Oppan Gangnam style?

Taken from Wikipedia

     I have always been amazed by the K-pop culture as it has a lot to do with medical aesthetics. From being a reserve country now over a couple of years K-pop culture has actually disseminated to almost every part of Asia if not the world. The most recent craze of K-pop culture is the Oppan Gangnam style. At first I was like... What? Initially hearing the name Gangnam I was thinking of some Hindustani movie or song, but I heard it air on Hitz Fm the other day and realized it was K-Pop. I asked my suppliers and my friends about it, and everyone was familiar with the Gangnam style except perhaps me. I guess I must have been too caught up with work to realize the viral hit sensation and I thought aging was getting to me, but apparently, the Gangnam Style was only aired on July 15th of this year. Pheewww.... and I thought I was losing my touch to the world.

So I decided to take a look at the infamous Gangnam Style on YouTube. The original video has 87 million views since July (not bad). And it even has its own entry on Wikipedia. Definitely super viral. And I would say that the you tube is pretty interesting and entertaining. His funny dance actually looks cool when it is done by so many others at the same time and it is a different view of K-Pop culture where the singer is usually super 'lencai'.

But despite the singer's common look - I did notice he had his nose done which is really common in Korea. My colleagues in Korea tell me that every single Korean will get a nose filler done by the time they are 18. It is so popular that on 1 small street there are 30 different aesthetic clinics and they can still make a good living. (And I thought 30+ clinics on Orchard street in Singapore was overboard). In fact medical aesthetics in Korea is so common that they have actually developed machines and techniques which initially I was pretty resistant to the idea because we had a private joke that Korean machines only lasted 2 years but nowadays with their advancement and technology, it is almost at par with the American or UK produced machines. They have also come up with mini thread techniques which looks promising and less invasive compared to traditional threads. On this 16th I will be attending a training introductory course and hopefully from there if it is really safe with minimal complications then perhaps I will introduce the technique to my clinic to tackle sagging issues of face, breasts and buttocks.

More solutions for my patients.

Going back to Gangnam style, Mr PSY rapper is pretty good and he does have a pretty contagious song. The Gangnam moves are simply hilarious but with the tune it looks cool and I wouldn't be surprised if it becomes an aerobic routine soon (or perhaps already is). How safe it is to your joints in view of the twisting movements of the knee? I'd have to get an orthopedic opinion on that. In the mean time, let's enjoy the shuffle movements while we can. (Reminds me a bit like poco poco craze). But I do recommend some child monitoring for the video, some of the scenes are not so proper.

Oh, for those wondering what is Gangnam....

According to Wikipedia :

"Gangnam Style" is a Korean language colloquialism that refers to a luxurious lifestyle associated with the Gangnam district,^[4] an affluent and trendy area of Seoul.^[5] The music video depicts Psy dancing at various locations in Gangnam.^[6] The song's theme is about "the perfect girlfriend who knows when to be refined and when to get wild."^[7]

In Korean colloquialism, "오빤 강남 스타일 (Oppan Gangnam style)" may be translated as "I love the Gangnam style" or literally translated as "Your big brother is Gangnam Style". The Korean word 오빠 (oppa) means "a female's elder brother" but can be also used as a first-, second- or third-person masculine pronoun to designate a male who is elder or older than a female. Based on more recent cultural norms, the term has typically been used to refer to a boyfriend or male spouse. It is used as a first-person pronoun in this phrase. 오빤 (oppan) is an abbreviation of 오빠는 (oppaneun). 는 is a topic marker, which in this case means the implied subject of the sentence is the singer (오빠). The verb "to be" is omitted, as is often the case in such short Korean sentences. Thus the literal translation of "Oppan Gangnam style" is "Your big brother [is] Gangnam Style".

The lyrics are by Psy, music by Psy and Yoo Gun-hyung, and it was arranged by Yoo Gun-hyung, who is a well-known producer in South Korea and also collaborated with Psy in the past.

Cheers.