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Singapore’s Prime Minister reminds parents not to be super-anxious but to let their children have their childhood. Good advice but in such a super-kiasu society, such advice will fall on deaf ears.

PM Lee: Happy Children’s Day, and parents, don’t be so kancheong

A Singapore parody of Gangnam Style, the mega-hit by South Korean rapper Psy, has caught the eye of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.

PM Lee shared the video, which was produced for Children’s Day today, and stars a seven- year-old boy, on his Facebook page on Thursday evening, saying that he “enjoyed” it.

He also said it was a “timely reminder to parents not to be so kancheong, and to let our kids have their childhood”. Kancheong is Cantonese for “anxious”. PM Lee touched on letting children enjoy their childhood and not “over-teaching” them in his National Day Rally speech in August. Then, he urged parents not to be overzealous about preparing their children for Primary 1.

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Singaporean kids acting in a localised parody of “Gangnam Style” (YouTube screengrab)

You’ve heard of “Gangnam Style“, but what about “Kancheong Style”?

Yes, yet another parody of the well-known South Korean song has popped up — and this time it features Singaporean kids making light of the “kancheong” culture in Singapore. “Kancheong” is a local slang for anxiousness or uptightness.

The tongue-in-cheek lyrics are liberally infused with Singlish. One verse goes: “Run like a Siao Gila, heng ah I reach school on time ah. Teacher look at me macam just commit a crime lah. Walking like some hero. Oh no forgot my homework. Mummy, Daddy sure scold me ‘cos all test I got zero!”

‘Kancheong Style’ shows off moves of S’porean kids

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