“Forever the Moment” won the best movie award at the 29th Korean Blue Dragon Film Awards, presented on November 20 at KBS Hall in Seoul. The best actor and actress awards are won by Kim Yoon-seok and Son Ye-jin respectively.

Best actor Kim Yoon-seok and best actress Son Ye-jin (Image from
Newsis)
The winners [via Hanfever]
Best movie - Forever the Moment
Best director - Kim Ji-woon (The Good, The Bad and The Weird)
Best leading actor - Kim Yoon-seok (The Chaser)
Best leading actress - Son Ye-jin (My Wife Got Married)
Best supporting actor - Park Hee-soon (Seven Days)
Best supporting actress - Kim Ji-young (Forever the Moment)
Best newcomer (actor) - So Ji-sub & Kang Ji-hwan (Movie is Movie)
Best newcomer (actress) - Han Ye-seul (Miss Gold Digger)
Most popular actors - Sol Kyung-gu & Jung Woo-sung
Most popular actresses - Kim Ha-neul & Son Ye-jin
Best on-screen couple - Son Ye-jin & Kim Joo-hyuk (My Wife Got Married)
Check out some red carpet pictures… 1 ll 2
The 41st Hong Kong TVB Anniversary Awards were presented on November 16, with drama “Moonlight Resonance” dominating the winner list as expected…

Veterans Ha Yu and Michelle Yim with best actor/actress awards (Image from
Baidu)
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The 10th Mnet Korean Music Festival (MKMF) was held on Saturday (Nov 15) at Jamsil Olympic Stadium in Seoul.
The talk of the town goes to Lee Hyori and Big Bang’s special stage, where Hyori and TOP shared a little smooches… [more kissing pics on Kbites and K-popped]

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Some red carpet pics from Korea Drama Awards 2008 which was presented on November 1 at Jinju Castle in Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea…
Grand prize winner Kim Myung-min

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The 43rd Golden Bell Awards were presented in Taipei on Friday (Oct 31); Golden Bell is Taiwan’s most prestigious radio and television broadcasting awards.
“Fated to Love You” won the best drama series as expected; Ariel Lin was crowned the best actress (in drama series) with “They Kiss Again”; while Jacky Wu and A-Ya claimed the best variety show hosts award with “Guess Guess Guess”.
Other winners are relatively unknown; couldn’t recognise most of the names to be frank. Sharing a few red carpet pics (from Sohu) instead…
The emcees - Patty Ho, Jacky Wu and Tian Xin

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“The Assembly”, a warfare movie by Chinese director Feng Xiaogang became the biggest winner at the 29th Full Blossom Awards presented on Saturday (Sept 13) in the City of Dalian, China.
The Assembly won the best movie, best director, best leading actor (Zhang Hanyu) and best supporting actor awards (Deng Chao).
The best actress and supporting actress awards are won by Li Bingbing and Taiwanese veteran Gua Ah Leh respectively with movie “The Knot”.

Best actor and actress Zhang Hanyu and Li Bingbing (Image from
Xinhuanet)
Actresses Miki Maya, 44, Asaka Seto, 31, Ryoko Hirosue, 28, and ex-volleyball player Kaoru Sugayama, 29, were named as having the most beautiful legs at the annual Parcassio Beautiful Leg Awards.
The event was organized by six shoemakers; and Parcassio is an artificial leather used in their products [via Japantoday]

(L-R) Kaoru, Miki, Ryoko and Asaka; the actresses were selected according to each age group (20s, 30s, 40s) while Kaoru for sportswomen category (Image via
Tokyotimes)
Japanese companies always come out with these kind of awards, i.e. best dressers, best jeanists, cotton awards etc… and the Japanese celebrities seem to be quite supportive for these events. Afterall, commercial endorsement means huge money… the celebs won’t want to offend any of the potential sponsors.
MTV Japan’s Student Voice Awards 2008 were presented last Tuesday (Aug 26) at Studio Coast, Kōtō-ku, Tokyo…

Best actor and actress, Shun Oguri and Juri Ueno (Image from
SVA Blog)
The winners (via Tokyograph)…
Best Artist: YUI
Best Dance Artist: AAA
Best Group: Ikimono Gakari
Best Actor: Shun Oguri
Best Actress: Juri Ueno
Best Love Song: “Soba ni Iru ne”, Thelma Aoyama feat SoulJa
Best Lyrics: “Home”, Shōta Shimizu
Best Party Karaoke: “Polyrhythm”, Perfume
Best Ringtone: “Kiseki”, GReeeeN
Best Movie: “Koizora”
Best Game: “Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G”
Best Athlete: Ryo Ishikawa
Best Comedian: Harumi Edo
Best Fashionista: Jun Hasegawa
Best Trend: “Wisshu~” (DAIGO)
Respect Award: AI