Ph to host December 2023 Asia Artist Awards
By Cynthia Montojo
Philippines will host Asia Artist Awards (AAA) for very first time in December this year,2023.
Korean media said AAA is organized by South Korean business newspaper Money Today and its global media brands MTN and StarNews. It has been recognizing Asian artists from fields of film, television and music since 2016.
Annual ceremony has been held outside of South Korea just twice before: Hanoi in Vietnam in 2019 and Nagoya in Japan last year. Each edition has been co-hosted by singer-actor Leeteuk, leader of K-pop group Super Junior.
2023 AAA, to be held at Philippine Arena this December 14 as co-organized by Pulp Live World, will be held in-person like Nagoya after three years of online staging due to COVID-19 pandemic.
K-pop boy groups BTS and Seventeen currently tie for most AAA awards with 13, four more than another K-pop boy group EXO, girl group Twice and singer Lim Young-woong.
Seventeen and Lim Young-woong were among Grand Prize (Daesang) winners last year as they won Singer of the Year and Stage of the Year, respectively, as did Lee Jun Ho (Actor of the Year), NewJeans (Performance of the Year), Ive (Song of the Year), and Stray Kids (Album of the Year).
Other winners from last year include BLACKPINK, Le Sserafim, Treasure, Lapillus, Kep1er and Kard for music. Acting citations went to Park Min-young, Han So-hee, Seo In-guk, Kim Seon-ho, Kim Sejeong, Yuri, Lee Jae-wook, Hwang Minhyun, Choi Siwon, Ryu Kyung-soo, and Kang Daniel.
Earlier this year, Kim Seon-ho, Hwang Minhyun, Lee Jun-young and Kim Young-dae performed at "Male God" concert, which serves as precursor to AAA.
K-pop girl groups NewJeans and Le Sserafim are included in first line-up of artists attending 2023 Asia Artist Awards (AAA) to be held in the Philippines this December.
It was announced earlier this week that 2023 edition of AAA would be held on December 14 at t\ Philippine Arena, just third time annual ceremony will be held outside of South Korea since 2016 and first in the Philippines.
Also in the first line-up of artists with NewJeans and Le Sserafim are fellow girl group NMIXX and the boy groups BOYNEXTDOOR and Zerobaseone, all of them from K-pop's 4th generation though the boy groups are being pegged as the start of the 5th generation.
Last year, NewJeans won Grand Prize for Performance of the Year while Le Sserafim was winner for Best Musician; both groups also won Rookie of the Year Award in music category.
NMIXX also won two awards at AAA last year held in Nagoya, Japan both in music category as well, Best Emotive Award and New Wave Award.
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