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Korean pop song singer Psy's Gangnam Style goes viral
Posted: 09.26.2012 at 8:14 AM
Craig McKenna

Craig is a multimedia journalist at WNWO.

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An infectious music video mad in South Korea has been named the most-liked video on YouTube. It took YouTube by storm last month. Many American viewers were introduced to the South Korean rapper at the VMAs.

The Guinness World records organization bestowed the honor of Psy's (Sye's) " Gangnam (Gong-nam) Style" music video.

Gangnam Style is blowing YouTube up it went viral faster then Justin Biebers song "Baby" and Rebecca Black's "Friday," according to the Daily Dot.  With in just 51 days the video climbed to 100 million views.

Gangnam Style garnered over 117 million views since it was posted on July 15, and Psy, a.k.a. Park Jae Sung, became the first Korean artist to be invited to the VMAs since Rain performed in 2005, according to the Korea Times.

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