South Korea Sets Another Guinness World Record With 1,344-Meter Gimbap, The Longest Seaweed Roll
On Friday, South Korea sets a Guinness World Record for the "Longest Seaweed Roll" with their 1,344-meter long gimbap, reported The Korea Times on Sunday.
The world record gimbap consisted of around 600 kilograms of Goheung rice and 21,000 pieces of dried seaweed from the Geogeumdo waters and was prepared on the GeoGeum Bridge bicycle lane in South Jeolla Province. To make the roll, exactly 1,535 Goheung residents, government officials and tourists worked together as part of the Geogeumdo festival.
Previously, the southeastern city of Daegu held the record for the longest seaweed roll in 2013 for their 1,030-meter long gimbap. The team's primary goal was to prepare a 1,040-meter long gimbap to break the record, but was actually able to exceed by 304 meters more.
The Korea Record Institute measured the thousand-meter long seaweed roll and awarded a certificate to the organizing committee of the festival for the newly made record.
According to The World Record Academy on Monday, gimbap is a Korean dish that consists of steamed white rice and many other ingredients rolled together in sheets of dried laver seaweed. The dish is traditionally sliced and served bite-sized and is commonly eaten during picnics or as light snack served with their famous kimchi.
The "Longest Seaweed Roll" is not the first time South Korea has set a Guinness World Record this year.
According to the Guinness World Records official webpage on Oct. 6, South Korea earned the title "Largest Display of Compact Discs Ever" after covering an abandoned tobacco plant in Cheongju with exactly 489,440 CDs.
As an example of Korea's urban renewal, the huge artwork was created on the Cheongju tobacco factory, which was transformed in 2011 into an exhibition hall by the Cheongju International Craft Biennales.
"Amazingly at the end, 27,912 people from 288 organizations in 31 cities of nine countries collected the total of 489,440 CDs counted by the official Guinness World Records," said Byeong Sam Jeon, creative director of the Cheongju International Craft Biennales.