K-pop (or Korean pop music) is all the rage, so why has this K-Pop Star opted for school in the U.S.?

The Guardian reports:

Meet the K-Pop star who goes to Georgetown University business school when he’s not playing to 45,000-strong stadiums (and even in D.C. he can’t escape his fame)

Sat in a packed lecture hall, Roy Kim is like any other Georgetown University student grappling to get his head around macroeconomics.

But it is a far cry from his life at home in South Korea.

Roy, 21, is one of the biggest K-pop stars in the world after winning over judges on Superstar K – the country’s version of American Idol – in 2012.

Blending in is a rare luxury when he’s not playing to thousands.

‘If everybody treats you like a celebrity for a long time, you become full of yourself, and that’s the last thing I want to be,’ Roy told the Washington Post from his cramped dorm which he shares with a friend from back home.

‘I’ve spent more of my life trying to get into school than trying to be a musician so it would be a waste if I stopped now.’

Roy, whose real name is Sangwoo KimSangwoo, had already accepted his place at the university’s McDonough School of Business in Washington, D.C., when he decided on a whim to audition for Superstar K.

His acoustic guitar-strung ballads were a phenomenal success.