Broadcaster Yu Jae-seok was excluded from the variety category candidates for the 62nd Baeksang Arts Awards, and fans issued a statement demanding disclosure of the judging criteria.
On the 14th, Yu Jae-seok's fans released a statement titled "We request an explanation for the Baeksang Arts Awards candidate selection" through an online community.
Previously, when the candidates for the 62nd Baeksang Arts Awards were announced, Yu Jae-seok did not make the list of nominees. Last year at the Baeksang Arts Awards Yu Jae-seok was nominated for best male variety and even won best variety program with Punghyang GO. Especially since this year he has been active with Pinggaego, Running Man, and You Quiz on the Block, Yu Jae-seok's exclusion from the candidate list surprised many.
The nominees for this year's best male variety included Kwak Beom, Kian84, Kim Won-hoon, Lee Seo-jin, and Choo Sung Hoon, and the nominees for best variety program included MBC's Gukhan84, The Wonder Coach, SBS's The Ballad of Us, Netflix's Culinary Class Wars: Cooking Class Wars 2, and Coupang Play's Office Workers season 2.
Fans said this issue is "not simply that a specific individual was not included among the nominees," and pointed out that "given the expansion of platform boundaries, there has not been sufficient explanation for why Yu Jae-seok and related variety content that showed high publicity and achievements within the judging period were all excluded from the main pool of candidates."
Fans asked for a clear explanation of the specific reasons that led to the exclusion of Yu Jae-seok and related variety content during the selection process for the broadcast variety category candidates, and requested clarification on what detailed criteria and comparison principles were applied in candidate selection and whether they were applied consistently across the candidate pool.
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