SEOUL, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Airbnb Inc. said Thursday about 15,000 tourists visited PyeongChang and its adjacent cities via the global room-sharing platform during the 2018 Winter Olympics, which wrapped up last week. The number of travelers who made reservations in Gangwon Province, including the Olympic host town of PyeongChang, some 180 kilometers east [...]
PYEONGCHANG, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A North Korean flag hanging from the balcony of a residential building is catching the attention of passersby. The residential building in question is located in the PyeongChang Paralympics athletes village, and the flag was put up by two members of the North Korean delegation staying in building no. [...]
GANGNEUNG, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) — With the mammoth task of ensuring peace and security during the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics behind them, the men and women largely responsible for what one police insider has assessed as “the safest Olympics ever” remain focused on doing it all over again throughout the Winter Paralympics set to [...]
GANGNEUNG, March 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Messages from Olympics athletes back home thanking the people of Gangneung for handmade postcards with handwritten messages inscribed and “Welcome to Gangneung” lamps are generating interest among the general public. French skier Marie Martinod and Danish curling skip Madeleine Dupont recently reached out to Gangneung via e-mail. “The welcome [...]
SEOUL, March 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport announced on March 5 it intends to roll out a variety of transportation measures for the upcoming 2018 Paralympics starting on March 9. For the duration of the Paralympics, the government will keep the high-speed KTX train running on the Gyeonggang Line [...]
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The total number of spectators who have visited the PyeongChang Winter Olympics has surpassed 1 million, with just three days left to the closing ceremony, local organizers said Thursday. “The combined number of spectators as of Wednesday was 1,076,000,” said Sung Baik-you, spokesperson for the PyeongChang Organizing [...]
PYEONGCHANG, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Moments during and after the South Korean women’s team pursuit quarterfinals performance at the PyeongChang Oympics has sparked an uproar that has yet to settle. Despite finishing seventh out of eight teams that day, the reason for the public outrage has not been the team’s poor record, but what [...]
PYEONGCHANG, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Olympic sponsor Coca-Cola’s giant vending machine in Gangneung is proving to be a hit attraction in its own right, with Korean celebrities making pitstops at the commercial landmark to bid South Korean athletes good fortune. Model Han Hyun-min and archery duo Jang Hye-jin and Choi Mi-sun – two-thirds of [...]
GANGNEUNG, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Whatever the political motivations behind the joint North and South Korean hockey team, the unified Korea team has already garnered a win in generating interest in ice hockey among the general public. An informal survey of spectators in the stands for the February 12 matchup between Japan and Switzerland [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s state-run sports research agency said Tuesday it has been providing an array of scientific training programs to the country’s athletes to help them better perform at the 2018 Winter Games. The Korea Institute for Sports Science said the programs, utilizing virtual reality technologies, biometric equipment and even [...]