Question: How much money did "Gangnam Style" bring South Korea by 2012?
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  "Gangnam Style", a song by South Korean rapper PSY in 2012  
As the song's popularity continued to rise, it caused the share price of the song's music label YG Entertainment to gain as much as 50% on the Korea Exchange.
DI Corporation, whose executive Chairman Park Won-Ho is Psy's father, saw its share price increase by 568.8% within a few months of the song's release despite making a year-over-year loss.
Soon, "Gangnam Style" began to attract the attention of several business and political leaders, including UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon who recognized the song as a "force for world peace".
During his meeting with Psy at the United Nations Headquarters, he commented, "We have tough negotiations in the United Nations.
In such a case I was also thinking of playing Gangnam Style-dance so that everybody would stop and dance.
Maybe you can bring UN style.
"Through social networks like Facebook, many small, unofficial fan-organized flash mobs have been held in universities and colleges throughout the world.
The earliest flash mobs were held in Pasadena, California, and Sydney, Australia.
On September 12, Times Square in Manhattan was filled with a dance mob dancing to the music of "Gangnam Style" during ABC's "Good Morning America".
Major flash mobs (those with more than 1,000 participants) were also held in Seoul (South Korea), South Sulawesi (Indonesia), Palermo (Sicily, Italy) and Milan (Italy), and Paris (France).
The song has been tweeted by the United Nations, the United Nations Children's Fund, the American space agency NASA, mentioned by a reporter during a U.S. State Department briefing and referenced by the President of the International Criminal Court Song Sang-Hyun during his speech in front of the UN Security Council.
On October 9, the Mayor of London Boris Johnson held a speech at the 2012 Conservative Party Conference where he told the audience that he and the British Prime Minister David Cameron have danced "Gangnam Style".
A few days before the conference, they had performed the dance at Chequers Court in Buckinghamshire.
During a Google Earnings call, Larry Page, the CEO and co-founder of Google, hailed the song as a glimpse of the future of worldwide distribution through YouTube.
The American Council on Exercise estimated that dancing "Gangnam Style" will burn 150–200 calories per half-hour and the song was used by Northampton General Hospital to promote hand washing as part of the 2012 Global Handwashing Day on October 15.
Swype, an input method for Android operating systems, included "Gangnam Style" in its list of recognized words and phrases.U.S.
President Barack Obama revealed possible plans to privately perform "Gangnam Style" for his spouse Michelle Obama.
In November 2012, a Maori cultural group from Rotorua performed a version of the Gangnam Style dance mixed with a traditional Maori haka in Seoul, celebrating 50 years of diplomatic relations between South Korea and New Zealand.
In Thailand, officials from the Dan Sai municipality in Loei Province shot a video of people wearing masks and performing "Gangnam Style" during the Phi Ta Khon "ghost" festival.
According to the Thai newspaper "The Nation", villagers and spiritual leaders from Loei province have felt "uneasy" and also "greatly offended" about this "Gangnam Style" performance which tarnishes the image of a 400 year-old tradition.
Another controversial incident was sparked by a "Gangnam Style" parody by officers from the Royal Thai Navy, which was not well received by some high-ranking commanders.
Although Vice Admiral Tharathorn Kajitsuwan from the "Third Naval Area Command" insisted that "we had no intention to insult or make fun of navy officers in uniform", some senior officers have called it "improper".
Kajitsuwan claimed that his subordinates had the right to upload the video to YouTube, although he did not expect them to do so.
On October 1, 2012, he issued an apology to his colleagues.
Commander Surasak Rounroengrom believes an investigation is unnecessary because the video caused no damage to the Navy, but he admits that there was some impropriety about military officers doing their "fancy stepping in uniform". 
In August 2012 the K-Pop hit Gangnam Style by PSY reached number 23 on Denmark's Tracklisten Top 40. 
Record executives in the music industry believe that music charts will increasingly be filled with YouTube-driven globalised acts from foreign countries.
Sean Carey, a research fellow in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Roehampton, wrote that the flow of popular music will no longer be a single traffic route from North America and Europe to other parts of the globe, but will also move the other way as well.
According to Adam Sherwin from "The Independent", the global web demand for Gangnam Style had short-circuited the "traditional reluctance" of radio stations to play foreign-language songs.
The song is also underlining a shift in how money is being made in the music business.
Although Psy earned more than US$60,000 from music sales of "Gangnam Style" in South Korea alone, he and his music label YG Entertainment have raked in almost US$1 million from advertisements which appear on YouTube videos identified for using "Gangnam Style" in its content.
The "Harvard Business Review" published an article written by Kevin Evers, who explained how "Gangnam Style" had changed Billboard's ranking methodology of its music charts.
Instead of relying solely on radio plays and paid purchases, Billboard started to place a heavier emphasis on digital sales and YouTube views.
As a result of the change, Gangnam Style moved up to the top position of Billboard's Hot Rap Songs music chart.
According to the British Phonographic Industry's report based on Official Charts Company sales data, thanks to Psy's song and Carly Rae Jepsen’s "Call Me Maybe," pop became the UK’s favourite musical genre of the year, taking the lion’s share of the singles market (38.5%) in 2012. 
On August 16, 2012, Nelly Furtado performed the song at her concert in the Smart Araneta Coliseum in Manila, Philippines.
One of the main factors that has led to "Gangnam Style" receiving worldwide media attention is its popularity among notable celebrities.
According to "The Wall Street Journal", T-Pain was among the first to have "sent video to the stratosphere" when he tweeted about it on July 29.
It was then picked up by Neetzan Zimmerman from the social blog Gawker, who asked "Did this underground Hip Hop artist from South Korea just release the Best Music Video of the Year?"
on July 30.
The English actor Peter Serafinowicz called it "one of the best music videos ever made".
while the German model Heidi Klum, who performed "Gangnam Style" at the 2012 MTV Europe Music Awards, revealed that her children have been obsessed with the song and that she has been holding "Gangnam dance parties" with them.