Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Six Things You Didn't Know About Korean Rapper Psy and His Party Song

From the Sept. 7, 2012, ABC News by Laura Effron.

Psy, real name Jae-Song Park, is 35 (back then).

1.  "Gangham Style made K-Pop (Korean Pop Music) cool again.

2.  The song was (obviously) a smash hit in Korea first.  It spent five weeks at #1 on Billboard's K-Pop Hot 100.

3.  The repetitive lyrics is "Oppan Gangham Style."

4.  Gangham is a posh district of seoul, South Korea, something like the Beverly Hills of South Korea.

5.  Psy has been around for over a decade.

6.  Is a Korean Justin Bieber on the horizon?  Perhaps.

--Great Video, Though.  --Road "Gangham Style" Dog

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