PYEONGCHANG, Mar. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s disabled sports chief said Sunday the biggest achievement of the PyeongChang Winter Paralympics has been changes in public perceptions of the disabled. Lee Myung-ho, who heads the Korean Paralympic Committee (KPC), said he believes the 12th Winter Paralympic Games have changed people’s views of persons with impairments [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Nordic para skier Shin Eui-hyun, who brought South Korea its first medal of the Winter Paralympics in PyeongChang, has called on the major TV networks to give the sporting event wider coverage. Speaking to the press on Sunday, Shin, who won the bronze medal in Men’s 15km Classic Cross-Country Skiing, [...]
SEOUL, March 12 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean TV networks are facing criticism over scarce media coverage of the PyeongChang Paralympics. The 2018 PyeongChang Winter Paralympic Games kicked off last Friday under the theme of passion and coexistence, but the prospect of following up the success of the Winter Olympics remains doubtful, as many events featuring [...]
SEOUL, March 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of foreigners who visited South Korea in February marked a sharp decline from a year ago despite its hosting of the Winter Olympics in the alpine town of PyeongChang, data from the justice ministry showed Monday. According to the data, 1,077,903 foreigners entered the country last month, [...]
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. [...]
SEOUL, March 2 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s wheelchair curling team for the PyeongChang Winter Paralympics said Friday it wants to write a success story like the women’s curling team did at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics. The women’s curling team earned silver at the Feb. 9-25 Olympics and became a global sensation with its inspiring performances and interesting personalities. The team is now better known as “Garlic Girls,” as the girls come from a town [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – That the Paralympics are scheduled to kick off on March 9 hasn’t stopped Gangwon Province from turning its attention to the issue of Olympics facility maintenance only days after the conclusion of the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics. On February 27, the Gangwon provincial legislature urged the central government to [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul said Wednesday that it will run free shuttle buses between Seoul and the Olympic towns of PyeongChang and Gangneung during the Winter Olympics and Paralympics. Everyone who holds tickets for Olympic events and concerts can use the buses, dubbed “PyeongChang e-Bus,” and make advance reservations, on a first-come-first-served [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea may send a team of two skiers to the PyeongChang Winter Paralympic Games next month if it decides to participate in the multi-winter sport event in South Korea, an official of a U.S. civic group which supports North Korean athletes said Thursday. Shin Young-soon, head of the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Medals to be awarded at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Parlympics were unveiled Monday, with a nod to the Korean culture and traditions. The competition’s organizing committee said the Paralympics medals are based on the same design principles of the medals for the Winter Olympics, in that both have been inspired by the Korean culture and its alphabet, hangeul. Lee Suk-woo, a South Korean industrial designer who designed [...]