Shinhwa Chosen Best Korean Singer Overseas
Foreign internet users have selected the six-man group Shinhwa as the best
Korean singer of the year, according to Arirang International Broadcasting on
Wednesday. The group’s song “Once in a Lifetime” received 60 percent of the
votes cast by foreign internet users.
Shinhwa beat last year’s winner,
Kang Ta, who came in second with 20.3 percent followed by TVXQ with 17.3
percent. Super Junior took fourth place followed by Bada, Se7en, BoA, SG
Wannabe, Buzz, and Paek Ji-young, with all of them winning less than 1 percent
of the votes.
Only foreign netizens were allowed to participate in the
vote by blocking domestic IP addresses, with the number of participants tripling
from last year to some 1.9 million.
By nation, Chinese accounted for the
majority of participants with 1.35 million, followed by Americans, Australians,
French, Canadians, Cambodians, Brazilians, Malaysians, Taiwanese, and Japanese.
Source:
KBS Global
Posted at 11:14 pm by ciré
