{"id":326984,"date":"2025-12-05T12:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T12:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/326984\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T12:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T12:23:08","slug":"usc-to-offer-course-on-k-pop-icon-g-dragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/326984\/","title":{"rendered":"USC to offer course on K-pop icon G-Dragon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/4a4527da-c34c-49fe-b88f-8c125acca4e9.jpg\" style=\"display:block;height:auto;aspect-ratio:1920 \/ 1280\" alt=\"G-Dragon performs during a welcome dinner for the 2025 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit at the Lahan Select hotel in Gyeongju, North Gyeongsang Province, Oct. 31. Yonhap\"   decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\"\/><\/p>\n<p>G-Dragon performs during a welcome dinner for the 2025 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit at the Lahan Select hotel in Gyeongju, North Gyeongsang Province, Oct. 31. Yonhap<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Starting in spring 2026, the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles will offer a class focused on G-Dragon&#8217;s music career and his cultural impact.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The class is titled &#8220;Crooked Studies of K-pop: The Case of G-Dragon&#8221; and will be taught by Hye Jin Lee, a professor in the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The course is the latest in a string of college classes available on pop culture themes. Yale University and Harvard University have each offered classes based on Beyonce and Taylor Swift\u2019s influence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">&#8220;Introducing a course on G-Dragon at a prestigious institution like USC, particularly as he marks the 20th anniversary of his debut, is highly meaningful,\u201d G-Dragon&#8217;s agency Galaxy Corporation said in a statement Friday. \u201cWe believe this will further underscore the artistic depth and global influence of K-pop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">G-Dragon debuted in 2006 as a member of BIGBANG under YG Entertainment. The group transformed K-pop with chart-topping hits like \u201cLies,\u201d \u201cHaru Haru,\u201d \u201cTonight\u201d and \u201cBang Bang Bang,\u201d many of which were written or produced by G-Dragon himself. He launched his solo career in 2009 with \u201cHeartbreaker\u201d and most recently released \u201c\u00dcbermensch\u201d earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">In October, he became the youngest recipient of the Okgwan Order of Cultural Merit, Korea\u2019s second-highest honor in the arts, in recognition of his contributions to music and culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"G-Dragon performs during a welcome dinner for the 2025 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit at the Lahan Select hotel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":{"0":"post-326984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}