G-Dragon donates 81.8 million won to charity for his birthday

Big Bang's G-Dragon celebrated his 26th (Korean age) birthday by making a generous donation.

G-Dragon made a donation of 81800000 won (~$73,000USD), symbolizing his birthday August 18th, to the Seungil Hope Foundation for the establishment of a rehabilitation hospital for Lou Gehrig's disease.

YG Entertainment shared that G-Dragon decided on the donation in return of his fans' overwhelming love and support throughout the years. G-Dragon's fans made a similar donation, using his birth date, of 8,180,000 won to the same charity in his name.

Meanwhile, G-Dragon will be holding an encore concert of his solo world tour 'One of a Kind: The Final' on August 31st and September 1st in Korea.

From Sean's Instagram:

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@jinusean3000: "Jiyong donated 81,800,000WON on his birthday to Seungil Hope Foundation so that they can build a hospital to treat Lou Gehrig's disease. Since 2 years ago when Jiyong first met with Park Seungil and until now Jiyong has been donating every year on his birthday to help the patients diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease and the amount of donation increased significantly this year. Also Jiyong's fans ALWAYS-GD donated 8,180,000WON to Seungil Hope Foundation. As someone who knew Jiyong since he was very little, I feel so proud and I am so happy to see him succeed as an artist and as a musician and how he is returning the love he received to the society by donating. On behalf of those who are like Park Seungil who is suffering from the Lou Gehrig's disease but never lost his hope and as the representative of Seungil Hope Foundation, I would like to sincerely thank Jiyong and his fans. And Jiyong, happy birthday!!!!!!"