Blue Dragon Awards Expose Three Male Stars for Suspected Vote Rigging; Hyun Bin Gets 140,000 Votes Deducted

On the 27th, Celeb Champ, the organization responsible for fan voting, announced that during monitoring of the Best Actor category, they discovered multiple suspicious participating accounts. The related accounts have been immediately blocked, and all abnormal votes will be deducted in full. The biggest attention-grabber is Hyun Bin, who is expected to have “141,800 votes” deducted; Kim Seon-ho and Park Ji-hoon will each have 26 votes deducted.

According to Celeb Champ, not only will the abnormal votes cast from these detected accounts be invalidated, but if more abuse occurs before the end of voting, those votes will also be deducted in the final count. Therefore, the in-app real-time vote tallies may differ from the final results. The official also stated that, after a thorough data review, the official voting results would be announced again on the morning of July 31.

The competition for the Best Actor award, already fierce, includes nominees Kim Seon-ho, Kim Woo-bin, Park Ji-hoon, Park Hae-soo, and Hyun Bin, each with a solid fan base. While fan voting is not the sole criterion, it is weighted equivalent to one professional judge’s ballot, so it still has a significant impact on the final result. The official has directly announced the expected number of deducted votes as a preemptive measure, but the revelation that a whopping 140,000 votes for Hyun Bin were blocked has sparked curiosity about the scale and source of this abnormal voting.

Source: Liberty Entertainment