SEOUL, April 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Yoon Hong-geun, head of the South Korean delegation to the Beijing Winter Olympics in February and also president of the Korea Skating Union (KSU), had made a grand promise to athletes during the competition: Win a gold, and you will get free fried chicken for life. Yoon isn’t your [...]
Paris, April 12 (Korea Bizwire) – OnePlan, the innovative London-based startup, has been named a partner to the Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games Paris 2024, which will use OnePlan’s Venue Twin and GIS Mapping software for more efficiency and collaboration. This is the first time an Olympic and Paralympic Games has chosen a partner for GIS [...]
SEOUL, July 30 (Korea Bizwire) — As the belated Tokyo Olympics were nearly halfway over Friday, South Korean sports stars’ world-class performances and their teamwork have been creating a fresh buzz on social media here. On the front lines of the buzz are the men’s sabre fencing team of Kim Jung-hwan, Gu Bon-gil, Oh Sang-uk [...]
TOKYO, July 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Saturday took down banners at its Olympic athletes’ village with a nod to history, following a request from the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The Korean Sport & Olympic Committee (KSOC) said the IOC had raised issues with the message written across a few banners, initially hung [...]
JINCHEON, South Korea, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul was selected Monday as the South Korean candidate city for a joint Olympic bid with North Korea. The Korean Sport & Olympic Committee (KSOC) said Seoul was chosen over Busan as the candidate city for the 2032 Summer Games at its general assembly at the National [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co., which is currently an official partner of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), is undecided on whether to extend its contract that runs through the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics, industry sources said Thursday. South Koreans have been paying attention to the possibility that the South Korean tech [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung has rejected claims that it lobbied the International Olympic Committee to help Pyeongchang win its bid for the 2018 Winter Olympics. In a post released on Wednesday via its online newsroom, the electronics giant denied any involvement in unethical or illegal practices to help tip the Olympic bid in [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Companies in South Korea are stepping up efforts to promote consumption through the upcoming PyeongChang 2018 Winter Games, with the quadrennial event just two months away, industry sources said Wednesday. Corporate sponsors of the Winter Games, which can officially use the images or phrases related to the Olympics, are [...]
PYEONGCHANG, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — When former International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge announced PyeongChang as the host city of the 2018 Winter Olympics six years ago, the small alpine county was an unfamiliar name to almost all people living outside of South Korea. Though already famous in the country for the outstanding [...]
JINCHEON, South Korea, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s Olympic body chief said Thursday it is too early to talk about a unified team or joint march between the two Koreas at the 2018 Winter Games because North Korea has yet to confirm its participation. Lee Kee-heung, president of the Korean Sport & Olympic Committee [...]