Taeyang nominated at the 20th High1 Seoul Music Awards

Nomination lists for the Bonsang and Popularity award categories for the 20th High1 Seoul Music Awards have been revealed! The High1 Seoul Music Awards is said to be one of the most popular music awards ceremonies in Korea. It was established by Sports Seoul in the 90s. 
The upcoming Seoul Music Awards will be held on January 20th, 2011 at Kyunghee University Peace Center from 7 – 10pm KST. For the Bonsang award, the top 10 artists are chosen through voting (20%) digital/album sales (50%) research (10%) and judges (20%). One artist is chosen from the Bonsang winners for the Daesang.
Only Korean citizens are able to vote from now until January 17th, 2011.

Past Winners of Daesang include:

2001 – Jo Sungmo

2002 – Kim Gunmo

2003 – Lee Hyori

2004 – Shinhwa

2006 – DBSK

2008 – Big Bang

2009 – Wonder Girls

 

There is no information as to who won the Daesang for 2005 and 2007. There is the possibility that there was no Daesang recipient in those particular years.

For the upcoming High1 Seoul Music Awards, the nominees are as follows:

Bonsang

Super Junior

Beast

2PM

SNSD

f(x)

SHINee

Lee Seung Gi

GaIn

Kim Jong Kook

Taeyang

2AM

BoA

Seeya

T-ara

Seo In Gook

Gavy NJ

MBLAQ

Wheesung

 

Popularity Award

Super Junior

SHINee

SNSD

2PM

Beast

f(x)

Taeyang

2AM

BoA

4minute

CNBlue

T-ara

Seo In Gook

Lee Seung Gi

FT Island

Teen Top

2NE1

KARA

Rainbow

Girl’s Day

Park Hyo Shin

Seeya

Dae Guk Nam Ah

Gavy NJ

MBLAQ

Infinite

Nine Muses

Brown Eyed Soul

Seo In Young

GaIn

Norazo

Davichi

 

Source: Koreaboo + SMA