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South Korea is building a giant Gangnam Style statue

by Jeremy Mersereau

If you had one brief, shining moment of worldwide cultural relevance, wouldn’t you want to immortalize it forever with a statue? Just imagine how much the IKEA car park would be spruced up with a massive bronze likeness of the jacket monkey.

Now imagine you’re South Korea, and a pop song from your country achieved massive fame, became the most watched video ever on YouTube, currently sitting at 2.4 billion views? You’d want to make sure future generations knew about how your country launched a portly man’s Sisyphean hell of a career singing the same four minutes over and over.

Seoul’s Gangnam district is now accepting bids to construct a giant monument to “Gangnam Style,” with a budget set at 418 million won (approx. $556,000 CND) via its website. You can a see mock-up courtesy of the Korean media above (1:1 PSY will probably not be included in the final project). When completed, the statue will measure five metres by eight metres, and sit in front of Seoul’s COEX Center, where part of the iconic video was filmed.

If the statue comes in under budget, hopefully giant T.O.P. and G-Dragon effigies are up next.

[H/T Kotaku]