Korean netizens are praising the impressive lineup of the '2024 Korea Grand Music Awards' despite the absence of HYBE artists.
'The Korea Grand Music Awards' is a new award ceremony organized by Ilgan Sports taking place from November 16 to 17 this year. It recently revealed its full lineup of performing artists ahead of the ceremony and the list has been garnering much attention on various popular online forums.
This is due to Korean netizens noticing that nearly all HYBE artists are absent from the lineup.
The special lineup for the 2-day event includes:
NewJeans
NiziU
aespa
ATEEZ
ZEROBASEONE
Taemin
DAY6
Doh Kyung Soo (EXO's D.O.)
RIIZE
BIBI
STAYC
NCT WISH
UNIS
Yoo Hwe Seung
JO1
P1Harmony
QWER
TVXQ
TREASURE
Lee Mu Jin
FIFTY FIFTY
NOWADAYS
Young Tak
Lee Chan Won
Jung Dong Won
Song Ga In
(G)I-DLE
Lee Young Ji
CLASS:y.
One Korean netizen pointed out that the lineup was impressive and revealed the reason most of HYBE's artists were absent. The netizen explained, "The host is Ilgan Sports, so all of HYBE artists, excluding NewJeans, are absent. This is because Ilgan Sports consistently writes articles about HYBE's corruption."
Other Korean netizens also agreed that the artist lineup for this new award show was amazing and commented:
"I think this lineup is amazing the way it is."
"The lineup is crazy. I want to attend."
"I didn't even notice that HYBE artists were missing."
"I think it's better that HYBE artists are missing."
"This award show isn't missing anything."
"I want to go to this award ceremony after seeing the artists line up."
"This is a good lineup."
"The artists' lineup is actually really good."
"Good."
"The lineup is real clean."
"I'll be tuning in."
"This is a good award show for sure."
"Hosted by Ilgan Sports so HYBE artists are not attending. Lol."
"I think without HYBE, the artists' lineup is more diverse and more interesting."
"I love how this award show doesn't have HYBE artists and it takes place in Korea."
"This will be my new favorite award show."
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