Pop music stars have long posed as gangsters. Now gang members are emulating the music video phenomenon “Gangnam Style.â€
In central Bangkok early Friday morning, members of rival teenage gangs fired off at least 50 bullets after a dance showdown boiled over, according to The Bangkok Post. During a night of drinking and partying, members of two gangs confronted each other with moves that mimicked those of PSY, a Korean performer whose song “Gangnam Style†has become a worldwide sensation on YouTube, the police and witnesses told the newspaper.
As our colleague Su Hyun Lee reported this week, the craze has even penetrated the bubble over North Korea, where apparatchiks used it to poke fu n at a South Korean presidential candidate.
An investigator told The Post that a quarrel broke out as the competition grew more intense. One of the groups left the nightclub and returned with weapons.
The gunfire appeared to have been more posturing; the police said that several cars were hit but no people were injured.
“Gangnam Style†refers to the customs of a fashionable district of Seoul.
