Psy (Sigh?)

South Korean performer Psy is best known for his monster hit Gangham Style. Psy's video for this song has over 1.5 billion hits on YouTube. Not 1.5 million, 1.5 BILLION. Psy appeared in a Pistachio commercial during the Super Bowl and performed in New York during New Year's Eve including this amusing interaction with MC Hammer, Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin. (Anderson Cooper clearly didn't recognize Hammer.)



After these events, I think most people figured that Psy's 15 minutes of fame in America was up. Not so fast! Psy attended last week's White House Correspondence Dinner (maybe he's a special White House Blogger for a Korean newspaper?) pictured below with Nationals pitcher Gio Gonzalez.

In addition, within the past few days, he received a nice ovation at a Los Angeles Dodgers game. (Tommy Lasorda is not impressed.)



While I appreciate that Psy is doing very well for himself and is somehow staying relevant, when does his 15 minutes end? Actually, you don't need to answer that question. He'll probably be on next season's Dancing with the Stars, Splash or Celebrity Apprentice.

h/t DC Sports Bog and Deadspin

North Korea Captures Psy (Express Fail)

The big news today is the potential instability between North Korea and South Korea. If you haven't followed the news, here is the basic information from Yahoo/AP:

North and South Korea staged dueling war games Monday as threatening rhetoric from the rivals rose to the highest level since North Korea rained artillery shells on a South Korean island in 2010.

Enraged over the South's joint military drills with the United States and recent U.N. sanctions, Pyongyang has piled threat on top of threat, including vows to launch a nuclear strike on the U.S. and to scrap the nearly 60-year-old armistice that ended the Korean War.

While this doesn't sound very good, the folks at Express apparently believe that war has already started and that North Korea captured the South Korean capital on Seoul. Even worse, the North Koreans are forcing arguably the most famous South Korean, Psy, to perform his follow up to Gangham Style in their captured land.

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Update 3/12/13: In Tuesday's paper, Express issued a correction stating that Psy will perform in Seoul, South Korea. Congrats to Express on correcting their mistake.