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Korea Herald
10-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Korea Herald
G-Dragon sends newly unveiled 'Home Sweet Home' into space
The transmission also featured cinematic media art piece based on scan of G-Dragon's iris G-Dragon, member of K-pop group Big Bang and a visiting professor at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, has become the first K-pop singer to beam his music into space. G-Dragon's agency Galaxy Corp. announced Wednesday that the artist's song 'Home Sweet Home,' along with its music video, was transmitted into space via satellite in collaboration with the KAIST Space Institute. The track is the second single from G-Dragon's recent album 'Ubermensch,' released in November. While BTS' music video for 'Dynamite' was previously transmitted from space to Earth by Korea's first lunar orbiter Danuri in 2022, this marks the first time a Korean artist's song has been transmitted from Earth into space through a ground-based satellite antenna. 'It's astounding that science has advanced to a point where people around the world can share music,' G-Dragon said at the 'Innovate Korea 2025' forum jointly hosted by Herald Media Group, KAIST and the National Research Council of Science & Technology at KAIST, Wednesday. 'But the idea of one of my favorite songs being selected and sent into space still feels surreal. I'm incredibly excited — and I just hope the song finds the right home out there.' Galaxy Chief Happiness Officer Choi Yong-ho said, 'It marks a pioneering step in introducing human culture to space and will be remembered as a milestone performance in music history — on par with what The Beatles achieved.' NASA beamed The Beatles' song 'Across the Universe' into space in February 2008, The initiative is part of the ongoing collaboration between KAIST and Galaxy Corporation, an artificial intelligence metaverse company, under their joint 'AI Enter-Tech Research Center. The interdisciplinary project merges science, art and popular music, reflecting efforts to pioneer future-forward cultural content. The transmission also featured a cinematic media art piece titled 'Iris,' created by Lee Jin-joon, a leading contemporary artist and an associate professor at KAIST. Based on a scan of G-Dragon's iris and enhanced with generative AI, the visual work was projected using a 13-meter satellite antenna on KAIST's campus — the first of its kind to be used for projection mapping. 'The iris is often called the 'mirror of the soul,' and through this project, I wanted to represent the infinite universe as seen through the inner lens of humanity — G-Dragon's gaze, in this case," Lee said. Also the same day, KAIST held an official plaque-unveiling ceremony to commemorate the establishment of the AI Enter-Tech Research Center, a joint initiative with Galaxy Corp. The center aims to integrate advanced science and technology with creative cultural content, further solidifying KAIST's commitment to art-technology convergence. Since being appointed visiting professor last year, G-Dragon has played a leading role in promoting AI-powered entertainment research and has actively contributed to project planning through his agency.
Yahoo
08-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
South Korea is converting an abandoned coal mine into a moon exploration testing ground
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. South Korea is transforming abandoned coal mines into testing grounds for lunar exploration. The Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM) conducted a demonstration inside the tunnel of the former Hamtae mine in Taebaek, Gangwon Province, in late March, deploying prototype lunar rovers using autonomous navigation and other technologies with potential for use in space mining, the South Korean news outlet Pulse reported. The rovers demonstrated mobility across challenging terrain, sample collection and remote sensing capabilities. The move highlights the plan, which involves government and research institutes, to turn the mine into a space resource convergence demonstration complex and help develop technologies that could extract useful resources from the moon. "To compete in the global resource race, Korea must develop space resource technologies independently," said Kim Kyeong-ja, head of the Space Resource Exploration and Utilization Center at KIGAM, Pulse reported. "This requires mobilizing national capabilities via the collaboration of multiple institutions. It is not something that a single researcher or institute can achieve alone." Related: South Korea creates new KASA space agency, sets sights on the moon and Mars Related Stories: — South Korea's moon mission snaps stunning Earth pics after successful lunar arrival — Moon mining gains momentum as private companies plan for a lunar economy — The moon: Everything you need to know about Earth's companion South Korea has already launched a lunar orbiter, Danuri, which is also known as the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO). The country established its national space agency, KASA, last year and is targeting its first robotic lunar landing by 2032. Taebek is South Korea's highest-elevation city, and therefore symbolically the closest one to space. Its former use for mining coal for energy is giving way to the testing of technology that could unlock future energy sources from off world. "The coal that was once mined in Taebaek fueled Korea's industrialization during the 1960s," KIGAM President Lee Pyeong-koo said. "We are now beginning a new mission to explore energy resources for future generations, and we are once again starting in Taebaek."
