Mama, short for "mnet asian music awards", is a music awards ceremony hosted by CJ Enm and an annual gathering of the Korean music industry that fans love and hate.
Over the years, the mama award ceremony has usually been held in 3 countries and regions, but this year, due to the epidemic, mama's overseas planning has failed, and only a "non-face-to-face" award ceremony has been held in Paju, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea.
Although this year's mama did not have an audience to watch the ceremony and was broadcast in the form of some pre-recorded recordings, its lineup of performing guests and awards guests was still gorgeous as in previous years.
This year, the singers who presented the stage for mama includetreasure, cravity, ateez, tomorrow x together, nct, iz*one, mamamoo, jessi, seventeen, monsta x, got7, bulletproof youth group, shinee Taimin, Bao'er and so on.
The performers who attended as guests of honor were Song Joong-ki, Kang Han-na, Ko Fu-jee, Kong Myung, Kim Ki-seok, Park Jue-young, Park Su-joon, Park Ha-soon, Bae Jong-nam, Bian You-seok, Yang Kyung-won, Yoo Yeon-seok, Yoo Bo, Lee Do-hee, Lee To-hyun, Lee Sang-yeol, Lee Xian-bin, Lee Yoo-fei, Lee Jung-jae, Li So-kyung, Li So-kyung, Li So-kyaw, Li So-yee, Jeong Jeong-jae, etc.
Such a gorgeous lineup, it is really only possible to see the year-end awards ceremony!
Although every year the mama is held with great momentum, the controversy that accompanies it has never stopped. Mama has always had the name of "pork sharing", which means that its awards have no gold content, regardless of the actual performance is only to give singers "water-injected pork".
This year, in addition to the controversy of "dividing pork", Mama has broken out a dispute over the differential treatment of actors and singers.
On the afternoon of the 7th, There were Korean media reports that the mama organizer cj enm did not provide a lounge for the singers until the award was awarded, and the singers were waiting in their respective vehicles in the parking lot.
It is reported that in addition to the performance part recorded in advance, the award process of the various department awards is carried out live, in order to wait for the award, the singers waited for 1 to 6 hours in the cold parking lot.
Contrary to the singers' situation, the actors who were the guests of honor received tents from the CJ ENM as a personal waiting room, as well as catering supplies.
And, at the time of the awards, the singers wore masks, while the actors did not.
In the face of such an award ceremony, South Korean netizens have issued criticisms:
"They are all artists, what is this?"
"The singers are so distressing that even the staff is freezing outside!"
"Curious what the organizers were thinking?"
"Since it has been decided to hold an award ceremony in this situation, it should be completely epidemic prevention!"
“......”
The controversy continued to simmer until this afternoon, when the organizer of the mama, CJ Enm, responded.
The person concerned said: "If only we could provide an airport accommodation for everyone, but in order to comply with the epidemic prevention guidelines in a limited space, it can only become like this", "We are a music awards ceremony, there is no reason to discriminate against singers."
The person concerned explained that the Paju content world, which held the award ceremony, has not yet been completed, and there are only two buildings available for use, and it is impossible to provide standby space for all artists.
Therefore, after deliberation, it was decided that the singers would first wait in their vehicles, then enter the building in the order of going on stage, take turns waiting in the lounge in the building, and finally take the stage. The actors were on standby at the nearby "iland" recording site (5 minutes by car).
Relevant people said that the reason for this decision is because the singers have recorded the performance in advance and do not need to rehearse or give an acceptance speech at the event site, but the actors are here for the first time, they need to rehearse, they need to be familiar with the script, and the small number of actors will not increase the space density, which is convenient for epidemic prevention.
Since the awards process is live, the singers cannot be allowed to wait farther away, but only in their own vehicles in the nearby parking lot.
As for the issue of catering supply, relevant people said that supplies were made to both sides...
I don't know if the cj enm side gave such a response, can everyone accept it?