Amidst the grand finale of the ‘2023 MBC Leisure Awards,’ celebrated as a pageant for entertainers, the absence of feminine awardees and doubtful standards for sure awards are elevating eyebrows.
On the twenty ninth of final month, the ‘2023 MBC Leisure Awards’ happened. Webtoon artist Gi-ann84 (Kim Hee-min), who actively participated in MBC leisure reveals ‘I Stay Alone’ and the ‘Born to Discover the World’ sequence, shocked everybody by changing into the primary non-celebrity recipient of the Grand Prize and acquired applause. Nonetheless, amidst the joyous event, controversial standards for awards which can be arduous to understand are coming to gentle.
One main concern raised by some viewers is the anomaly of the choice standards. For example, the Rookie Award was divided into female and male classes. Kim Dae-ho, an MBC announcer, and YouTuber Dex (Kim Jin-young) collectively acquired the Male Rookie Award, whereas YouTuber Pungja (Yoon Bomi) acquired the Feminine Rookie Award. There have been no objections to Kim Dae-ho and Dex collectively profitable the award, as they had been thought-about robust candidates from the beginning. Nonetheless, the Feminine Rookie Award was given solely to Pungja, elevating questions concerning the justification behind the division.
Furthermore, the Most Excellent Award was additional divided into female and male classes. Solely the male winners had been break up into Present, Selection, and Actuality subcategories, with comic Haha and actor Lee Jang-woo sharing the honors. Park Narae received the Most Excellent Feminine Award. Whereas Haha and Lee Jang-woo had been sufficiently acknowledged for his or her achievements in ‘I Stay Alone’ and ‘Sechiheo’ in addition to ‘Legislation of the Jungle,’ respectively, it’s obscure why the division was needed for this specific award, particularly contemplating the Male Rookie Award was not subdivided. The truth that Park Narae received the Most Excellent Feminine Award alone, regardless of the division, additionally raises questions.
There are additionally perplexing reactions to the Grand Prize candidates. Aside from Grand Prize winner Gi-ann84, the one candidates had been three people: Yoo Jae-suk from ‘How Do You Play?’ and Jun Hyun-moo, who appeared in ‘I Stay Alone,’ ‘Setchihyeo,’ and ‘These Overcoming Limits.’ This yr, solely the recipients of the Greatest Entertainer Awards robotically turned Grand Prize candidates. Only a yr in the past, within the ‘2022 MBC Leisure Awards,’ six people, together with Yoo Jae-suk, Park Narae, Lee Younger-ja, Ahn Jung-hwan, and Kim Sung-joo, had been named Greatest Entertainers. The dearth of clear standards and the whole absence of feminine candidates inside a yr have led to puzzlement.
MBC has not offered a separate assertion relating to these points. Because the awarding of prizes and standards are distinctive rights of the broadcasting firm, there may be hypothesis that MBC is not going to reply individually sooner or later. The state of affairs repeats yearly, and the dearth of clear standards for award reveals, maintained and handed down as traditions, is undermining the authority of year-end terrestrial awards.
Regardless of this, apart from these points, the ‘MBC Leisure Awards’ was a well-executed ceremony. Specifically, the breakthrough of Gi-ann84 as the primary non-celebrity to obtain the Grand Prize, breaking down the partitions of the ceremony, the congratulatory stage of comedians led by senior comic Cho Hye-ryeon, and the explosive reactions of the ‘Level of Omniscient Interference’ workforce had been highlights. Nonetheless, the regrettable look of unclear choice standards is diminishing the importance of the awards.
