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Throughline: How Korean culture went global

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Gangnam Style

Gangnam Style did what no other Korean pop song had done. It broke into the US's notoriously exclusive music market. The message behind Gangnam Style resonated with Korean audiences. But those same themes of cynicism about economic inequality would re-emerge from South Korea years later, only darker.

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