Participants make gimbap in the challenge to make the world's longest dried seaweed roll, Friday. A new record was set with a 1,344-meter long gimbap. / Yonhap



Goheung residents, government officials and tourists set a world record by making a 1,344-meter gimbap (seaweed roll) in South Jeolla Province, Friday.

The challenge was part of a festival on Geogeumdo, an island of Goheung County. The goal was to make a 1,040-meter gimbap, but it ended up 304 meters longer.

A total of 1,535 participants made the roll on the GeoGeum Bridge bicycle lane.

About 600 kilograms of Goheung rice and 21,000 pieces of dried seaweed from the waters of Geogeumdo were used.

The Korea Record Institute, which registers records with Guinness World Records, measured the gimbap and presented a record certificate to the festival's organizing committee.

The previous record was a 1,030 meter gimbap made in the southeastern city of Daegu in August 2013.