BANGKOK, Nov 27 – Thai people laughed their heads off when a video clip of Thai sailors performing the globally-viral Gangnam Style dance went online a few months ago.
Before their tears of laughter dried up, the K-pop amusement craze encored to entertain Thai netizens—this time by the Thai police force.
Thailand’s sailors and police may have been quietly reprimanded for their inappropriate sense of humour, but the Corrections Department does not see it that way. It fully embraces the Korean hip-hop and introduces Gangnam dance style behind the prison walls.
Suchart Wong-ananchai, director general of the Corrections Department, smiled broadly as he presented awards to jail winners of the ‘Gangnam Style’ dance contest at the Bangkok Special Prison today.
Prisoners from seven zones under the supervision of the prison were invited to join the contest aimed at relieving prisoners’ stress and anxiety which frequently led to brawls behind bars.
Prisoners have been encouraged to exercise to enhance their physical fitness, he said, adding that the popular Gangnam Style dance is one of the most effective forms of physical exercise.
Mr Suchart will definitely be overjoyed if the South Korean music artist PSY can spare some time to train the contestants. Now that PSY is too busy preaching his pop music cult, Thailand’s prison warders are good enough at the new style to take over the training job.
