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Gangnam-gu, Seoul, South KoreaBy: Michael Burton
The Beverly Hills of South Korea
This place is EXPENSIVE
• The land value of Gangnam-gu, a district of Seoul, rivals that of the entire city of Busan, the second-largest city in South Korea
• Real estate in Seoul is already expensive in comparison to the rest of South Korea, but Gangnam-gu’s real estate rates are twice that of everywhere else in Seoul
• Gangnam-gu is a third of the Greater Gangnam Area of Seoul, which accounts for 10% of the country’s land value
• Drumming up the money necessary to move into an apartment in Gangnam-gu takes the average Korean family eighteen years of work
Gangnam-gu Likes Spending• Gangnam-gu has
several high-end fashion boutiques• Gucci• Dolce & Gabbana• Louis Vuitton• Armani• Corso Como
• Spending money on expensive coffee and spending time at coffee shops are common pastimes
Gangnam-gu is a Technological Powerhouse
• Houses headquarters of technological/gaming giants• Google• IBM• NCSoft (Guild Wars 1,
AION)• PandoraTV• Toyota
Gangnam-gu’s populace is well-educated
• Has a strong academic presence
• Purported to be the nation’s cream-of-the-crop• Is 1% of the country’s
population, but 5% of successful candidates joining Seoul National University are from Gangnam-gu• Seoul Nat’l Uni is the
nation’s top university
Gangnam-gu Fashion may be strange, but it changes often to compensate
• Who wears pink-and-black suits with those shoes?• [Spoiler: PSY does]
• Traditional Korean clothing that was worn in the past
• Still seen during cultural festivals
• The pictured clothing are priestly garments
Korean Pop [K-Pop], the new wave of music from Seoul
• Urban style of music that incorporates electronic music
• Generally upbeat musical style
• Sometimes exhibits sad musical styles
• “Boy Bands” are the norm/are popular in K-Pop
• Solo artists are gaining in popularity
BIGBANG [Yes, it really is typeset that way]• Performs music with an
urban/electro fusion with R&B/Hip-Hop, light rock and orchestral influences• Obviously a very unique sound
• Two rappers, one head vocalist and two support singers
• Left to right in image:• G-Dragon [Leader/rapper]• Seunguri [Supportive Vocalist]• Taeyang [Lead choreographer]• Daesung [Supportive Vocalist]• T.O.P. [Lead Rapper]
• All members have solo careers, and release their own albums every other year
G-DRAGON[Yep, typeset that way too]
• On top of being involved with every single aspect of BIGBANG’s work, he manages his own solo career and collaborates with bandmembers often, primarily T.O.P. and Taeyang
• Most famous songs are Crayon and Heartbreaker
• Employs dance, Hip-Hop and R&B in his music, and has set the K-Pop trend of using EDM [Electric Dance Music] as a musical style
SHINee[said as ‘shiny’]
• Started with using R&B as the musical style, but has started to use EDM in their music
• Started a fashion trend in South Korea, in which guys wear skinny jeans, high-tops and suit-jackets covering tee-shirts
• Is somewhat popular internationally• Translated most of their songs
into Japanese, and performed them in Japanese
• Earned a Japanese honor, in which they were in ‘the top three for three consecutive releases since their release in Japan’
Conclusion!
• Gangnam-gu, Seoul, South Korea is a paragon of South Korean culture, and is known as the Beverly Hills of South Korea
• Gangnam-gu is open to expanding their culture and sharing their culture with others