G-Dragon shakes hands with KAIST President Lee Kwang-hyun during his appointment as a visiting professor at KAIST at the Innovate Korea forum held at the KAIST campus in Daejeon, on Wednesday, June 5. Image: Yonhap via The Korea Herald K-pop singer G-Dragon of BigBang was named a visiting professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), on Wednesday, June 5. The singer‘s appointment aims to expand Korean culture’s global competitiveness by incorporating the latest science and technology developed at KAIST into K-content, according to KAIST.
“I am honored to be a visiting professor at KAIST, a school that produces many scientific geniuses. I look forward to the great synergy between the best science and technology experts and my entertainment expertise,” said G-Dragon at the Innovate Korea forum jointly hosted by Herald Media Group, KAIST, and the National Research Council of Science and Technology, at the KAIST campus in Daejeon. “Professor Kwon (G-Dragon) plans to collaborate on digital twin technology research for Hallyu artists, research on convergence of K-culture and technologies such as artificial intelligence, robots and metaverse, and develop artist avatars using the latest technologies such as volumetrics, motion capture and haptics at the KAIST-Galaxy Corporation Enter-tech (Entertainment and Technology) Research Center (tentative name) to be established within the department of mechan.
