{"id":160115,"date":"2026-02-23T08:41:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T16:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=160115"},"modified":"2026-02-23T08:41:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T16:41:58","slug":"g-dragon-makes-an-inspiring-speech-at-the-kaist-2026-commencement-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/g-dragon-makes-an-inspiring-speech-at-the-kaist-2026-commencement-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"G-Dragon makes an inspiring speech at the KAIST 2026 commencement ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>G-Dragon<\/strong> is currently the talk of the town for the upcoming 20th anniversary of Big Bang and the second season of <em>\u201cGOOD DAY.\u201d<\/em> The idol is making public appearances to indirectly raise anticipation for the new musical projects.<\/p>\n<p>The idol, who currently serves as a visiting professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST),\u00a0<strong> has shared a special, inspiring message <\/strong>via video at the\u00a0 <em>&#8220;2026 Commencement Ceremony.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/E6NlrxgqTYM\" title=\"Professor G-Dragon (Jiyong Kwon) left a message for graduates at KAIST \ud83d\udc69\ud83c\udffb\u200d\ud83c\udf93\ud83d\udc68\ud83c\udffb\u200d\ud83c\udf93\ud83d\udcd5\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E6NlrxgqTYM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The ceremony was held on the 20th at KAIST\u2019s main campus in Daejeon. Ultimately,<strong> G-Dragon sent a straightforward message to all the graduates about what the future holds for them, always highlighting that it will be bright no matter the circumstances<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>\u201cCongratulations. You did it, and you are people who will continue to achieve great things. You are now stepping into a world without fixed answers. It is okay to be wrong, as long as you do not stop. The courage to choose a different path from others will take you the<strong> farthest<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>G-Dragon is currently the talk of the town for the upcoming 20th anniversary of Big Bang and the second season of \u201cGOOD DAY.\u201d The idol is making public appearances to indirectly raise anticipation for the new musical projects. The idol, who currently serves as a visiting professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3102,"featured_media":160116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1407,16],"tags":[1041],"class_list":{"0":"post-160115","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-events","9":"category-kpop","10":"tag-g-dragon"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}