Trendy Spot Urges Tourists to Ride In and Spend, ‘Gangnam Style’
Jean Chung for The New York Times
Tourists at a plywood stage honoring the rapper Psy in the Gangnam district of Seoul recently.
By MARTIN FACKLER Published: December 31, 2012
SEOUL, South Korea — As monuments go, this one seems puny and tasteless next to the designer glass skyscrapers and upscale fashion boutiques of the affluent Gangnam district. Yet, it occupies a spot of honor right across from Samsung’s corporate headquarters: a hastily built plywood stage decorated with black, cutout silhouettes of a rotund man who appears to be prancing like a horse.
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