He shows me the double hop from one foot to the other, a rhythmic shuffle which must be mastered first before you can bring the crossed wrists into play. We stand in the middle of a ballroom at London's Dorchester Hotel, watched by his entourage and a photographer and video crew there to record this moment for a posterity which won't thank us for the effort. And now the poor sod has to teach it to me, a man who, when they were handing out the feet, was clearly in the queue marked 'fish'. That's how to keep a relationship alive.Īs a result, Psy has been called upon to teach the dance to others. Barack Obama has promised to dance Gangnam style for Michelle in the White House. Boris Johnson claimed to have danced Gangnam style with David Cameron at Chequers one weekend.

Flash mobs 30,000 strong have danced Gangnam style. Not bad for a bunch of dance moves involving a wide-legged strut as if riding a horse, hands crossed at the wrists as though gripping the reins, followed by a whipping gesture.

The track, shamelessly mocking the pretensions of people who falsely associate themselves with the fashions and styles of the sprauncy Gangnam district of Seoul – a kind of South Korean Beverly Hills – has been called a 'force for world peace' by the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

In this story everything is forward motion). It's the second-most watched after Justin Bieber's 'Baby', with more than 700m views (again and counting. The video for his song 'Gangnam Style', released in July, is officially the most 'liked' ever on YouTube – 5m times and counting. He is credited with demolishing cultural barriers while getting the world dancing. Psy, short for Psycho – real name Park Jae-sang – is also the biggest pop star on the planet right now. He is a stocky, soft-cheeked 34-year-old Korean man wearing a shiny dinner jacket, co-respondent shoes without socks and enough make-up to make Katie Price seem like an ambassador for the natural look.

Learning to dance like a horse is really, really hard, even when you have a good teacher – and mine is the best in the world. Reading this on the mobile site? Click here to view the video

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