Translator's Note: *this is one long press release they have... i wish they were more to the point like m rising LOL*
Hello everyone, this is GoodEMG.
Firstly, with regards to Shin Hyesung's absence at the MNet/KM Music Festival held at Jamshil Indoor Stadium on the 17th, many people have expressed concern as well as consolation. We truly thank everyone for this.
Also, to all the fans who showed their support via the online voting and who were expecting Hyesung's performance, we once again express our deepest apologies. And to all the questions that fans had asked, we were very late with our replies, we apologise for this as well.
We sincerely congratulate all the winners of the MKMF Awards, and also to all the fans whose favourite singers and groups. Our standpoint is not to slander these winners, but we would like to get the correct understanding of the awards system. We hope for everyone's kind understanding on this matter.
An awards ceremony should be a celebration for artistes who have worked hard on stage for the whole year and for the fans who support them; it should be a happy occasion for artistes, who have put in all their efforts, where their work is recognized through applause and well wishes. This is our opinion.
Thus, this is not because of any personal issues between our company and the relevant personnel, but it's becuase we want to reach an understanding with the organizers with regards to the results and avoid hurting any innocent victims. We feel that we have the responsibility and duty to ensure that fair judging standards are in place so that the people who have worked hard for the whole year are fairly rewarded.
However, with regards to the MKMF awards this year, the judging methods and criteria, and the final results seem to be very confusing. With regards to these doubts, we sincerely hope that the organizers can step up and make a responsible clarification, and give all the artistes an awards ceremony that they can concur on and justify.
We are worried that everyone will misunderstand that we are only questioning the standards because we didn't win the awards.
Nevertheless, we have gone ahead to reflect our views towards the judging criteria and standards of the MKMF awards in many discussions and reports. This is because this has greatly hurt Shin Hyesung, who has put in his all for the past year. We can understand his frustration and grievances, therefore we have picked up courage to say all these.
A certain media report has pointed out that, for the Netizen Popularity Awards which is purely decided by the online votes, the final results showed that Shin Hyesung won the online poll with 28.1% of the votes, but he was not given the award.
If the MKMF organizers are saying that absentees will not be given awards, how do they then explain Shinhwa's Overseas Viewers Award and Ivy's Best Solo Female Singer Award? Because the MKMF organizers had earlier expressed that if Ivy was chosen as the winner, she would still be given the award even if she wasn't present.
In addition, what happened to the Auction Style Award that Lee Minwoo was very likely to win? As everyone knows, that award was not given out at all. Could it be that the organizers cancelled the award on the day itself? If so, how are you going to account to all the netizens who voted in this poll?
In particular for the other awards, Shin Hyesung was also nominated for five other awards such as Best Male Singer and Best Ballad. We can easily see the results of the online voting on the MKMF official website that he was ranked #1.
With regards to this, MKMF organizers said that the the judging criteria is as follows: public voting (20%), professional panel of judges (20%), professional research institutes (20%), album sales (10%), integrated digital chart (20%), and a panel made up of MNet and KM producers (10%). From here, we can see that the objective criteria would be album sales and public voting. We are confident to say that Shin Hyesung definitely does not lag behind the other winnders on the integrated digital chart, thus we find it very difficult to agree with MKMF's judging criteria. We believe that MKMF organizers need to disclose the relevant data on this.
Before this, the statistics of the integrated digital chart was also questioned in a certain report. Are the figures are calculated according to Mnet.com's own standards or did they take into account the sales from major online music retailers such as Bugs, Soribada, Melon? This leaves us all with many doubts.
Perhaps, Mnet.com has calculated the figures based on their own guidelines, if so, isn't that the cause of all the doubts surrounding the fairness of the system?
Moreover, we are unable to objectively ascertain the decisions of the professional research institutes, the professional panel of judges and the producers panel. We also can't ascertain how the final winners were finally selected. If these are indeed the standards which MKMF organizers used to decide the winners, they will need to disclose the relevant information.
If MKMF organizers can prove that the results are based on standards that we find acceptable, and give a reasonable clarification that the results are indeed what we and the fans find fair and correct, we will acknowledge those results and make an apology. However, if everyone finds the criteria questionable, we urge the MKMF organizers to make an apology and give out the awards more fairly.
Lastly, some news reports have reported "sudden cancellations just before MKMF awards ceremony",we have to let everyone know that this is absolutely untrue.
Initially, though we were nominated for five awards including Best Male Singer and Best Ballad, MKMF organizers did not send out official invitations to us, thus we couldn't announce any notice of participation in the MKMF awards ceremony. The reports, which said that Shin Hyesung wanted to sabotage the event by only announcing his non-participation one hour before the event, are totally untrue. This we need to let everyone know.
We have stood up to the television stations with our little voices of protests, and in order not to let the situation worsen, we hope that everyone who loves Shin Hyesung, loves music can give us all your attention and support. If we don't resolve the issues this time round, the awards ceremony next year will still suffer from credibility issues, resulting in some artistes becoming innocent victims. There will still be artistes who are upset with these unacceptable standards, thus we are saying this to everyone from the bottom of our hearts.
Also, although there may be some difficult situations arising from this incident, GoodEMG and Shin Hyesung will push forward with the 2nd album and Shinhwa's activities. We will show everyone how hard we work. Most importantly, we want to express our deepest apologies to the confused fans and affected parties. In order to present a even better image to everyone, we promise to work even harder.
Source: GOODEMG
Chi trans: 打糕@shinhwachina
Eng trans: midnightgirl13 @shinhwa.biz
Hello everyone, this is GoodEMG.
Firstly, with regards to Shin Hyesung's absence at the MNet/KM Music Festival held at Jamshil Indoor Stadium on the 17th, many people have expressed concern as well as consolation. We truly thank everyone for this.
Also, to all the fans who showed their support via the online voting and who were expecting Hyesung's performance, we once again express our deepest apologies. And to all the questions that fans had asked, we were very late with our replies, we apologise for this as well.
We sincerely congratulate all the winners of the MKMF Awards, and also to all the fans whose favourite singers and groups. Our standpoint is not to slander these winners, but we would like to get the correct understanding of the awards system. We hope for everyone's kind understanding on this matter.
An awards ceremony should be a celebration for artistes who have worked hard on stage for the whole year and for the fans who support them; it should be a happy occasion for artistes, who have put in all their efforts, where their work is recognized through applause and well wishes. This is our opinion.
Thus, this is not because of any personal issues between our company and the relevant personnel, but it's becuase we want to reach an understanding with the organizers with regards to the results and avoid hurting any innocent victims. We feel that we have the responsibility and duty to ensure that fair judging standards are in place so that the people who have worked hard for the whole year are fairly rewarded.
However, with regards to the MKMF awards this year, the judging methods and criteria, and the final results seem to be very confusing. With regards to these doubts, we sincerely hope that the organizers can step up and make a responsible clarification, and give all the artistes an awards ceremony that they can concur on and justify.
We are worried that everyone will misunderstand that we are only questioning the standards because we didn't win the awards.
Nevertheless, we have gone ahead to reflect our views towards the judging criteria and standards of the MKMF awards in many discussions and reports. This is because this has greatly hurt Shin Hyesung, who has put in his all for the past year. We can understand his frustration and grievances, therefore we have picked up courage to say all these.
A certain media report has pointed out that, for the Netizen Popularity Awards which is purely decided by the online votes, the final results showed that Shin Hyesung won the online poll with 28.1% of the votes, but he was not given the award.
If the MKMF organizers are saying that absentees will not be given awards, how do they then explain Shinhwa's Overseas Viewers Award and Ivy's Best Solo Female Singer Award? Because the MKMF organizers had earlier expressed that if Ivy was chosen as the winner, she would still be given the award even if she wasn't present.
In addition, what happened to the Auction Style Award that Lee Minwoo was very likely to win? As everyone knows, that award was not given out at all. Could it be that the organizers cancelled the award on the day itself? If so, how are you going to account to all the netizens who voted in this poll?
In particular for the other awards, Shin Hyesung was also nominated for five other awards such as Best Male Singer and Best Ballad. We can easily see the results of the online voting on the MKMF official website that he was ranked #1.
With regards to this, MKMF organizers said that the the judging criteria is as follows: public voting (20%), professional panel of judges (20%), professional research institutes (20%), album sales (10%), integrated digital chart (20%), and a panel made up of MNet and KM producers (10%). From here, we can see that the objective criteria would be album sales and public voting. We are confident to say that Shin Hyesung definitely does not lag behind the other winnders on the integrated digital chart, thus we find it very difficult to agree with MKMF's judging criteria. We believe that MKMF organizers need to disclose the relevant data on this.
Before this, the statistics of the integrated digital chart was also questioned in a certain report. Are the figures are calculated according to Mnet.com's own standards or did they take into account the sales from major online music retailers such as Bugs, Soribada, Melon? This leaves us all with many doubts.
Perhaps, Mnet.com has calculated the figures based on their own guidelines, if so, isn't that the cause of all the doubts surrounding the fairness of the system?
Moreover, we are unable to objectively ascertain the decisions of the professional research institutes, the professional panel of judges and the producers panel. We also can't ascertain how the final winners were finally selected. If these are indeed the standards which MKMF organizers used to decide the winners, they will need to disclose the relevant information.
If MKMF organizers can prove that the results are based on standards that we find acceptable, and give a reasonable clarification that the results are indeed what we and the fans find fair and correct, we will acknowledge those results and make an apology. However, if everyone finds the criteria questionable, we urge the MKMF organizers to make an apology and give out the awards more fairly.
Lastly, some news reports have reported "sudden cancellations just before MKMF awards ceremony",we have to let everyone know that this is absolutely untrue.
Initially, though we were nominated for five awards including Best Male Singer and Best Ballad, MKMF organizers did not send out official invitations to us, thus we couldn't announce any notice of participation in the MKMF awards ceremony. The reports, which said that Shin Hyesung wanted to sabotage the event by only announcing his non-participation one hour before the event, are totally untrue. This we need to let everyone know.
We have stood up to the television stations with our little voices of protests, and in order not to let the situation worsen, we hope that everyone who loves Shin Hyesung, loves music can give us all your attention and support. If we don't resolve the issues this time round, the awards ceremony next year will still suffer from credibility issues, resulting in some artistes becoming innocent victims. There will still be artistes who are upset with these unacceptable standards, thus we are saying this to everyone from the bottom of our hearts.
Also, although there may be some difficult situations arising from this incident, GoodEMG and Shin Hyesung will push forward with the 2nd album and Shinhwa's activities. We will show everyone how hard we work. Most importantly, we want to express our deepest apologies to the confused fans and affected parties. In order to present a even better image to everyone, we promise to work even harder.
Source: GOODEMG
Chi trans: 打糕@shinhwachina
Eng trans: midnightgirl13 @shinhwa.biz
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