Gangnam Style, Dokdo Style

By James Pearson and Raphael Rashid

Two very different stories have been making the headlines this week in Korea. One about two bickering neighbors, and another about an aging Korean pop star’s music video going viral worldwide. But what have the two got in common? Can we draw parallels? No. Some might say that’s ludicrous. Because it is. But maybe they’ve never heard of “Dokdo Style.”

Korean pop star PSY’s “Gangnam Style,” a catchy but heavily irritating ballad about the perfect girlfriend, took the Internet by storm shortly after its launch last month. Clocking almost 50 million hits on YouTube, the