Year-End Awards Rescheduled: MBC Faces Leak Scandal, KBS Speech Sparks Debate
Jan 03, 2025
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The first broadcast '2024 MBC Acting Awards' will air on the 5th, '2024 KBS Acting Awards' will air on the 11th, and '2024 SBS Entertainment Awards' will air live on the 29th, New Year's Day. In this disaster, the three terrestrial broadcasters faced an unprecedented situation, deciding to cancel the year-end awards ceremony to mourn the victims.
MBC canceled or postponed all major award ceremonies, including the Broadcasting Entertainment Awards', the Acting Awards', and the Song Festival, which were scheduled from December 29 last year. In particular, 'Broadcasting Entertainment Awards' was canceled, and 'Acting Awards' and 'Song Festival' postponed the broadcast schedule after recording. KBS recorded the "2024 KBS Acting Awards" and SBS decided to broadcast the entertainment awards live on Lunar New Year.
As a result of this cancellation, the '2024 MBC Acting Awards' and the '2024 KBS Acting Awards' were recorded, but they faced a difficulty of leaking the results of the awards. In particular, MBC caused controversy as some results were leaked even though it demanded the field staff and audience to maintain security and ban the use of mobile phones. In KBS, Kim Jung-hyun's apology for his past actions in his acceptance speech became a hot topic, and the remarks were reminiscent of past controversies with certain figures and drew attention.
SBS confirmed 'Entertainment Awards' as a live Lunar New Year broadcast, but MBC is still carefully considering whether or not to host the event and organize it. MBC is attracting attention for its various popular entertainment programs and new entertainment launches, so whether or not to hold the awards ceremony is attracting viewers' attention.
Attention is focusing on how the terrestrial year-end awards ceremony will be evaluated and what message it will convey to viewers amid the cancellation and new schedule.
mj.cho@sportschosun.com
