The prestigious Baeksang Arts Awards recently finds themselves at the center of a great controversy, with accusations of manipulation of the vote that obscure the category of the premium for female popularity. In particular, from April 26, Hyeri (Friendly rivalry) guide the votes with over 3 million, followed closely by Kim Hye-Yoon (adorable runner) AND Iu (when life gives you mandarins)Each exceeds 2.4 million votes. In the meantime, Haewon from NMIXXwhich is located in 4th place, moves back with about 30,000 votes, followed by Kim Tae-Ri AND Hye-kyo songwith about 14,000 to 16,000 votes each.
The enormous gaps among the first 3 (UI, Hyeri and Kim Hye-Yoon) and the rest of the candidates make sure that the acute eyes notino suspected models in the voting system, leading to accusations that the bases of the three fans of the three were inflating their number of votes.
In particular, the screenshots circulating online suggest that a large volume of votes has been generated innaturally fastly, adding fuel to indignation. Many Netizen have now asked the Baeksang Committee filtering the rigged votes and investigating the situation, accusing the prizes for the loss of credibility year after year, not managing to capture the rigging behavior of the votes.
In addition, calls to disqualify IU, Hyeri and Kim Hye-Yoon to award the popularity prize to Haewon-a contender perceived as a “clean” voting record-they became stronger. Many comments on the Korean forums have noticed sarcastically that the macro votes have become so rampant that the real support for fans is in the shade.
Below are some comments by Netizens:
- We should give the award to Haewon because what the hell is that gap
- The first 3 are suspicious to die for
- What is the point of the prize if they let the voting races spread that way?
- All three should be disqualified
- It seems that the fans of IU, Hyeri and Kim Hye-Yoon are scaming the votes … because they have to go so far away
- Baeksang must filter the votes to ensure equity.
On the other hand, it is said that Hyeri, who is at the top of the votes, has received enormous support for fans following his role in the audacious k-drama lesbian “Friendly rivalry”.
