"2011 Golden Disc Awards" heavily criticised
12 Jan – The "26th Golden Disk Awards" has been heavily criticised for its decision to take the show to Osaka, Japan.
As reported on In2kpop website, the Golden Disk Awards booked the Osaka Kyocera Dome, a decision that many Korean fans failed to understand. Netizens questioned, "It was Koreans who bought the albums, so why is it being held in Japan?" and "Now they're asking us to go all the way to Japan to watch the show?"
Despite the criticisms, organisers went ahead and set up the show in Japan. However, many continued to complain about the ceremony, arguing that they couldn't see why Japan was relevant to the awards when sales figures were calculated from Korea only. Additionally, organisers opted for an indoor baseball stadium instead of a regular concert hall, resulting in more expensive tickets.
The ticket prices itself have brought about new waves of criticisms about how the show was trying to use the Hallyu wave for their financial benefit.
Although the Golden Disk Awards has a prestigious history of being a 'fair awards ceremony' due to its standard of sales and not popularity, many have begun to question that reputation especially when YG and JYP Entertainment artists were not in attendance while the members of JYJ were excluded.
