# Oppa Gangnam Style - awesome Korean music video **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 9, 2012, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oppa-gangnam-style-awesome-korean-music-video/630919 "2012-08-09T00:50:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oppa-gangnam-style-awesome-korean-music-video/630919/1 "2012-08-09T00:50:07Z")
I had to share this. I love this video. [Oppa Gangnam Style](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0) ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oppa-gangnam-style-awesome-korean-music-video/630919/2 "2012-08-09T00:53:27Z")
It’s pretty lovely, in an Ooga-Chaka way; a friend linked to it on FB a few days ago, and I still get a giant grin whenever I think about it. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oppa-gangnam-style-awesome-korean-music-video/630919/3 "2012-08-09T04:38:41Z")
I think this makes the Korean war worth it. ---
**Author:** ![Renee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/renee/32/287_2.png) [@Renee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renee)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oppa-gangnam-style-awesome-korean-music-video/630919/4 "2012-08-09T12:21:08Z")
Ha! Thanks for sharing, loved it. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oppa-gangnam-style-awesome-korean-music-video/630919/5 "2012-08-09T12:34:33Z")
It’s the _West End Girls_ of Korea. ---
**Author:** ![mage-girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@mage-girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mage-girl)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oppa-gangnam-style-awesome-korean-music-video/630919/6 "2012-08-09T14:36:53Z")
That was definitely the funniest thing I’ve seen all morning. 🙂 Thanks for posting it! ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oppa-gangnam-style-awesome-korean-music-video/630919/7 "2012-08-09T14:40:31Z")
I love the guy. He’s so cocky and confident, and look at him gyrate! ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oppa-gangnam-style-awesome-korean-music-video/630919/8 "2012-08-09T15:14:58Z")
Open condom style. ---
**Author:** ![Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swords_to_Plowshares)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oppa-gangnam-style-awesome-korean-music-video/630919/9 "2012-08-09T16:25:30Z")
The director should win an award. The scenes are very random, funny, and somehow still fit with the style. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oppa-gangnam-style-awesome-korean-music-video/630919/10 "2012-08-09T16:44:05Z")
> [@Swords\_to\_Plowshares](#): > > The director should win an award. The scenes are very random, funny, and somehow still fit with the style. Yeah it was fun making a list of stuff that was going on as the song went on. - Hot dancing toddler - Horse stables - More dancing toddler - Paper shredding facility? - Old guys playing board game in field etc 🙂 I put it out on Twitter that the Indians’ awesome Korean right fielder should change his intro music to that song! ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oppa-gangnam-style-awesome-korean-music-video/630919/11 "2012-08-11T10:08:28Z")
And he doesn’t even stop singing when he’s ON THE TOILET! ---
**Author:** ![Encinitas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Encinitas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Encinitas)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2012, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oppa-gangnam-style-awesome-korean-music-video/630919/12 "2012-08-12T03:59:48Z")
It’s Kanye East! ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oppa-gangnam-style-awesome-korean-music-video/630919/13 "2012-09-19T03:23:35Z")
215 million + views on youtube, and he has now made the talk show circuit in the states and is rumored to be collaborating with Justin Beiber and Brittany Spears (I can’t say much for his taste in American artists but whatev). I also heard this today on a popular local radio station here in Memphis which plays top 40 dance music. I was shocked to say the least, to hear a foreign language song, let alone a Korean one on Memphis radio was pretty cool. 🆒 \*\*On a side note I think it is amusing when people who aren’t familiar with Kpop are amazed at Psy’s English. Two clicks on Google and you find out he was educated in the states while attending college in California. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oppa-gangnam-style-awesome-korean-music-video/630919/14 "2012-09-19T04:45:26Z")
The Indians’ right fielder has finally changed his music. Just this week, I think. Surely due to my insistence! ---
**Author:** ![AaronX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7bcc69/32.png) [@AaronX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AaronX)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oppa-gangnam-style-awesome-korean-music-video/630919/15 "2012-09-19T07:39:36Z")
I just saw this video for the first time a few days ago to see what the hype was. It’s quite a catchy song, and amazing how it’s gone viral. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oppa-gangnam-style-awesome-korean-music-video/630919/16 "2012-09-19T07:46:47Z")
For those that are wondering, it’s apparently actually a really clever, subtle satire of Korean culture, specifically of both the residents of the Gangnam District of Seoul (think Korea’s version of Beverly Hills) and the people who really want to be a part of it without actually knowing what being “Gangnam Style” entails. > **[Gangnam Style, Dissected: The Subversive Message Within South Korea's Music...](https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/08/gangnam-style-dissected-the-subversive-message-within-south-koreas-music-video-sensation/261462/)** > > Beneath the catchy dance beat and hilarious scenes of Seoul's poshest neighborhood, there might be a subtle message about wealth, class, and value in South Korean society. And yes, it’s also really catchy. ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oppa-gangnam-style-awesome-korean-music-video/630919/17 "2012-09-19T07:54:39Z")
Here’s [**CNN coverage**](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vy-zilON8k) of Psy’s new viral hit. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oppa-gangnam-style-awesome-korean-music-video/630919/18 "2012-09-19T07:55:47Z")
Also, there’s also an official version that’s (vaguely) from the girl at the end’s perspective: [PSY (ft. HYUNA) - 오빤 딱 내 스타일 M/V - YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcLNteez3c4&feature=relmfu) It’s basically the song: Extreme Cheesecake Edition. And apparently that girl is mimicking a Gangnam accent (think “doing a Valley Girl voice”), and doesn’t normally sound so squeaky. ---
**Author:** ![Beastly\_Rotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@Beastly\_Rotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beastly_Rotter)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oppa-gangnam-style-awesome-korean-music-video/630919/19 "2012-09-19T09:54:26Z")
A dance craze. What joy. ---
**Author:** ![Dervorin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Dervorin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dervorin)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oppa-gangnam-style-awesome-korean-music-video/630919/20 "2012-09-19T11:29:25Z")
I’m ashamed to say I have no idea how many views I’ve contributed towards the total, but it’s quite a large number. I cannot, apparently, stop watching this. And now I have some friends who are similarly addicted. Mwa-hahahahaahah! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oppa-gangnam-style-awesome-korean-music-video/630919.md?page=2)