How To Dance Kpop Is Now the 2012 EYKAs!
It’s that time of year again! Time for our year end Kpop Recap. We’ve been doing this every year since 2008 with our “How To Dance Kpop Style” videos. We used to chose our personal favourite songs of the year, but last year we opened it up to public voting, and it resulted in Big Bang’s “Tonight” winning Dance of the Year, for a video that didn’t have a dance. Lame! So, this year, we decided to change things up a bit so that we can explore different categories rather than just focusing on dancing only. Think of the 2012 EatYourKimchi Awards (2012 EYKAs) like a giant Kpop Music Monday! It won’t just be a boring listing of winners, we’ll joke around as we usually do WHILE wearing fancy evening wear and giving out awards! Ooohhh so classy!
We’d still like to give you the chance to voice your opinions, so each category will have 10 choices that you can vote on. The winner of each category will go onto the final 2012 EYK Awards ceremony.
Head on over to the 2012 Eat Your Kimchi Awards page and pick the best videos from the many different categories. You’ll notice that you can only vote on three categories for now. That’s because we’re going to release the nominees for different categories over the span of a week, just to keep it fresh, instead of overloading you with too much to vote for at once. Here’s the order we’ll be releasing the nominees. Check back on this page from time to time as we’ll be uploading new videos for each category.
Let us know what you think of the categories in the comment section below! This has been a really really long work in progress, we’ve been thinking about since last year’s Big Bang failure. (You know I love Big Bang, but they didn’t deserve best dance…hahahaha). Each category was very carefully thought out to make sure one band didn’t overlap into too many categories. We wouldn’t want one band taking four categories with the same song, that would be super lame. Also, for those of you who want us to screw the votes and just do what we want to do, don’t worry! We’re planning on talking about our own personal faves of the year as well, but who knows, perhaps our favs will overlap with the winners! We’ll just have to wait and see.
Lastly, thanks to all the Epik Nasties who helped out in the selection process. While we were away, they helped out so so much by carefully voting and debating about who should be in the top 10 categories. We’d be ripping out our hair now if it wasn’t for them.
I love this idea! I can’t wait to see Simon and Martina on award night in their spiffy evening wear! :D And I get one more chance to vote my heart out for Orange Caramel and Hyuna and others! It’s like a week filled with second chances! ;_; Also, with the revamped website and these new EYK Awards, I can’t wait to see what content you will have to share with us once you have the studio! EYK and Grandpa FIGHTING!!
And Orange Caramel is in 5th already, pleasantly surprised.
I’m sooo excited for this and I’m sitting here laughing to myself while reading the categories, imagining how you’re gonna talk about it xD can’t wait for the best Engrish… so many great nominees out there.
This is great, but please still do some of the dances!
Awesome, just jealous of your creativity and nastiness!
I’m so looking forward toward the EYK Awards! Though, I feel like Nell – Before the Day should be a nominee for best potentional KMM. You could’ve put your academic degree to serious use if you had reviewed that song.
“The Nastiest Dance” is a titan’s battle! So so NASTYYYY!!! I love it all the categories!
But it’ not from 2012, therefor it’s not eligible.
Its a good idea!!………………………… But how is Teen Top- To you in the most nastiest dance section T^T……. WHYYY JUST WHYYYYY.
YAY!! So many awesome videos to choose from! I think my brain may just explode trying to choose who to vote for!
First of all let me say that I’m wayyyyyy more excited for this than the MAMA Awards.
Second, I’m shocked there’s no Best Indie Music Video.(I literally JUST noticed that).
Artsy Fartsy is all indie artists so yeah, there u go lol.
Oh wait we’re NOT supposed to be spoiling everything? My bad!
r u a moderator too?
Steampunky Owl and Moustachioed Kitty on you wall are mesmerizing. Where did you get them? I NEED TO KNOW.
EYK Awards? YESSSSSSSSSS. Just in time to distract me from doing the super-important presentation for my bachelor’s degree. YAY!
The EYK awards are gonna be so much better than the others! You should see about getting the winners actually little funky trophies or something haha!
I AM SO FREAKIN EXCITED!!!!!!
So original categories :)) That way voting will be fun ~ xP!
I can’t wait for the next catergories! This is a brilliant idea! Do you plan on actually giving out trophies to the artists?
You guys are awesome! I can’t wait!!
Yes, K.Will! Totally deserved his own Kpop Music Monday for that song, shame more people didn’t vote for it!
what is potential KMM vid basically?
They should feel honored depending on the category they won.
Ooooh, I would love to see them get statuettes for these categories.
I like that idea! That would have been awsome!
Will the videos change order based on the number of points (like the Kpop charts)? or are they locked in that position?
Also I am glad you guys are doing it this way, I was so disappointed in the people for voting for Big Bang in best dance. It shows that people don’t think, they just want.
You guys are such great content providers. Can wait to see what you will do when you get your studio.
does the winner of the potential KMM award get reviewed? that would be an awesome extra!
Well wait: it’s not that the best potential KMM gets its own review. The whole show is like a giant Music Monday, so to speak, rather than 17 music mondays for the 17 categories. THAT’D BE INSANE YO!
THIS LOOKS AWESOME^^^ I keep on wanting actually interesting awards like most bizarre video and I just cannot wait for BEST ENGRISH, me loves me some engriishhh^^^ thank you guys so much!!! I too was a little bit annoyed (that is super super angry) that bigbang won best dance because yeah the song was fantastic but it just wasn’t fair for the other groups or really showed kpop fans ability to not be biased and actually pick a group who they sincerely thought was the best – which I know that we all have!!! So I’m super excited and I think this could be a revolution of sorts…maybe???
Oh. In the future, since I can see you guys doing this more often, I can see you guys should make an award for “Most Fun/Best to Interview”. I’m nt sure if that should be up for voting, since you were the ones to do the interviewing and we merely watched.
LOVE THIS!! It’s really a great idea. You guys just keep getting more awesome (if that’s even possible)!