{"id":321836,"date":"2025-11-30T06:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T06:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/321836\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T06:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T06:00:09","slug":"g-dragon-named-artist-of-the-year-at-2025-mama-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/321836\/","title":{"rendered":"G-Dragon named Artist of the Year at 2025 MAMA Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/188afb01-17ab-4392-9e81-5af9164e3638.jpg\" style=\"display:block;height:auto\" alt=\"G-Dragon gives his acceptance speech after winning 'Artist of the Year' award at the 2025 MAMA Awards held in Hong Kong, Saturday.  Courtesy of CJ ENM\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\"\/><\/p>\n<p>G-Dragon gives his acceptance speech after winning &#8220;Artist of the Year&#8221; award at the 2025 MAMA Awards held in Hong Kong, Saturday.  Courtesy of CJ ENM<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\"> G-Dragon was named Artist of the Year at the 2025 MAMA Awards on Saturday, delivering a heartfelt message as the ceremony unfolded in a restrained tone following a deadly apartment fire in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The BIGBANG frontman accepted the night&#8217;s top honor at Kai Tak Stadium, reflecting on his year and thanking fans for their support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">&#8220;Thank you. I made my comeback through MAMA last year, and this year&#8217;s activities feel different from any other year,&#8221; he said after receiving the honor from Hong Kong-born Chinese actor Chow Yun-Fat. &#8220;I&#8217;m so grateful to VIPs and all the fans. I love you all. Next year marks our group&#8217;s 20th anniversary, and I&#8217;ll come hang out and party with my friends so I won&#8217;t be lonely. See you next year,&#8221; he said, referring to the name of BIGBANG&#8217;s fandom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The award presentation came during the second night of the two-day ceremony, held under subdued conditions as the K-pop industry paid tribute to victims of a high-rise fire that killed more than 100 people earlier in the week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Attendees dressed in black or muted colors, and organizers scaled back parts of the program to reflect the somber mood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Other major prizes were announced across Friday and Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Rose received Song of the Year for &#8220;APT.,&#8221; while Stray Kids won Album of the Year with &#8220;Karma,&#8221; offering emotional thanks to fans onstage. Enhypen took home the Fans&#8217; Choice of the Year award, and rookie groups Cortis and Hearts2Hearts earned Best New Artist honors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Actor Kim Hye-soo opened Saturday&#8217;s ceremony with a message of condolence, and several presenters, including actor Yim Si-wan, expressed hopes for healing in Hong Kong. G-Dragon, who earlier donated HK$1 million ($128,452) to relief efforts, pledged his continued support &#8220;through art.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The ceremony drew global attention with a live-action recreation of scenes from Netflix&#8217;s hit animated film &#8220;KPop Demon Hunters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Babymonster members Pharita, Ahyeon and Rora took the stage as the in-film trio Huntr\/x, performing &#8220;What It Sounds Like&#8221; and &#8220;Golden&#8221;, following a narrated introduction by actor Ahn Hyo-seop, the voice of lead character Jin-woo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Ahn delivered a message of hope, saying: &#8220;Remember this voice? You gave me my soul back &#8230; May the music guide us into a better tomorrow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">However, a planned performance by another in-film idol group, Saja Boys, was canceled amid concerns that its &#8220;grim reaper&#8221; concept was inappropriate following the city&#8217;s deadly disaster. The segment was to feature members of Boynextdoor, Riize, TWS, and Zerobaseone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"G-Dragon gives his acceptance speech after winning &#8220;Artist of the Year&#8221; award at the 2025 MAMA Awards held&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":{"0":"post-321836","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}