Rubber Duck
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Posted: October 16, 2014

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It’s 54 feet tall and 600 pounds heavy. It’s bright yellow, and it’s swimming in a South Korean Lake. Guess what it is yet? It’s a humungous rubber duck. And we take that back—it used to be swimming. Now it’s shrinking, little by little. It has a broken air pump. Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman created the rubber ducky to bring people together. He hoped the duck would encourage South Koreans after a tragic ferry accident.Similar ducks have appeared in other cities in China, Australia, and Taiwan. But most of them have met with disaster. One was swept away by a flood. Another burst, right when people were looking at it! This time, the duck could be fixed. Air pump, anyone?