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The Gangnam Style phenomenon has been an astonishment to anyone involved in culture in Asia, The New Yorker?s Evan Osnos tells Fareed Zakaria in a GPS web extra.
?This is not a video that anyone expected to be a success. It didn?t come out of the main cultural industry in Korea. This thing came out of nowhere and it?s a phenomenon. The question is, why? And the answer actually tells you a lot about China today,? Osnos says.
?The reason it has been so successful is that it laughs at itself ? it has a great sense of humor and it?s making fun of the enormous pop industry in Korea, which is big business, it?s very successful around the world. In China today, the problem ultimately, culturally, for people that are involved in the arts ? whether it?s music or filmmaking ? is that if you do anything that is truly radical that is making people uncomfortable, then there are so many points when the system will intervene.?
Watch the video for the full take.
Source: http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/25/why-china-cant-do-gangnam-style/
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