Prisoners at Remand Prison in Bangkok performed the now very old and tired “Gangnam Style” horsey dance in the final round of a dance competition yesterday.
The competition had two categories in which participants could enter: “Gangnam Style” and freestyle (i.e. anything but “Gangnam”).
Winning teams received a trophy and various consumer products, the Bangkok Post reported.
Pol Col Suchart Wonganantachai, head of the Corrections Department, said the dance competition was meant to teach inmates to “user their time more wisely” and reduce violence.
Pol Col Suchart must have been oblivious to the fact that the “Gangnam Style” dance has reportedly caused violence twice in Thailand this year, with shootings in Ekkamai and Ubon Ratchathani.
Regardless, he said the goal of the program was to ready inmates to re-enter the outside world, both physically and mentally.
“Darnjess,” leader of the team that won the Gangnam Style dance, said the competition taught his group teamwork and discipline.
