Lol Daejong have started a voting app like baeksangs for popularity award which requires user to pay per vote. But the problem is that they have included popular actors like Kim Soohyun, Lee Jongsuk, etc who haven't had any film in last year; just to snatch more money from fangirls. Kim Soohyun is winning currently (ofcourse) and he hasn't done any movie in more than 2 years.

This is such an embarrassing ploy to increase attendance - specially when they never even lacked it. For a reputed award ceremony that's been going on for over half a century, did they really not realize how they just threw their name under a bus? I almost want none of the A-listers just for the laughs.

This is so ridiculous? what kind of rule is that? This sounds like something a middle school teacher will do - "No attendance No marks". Next thing we know they are deciding the winners by playing rock paper scissors?

These might be stupid questions, newbie to the ceremonies, but when are the nominations going to be announced and what channel is the ceremony aired?

So basically if actor A deserves the award because he has done the best job that year, he will lose the award if there is a scheduling conflict, and less deserving Actor B will get it instead. If I was B I would want to hide under a rock, because people would forever say I didn't deserve the award. Can you imagine if they did that at the Oscars? Hollywood actors who love a cause would band together and nobody would show up. I wonder if Korean actors are brave enough to stage a protest.

It's not only Daejong but within the entire industry there is alot of politics and huge rifts that is hidden under the rug so deep but yet again visible to the close looking eye.

I would say 95% of all award cermonies are rigged and filled with politics, people learn to chose their allies within the industry wisely because thats how you get an award and agencies are smart enough to ally themselves with the right PD's screen writes etc etc..

Haven't you noticed some Writers are only loyal to some individual actors and directors casting the same actor/actress as there lead its because they have good relationship aka allies in the industry because they need each other while they also benefit from each other and a lone wolf will be left outside and not in the house in that industry.

to much politics period.

I got it, no wonder only winners attended awards ceremony like recent KDA awards. LOL.?. I guess KSH will get daesang over and over.

The most likely reason is pressure from sponsors, who demands a good show with high viewership ratings.

It would be better if no one shows up just to serve them right!
Ridiculous decision!

LMAO and this is new how? Every single awards show in Korea, be it a music or a drama/movie one gives awards based first and foremost on attendance. There's nothing new here...well except the fact that Grand Bell organizers were the first people to have the guts to admit it.

HAHAHA. Wow. "They would work to ensure that fairness would not be compromised." Dude, FAIRNESS CONPROMISED is written alllll over this decision, man.

Better fix this asap. Otherwise, I'd like to see the stars banning together to protest this ludicrous attendance policy by NOT showing up.

Wow.

i am pretty sure the committee was talking about door prizes, not award for the skill of it's winner, ...... not!

they should change the name to grand bell door prize awards. you have to show up and stay till ur name called. if you leave early, you have to share the award with nominee who stayed till it's over. if no one show up, committee will be the winner. viewer will be the looser.

if nobody attend, committee will be in trouble and have to reimburse all costs from their own pocket and return all money received from advertiser, but the good news, they get to keep all the awards.

somehow the committee choose to go backwards.

wasnt the last awards show shown here at dramabeans done the same way, ie if you not there you do not get an award? So it pretty simple to alway guess the winners and losers as only the winners bother to turn up..is that what they want for the film awards too, a room full of half empty tables?

Shim Eun-kyung previously complained about this, when the Daejong Awards removed her from its list of Best Actress nominees in 2011 after she informed them she wouldn't be able to attend the ceremony because she was studying in the US.

http://mwave.interest.me/enewsworld/en/article/989/shim-eun-kyeong-receives-a-bitter-prize

They deserve all the bad press they're getting. Award shows in Korea aren't very credible as it is, but the Daejong and Blue Dragon awards are still considered somewhat prestigious, at least by its recipients. This was a stupid move.

If this happened in the US, actors would boycott that ceremony on principal of the thing. I dunno if Korean actors would have the same ideology, nevertheless, this is prodigiously stupid.

daejong awards is like oscars? there is no popularity award in oscars. awards should be based on ability shown by their work! non-attendance forfeits an award? geez, crazy!