With locations including the Stanley Park seawall, a retro garage and an eerily empty White Rock pier, South Korea’s newest K-Pop hit just happens to feature a music video filmed entirely in Metro Vancouver.

“Likey,” by the nine-member girl group Twice, features a who’s who of Vancouver’s most Instagram-worthy locations.

There’s a gelato shop, the Gastown steam clock, a street of surprisingly expensive McMansions, a SkyTrain car, Angel clothing store and Steveston’s Marine Garage, which still features a pair of vintage gas pumps out front.

To the keen viewer, there is a banner advertising an upcoming Terry Fox Run, a company vehicle for Vancouver’s Red Truck Beer and the fact that the group appears to have obtained the permits to seal off Gastown’s normally traffic-heavy Maple Tree Square.

The White Rock pier makes a notable appearance, with a shot perfectly timed to show a passing freight train. A well-known Gastown alley, which can normally have a pretty strong urine stench, briefly makes an appearance as an appropriately gritty dance backdrop.

The song is already set to tear up K-Pop charts. Within hours of its posting to YouTube on Monday, the song has already racked up one-Vancouver’s worth of viewers. As of press time, the song has 3.3 million views, with tens of thousands more being added every second.

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