Aespa, RIIZE, and N.Flying. The MVs that shined in 2024 and the OSTs that enriched K-content are these guys.

The winners of the BEST category‘s Best Video and Best OST, which will be held as a pre-announcement for the Awards’ ‘Pre-Award Ceremony’,’, were confirmed on the 19th. The groups Aespa and RIIZE took home the Best Video trophies, and the group N.Flying took home the Best OST trophies.

Considering the‘speed up’ for the main event to be held on the 22nd, the Awards will hold a pre-award ceremony for the BEST category and the Discovery ‘Discovery of the Year’ until the 21st, the day before the awards ceremony. The acceptance speeches will be sequentially revealed as ‘videos’ on THE AWARDS‘ official SNS (instagram.com/@dawards_official) and official YouTube (youtube.com/@sportsdonga12).

‘Women of Steel’Espa’, the iron ladies, ‘all-kill’, completed the irrefutable ‘world of iron taste’ in 2024. ‘The taste of iron’ is an expression that refers to aespa’s unique identity.

In their acceptance speech via video, aespa said, “Last year, K-pop songs such as “Supernova, ”Armageddon, ”Whiplash, all surpassed 100 million views (on YouTube),” and expressed their deep gratitude, saying it was thanks to the support and cheering of their global fandom, “MY.“

RISE, whose group identity can be summarized in a single word, ‘All-rounder,’, joined the ranks of ‘Winter Pension Songs’ immediately after their release, and have risen to the top tier of K-pop with ‘Love 119’, as well as ‘All the songs on their first mini-album, ‘Rising’, being mega hits. Through a video, RISE shared their acceptance speech, saying, ”The Best Video award at The Awards is even more meaningful because it means that people have looked for us as much as our music.“

From being pioneers of ‘K-band’ to ‘rulers,’ N.Flying took home the ‘Best OST’ award, a major BEST category. N.Flying participated in the OST of ‘Sunjae Up and Run’, which was one of the most talked-about dramas in the home theater last year, and made consecutive hits with the song ‘Star’ and member Yoo Hwe-seung‘s version of ‘That’s How It Was’.

In their acceptance speech, N.Flying said that this year was a year in which they were able to connect more closely with the public through OSTs. They defined 2024 and asked for “more anticipation for full group activities in 2025, when all members will return after their military service.

The 1st The Awards, hosted by Sports Donga and co-hosted by ‘Yoo-pick’ and WSM, will be held at 6 p.m. on February 22nd at the Hwajeong Gymnasium of Korea University in Seoul. It will be broadcast exclusively on Channel A from 10:30 p.m. on the same day.


Reporter Heo Min-nyeong mignon@donga.com

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