The excitement of the world‘s K-pop festival, the 1st The Awards, has spread online. As of 2:00 PM on the 23rd, half a day after the awards ceremony, a whopping 266,000 posts were uploaded to the SNS ‘X’ (formerly Twitter), ranking first in ‘Real-time Trends in Korea’.

Thanks to the explosive response to the ‘1st The Awards’, even the smallest moments of the awards ceremony are continuously being shared on various SNS. Here are five ‘hot keywords’ that embody the glorious first steps of the ‘The Awards’.

O‘Cha Seung-won·Enhypen’·‘Certified Shot Restaurant’

The meeting of two global stars is heating up SNS. Cha Seung-won, who has both charisma and friendly charm across the big screen, home theater, and variety shows, and Enhypen, the ‘K-pop leader’ who has won five ‘The Awards’, met on stage as the presenter and recipient of the Black Label ‘Album of the Year’ award.

Right before calling out Enhypen’s second full-length album ‘Romance: Untold’, the winner of ‘Album of the Year’ on the 22nd, Cha Seung-won showed his extraordinary ‘fan heart’ by saying, “I like it too much”. Another scene where he patted member Sung Hoon on the shoulder after receiving the trophy and said, “Congratulations,” also caught the attention of fans. When Cha Seung Won‘s ‘dadly smile’ was captured happily looking at the members who were touched by their awards, fans praised him, saying, “This is the dignity of a ‘senior’ who encourages his juniors.”

The large-scale fan support advertisement of ‘U-Pick’, the global fandom platform that hosted the ‘The Awards’, has been crowned ‘the’certification shot hotspot’. When YOOPIK installed a large LED advertisement next to the main entrance of the concert hall for group RISE, which won first place in the ‘Fan Support’ vote, not only RISE fans but also various audience members lined up to take ‘certification shots’ holding fans and pickets that they had made themselves.
From ‘Tours Bang’ to ‘Rise Tteokko’

The stars who participated in the awards ceremony that day surprised the global fandom by showing new charms that they had not usually shown. Group TOURS specially revealed their cover stage of After School’s ‘Bang!’, which they had previously only shown at fan meetings, at the ‘The Awards’. Fans were delighted, saying, “Tours coolly threw a special stage that was only shown to Sai (Tours fandom name)”.

The members of Rise appeared wearing the ‘Tteokbokki Coat’, which is considered the most ‘trendy item’ of the 2000s, to sing the song of the same name, which is a remake of TVXQ‘s ‘Hug’. The coat, which has buttons that resemble tteokbokki, stimulated the audience’s nostalgia, and SNS users praised Rise‘s meticulous stage expression, saying, “They really captured the Y2K feeling.”

The ‘Snake Year’ special interview reached its peak of excitement. To celebrate the Year of the Snake, Enhypen’s Heeseung, Zerobaseone‘s Hanbin, Rise’s Eunseok, and Sungchan, all born in 2001, appeared on stage together. SNS users are saying, “We support the friendship of the ‘Snake Year’,” and expectations for their success in the challenge are also growing.



Reporter Yoo Ji-hye yjh0304@donga.com

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