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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