Boracay residents urged to embrace 'Gangnam Style'

"Gangnam Style" fever has infected Boracay as Korean tourists continue to be the top foreign visitors to this resort island, a tourism official here said on Wednesday.
Residents, tourism stakeholders, frontliners in this resort island were urged to learn and appreciate the culture and dialect of South Koreans in a bid to attract more visitors from that country.
"Gangnam Style" is the iconic song of South Korean singer and rapper Park Jae Sang more popularly known as Psy which depicts the lifestyle of people living in Seoul's most posh district. The song's music video has become the most viewed on YouTube with 824 hits since it was released earlier this year.
Tim Ticar of the Department of Tourism-Boracay said on Wednesday that this was the gist of the message of the two-day seminar held in the island from Nov.26-27.
The said conference was supported by the Association of Southeast Asian Nation (ASEAN) National Tourism Organization and participated by the Human Resources Developments.
"Participants were provided lectures and film viewing on the appreciation of culture, dialect of Koreans including their lifestyle so that we in the tourism sector would understand them," Ticar said.
No figures were provided as to how many South Koreans have visited the island this year.