♥ 20’s Choice Awards – An annual award show hosted by Mnet (generally during the summer), and all of the awards are decided by voters in their 20’s, therefore the name.
♥ Daesang & Bongsang – Awards. While the bongsang award is given to a number of the top artist of the year, the daesang award is only given to the number 1 artist of the year. Essentially the bongsang award is a nomination to be able to win the daesang award.
♥ Dream Concert – It is one of the biggest annual concerts in Korea, and it have some of the biggest names in K-Pop appear on the same stage. In recent years it has been a source of discontent between the fandoms due to unhappiness with allocations of sections, too many tickets being given out for the amount of available seats, and internal issues between the fandoms (such as the 2008 Dream Concert).
♥ Gaon Chart – One of two popular music charts in Korea (together with the Hanteo Chart), created in 2009 to be Korean version of the Oricon chart in Japan and Billboard in America. It is run by the Korea Music Concert Industry Association. The charts (album chart, single chart, streaming chart, download chart, BGM chart, mobile chart, and noraebang chart) are released every Friday.
♥ Gayo Daejeon – Literally means ‘Music Festival’. An annual end-of-year broadcast hosted by SBS on December 29th.
♥ Golden Disk Awards – An annual music award show presented by the Music Industry Association of Korea and is commonly referred to as the ‘Korean Grammy Awards’. Awards are given in 13 different categories: Disk Daesang, Digital Daesang, Disk Bongsang, Popularity Award, Best Producer, Best Hip Hop Record, Best Rock Record, Best Pop Record, Best Newcomer, Special Achievement, and Best Music Video.
♥ Inkigayo – A live music show that airs every Sunday at 3:50 PM KST on SBS, and it is currently hosted by Sulli (f(x)), Jokwon (2AM), and Kikwang (B2ST). At the end of every show a winner is announced and the award is referred to as the Mutizen Award, since the award is decided by the Netizens.
♥ M!Countdown – A live music show that airs every Thursday at 6:00 PM KST on Mnet, and it is currently hosted by Shin Soyool. At the end of every show a winner is announced using scores that are calculated by combining; online and offline music sales (50%), M!Countdown’s online votes (30%), professional music judges (10%), and real-time mobile (sms) votes (10%).
♥ Music Bank – A live music show that airs every Friday at 5:50 PM KST on KBS, and it is currently hosted by Kim Woo and Kim Minji. At the end of every show a winner is announced using scores that are calculated by combining; digital music charts (60%), album sales (10%), number of times broadcasted on TV/radio (20%), and viewer’s choice charts (10%)
♥ Music Core – A live music show that airs every Saturday at 4:20 PM KST on KBS, and it is officially hosted by Tiffany (Girls Generation) and Yuri (Girls Generation). However, due to the hosts busy schedules temporary hosts have been used on a weekly basis to fill in their absence. Music Core does not announce a winner at the end of the show.
♥ Mutizen – An award given to the winner at the end of every Inkigayo show. It’s a combination of the words ‘music’ and ‘netizen’, representing the fact that the award is largely a representation of the netizen’s opinion about music. Inkigayo’s rules state that a group or idol can only win 3 mutizen awards per promotional cycle, and if they do they are given a Triple Crown and get taken out of the running for 1st place.
♥ Triple Crown – The name of the award given to the groups/idols who win three weeks during one promotional cycle on M!Countdown and Inkigayo before being “retired” from the running for 1st place.
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