The second day of the awards ceremony will be held at Tokyo Dome in Japan on the 29th.
Seventeen won first prize at MAMA after 8 years of debut
The Rookie of the Year award went to Zero Base One and Triple S
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[The Fact | [Reporter Gong Mina] Groups Seventeen, New Jeans and BTS won the grand prize at '2023 MAMA AWARDS'. This was the first major award win for Seventeen and New Jeans since their debut, and New Jeans took home two of the four major award trophies.
On the afternoon of the 29th, the second day of 'Mama Awards' was held at Tokyo Dome, Japan. While singer Jeon So-mi served as host on the first day, actor Park Bo-gum led the awards ceremony as host on the second day. After BTS won 'Global Icon of the Year', one of the major awards the previous day, Seventeen and New Jeans shared three major awards that day.
Seventeen, who became the protagonist of 'Album of the Year', received a major award at 'Mama Awards' for the first time after 8 years since their debut. Woozi said, "It's a group that has been criticized from the beginning. I was told it would never succeed because there were too many of you" and promised, "We will work hard until together to become a good team that presents better music."
Seungkwan mentioned his late close friend Astro Moonbin, who unfortunately passed away this year. Seungkwan said, "This year has been very eventful, but I want to thank my friend Bin, who loved and supported our team" with tears in his eyes.
New Jeans won four awards, including the grand prizes of 'Artist of the Year' and 'Song of the Year', as well as 'Best Dance Performance Female Group Award' and 'Music Group Award best female'. However, he did not attend the awards ceremony and did not make any special comments.
MAMA AWARDS 2023 . /CJ ENM
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The winners of the 'Best New Artist' award, equivalent to the Rookie award, were the groups Zero Base One and Triple S.
Zero Base One said: “I am very happy to receive the Rookie of the Year award at MAMA, an award that can only be received once in a lifetime.” “I want to tell my members that I love them so much and I also want to thank and tell our parents that we love them for raising our members in such a wonderful way. So." “I want to,” he said.
Through the video, Triple S expressed gratitude to fans: "We are very honored and happy to receive the Rookie of the Year award once in our lives" and added: "Thank you to those who Fans have always been watching over us and sending us lots of love.”
The following is detailed information about the '2023 Mama Awards' awards.