The 6th Korean Music Awards were held last night where Tae Yang was honored with 2 awards: Best R&B/Soul Album and Best R&B/Soul Song. Nominations and winners for this award were judged and based on musical accomplishment and value, not album sales and popularity.
Although he couldn’t make it to the show, Tae Yang did express his gratitude and appreciation with a video:
Thanks to elaisvip@youtube.
According to my google-translate-journalism, Tae Yang was the only “idol” to win an award at the show. His album was praised by the judging panel for it’s respect and faith to mainstream American R&B music, also carrying with it sheer honesty in it’s lyrics (I’m assuming) and approach. Tae Yang was very sad that he couldn’t attend the show because “this award meant a lot to me.”
Seriously, we need a translator.