The 30th 'High1 Seoul Music Awards' has released a statement about fraudulent voting that might have taken place. 

'SMA Committee has been monitoring voting records since the service was opened.

Today, we detected some abnormal voting activity in a specific artist.

As a result of monitoring voting records in each category between 14th Dec 2020 and 15th Dec 2020, We captured the situation, which is used illegal software to make 6,553 fake accounts, including ******-*****eex, through using macro generate voting tickets to participate in voting. 

The details are as follows:
- Time of occurrence: After 21:21 on December 13
- Artist : G*********
- Number of votes to be deleted: 116,540 votes on Main, 71,380 votes on Legend Rookie Prize

The above issue is clearly an unusual voting case. All identified quantities as abnormal votes will be deleted on 17th Dec 2020 midnight for 30 minutes, and all accounts used for abnormal voting have been forced withdrawn.

Also, we've already inspected all other award categories, didn't find out the extra illegal case.

There will be legal action in the case of vote-rigging, such as using macros and illegal programs.

The Seoul Music Awards are making every effort not to harm the fairness of the vote.

For maintaining a clean voting culture without compromising the meaning of the awards for the stars, please cooperate and participate in SMA.

Thank you.
Seoul Music Awards Committee'

Following the statement's release, many netizens started to point out the hypocrisy of 'SMA' by pointing out that they may have rigged their voting to exclude GFriend from their Awards Show last year.