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For the London fireworks,  The Greater London Authority (GLA) had allocated £2.3 million.A  further £950,000 was raked in  from ticket sales and concession income. The total cost of the New Year's Eve fireworks was around £3,250,000 . Sydney's record-breaking $5.8 million fireworks display to welcome 2019, featured  a captivating 12-minute display of firework effects, a brighter bridge display and 500kg more explosives than the previous year.A n estimated one million people watched the event around the harbour. Melbourne’s New Year’s Eve fireworks was spread over 7.5km radius, From the ground to the tops of 22 buildings and spread over a 7km radius, 14 tonnes of fireworks worth $234,000 were set off to welcome 2019. Hong Kong welcomes 2019,  with 340,000 revellers lining Victoria Harbour for HK$14 million fireworks and light show. Hope enjoyed the fireworks display.

For centuries North and South Korea were unified and ruled by generations of dynastic kingdoms. After the Russia-Japanese War, Japan occupied Korea in 1905 and formally annexed it five years later. Korea remained under Japanese colonial rule for 35 years until the end of World War II , during which the Soviet Union and the United States emerged as the two superpowers. The Korean Peninsula became an unexpected casualty of the escalating  Cold War  between the two rival superpowers, and was divided as North and South Korea, and has remained divided ever since for more than 70 years. In August 1945, the two new super powers divided control over the Korean Peninsula. Over the next three years (1945-48), the Soviet Army and its proxies set up a communist regime in the area north of latitude 38˚ N, or the 38th parallel. South of that line, a military government was formed, supported directly by the United States. After that what happened in the intervening years and ho...