South Korea's '2023 Kukki Taekwondo Hanmaeum Festival' was held on March 25, 2023, at Gwanghawmun Square. The festival celebrated the fifth anniversary of Taekwondo being officially designated as Korea’s national martial art.
The festival's highlight with a stupendous performance of over 12,000 Taekwondo practitioners performing the 'Taeguk 1 Jang' demonstration for 10 minutes at the same time.
Five members of World Guinness Records with 260 judges also attended the festival to verify if the performance meets the criteria of “The world’s biggest group demonstration.”
The festival also featured a photo exhibition of 50 Years of Kukkiwon, K-pop and trot performances, Kukkiwon Demonstration Team performances and more.
The International Arctic Forum "Arctic - Territory of Dialogue" will be held in Murmansk from 2027, according to an order signed by Russian prime minister Mikhail Mishustin.
An international scientific and educational center will be established on the Svalbard archipelago to study the Arctic permafrost, atmosphere, and hydrosphere, said Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District Yuri Trutnev.
At the 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) of the parties to the the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Brazil, Russia presented the world’s first target operating model for ecosystem restoration developed by the Russian businesses and the scientific community as part of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021 to 2030).
China has become the only country to make a series of continuous dives with a crew on board in the area of continuous multi-year Arctic ice, the press service of the Chinese Academy of Sciences reported.
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