When South Korea swore in its first female president, Park Geun-hye, last month, the proceedings included a speech calling for North Korea to abandon its nuclear ambitions, a 21-gun salute, and a performance of Gangnam Style by Psy, the country’s rap sensation whose YouTube video for the song was not only the first to reach more than one billion views but also a hyper-efficient conduit for introducing Korean style (or, at least, the styles of the Gangnam shopping district) to the rest of the world.
不久前,當南韓首位女總統朴槿惠(Park Geun-hye)宣誓就職時,整個就職典禮中既有呼籲北韓放棄其雄心勃勃核計劃的演講,也鳴放了21響禮炮,還有該國Rap明星樸載相(Psy)現場演唱《江南Style》(Gangnam Style)的助興。他演唱的《江南Style》不僅成爲YouTube網站上首個點擊率超億的影片,而且成爲向全球推介南韓時尚生活(抑或說至少是江南購物區的時尚風)最行之有效的手段。