Winners of 1st Gaon Chart K-pop Awards

Super Junior and BEAST (Photos courtesy of www.newsen.com)
MANILA, Philippines – Gaon Chart, Korea’s version of the Billboard Chart, held its 1st Gaon Chart K-pop Awards last night to honor top Korean artists for 2011.
The awards ceremony was held at the Blue Square Samsung Card Hall in Seoul.
In the Album of the Year category, the winners are TVXQ for the first quarter of 2011, BEAST for the second quarter, Super Junior for the third quarter and Girls Generation for the fourth quarter.
In the Singer of the Year category, the winners were announced by month. Girl group Secret was named Singer of the Year for January 2011 followed by IU (February), K-Will (March), Big Bang (April), 2NE1 (May), Secret (June), T-ara (July), Lee Ssang (August), Davichi (September), Lee Seung Gi (October), Wonder Girls (November) and IU (December).
The Rookie of the Year winners are Huh Gak and Kim Bo Kyung for the solo artist category and A Pink and B1A4 for the group category.
Girls Generation was given the Special Oricon Award while Maroon 5 was awarded the Foreign Music Award.
Gaon Chart is being supervised by the Korea Music Content Industry Association.
Here’s the complete list of winners:
Album of the Year
TVXQ (1st quarter)
BEAST (2nd quarter)
Super Junior (3rd quarter)
Girls’ Generation (4th quarter)
Singer of the Year
Secret (January)
IU (February)
K-Will (March)
Big Bang (April)
2NE1 (May)
Secret (June)
T-ara (July)
Lee Ssang (August)
Davichi (September)
Lee Seung Gi (October)
Wonder Girls (November)
IU (December)
Rookie of the Year
Solo – Huh Gak and Kim Bo Kyung
Group – A Pink and B1A4
Songwriter of the Year – Yoon Sang
Lyricist of the Year - Kim Ee Na
Musician of the Year - Kang Soo Ho
Stylist of the Year (choreography) - Prepix
Stylist of the Year (fashion) – Seo Soo Kyung
Discovery of the Year – Noel, Girls Day, The Koxx
New Media Platform Award – YouTube, Daum
K-Pop Contribution Award – Chairman Lee Soo Man of SM Entertainment
Producer of the Year - Kim Gwang Soo of Core Contents Media
Special Oricon Award – Girls’ Generation
Foreign Music Award – Maroon 5

Credit: Manila Bulletin | By: JONATHAN M. HICAP