Dancing Prison Inmates Do Their Best Gangnam Style

The inmates at Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center in The Philippines first captured the internet’s imagination a few years back by doing dance routines. There was Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”, and the Haruhi dance from the Haruhi Suzumiya anime. This time, they’re back, burning up YouTube with their take on “Gangnam Style”. There’s been criticism about these dance numbers—namely that they don’t rehabilitate the prisoners or that they are a form of abuse. Some prisoners, it seems, disagree.cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"e3616d04-4972-4839-a63a-c6975e2e9731","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.kotaku.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"5948494","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"kotaku-east","SECTION":"","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"kotaku-east","TAGS":"","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); “Before… we just get our food and go back to our cell, and u31.com เข้าสู่ระบบ if we don’t have anything to do we just talk,” a prisoner told USA Today back in 2007. “But it is different now. Every day we are very busy preparing to dance for our upcoming shows. We are very proud of what we have done.” CPDRC Inmates Gangnam Style (2012) [Ryan Christopher@YouTube via ロケットニュース] Kotaku East is u31 ทางเข้า your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in u31 เข้าสู่ระบบ every morning from 4am to 8am.