A rounded stick-like rice cake stretches 3.3 kilometers in an event on October 2, 2008, in the southwestern port city of Gunsan. [Courtesy of the Korea Record Institute ]
SEOUL -- South Korea's record management body will sponsor a special event this month to try and set a new record for the longest stick-like rounded rice cake which symbolizes a long life.
The Korea Record Institute said the 10-hour event involving 50 people and five tons of rice would be held on November 11 in a tourist site in the southwestern city of Dangjin as part of a farmers festival. The current record is 4.43 kilometers, set in October 2009.
A wide variety of rice cakes exist in many different cultures, especially in Asia. Koreans use slices of the stick-like rounded rice cake to eat Tteokguk, a traditional soup, on New Year's day.
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Lim Chang-won
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