What about the 'Best Singer', 'Best Song', 'Best male and female singers', 'Best newcomer' and 'Best incident' of 2008? 20 PDs from Korea's 3 largest broadcasting company KBS, MBC and SBS came together to vote and here are the results. A survey was done on 8th and 9th December amongst the PDs to find out the 'Best singer', 'Best song', 'Best incident' and 'Best newcomer' etc for the year 2008. Best singer Big Bang has been voted by 20 over PDs from KBS, MBC and SBS as 'This year's best singer'. And Big Bang has been voted 'Best Singer' by 14 PDs. With such strong support from the PDs, they have voted the best male singer group for 2008 in Korea. And the reason why they have won their votes "Big Bang's production and work, popularity and style have gotten the acceptance by many. They have also given us many hit songs this year." The rest of the votes went to WonderGirls (3 votes), Seo Taiji (1 vote), Lee Hyori (1 vote) amongst the others. Best Song 'Best song of the year' went to 'Nobody' by the WonderGirls. During the survey for this category, Big Bang's 'Haru Haru' got 6 votes and 'Sunset Glow' got 1 vote. Other songs that were given votes were Jewelry's 'One More Time' (2 votes), Brown Eyed Girls 'L.O.V.E' (1 vote) and Son DamBi's 'Crazy' (1 vote). Best male and female singer Big Bang and WonderGirls were for 'Best male and female group' having received got 13 and 14 votes respectively. Best male singer Rain was voted the 'Best male singer' with 3 votes. Other singers voted were Seo Taiji (2 votes) and JunJin (1 vote) amongst others. Best female singer For 'Best female singer' it went to Lee Hyori got most number of votes of 4 votes. Other female singers voted were Um Jung Hwa and Son DamBi with 1 votes each. Best male and female singers Rain and Lee Hyori were voted by the PDs because "viewer rate soars whenever they appear on tv". Best Newcomer This category went to 5-member group SHINee. They debuted with 'You are so pretty, noona' in May, and subsequently released other hit songs like 'Love like oxygen'. They received a total of 8 votes from the PDs. Son DamBi also got 6 votes even though she debuted in June last year. Groups W&Whale got 3 votes and 2PM got 2 votes amongst others on the list. Best incident 10 PDs voted the occurance of 'idol phenomen' in 2008 as the 'Best Incident'. Idol groups like Big Bang, WonderGirls, Dong Bang Shin Ki and SHINee has led this year's Kpop scene strong. The phenomen of many top stars like Seo Taiji, Lee Hyori, Rain, Kim Gun Mo and Shin Seung Hoon's comeback in 2008 were given 6 votes by the PDs. Other than that, the incident of Rain's 'Rainism' and Dong Bang Shin Ki's 'MIROTIC' being ruled as unhealthy material for teenagers causing so much discussion and debate was also on the list. source: kbite
