Question 1

True or false: PSY lost the ability to perform the horse dance after a 2014 injury.

Accepted Answer

False. PSY never lost the ability. He continues performing the dance and even taught it to global celebrities years later.

Question 2

True or false: The song's title refers to an actual wealthy district in Seoul, South Korea.

Accepted Answer

True. Gangnam is a real, affluent neighborhood in Seoul—the song satirizes the materialistic culture associated with it.

Question 3

True or false: PSY's "Gangnam Style" was the first YouTube video to hit 1 billion views.

Accepted Answer

True. It reached 1 billion views in December 2012, making it the first video ever to achieve that milestone on YouTube.

Question 4

True or false: "Gangnam Style" was originally written as a protest song against economic inequality.

Accepted Answer

False. While the video satirizes class divides, PSY wrote it as a fun, ironic club track—not as a formal protest anthem.

Question 5

True or false: PSY was arrested for marijuana possession shortly after the song's success.

Accepted Answer

False. PSY was never arrested for marijuana. He did face a 2001 scandal for smoking marijuana, but it was before "Gangnam Style" fame.

Question 6

True or false: YouTube's view counter briefly broke because "Gangnam Style" exceeded its 32-bit integer limit.

Accepted Answer

True. In 2014, the video's popularity forced YouTube to upgrade from a 32-bit to a 64-bit integer counter to handle the overflow.

Question 7

True or false: The song was banned in North Korea for mocking their leader's lifestyle.

Accepted Answer

False. There's no credible evidence of a ban. North Korea actually used the video for propaganda, editing out PSY's dance.

Question 8

True or false: The "Gangnam Style" horse dance was inspired by a Korean folk tradition.

Accepted Answer

True. PSY adapted the dance from the "kkot daeun" movement in the Korean folk game "Ganggangsullae," adding his own comedic twist.

Gangnam Style Trivia Questions