The group Close Your Eyes (CLOSE YOUR EYES, 클유아) won the K-POP Award at the Korea Culture and Entertainment Awards.
Close Your Eyes won the K-POP Award at the Korea Culture and Entertainment Awards held at the Grand Hyatt Seoul hotel on the 10th.
The Korea Culture and Entertainment Awards, which marked its 33rd year, is a comprehensive arts awards ceremony that covers various cultural and artistic fields at home and abroad, including film, drama, popular music, K-POP and musical theater. Candidates are selected based on netizen votes and assessments by culture and entertainment experts for cultural and entertainment artists active during the year.
Close Your Eyes, which debuted last April, achieved cumulative sales of 1.2 million copies across three mini-albums: mini album 1, mini album 2 and mini album 3. Despite being newcomers with less than a year since debut, they have repeatedly achieved notable results and continue their popularity as a "global supertrend".
Expressing gratitude for winning the K-POP artist award, Close Your Eyes, through their agency Uncore, said they are truly thankful and honored to receive such a meaningful award. They thanked everyone who works with them and their parents who support them. Above all, they expressed deep gratitude for the love of Closer (their official fandom name), which made it possible for them to receive this valuable award. They said they will continue to be Close Your Eyes, representing K-POP, with better music and performances.
Earlier, Close Your Eyes won the K World Dream New Vision Award at the 2025 K World Dream Awards (2025 KWDA), the 2025 Brand of the Year Award in the male idol (rookie) sector, the Hottest award at the 2025 The Fact Music Awards (TMA), the New Wave Artist Award at the TikTok Awards 2025, and the IS Rookie Award at the 2025 Korea Grand Music Awards with iM Bank (2025 KGMA). With the addition of the K-POP Award at the 33rd Korea Culture and Entertainment Awards, they achieved the honor of winning six awards at ceremonies held this year.
Proving themselves unquestionably the biggest breakout act of 2025, Close Your Eyes will meet fans with their first solo concert, "Beyond Your Eyes (BEYOND YOUR EYES)", in 2026. Starting at Olympic Hall in Seoul Olympic Park on Jan. 31 and Feb. 1, the tour continues in Japan on Feb. 10 and 11 in Tokyo, Feb. 13 in Nagoya and Feb. 15 in Osaka.<
[Photo] Uncore
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