K-Pop Music Festival

It's the time of the year where Korean major broadcasting stations holds year-ends ceremonies celebrating the closure of another great year of K-POP. There are three stations which held these ceremonies, which is KBS's Music Festival, MBC's Gayo Daejaejun and SBS's Gayo Daejun. 

Links to the performances can be found through allkpop's website:
KBS's Music Festival
Full Performance

MBC's Gayo Daejaejun
Part 1   Part 2   Part 3

SBS's Gayo Daejun
Part 1   Part 2   Part 3   Colors of K-Pop

After looking through the videos, I would say that SBS have the best ceremony among those 3 stations. KBS have rather plain stage layout and performance lineups. Nothing very special about the arranged performances, which quite saddens me. Usually, KBS's Music Bank show rather good quality stage layout, not to mention its camerawork. However, it isn't the case for the Music Festival, the camerawork are horrible, I can hardly focus or the artist's performances, if I'm able to ignore the terrible sound systems. The mics are not working well, making certain artist "expose" their lack of "talents" and stage preparations. I'll talk about that later. 

MBC though, is not bad, but I'm have a little disappointment as I'm expecting the best overall performances among those three stations, since I consider them having the best music shows among the three. The lineups are better than KBS and there are more variety of special performances which is quite interesting, including The Adam Couple and SunHee Couple's performances. As for the stage, there are a few stage being setup, i believe, at least 3, including the pre-recorded. For me, it would look better if all artist perform at one stage or a combined side-to-side stage than a indoor-outdoor stage.

Since SBS have the best ceremony I've seen, I would congratulate them for having the best performance concept, lineup, and special performances  While MBC divides the artists into two groups, SBS have special collaborations between idol groups, grouping them into four theme, producing and perform songs made for the theme. Well, I'm not saying the concept is new or anything, but it did attracts attention on the idol's collaborations. The stage setup and layout is quite interesting despite having quite limited space for the fans to watch. Moreover, SBS's Gayo Daejun have more lineup of rookies compared to KBS and MBC, which I think is lacking of considering there's so many rookies group debuted on 2012.

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K-Pop 2012

I know that it was nothing new that there are for sure some idol groups that are lacking at their talents, specially vocals. But, for me it wasn't particularly their vocals that I focus on when I'm watching their performances, it was their overall performance as one, or rather not focusing on their vocals particularly. It wasn't only their vocals that are the focus of a performance, it's their dances, body movements, expression, the beat of the songs and much more. Viewing as this, it will more likely to make a performance more enjoyable. It's not that I'm saying that vocals as singer are not important or that dance-singing at the same time is impossible, it's just that I think there are certain groups of "sensitive" fans or people out there, which keeps poking at one's weakness instead of trying to enjoy the music. Of course, there are different opinions from everyone, but I'm just trying to say that I would be better if people give more of "constructive" voice rather than "destructive" voice.

There's another opinions of mine, which might be silly, is that I think it's time for South Korean government start to "limit" or have quality/quantity control over the debuting groups and their companies. It seems that at the end of 2011 and on 2012, K-Pop industries bloomed to a sense that everybody wants to grab a piece of it, resulting producing some groups of K-Pop idols that are not completely ready or still lack of something to debut, like they are afraid to be late for getting the piece of fortune. 

On the other hand, "matured" idol groups, I called them, are really ripped and currently harvesting from their hard works from the past years. Groups like Girls' generation, B2ST, Infinite, SHINee, Sistar, Wonder Girls, U-Kiss, ZE:A, Miss A, Secret and others, show their maturity not of their age but rather their performance experience and confidence through out their songs. Their song's genre matured from the cutesy image into more powerful and overwhelming Idol. 

Well, that will be things I wanted to say for now, any opinion can be commented below.