Hwang Young-woong continued his unstoppable run, firmly defending first place in the Fanbook Grand Prize category of the Brand Division at the June Netizens Awards for the first-half final.

▶ 1st and 2nd Place: Hwang Young-woong's Dominant Lead... Jung Seo-joo in Pursuit Returning to the top following May, Hwang Young-woong proved his fandom's solidarity with a total of 61,915 votes (31.9%). Singer Jung Seo-joo remained in second place with 28,428 votes (14.7%).

▶ 3rd–7th Place: A Fierce Battle by Just 1 Vote... Jang Min-ho, Son Tae-jin, Byeon Woo-seok in a 'Contested Battleground' The race for the third-place spot was the most heated. Jang Min-ho secured third place with 13,927 votes (7.2%), while Son Tae-jin settled into fourth with 13,834 votes (7.1%). Notably, actor Byeon Woo-seok, who showed fierce momentum last month, was marked in fifth place with 13,833 votes (7.1%) — a difference of just one vote from Son Tae-jin. Actor Kim Hye-yoon placed sixth with 11,079 votes (5.7%), and Bin Ye-seo defended seventh place with 7,782 votes (4.0%).

▶ 8th–14th Place: Middle Rankings Also Tight Min Soo-hyun came in eighth with 5,464 votes (2.8%), and crossover group Liberante rose to ninth with 5,300 votes (2.7%). Park Ji-hyun entered at tenth with 5,166 votes (2.7%), and Enoch secured eleventh place with 5,078 votes (2.6%). This was followed by Jung Dong-won in twelfth with 4,749 votes (2.4%), Choon-gil in thirteenth with 4,214 votes (2.2%), and Fortena in fourteenth with 3,471 votes (1.8%).

▶ 15th–20th Place: Even Lower-Rank Competition Is Fierce Ma Jin placed fifteenth with 3,245 votes (1.7%), and 'Queen' Song Ga-in rose to sixteenth with 2,687 votes (1.4%). Legend Cho Yong-pil held seventeenth place with 2,050 votes (1.1%). Actor Lee Se-young took eighteenth with 1,014 votes (0.5%), actor Kim Seon-ho nineteenth with 716 votes (0.4%), and singer Jin Wook, a new entry this month, claimed twentieth with 58 votes.

While Hwang Young-woong maintained a solid sole lead, the ranking competition in the upper and middle tiers unfolded fiercely, heralding an even hotter voting war among fandoms in the second-half race.

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