SEOUL: At a small cafe in Korea's capital, Seoul, a group of teenage girls are giggling. Their computer screen is flashing images of the newest sensation Psy and his invisible horse riding dance. For them, he is the future, and quite literally, what they want in a man. “He is so cute and funny,” said Ai Sook Kim, a 17-year-old senior in high school. She told Bikyamasr.com that “all the girls now want to be with someone like him. We need a charming man to make us feel right.” The Psy phenomenon first began in Korea and his popularity grew so rapidly that most young girls had an almost obsessive desire to watch the video online. For these young girls, Psy has come to represent the ultimate man in their minds. And it's unlikely to change in the near future. “I just think he is the best,” they said, their reddening of their faces showing their embarrassment. Psy might have taken the world by storm, but he remains the key figure in Korea's pop culture world. Girls have been spotted searching areas of the capital in recent days for the young rapper, attempting to catch a glimpse of arguably the most popular star on the planet at the moment. For Ai Sook's friend, a half-English half-Korean girl, Susanne, Psy is the best of all worlds. “Even though we don't really know him, he seems fun, happy and loving what he does. That is confidence I want in a future man,” she said. But the future will tell how his popular will remain, or wane. Fans are expecting the rapper to push hard to maintain his success and his spot atop the international music scene. “I really do hope that he can find something just as exciting, creative and entertaining," high school student LeeAnn Lee told Bikyamasr.com as she and her friends were on the prowl in an upscale Seoul neighborhood last weekend for the pop icon after he had reportedly been spotted. Across Korea, there is a sense of pride in his showing in the United States and the YouTube views of the music vidoe that has seen millions attempt to emulate the now famous dance. This past week, after a tour of the United States, which included spots on Today and Saturday Night Live, Psy returned home to a hero's welcome. On Friday, Psy tweeted that “Gangnam Style" has topped 300M views on YouTube. It's all great news for the unlikely rapper who continues to take America and the world by storm. He didn't miss a beat, literally, upon return to his native Korea, where he headed to a local university campus to perform his now iconic dance. At a press conference, Psy said that America was very good to him. “Even if they didn't know the lyrics, they just danced," he said on Thursday. Matt Lauer had said in a “Today" segment, “We're looking forward to having Psy back on the Plaza at his earliest convenience." With a new music deal for an American audience in the works, over 300 million YouTube views of his trademark dance, the future for the young Korean pop star is just beginning. He even taught Britney Spears the dance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. And as NBC said, the rapper “provokes normally level-headed people to break into dance."
