{"id":336681,"date":"2025-12-09T07:38:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T07:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/336681\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T07:38:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T07:38:13","slug":"k-pop-sensation-g-dragon-becomes-a-college-course-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/336681\/","title":{"rendered":"K-Pop sensation G-Dragon becomes a college course in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/e.vnexpress.net\/author\/minh-nga-1169.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minh Nga<\/a>\u00a0 &amp;nbspDecember 8, 2025 | 02:56 pm PT\t<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/81763011682176301172817630120-2739-4705-1765183330.jpg\" data-original=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/81763011682176301172817630120-2739-4705-1765183330.jpg\" class=\"vne_lazy_image\" alt=\"K-Pop sensation G-Dragon becomes a college course in US\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\nG-Dragon performs during a concert in Hanoi in November 2025. Photo by 8Wonder\t<\/p>\n<p>Starting next spring, the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles will offer a course on the music career and cultural impact of South Korean rapper, singer, and songwriter G-Dragon.\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal\">The course, titled &#8220;Crooked Studies of K-pop: The Case of G-Dragon,&#8221; will be taught by Professor Hye Jin Lee from USC\u2019s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, Korea Times reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal\">The program will be offered as a four-credit regular course at USC Annenberg, one of the top communication schools in the U.S., Yonhap cited G-Dragon&#8217;s agency\u2019s Galaxy Corporation as saying.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal\">According to the agency, the class marks the first time a full-credit course dedicated entirely to a K-pop artist has been introduced at the school. It compares the new G-Dragon course to similar academic programs, such as Beyonc\u00e9&#8217;s at Yale University and Taylor Swift&#8217;s at Harvard University, describing it as a sign of growing recognition of the global and cultural significance of K-pop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal\">USC Annenberg released a teaser video on its Instagram on Dec. 5 calling G-Dragon &#8220;one of K-pop\u2019s most groundbreaking figures.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal\">The post further stated: &#8220;How does K-pop challenge the way we think about creativity, authenticity and culture? This spring, dive into the genre through a new course on one of its most groundbreaking figures: G-Dragon, the producer-idol and multi-hyphenate artist who helped define what K-pop can be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal\">Dubbed the &#8220;King of K-pop,&#8221; G-Dragon rose to prominence as the leader of the South Korean boy band BigBang, which went on to become one of the best-selling boy bands in the world. He launched his solo career in 2009.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal\">In October, he became the youngest recipient of the Okgwan Order of Cultural Merit, South Korea&#8217;s second-highest cultural honor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal\">He was chosen as the official ambassador for the 2025 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings as South Korea hosted the event last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Minh Nga\u00a0 &amp;nbspDecember 8, 2025 | 02:56 pm PT G-Dragon performs during a concert in Hanoi in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,187530,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-336681","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-k-pop-sensation-g-dragon-becomes-a-college-course-in-us-vnexpress-international","12":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}