Psy's Gentleman banned from Korean TV due to depiction of anti-social behavior
Sunday, Apr 21, 2013, 11:41 IST | Place: Mumbai | Agency: DNA Web Team
Gangnam Style singer Psy's latest music video Gentleman may have created and broken many records around the world but in his home country, South Korea it has been slammed.
Korean Broadcast Service (KBS) television banned Psy's new song Gentlemansaying that the music video shows anti-social behaviour and will encourage people to do likewise.
A KBS statement suggested the offending sequences in the video, which has already clocked up 150 million views on YouTube, showed Psy jaywalking down an empty street and then kicking a traffic cone labelled "No Parking".
KBS said the images might set a bad example to viewers and did not meet the standards set by the broadcaster.
Psy's new track 'Gentleman' banned in South Korea
State broadcaster KBS bans the controversial video for showing the singer abusing public property
Psy's video for his new track 'Gentleman' has been banned by a broadcaster in his native South Korea - watch the offending video below.
The promo clip, the follow-up to the hugely successful 'Gangnam Style', sees the singer making fun of the song's title by indulging in some bad behaviour including making small children cry, farting in a girl's face and trying to remove the tops of sunbathing women.
But these degrading acts are not the reason why the singer has been banned. Instead, the state-funded broadcaster KBS blacklisted Psy for the lesser crime of kicking a cone that says "no parking", reports AP.
An anonymous statement from a KBS spokesperson said the scene didn't meet its standards as a public broadcaster. The spokesperson also revealed that the station had banned similar videos in the past for abusing public property.
Psy's 'Gangnam Style' became a massive viral success due to the popularity of its video and was estimated to have made over $8million (£5million) in ad revenues via YouTube. It also broke the site's record for the 'most liked' video ever as well as the most-watched video, and helped the singer become the first Korean artist to bag a UK Number One on the Official Singles Chart.
The track has picked up some unlikely fans with Dave Grohl claiming the song is one of the best tracks of the past decade and Liam Gallagher declaring it an "absolute classic".
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