Gangnam Style Sculpture
Giant bronze fists frozen in a horse-riding dance pose, lighting up and playing music when visitors approach.
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This guide to the Gangnam Style Sculpture in Seoul opens with Psy's 2012 song mocking the status obsession of the Gangnam district it stands in, and how a video meant as satire made the neighborhood's name known worldwide. It follows the local government's decision to answer that fame with a monument of its own, comparing itself to Wall Street's Charging Bull, and the public bidding that followed to cast two overlapping bronze fists. Stand outside COEX for the best view of the pair together.
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