{"id":258733,"date":"2026-01-30T04:08:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T04:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/258733\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T04:08:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T04:08:21","slug":"team-republic-of-korea-takes-home-gold-at-the-2026-breckenridge-international-snow-sculpture-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/258733\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Republic of Korea takes home gold at the 2026 Breckenridge International Snow Sculpture Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Breckenridge-Tourism--1024x683.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1024\/683; max-width: 1024px; width: 100%; height: auto; display: block;\"  \/>Team Republic of Korea&#8217;s sculpture  \u201cBeauty Beyond Difference: Harmony of Coexistence\u201d won gold in the Breckenridge International Snow Sculpture Championships.<br \/>\n<br \/>Breckenridge Tourism Office\/ Courtesy photo<\/p>\n<p>Team Republic of Korea earned gold in the 2026 Breckenridge International Snow Sculpture Championships presented by Toyota with their sculpture \u201cBeauty Beyond Difference: Harmony of Coexistence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Team Republic of Korea\u2019s sculpture featured a series of smaller orbs extending out of a larger orb meant to symbolize the deepest core of life: its essence. Every orb \u201cendlessly transforms and evolves like a dividing cell, radiating life\u2019s dynamic mystery and infinite possibility,\u201d the team\u2019s description of the creation stated. The power of essence the team worked to depict in the sculpture was meant to represent the hope of a bright future for humanity.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Breckenridge-Tourism-k-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-488746\"  \/>Team Mongolia\u2019s sculpture \u201cLassoing Time,\u201d pictured left, won silver.Breckenridge Tourism Office\/ Courtesy photo<\/p>\n<p>Team Mongolia won silver with their sculpture \u201cLassoing Time,\u201d which portrays a cowboy riding a horse lassoing a bull. The sculpture pays homage to Mongolian nomad life and Native American ranching traditions that have a shared ritual of roping.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Team India scored bronze with their sculpture \u201cCorn: The Ultimate Domesticator.\u201d It is a sculpture of a cob of corn with eyes and an open mouth and is inspired by the book \u201cSapien: A Brief History of Humankind.\u201d The piece questions whether humans domesticated corn or corn domesticated humans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Artists from across the globe worked through the night in sub-zero temperatures to complete their sculptures by 9 a.m., when tools needed to be put down. The last five days brought extreme weather conditions, including snow, deep freeze and surprise warm temps as the teams worked on sculpting.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Breckenridge-Tourism-iiii-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-488749\"  \/>Team India\u2019s sculpture \u201cCorn: The Ultimate Domesticator,\u201d took home bronze. Breckenridge Tourism\u2013iiii<\/p>\n<p>Team Lithuania won the Lothar Luboschik Artists\u2019 Choice award with its \u201cRaise Your Flags!\u201d sculpture, which the team described as a flag of snow and a flag to snow.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>People\u2019s Choice voting will remain open until Thursday, Jan. 29, at 2 p.m. and will be announced at 7 p.m. Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/gobreck.com\/experience-breckenridge\/festivals-and-events\/issc-program-peoples-choice-voting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">GoBreck.com\/vote<\/a> to vote.<\/p>\n<p>Sculptures will be on display through Tuesday, Feb.\u00a0 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Team Republic of Korea&#8217;s sculpture \u201cBeauty Beyond Difference: Harmony of Coexistence\u201d won gold in the Breckenridge International Snow&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-258733","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}