• Joe Chan

    Joe Chan Profile

  • Alan Wong

    Executive Producer

    Alan Wong oversees a team of video producers who create video content for BU's online editorial publications and social media channels. He has produced more than 300 videos for Boston University, shuffling through a number of countries in the process: Australia, Argentina, Peru, Ireland, China, and Cambodia. He has also bored audiences in Atlanta and Boston giving talks on video for higher ed. Profile

Comments & Discussion

Boston University moderates comments to facilitate an informed, substantive, civil conversation. Abusive, profane, self-promotional, misleading, incoherent or off-topic comments will be rejected. Moderators are staffed during regular business hours (EST) and can only accept comments written in English. Statistics or facts must include a citation or a link to the citation.

There are 32 comments on YouSpeak: Gangnam Style!

  1. The meaning of the song is awesome! I don’t know word for word translations, but my friend told me the gist of it. He said the song is mocking the people who live in the town Gangnam, South Korea. Gangnam is where the wealthiest people live in South Korea. I guess the dance moves and the images of the horses, expensive cars, and beach scenes are mocking this affluent way of life. Part 2 of this song has a similar meaning with another unique story!

  2. Gangnam Style is a statement on the wild and exorbitant lifestyles of people who live in the Gangnam District of Seoul, Korea, which kind of like a Beverly Hills.

  3. As a current BU student, I seriously can’t believe that we have this as the homepage for the BU website.
    I am offended. Not only is it silly, but Psy wasn’t at BU for more than a semester.

    Does BU want to gain money so desperately for the 1B challenge?
    Shame on you people.

    George Mangoli

    1. George,

      Thank you for posting your comment and for letting me know there are students like you.

      I rarely visit the BU homepage, but did so in order to reset my alumni password, after a student emailed me regarding an informational interview today. That student reignited my interest in my Alma-mater.

      To my surprise, the homepage prominently greeted me with a Gangnam Style skit. My instant (negative) reaction is, “what the heck happened to the school?”

      Please change the content on the homepage with something that better represents and celebrates the university’s community.

      Eric
      BU ’00

      1. By seeing people say this is the best YouSpeak ever and people feeling offended at the same time, I know already this is the most successful homepage — in the sense that it attracts attention regardless of appropriateness — and it is actually the first time I clicked into the homepage. Good to see controversies.

    2. I have nothing to do with this school but I accidentally heard from someone else that there was something interesting about “Gangnam Style” on this school’s website. Guess more than a billion people may visit here!

  4. I don’t understand how anyone would be ‘offended’ by Psy on the homepage. It’s fun people and we’ve had enough serious stuff happen on campus lately. No worries, Eric (the alum) we’re still trying to save the world and I promise we all learned something in class today. I’m not sure when you went to BU, but I hope you had some fun and did some silly stuff. What’s the harm in having our homepage reflect our fun side. Look up from your blackbery, sit back and smile!

    1. Right.

      We’re proud of belonging to a community with a sense of humor, one that doesn’t take itself too seriously.

      I’m sure the homepage will go back to serious scholarship and research next, so enjoy something now that other universities would be too stuffy to exhibit.

      Peace and laughter.

    2. Don’t confuse humor with shalowness / battiness.

      If a “Gangnam style” education is what BU deems BEST describes its value to incoming freshmen, current students, alumni, and to the rest of the world, then this is trully sad and disheartening. What is more disheartening, however, is people like you, who attempt to excuse this preposterity (which CLEARLY aims to attract money from Psy).

      I am not saying don’t do the video. The video in itself is of course quite funny, I definitely admit to that. But at least have some common descency and refrain from putting it at the MOST important place of your website, the main page.

      George Mangoli

      1. OK, so you think you are deep and whoever think it’s OK to put this video on the homepage is shallow. I get that.

        And who said the homepage of BU can’t be shallow sometimes just to make people laugh? I’ve got enough study/research at school, and I want to be shallow sometimes.

        And finally, who ever said “Gangnam style” educaction BEST describes its value to incoming freshmen, current students, alumni, and to the rest of the world?

  5. I graduated from the BUSPH with an MPH in ’86 – way back. Love PSY! Loved/Love BU! BU IS IT !!!!! Bigger picture; enjoy your time at BU and please, do whatever you can to help this world…PSY included

  6. Thanks to the insane views on “Gangam Style” and “See You Again” — the math of those view counts adds up to more than 21,000 years worth of streaming each — YouTube had to rewrite its code to up the number of maximum views. Initially, YouTube could only store 2,147,483,647 views on one video, but “Gangnam Style” passed that in December 2014, forcing the video streaming site to upgrade to a 64-bit integer (which means you could technically stream “See You Again” more than 9 quintillion times).

Post a comment.

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *