The K-World Dream Awards ( Korean : 케이 월드 드림어워즈 ) is an annual music award show in South Korea. The award ceremony was first known the Soribada Best K-Music Awards ( 소리바다 베스트 케이뮤직 어워즈 ) in 2017 until discontinued due to the host Soribada delisting possibility in 2021. The award ceremony revived in 2022 with different host and rebranded as the K-Global Heart Dream Awards ( 케이 글로벌 하트 드림 어워즈 ) then renamed again in 2024 to the current name.
9-548: Soribada Best K-Music Awards was hosted by the digital music platform Soribada to celebrate the best and brightest of K-pop releases. The first awards ceremony was held in September 2017 and awarded to the musics released between September 2016 and August 2017. In 2021, the organizing company changed and the award ceremony was revived as the K-Global Heart Dream Awards. In 2024, the awards ceremony
18-445: A link to a centralized server. This mechanism was put in place in order to minimize the risk of legal prosecution. However, KAPP's reply to this solution was that every Soribada 2.0-user was sued instead of the developers. Yang Jung-hwan responded to KAPP's approach by saying, “In a situation where voluminous e-mail services handling over 100MB are being sustained, netizens will find other ways to share music files even with Soribada out of
27-586: Is downloadable on their website. In 2017, the site held their first Soribada Best K-Music Awards , after 17 years since the site's launch. Soribada was indicted on copyright infringement charges for the first time. The case was filed by the Korean Association of Phonographic Producers (KAPP), presently the Recording Industry Association of Korea (RIAK). Soribada 2.0 allowed users to swap files without having to establish
36-610: The United States. Customers who pay the monthly fee of 7,000 won are able to download MP3 files without digital rights management (DRM). Like iTunes and other popular online music stores, Soribada utilises audio fingerprint technology to identify the purchaser. Soribada claims that it covers around 90% tracks that have been released in Korea. In January 2008, Soribada was the second largest music service provider in Korea with more than 700,000 paying subscribers. In February 2016,
45-727: The creators of Soribada, faced criminal charges in January 2005. A complete shutdown of Soribada has been ordered by the Seoul High Court in October 2007 after it overturned a lower court decision in favor of the former. The High Court's basis for the reversal was the substantial evidences and findings submitted by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (MCT) (now the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MCST)) which suggested that
54-454: The market.” From December 2004 to June 2005, Soribada sold nearly 5 million songs through its servers. Searches returned both tracks for sale and free downloads, with the first ones appearing higher on search results. Upon being sued again, this time by 30 record labels (led by YBM Seoul Records (now Kakao Entertainment) and JYP Entertainment ) and some musicians, Soribada stopped its service in 2005. Yang Jung-hwan and his brother Il-hwan,
63-492: The site has encouraged users to commit copyright violations. Soribada Inc. settled with record labels and copyright owners in early 2008, and it turned into a commercial music download service in July that same year. Soribada 5.0, current Soribada 6.0, is the third P2P service in the world that has become commercialised without hurting a P2P experience . Other such services include Monkey3 of Korea (owned by iHQ ) and iMesh of
72-525: Was closed in 2002 by court order but continued to be distributed with a stipulation that its users were responsible for any of the files downloaded. On November 5, 2003, Soribada was relaunched as and in July 2004, the website was renewed as a P2P search portal with a paid MP3 service in December 2004. It remains the most widely used P2P system in Korea . The most recent version of Soribada is Soribada 6, which
81-562: Was renamed to the K-World Dream Awards. Winners are determined through Soribada's internal data, online and mobile votes from fans across the world, as well as ratings from professional adjudicators and critics. The following artists received five or more awards: Soribada Soribada ( Korean : 소리바다 ) was the first Korean peer-to-peer file-sharing service, launched in 2000 by Sean Yang. The name 'Soribada' means "Ocean of Sound" or "Receiving (downloading) Sound". It
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