She looked like she belonged in that Gangnam Style video. People with Gangnam Style does not end up at McDonalds. Although you will never have the same amount of Gangnam Style as Park Jae-Sang, you can still walk with your nose in the air and point and laugh at the misfortunate human beings with absolutely no Gangnam Style if you in fact do have a large amount of said Style. It's Gangnam Style''. Proof that simple minded people can be convinced to sing and dance to songs in languages they can't understand.
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Good Subscriber Account active since Shortcuts. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. The region has only very recently become extremely upscale, with a gradual upswing in the last half century or so.
How wealthy do you have to be to live in Gangnam? Again, this is all meant as a way to show affection and respect. The Gangnam Style music video itself on YouTube seems destined to be the first video posted there to pass 1 billion views.
As of the publishing of this article December 7 , it has received just over million views, up close to million views from about three weeks ago. There are nearly five credit cards for every adult. South Koreans have been living on credit since the mids, first because their country's amazing growth made borrowing seem safe, and then in the late s when the government encouraged private spending to climb out of the Asian financial crisis.
The emphasis on heavy spending, coupled with the country's truly astounding, two-generation growth from agrarian poverty to economic powerhouse, have engendered the country with an emphasis on hard work and on aspirationalism, as well as the materialism that can sometimes follow. Gangnam, Hong said, is a symbol of that aspect of South Korean culture.
That's seven percent of the entire country's GDP in an area of just 15 square miles. A place of the most conspicuous consumption, you might call it the embodiment of South Korea's one percent. The kids that he's talking about are not Silicon Valley self-made millionaires.
They're overwhelmingly trust-fund babies and princelings," he explained. The video is "a satire about Gangnam itself but also it's about how people outside Gangnam pursue their dream to be one of those Gangnam residents without even realizing what it really means," Kim explained to me when I got in touch with her. Koreans "really wanted to be one of them," but she says that feeling is changing, and "Gangnam Style" captures people's ambivalence.
The whole video is about him thinking he's a hotshot but then realizing he's just, you know, at a children's playground, or thinking he's playing polo or something and realizes he's on a merry-go-round.
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