{"id":176118,"date":"2026-09-24T15:34:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T22:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=176118"},"modified":"2026-09-24T15:34:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T22:34:02","slug":"bts-v-becomes-case-study-in-united-states-university-course-on-global-beauty-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/bts-v-becomes-case-study-in-united-states-university-course-on-global-beauty-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS&#8217; V becomes case study in United States university course on global beauty standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BTS&#8217; V has landed in an American classroom, and social media is talking about it. His photo appeared in the teaching materials of a United States university during a lesson on body image and what makes someone beautiful, next to actors <strong>Robert<\/strong> <strong>Pattinson<\/strong> and <strong>Tom<\/strong> <strong>Holland<\/strong>. A student who had never listened to K-pop spotted him when his face popped up during an exercise physiology class.<\/p>\n<p>The slide showed the three men under the title \u201c<strong>The Most Beautiful Man in the World<\/strong> in 2023.\u201d It came from a document tied to that year&#8217;s rankings of the most handsome men, in which V took first place on TechnoSports&#8217; list, Pattinson placed second and Holland also made the cut.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-176119\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Kim-Taehyung-in-a-US-CLASS.jpg\" alt=\"Kim Taehyung in a US CLASS\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Kim-Taehyung-in-a-US-CLASS.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Kim-Taehyung-in-a-US-CLASS-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Kim-Taehyung-in-a-US-CLASS-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Kim-Taehyung-in-a-US-CLASS-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Kim-Taehyung-in-a-US-CLASS-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Kim-Taehyung-in-a-US-CLASS-860x484.jpg 860w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The image reached the internet when someone posted it after receiving it from a friend who attended the class. That friend used a meme to show how shocked they were to spot the K-pop star in schoolwork. <strong>V<\/strong>, whose real name is Kim Taehyung, has been part of BTS since 2013. In 2023 he released his solo album <strong>Layover<\/strong>, which has six tracks, including \u201cLove Me Again,\u201d \u201cRainy Days\u201d and \u201cSlow Dancing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"V &amp;apos;Slow Dancing&amp;apos; Official MV\" width=\"1240\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eI0iTRS0Ha8?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>This isn&#8217;t the first time he has appeared in <strong>American<\/strong> <strong>classes<\/strong>. Professors have previously used him as a case study of attractiveness when teaching non-verbal visuals in courses on fashion and pop icons, and media outlets and voting groups have ranked his looks throughout his career.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth noting that the ranking in those materials came from fan votes, not from scientists measuring facial features. Even so, seeing a <strong>BTS<\/strong> member beside two Hollywood actors in teaching content has sparked conversation across social networks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BTS&#8217; V has landed in an American classroom, and social media is talking about it. His photo appeared in the teaching materials of a United States university during a lesson on body image and what makes someone beautiful, next to actors Robert Pattinson and Tom Holland. A student who had never listened to K-pop spotted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3106,"featured_media":176120,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,16,7],"tags":[49,936],"class_list":["post-176118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-kpop","category-news","tag-bts","tag-v"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176118","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\/3106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176122,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176118\/revisions\/176122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}