3. • The land value of Gangnam-gu, a district of Seoul, rivals
that of the entire city of Busan, the second-largest city in
South Korea
• Real estate in Seoul is already expensive in comparison
to the rest of South Korea, but Gangnam-gu‟s real estate
rates are twice that of everywhere else in Seoul
• Gangnam-gu is a third of the Greater Gangnam Area of
Seoul, which accounts for 10% of the country‟s land
value
• Drumming up the money necessary to move into an
apartment in Gangnam-gu takes the average Korean
family eighteen years of work
4.
5. • Gangnam-gu has
several high-end
fashion boutiques
• Gucci
• Dolce & Gabbana
• Louis Vuitton
• Armani
• Corso Como
• Spending money on
expensive coffee and
spending time at coffee
shops are common
pastimes
6. • Houses headquarters of
technological/gaming giants
• Google
• IBM
• NCSoft (Guild Wars 1,
AION)
• PandoraTV
• Toyota
7. • Has a strong academic
presence
• Purported to be the
nation‟s cream-of-the-
crop
• Is 1% of the country‟s
population, but 5% of
successful candidates
joining Seoul National
University are from
Gangnam-gu
• Seoul Nat‟l Uni is the
nation‟s top university
8. • Who wears pink-and-black suits
with those shoes?
• [Spoiler: PSY does]
• Traditional Korean clothing that
was worn in the past
• Still seen during cultural
festivals
• The pictured clothing are
priestly garments
9. • Urban style of music
that incorporates
electronic music
• Generally upbeat
musical style
• Sometimes exhibits sad
musical styles
• “Boy Bands” are the
norm/are popular in K-
Pop
• Solo artists are gaining
in popularity
10. • Performs music with an
urban/electro fusion with
R&B/Hip-Hop, light rock and
orchestral influences
• Obviously a very unique sound
• Two rappers, one head vocalist
and two support singers
• Left to right in image:
• G-Dragon [Leader/rapper]
• Seunguri [Supportive Vocalist]
• Taeyang [Lead choreographer]
• Daesung [Supportive Vocalist]
• T.O.P. [Lead Rapper]
• All members have solo careers,
and release their own albums
every other year
11. • On top of being involved
with every single aspect of
BIGBANG‟s work, he
manages his own solo
career and collaborates with
bandmembers often,
primarily T.O.P. and Taeyang
• Most famous songs are
Crayon and Heartbreaker
• Employs dance, Hip-Hop
and R&B in his music, and
has set the K-Pop trend of
using EDM [Electric Dance
Music] as a musical style
12. • Started with using R&B as the
musical style, but has started to
use EDM in their music
• Started a fashion trend in South
Korea, in which guys wear
skinny jeans, high-tops and
suit-jackets covering tee-shirts
• Is somewhat popular
internationally
• Translated most of their songs
into Japanese, and performed
them in Japanese
• Earned a Japanese honor, in
which they were in „the top three
for three consecutive releases
since their release in Japan‟
13. • Gangnam-gu, Seoul,
South Korea is a
paragon of South
Korean culture, and is
known as the Beverly
Hills of South Korea
• Gangnam-gu is open
to expanding their
culture and sharing
their culture with
others
