G-Dragon performs throughout a welcome dinner for the 2025 Asia-Pacific Financial Cooperation summit on the Lahan Choose lodge in Gyeongju, North Gyeongsang Province, Oct. 31. Yonhap
Beginning in spring 2026, the College of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles will supply a category centered on G-Dragon’s music profession and his cultural impression.
The category is titled “Crooked Research of Ok-pop: The Case of G-Dragon” and shall be taught by Hye Jin Lee, a professor within the USC Annenberg Faculty for Communication and Journalism.
The course is the most recent in a string of faculty lessons obtainable on popular culture themes. Yale College and Harvard College have every supplied lessons based mostly on Beyonce and Taylor Swift’s affect.
“Introducing a course on G-Dragon at a prestigious establishment like USC, significantly as he marks the twentieth anniversary of his debut, is extremely significant,” G-Dragon’s company Galaxy Company mentioned in an announcement Friday. “We consider it will additional underscore the creative depth and world affect of Ok-pop.”
G-Dragon debuted in 2006 as a member of BIGBANG underneath YG Leisure. The group reworked Ok-pop with chart-topping hits like “Lies,” “Haru Haru,” “Tonight” and “Bang Bang Bang,” lots of which have been written or produced by G-Dragon himself. He launched his solo profession in 2009 with “Heartbreaker” and most lately launched “Übermensch” earlier this yr.
In October, he turned the youngest recipient of the Okgwan Order of Cultural Advantage, Korea’s second-highest honor within the arts, in recognition of his contributions to music and tradition.
