S. Korea's Inaugural Gets Gangnam Style

PSY will perform at inaugural of Park Geun-hye
By Polly Davis Doig,  Newser Staff
Posted Jan 27, 2013 12:00 PM CST
S. Korea's Inaugural Gets Gangnam Style
South Korean rapper PSY is appearing at his country's presidential inauguration.   (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)

Maybe he'll want to think twice about lip-syncing, but PSY is giving his native South Korea a little Gangnam style for its upcoming presidential inauguration. It's actually unclear whether his horse-riding romp will make the cut (he has other songs?), but he's confirmed to perform at the February 25 inaugural of president-elect Park Geun-hye. South Korea is really digging its native son, notes France 24: PSY was in November awarded the nation's highest cultural honor, the Okgwan Order of Cultural Merit. (More South Korea stories.)

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