Shinhwa , DBSK--- well sought after by online fans

This year, the battle of bands prove to be extremely competitive in Korea.

DBSK, who broke into the Japanese market within 2 years, sees their popularity rising rapidly.
They were even dubbed as "the band who could do better than other Japanese bands" by the Japanese critics.

DBSK, Shinhwa & SS501 sees overseas activites in Japan as a market not to be missed.
They all hoped that Korean bands will be the next leading stars of the Korean Wave ("Hallyu") in Japan.
Recently, acappella group TAKE took the China market by storm. Not just Japan, DBSK, Super Junior, Shinhwa and other bands starting promotions to other parts of Asia and won many fans over.

Of course, the bands will not neglect their Korean fans.
This year, the battle of the bands proved to be extremely competitve in the Internet world.
The battle between DBSK, Shinhwa & SS501 proved to be very tight, with DBSK gaining the upper hand in the first half of the year. Shinhwa managed to claim the winner spot during the later half 2006.

The results were based on the 2006 "Netizens Daesang MVP of the month" Poll.
Shinhwa won 4 times(July, Sept, Oct, Nov), DBSK won 3 times(Apr, May, first half of 2006) and SS501 only once in May.

DBSK won the spot in Feb, Mar and the first half of 2006 as MVP, which Shinhwa won the title in July, Sept, Oct & Nov.
Other bands like Epik High hit the TOP 5 many times during the first half of the year while Super Junior's rising popularity can be seen in the later half of the year.

Credits:
Source: MYTH
Chinese Translation:打糕@shinhwachina
English Translation: AtelierGal@SimplyDongwan/Hikki@shinhwasarang