Today, February 26th, the winners of the 12th Korean Music Awards were announced. Unfortunately there was no livestream this year, but the awards ceremony will be broadcast on MBC Music at 9pm on Saturday, March 7th.

Without the livestream and no possibility to attend the awards myself, I had to rely on Twitter to follow the even real time. Fortunately the twitter account of Korean webzine weiv had very good coverage of the entire event, including particularly good acceptance speeches, so it was anyway relatively easy to keep track of what was happening. The results below are as reported by weiv.

Album of the Year: Loro’s – W.A.N.D.Y
Song of the Year: Soyou X Junggigo – “썸 (Some)” feat. Lil Boi of Geeks
Artist of the Year: Lee Seung Hwan
Rookie of the Year: Kim Sawol X Kim Haewon

Best Rock Album: Danpyunsun and the Sailors – 동물 (Animal)
Best Rock Song: Asian Chairshot – “해야”
Best Modern Rock Album: Loro’s – W.A.N.D.Y
Best Modern Rock Song: 9 and the Numbers – “숨바꼭질 (Hider and Seeker)”
Best Folk Album: Kim Sawol X Kim Haewon – 비밀 (Secret)
Best Folk Song: Kwon Tree – “어릴 때”
Best Pop Album: Akdong Musician – Play
Best Pop Song: Soyou X Junggigo – “썸 (Some)” feat. Lil Boi of Geeks
Best Dance & Electronic Album: HEO – Structure
Best Dance & Electronic Song: Yoonsang – “날 위로하려거든 (If You Wanna Console Me…)”
Best Rap & Hip Hop Album: Hwaji – EAT
Best Rap & Hip Hop Song: B-Free – “Hot Summer”
Best R&B & Soul Album: Crush – Crush on You
Best R&B & Soul Song: Zion.T – “양화대교 (Yanghwa BRDG)”
Best Jazz Album: Sunji Lee – The Night of the Border
Best Crossover Album: Han Seung Seok & Jung Jaeil – 바리abandoned
Best Jazz & Crossover Performance: Kim Chang Hyun – 망각(忘却)

Netizen’s Choice, Male Artist: Jay Park
Netizen’s Choice, Female Artist: HA:TFELT
Netizen’s Choice, Group: Infinite

Committee’s Choice: Jambinai
Special Merit Price: Song Chang Sik

 
For some background information on the main category winners, see the KMA nominees introductions posts:
– Album of the Year
– Song of the Year
– Artist of the Year
– Rookie of the Year