Dancing Thai Police star in YouTube video


A group of dancing policemen has become the latest pop sensation in Thailand with a YouTube video that shows them shimmying and swinging their hips as they impersonate a popular South Korean boy band.

The video was posted Aug. 5 and had more than 280,000 views Tuesday when major newspaper front pages declared it "a major hit" and one tabloid exclaimed: "Police set the dance floor on fire."

"We never thought it would become this big," said Lt. Col. Tanakorn Doltanakan, one of nine officers in the five-minute video spoof of "Sorry Sorry," a considerably bigger hit by Korean boy band Super Junior. "It's something we did just for fun."

The policemen are part of the 4th Subdivision of Thailand's Tourist Police, set up for non-Thai speaking tourists who need police help, in the northern city of Chiang Mai. Ahead of a tourism-related police seminar earlier this month, attendees were asked to prepare for a police talent show.

Continue reading; NTDV

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