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The students and staff of Hraunvallaskóli elementary school in Hafnarfjörður set an Icelandic record on Tuesday when more than 1,000 people danced to the song ‘Gangnam Style’ by South Korean pop musician PSY at the same time.
From RÚV’s coverage of Hraunvallaskóli’s Icelandic record. Click here to watch the footage.
The song and video to the song, which has been watched almost 700 million times on YouTube, have become popular across the globe. Gangnam is the rich district of Seoul and the lyrics are critical of the lifestyles of the people who live there, ruv.is reports.
However, that was probably not at the top of the minds of students dancing their hearts out to ‘Gangnam Style’ on Tuesday, as part of the school’s ‘friends week.’
Meanwhile, a group of people who have had enough of the ‘Gangnam Style’ craze, launched a petition on Facebook asking the makers of the 2012 New Year’s Eve comedy program, Áramótaskaupið, to please not include the song in their screenplay. The group has gotten more than 1,500 likes.
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Icelandic Minister for Foreign Affairs Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson attended an annual consultative meeting last weekend with colleagues from the Nordic and several African countries, as announced in a press release from the Minstry of Foreign Affairs.
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From many salmon rivers anglers are reporting great opening days. Reykjavík Citizen of the year caught the first salmn in Ellidaár in Reykjavík this morning.
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The Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature has approved new names for nine craters on Mercury including one for Icelandic littereture Nobel Prize winner Halldór Laxness.
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A petition urging the government to reconsider a proposed bill, in which the terms of the law requiring fishing companies to pay a tariff for their use of Iceland’s fishing resources are to be changed, has been signed by more than 11,000 people.
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The 2013 June-July issue of Iceland Review is out. Themed ‘We Are Young’ the magazine celebrates the arrival of summer by interviewing young energetic Icelanders who excel in art, sports, business and politics—and Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, the youngest PM in the republic’s history and the world’s youngest ruling state leader. Click here to take a look at a selection of the current issue and here to subscribe to the magazine.
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The road to Höfn, a 1,690-person harbor town by the fjord Hornafjörður, is lined with reindeer. Whole herds of the wild horned animals rest peacefully on withered pastures, grace next to sheep and horses and bounce along the road. Soon, Vatnajökull, Europe’s largest glacier and the region’s biggest attraction, comes into view. Looming over Höfn, its outlet glaciers flow down from the mountains on which the bright white icecap rests.
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Sin Fang will celebrate the release of his third album with a release concert in Iðnó on June 12. Flowers was released in February by Morr Music and has been well received by music enthusiasts and critics alike. The concert will be supported by Vök, this year’s winners of the Icelandic Music Experiments.
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