dennis oh's pants made me think of mc hammer. lol. not exactly the desired effect...

and i totally thought the female best newcomer prize should have gone to the two people that didn't get it ><
that one girl made a retardedly long acceptance speech. i stopped watching at that point.

SSH should just be in the popular couple award. We all know that KMM deserved the Daesang not sharing with him..utter ridiculous!. Someone should fire JGS's stylist and JiSung was the hottest dude of the nite.

So much about these awards leve me scratching my head.

Why does jgs always have to wear stuff like that? I love him but grrrr!

I think making East of Eden the biggest budget TV series of all time is MBC's biggest mistake in the long run. I had a feeling that this series will somehow flop when they first announced it - you never want to make the "biggest" of anything. Bringing a ton of top stars together and risking $25 million for one series (without proper planning) have always proven to flop a potentially good story/series.

And here they (MBC) are, with Lee Da Hae leaving and the audiences pissing off at how MBC used her fame to promote a series she gets like 2 minutes an episode and her character "lost" in the storyline. Not only that, the series basically sucks because everything carelessly planned out - you can tell watching this series because there are scenes that are just "there" - no signifcance - story is draggy and the reason why the characters/relationships seems so "complex" is because it isn't - it is "messy" NOT complex. It seems complex because it is "messy" - poorly planned and executed. The reason I think is because I think there is too much resources for the crew to work with - too much star actors/actresses, too much money to budget, too much choices! And when you are overwhelmed w/ too many choices, poor decisions will be made.

I feel sorry for the writer of this story - because supposedly the writer spent over 2 years writing it and now it is all butchered up. Had they had less to work with, this could've been a good series.

haha Javabeans I laughed at your commentary... thanks for always being so spot-on hilarious! =) The part on JGS was so accurate! though he prob always thinks that he's so hot and the fashion is downright great. *excuse me while I attempt to keep my breakfast in =)* only thing I didn't agree on was that Lee Soo Yeon's dress was that ugly *oops I actually liked it =)* Lee YoonJi looks so cheery and pretty as always. aww but too bad my fave YEH was a lil on the messy side esp the hair. This MBC awards was a boring affair... rem how YEH hogged the show for the last 2 years (Goong & Coffee Prince)? This year it's not as exciting anymore sigh. Hopes things will be brighter next year!

Can't believe that two people won the Daesang this year. I am both a fan of Kim Myung Min and Song Seung Hun but KMM definitely gave a better performance for BV. Are the judges undecided or simply afraid of the fans? I think it's more of the second option. This is my first time watching the MBC and all they had were people tied in some of the awards. In as much as they want everyone to be contented and go home happy, by doing that, I think they downgraded their criteria and destroyed their credibility as an award giving body.

But congratulations nonetheless. No use sourgraping over the results.

OMFG, this is so unbelievable! I am sitting here scratching my head stunned at what a JOKE MBC has become. Can somebody please knock some sense to whoever is in charge? Can this even be call an acting award show...or EOE award night? Come on, how dare they give SSH a Daesang award? Can he even compare to KMM? Hell no and yet he's up there like...he actually deserved the award? Aish, SSH Daesang award? What a joke...but look at that smirk of his...does he really think he is on par with KMM? Sadly...I think he truly thinks he does. Oh well, I agree with javabeans's MBC acting awards this year is a joke with the way they handle things.

Song Seung Hun deserved the award as much as Kim Myung-min.
Period.
Song Seung Hun, Congratulations!!!
You deserve it!

*..*

^Um no sweetie, Song Seung Hun DID NOT deserve to get a DAESANG period.

MBC is devaluing a fine actor in KMM
Korean drama is having credibility problems (sales) enough out in the world.
If you want others to recognize excellence in your actors/dramas do not cheapen them for a fast politic moment. (Keeping insiders happy)
and can we send a
sophisicated barber and stylist to Seoul and starting with BYJ go through them all?

Luv your blog, beanie

I do think the audience should share part of the blame to to bring EoE which is ONE DRAGGY BLOODY AWFUL JOKE to such overrated ratings, and I do now hate SSH. Before EoE and this daesang, he's just an awful actor with a super pretty chiseled face, but now I'm pondering did he have it written in his contract that he has to get the daesang because he is the freaken biggest star--according to him. his egomaniac self is showing and it's soo fugly that no Armanis or flashy perfect smiles can savage.

If I were him I would at least look/pretend to be quite embarrassed standing next to the maestro....let alone accepting the same freaking recognition.
but alas, all the gloating and the 'I deserve it and the whole world' written all over his useless-in-acting pretty face. So nauseating.

Be pissed and offended all you want you SSH fangirls/boys. HE simply sucked and he's shown to me he has total disrespect of his craft with accepting this Daesang. I would not believe he did not twist some of his big star diva fingers to land this dud Daesang.

[47 alltime - Dec 30, 2008 at 7:04 pm
Song Seung Heon (SSH) won a prize for his acting, ¡it is a bad joke!, he has never acted. There is a BIG difference between him and the great actor Kim Myung-min.
Truly, it is disappointing, the only one who really deserved this prize was Kim Myung-min for his role in Beethoven Virus.
It was really sad to see SSH beside Kim Myung-min and it was worst to see SSH trying to act as he deserves the prize.

48 daisy - Dec 30, 2008 at 7:07 pm
I think KMM doesn’t mind to share an award w/ SSH since he knows that the audiences must notice who is the real winner.
SSH has just created the scandal about causing LDH leaving EoE, now he has another ‘not so good reputation’ from this wining award. May be MBC didn’t realize that it was a bad move to made him shares the award w/ KMM.]

Ditto to both yr comments.

I too agreed that the shared MBC Daesang was a Big Joke.

SSH must be regretting winning it now with all the backlash in the media today.

KMM = SSH *shocked*

Damnit!!! Crazy MBC!!! CRAZZZZZZAAAYYYY!!!!

Poor KMM!!! He doesn't look too happy with that either.

And JGS, I like him but your right javabeans, laughably bad! Errr... where are the fashion police? Come pick him up... FAST!

Aren't all award shows pretty much just self serving??? I fail to see the point of any of them! What other profession has an award for Most Popular? How about Best Dressed Cashier? Favourite Newbie? Fastest Fry Fryer?

why did SSH has to win? He is good looking but he is not even near to KYM.

^ Omo, that is the perfect example!!! Robert DeNiro ( KMM) and Zac Efron (SSH)

I was kind of satisfied with the winners last night except for the Daesang, I think Kim Myung-min deserves it more, the split decision I guess was made over KMM's good performance in BV and SSH's popularity in EoE...I think it would've been better if they just tied KMM and the late Choi Jin-shil, I would've understand it more

I VOTE YOONJI for best dressed =D

@72: For once, dramabeans, I fully agree with you. And I'm glad that the public opinion sees KMM as the winner.
Perhaps, for the insult that he had to endure (and I think he handled it greatly on stage there!), the positive feedback and recognition KMM receives are just the right answer.
As for SSH, methinks he will carry heavy on that Daesang... and probably rub his eyes when KMM wins Cannes and an Oscar. :)

I don't understand about the ranting and the raving and the criticisms about SSH sharing the Daesang award. HE TRULY DESERVES this award. If you like the actor KMM, fine. But did you, crtitics of EoE and SSH, watch ALL THE EPISODES of East of Eden? I can bet that none of you watched all the episodes. The actor KMM is your favorite so you have been faithfully watching the drama. And you of course declare that he is the best.

Well, us fans of EoE, and SSH also watched ALL THE east of eden episodes. We even went back many times, or repeated many of the scenes again and again. We can even memorize the script and the OST. That is because we are faithful fans of EoE and SSH, and the rest of the cast. And we admire SSH's acting. That is why we can also declare that he DESERVES this award. In fact, he deserves to be the sole winner of this award. We have seen his acting abilities in this drama.

And the proof is in the ratings, and has been the #1 drama for weeks now.

None of us will win in this discussion, because we all have our differences of opinion. That is why we all were never INVITED to be the JUDGES to come to this great decision, because we do not have that ability, nor the experience, nor the education to decide who is the better actor or the better drama of the year. RIGHT?

So you can rant and you can rave, and you can blow your horns like crazy, but SSH is worthy of this award. And he should have been the SOLE winner, and not share this award!!!! More POWER to SSH and LYH.

KMM is a real veteran....SSH...needs a little more edge in his acting. Sigh...real talents and overrated talents.

javabeans, spot on on the robert deniro and zac efron comparison! hahaha...if it did happen in hollywood, there would be an actor's strike now!

everyone dressed weirdly to some extent with some exception. i know they try to be different, but different doesn't equate bad taste.

JGS...PETA would love to nail you.

I have been faithfully watching "East of Eden" drama. I personally think Song SH did an AWESOME job of portraying Lee Dong Chul. He deserves this award. Sharing it is up to the judges, and if they think both actors are equally good, why lambast them? They have that right.

As for LDH, I am sure MBC did not want to use her to promote the drama. What do you think they are - newbies to the business? There are other actors who can do better, why LDH? MBC did not claim she was supposed to be the main actress. The main characters here are the 3 brothers and STW, and the others are just love interests.

Her fans simply expected too much from her role.

(None of us will win in this discussion, because we all have our differences of opinion.)

Yup..hyunjin..you said it .. we all have differences in opinion .. let us hear more comment on whether SSH really deserve the award together with KMM, or not ..

Probably you like SSH and his acting .. yes .. he might be good .. but the QUESTION IS ... IS HE AT THE SAME PAR AS KMM in acting??? Real question mark ..

I really don't think so .. so let us see other comments as well dear ..

JAVA: I was kinda curious on how the Korean public received the results of the awards night. Thank you for sharing with us that the public sentiments is almost similar to ours.

What’s with all the hate? Looks like the LDH die hard fans, the EOE haters, the "I hate SSH" folks and some Javabeans shippers are coming out in force to voice their discontent on this thread. Well folks, what is the big fuss about SSH sharing the "Daesang" with KMM... Well, I think Javabeans said it best.

"Let me first reiterate that I think these end-of-year broadcast-station awards are mostly meaningless"

There you go.

KMM may be a veteran actor, but the judging here is not how good they are as an actor in general. It is how they acted the role in a particular drama. And in this case, they are talking about Beethoven and East of Eden.

Think about this - KMM was the perfect actor in BV. But then SSH was also the perfect one in EOE. They were not choosing who was the better actor like you all are claiming. If they both played the same role in one drama, then you can decide who was the better actor.

The judging was who were good actors in their RESPECTIVE roles. And folks, watch all the episodes of EOE. I am sure all of you have so many things to do, like school and work you would not have the time to watch all of the episodes of both dramas???? Ha!

There is something really wrong with the cemerony and the tv station. Cool, we're mbc, we've got our dramas and our actors, so let's put up a show with all of them to get more awesome ratings. Oh, and you know what? Let's see how many flowers and awards we can afford, and then let's give them out. The philosophy?
I mean.. come on! Awards are exciting because there are great winners and great losers! It's impossible (and weird) to nominate 4 people and give award to 2 of them EVERYTIME. Now suddenly it's 50% they'll succeed! Should we drop a coin? Oh come on, we might lose a cent. Let's take a quick look at the ratings.
Ok, I agree with some awards. I do. Yoo Dong-geun, Park Hae-Jin and of course Kim Myung-Min (for me at least) received them because they were freakin' good and their backs were still on fire from all the work they've put in the dramas. But making them share the honor.. Not right. Why make such a show out of it? So hard to say: 'yeah man, you were THE ONLY ONE the best'. ? We all saw it. And Daesang.. Give me some wall for my head! Someone please try it out on next AA in US, I bet no one would dare to move as they would think i'ts Ashton Kutcher back with his PUNK'd. And they would sit there alll night long, waiting for those words : "You've got punk'd". You think there's still someone sitting in MBC, expecting a vicious laughter from the station?

MBC certainly make headlines everywhere only 1 day after the award show only this time it is all for the wrong reasons. It really closes the year on a high note ie the high JOKE of this year.It has belittle the Daesang award making a joke out of it. KMM is standing next to undeserving actor.....

@83 hyunjin
Appreciate your sharing, good points there.

a very good point there, hyunjin ..
(because they are in different league or drama ..)
So MBC made an exception this year to see that "Wow, both of them were really good in different drama, should award both of them" which they DIDN'T DO every year... Haha
So..this means that in previous years, the actors competing for Daesang are playing quite a similar role for a similar type of drama also, is it?
Then, they should have DOUBLE Daesang winner every year ..
I see KMM as a clear winner compared to SSH and the Daesang award should only be given to someone who deserves IT ..sorry, if I offended you, hyunjin ..

MBC award, what a joke! I like SSH, but I dont think he deserves this daeseng award.

so hilarious reading this. OMG. i cant believe it. the double daesangs. ekkk..
i cant believe it. oh well. KMM is a definite winner for me. ahahha ill let JIL slide. ur still a hottie and yes i understand the post work stress thing. LYH looked pretty i agree out of the lot. and ill just say JI sung <3! hmm.. so many things awry at MBC awards..

As one who followed EOE closely, for 36 episodes, I can safely say that SSH is/was good as Dong Chul, but not brilliant nor great.
I have also seen BV as well, altho the drama was not as entertaining and good as I had expected it to be, Kim Myung Min was the best thing, the cream of the crop. He was brilliant...

And to make him share the award with SSH, gahhhh... it's just a pure joke! JOKE of the YEAR! I would have settled for Excellence, but the DaeSang? GOODNESS, those who said that he deserved the award must have analyzed too much into his obviously mediocre acting... trying to defend this guy's acting? Too bad it's just darn obvious that he lacks the required skills... I am not blaming SSH for getting the award, cos he probably thought he didn't deserve it too.. blame MBC for this stupid injustice to KMM. (tho he got the award, I still consider it ridiculous!!!)

I'm super disappointed that MBC resorted to doing this. Instead of rewarding those actors who really deserved it, eg. the cast from Bittersweet Life..etc, all they had in mind were their powerhouse ratings, them wanting to please everyone by giving EVERYONE awards... credibility, DUHHHHH...

Hyunjin (#83):

//The judging was who were good actors in their RESPECTIVE roles. And folks, watch all the episodes of EOE//

I just watched the Daesang part of the award show and let's just take for an example the SSH scene from EoE they showed when they were calling out each nominee. You know how they usually show the most shining acting moment when they present each nominee, right? Well, even in this clip, he looks like he's smiling when he's supposed to be crying and looking miserable. How do you expect us to watch all the episodes of a drama when an actor who acts like this is the main lead? This guy cannot act, and that's why he most certainly did not deserve the Daesang award.

Not everyone has an ulterior motive for commenting in this thread. Just because we don't feel that SSH deserves Daesang doesn't mean that we hate SSH or that we're dissatisfied with EoE. Everyone is ASSUMING that naysayers are invested in the MBC-EoE backstage drama but some of us could care less. I am extremely annoyed that some of you would try to discredit other people's opinions by saying we're not supportive of SSH's Daesang for petty reasons. Fact of the matter is, I've watched both BV and EoE and found KMM's acting to be far superior than SSH's. Sharing a Daesang has been unprecedented at MBC so of course there will be a lot of talk about this incident.

don't Worry about this
i just browsing some webnews korea
they all criticized MBC who Giving Awards Daesang Into SSH
This Guy only Can Crying
His Previous Awards which only Popularity
Means he is mediocre !..
all of media critics SSh harshly
MY Daily said MBC awards Piece Of SHIT

KOREAN not IDIOT they Know Who can Act and not like SSH

~ i am not hate SSH i just feel he is such Mediocre to Get Daesang ~

oh yeah SSH he is stuck in his carrier

SSH debuted in 1995 ~ never only popularity it's even only 4-5

KMM debuted in 2000 ~ but Got bunch of best actor Awards

SSH totally awful

LYH is very2 beautiful...~ and she didnt put much effort to look pretty. her makeup is simple, and she just let her hair down, and yet, she's still stunningly pretty.

she win appropriate award for popular actress.

losers will always make the noisiest sound..

I have watching the EOE, I think SSH and LYH deserve all the awards they had that night. They look so cute. They dress appropriately. About LYH's hair, yes i agree it looked simple and no style, but if she did updo her hair, she would look taller than SSH and i think she does not want that look.
Congratulation to SSH and LYH. You guys are awesome. Keep up your acting.

LOVE. IT.
I guess I just kind of thought from your lack of commentary on acting on East of Eden (aside from Kim Bum) that none of it made that much of an impression on you, but I completely agree with you about Song.
Oh, what people forgive for really, really good looks...except people forgive Daniel Henney for a lot, which I will never understand.

Thanks for the post!

Poor Lee Jia... Her dress, hair and makeup made her look old, plump and even a little... ghostly.

Why nobody bitching about BV got best drama award? It is absolutely boring so KMM can
stand out even with his overactings....hmmm...just a thought!!!

SSH on the other hand may not be in the same league as KMM actingwise,
and EOE may be far from perfect, but at least mainstream folks still enjoy it that
is what counts for MBC. If it were a failure in rating, people would blame it mostly on
SSH, just like they did on LDH's departure. He put his career on the line for EOE, gave
his 200% as his comeback project. He does not deserve all the humiliations
publicly. Go blame it on MBC ALONE for god's sake!

#100: Why nobody bitching about BV got best drama award?

Because Best Drama Award was chosen by fans via SMS (only those in Korea can vote).

Categories like Popularity and Couple are chosen by Netizen (whoever registered at imbc.com can vote).

As for acting skill, SSH is definitely not on the same league with KMM. SSH can win popularity awards, but he needs a lot more work for any acting award.