the event, and it’s all really just a big mess waiting to happen. But instead of getting into that, we’ll just take a look at who won what. There’s a few awards you can grab for yourself at the Golden Disk Awards. The biggest is the 대상, it’s the holy grail of the night. The next is the 본상 award, and then finally there are YEPP awards for various categories.
동방신기 grabbed themselves the 대상, for their album MIROTIC. Girlgroup Jewelry also got themselves a 대상, for their digital single Kitchi Island.
본상 awards were presented to 신화 (9집), 비 (Rainism), SG워너비 (My Friend), 김동률 (Monologue), 브라운아이즈 (Two Things Needed For The Same Purpose And Five Objects) (what was that, an award for longest album title EVER? XD) and 동방신기 (MIROTIC). Digital Single 본상 awards were also presented to Jewelry (Kitchi Island), Wonder Girls (So Hot), 브라운아이드걸스 (With L.O.V.E Brown Eyed Girls) and MC 몽 (Show’s Just Begun).
YEPP 신인상 (Newcomer) awards were given to 샤이니 (The SHINee World) and 다비치 (Vivid Summer Edition). There were also YEPP Awards for Nell (Separation Anxiety) and 장윤정 (장윤정 트위스트), rock and trot categories respectively. YEPP Popularity awards went to 동방신기 (MIROTIC), 손호영 (Returns), FT Island (Colorful Sensibility) and 소녀시대 member 태연 (Beethoven Virus OST).
Special Achievement Award was given to 김창완, New Trend went to 김종욱 and the Producer Award went to SM Entertainment’s founder 이수만.
And with that out of the way, today I’m going to show you something that totally made my day last week, almost more than 신화 getting themselves that 본상.
This is 박효신 on episode 4 of the KBS show 이하나 페퍼민트, doing a little bit of 나만 바라봐, one of the songs from 빅뱅 member 태양’s solo album that he released earlier this year.
I love 박효신, I love 빅뱅, I love that song, and I love it when artists I love cover the songs of other artists I love XD
You can watch 태양’s MV below (with appearances by the other 빅뱅 members!):
Posted by Taliana in Korean Music |
December 25th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
Taliana! You have wonderful taste in music!!! I just started becoming interesting in learning Korean yesterday…so it still takes me a long time to decipher the characters (despite how ‘easy’ people say it is).
I like this song and also the previous song you posted! Thanks!
December 25th, 2008 at 10:18 pm
HAHAH thankyou, glad you enjoy my taste in music XD
The characters are pretty easy, if you do it for a couple of hours every day you should have them down in a week or so. It’s the romanisation that’s harder to learn! But I found that Korean music gave me some great practice, like learning to read artist names, and song titles and stuff like that.