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, Feb. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A total of 194 cases of norovirus infections have been confirmed as of Monday, since the outbreak in the Olympic host town last week, organizers of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics said. The organizing committee said that as of 4 p.m. on Monday, 17 additional people were found to have [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Books by authors whose reputation extends beyond South Korea are proving to be popular amongst foreign media covering the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics. Books by Han Kang, who was awarded the Man Booker International Prize in 2016 for novel The Vegetarian, are the most popular, followed by fellow South [...]
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean Olympic medical team on Wednesday sent out guidelines to national athletes to prevent norovirus infections. Some 1,200 security workers for the PyeongChang Winter Olympics are currently sequestered in their rooms to be tested for the contagious virus after 41 guards suffering diarrhea and vomiting [...]
GANGNEUNG, South Korea, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — PyeongChang Olympic organizers won’t provide North Korean and Iranian players with Samsung smartphones, which are available free to all other athletes, for fear of violating international sanctions on the countries, officials said Wednesday. Samsung Electronics has offered some 4,000 units of the Galaxy Note 8 Olympic Edition [...]
PYEONGCHANG, GANGNEUNG, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – On February 6, outsiders were treated to a view of the areas of the Olympic Village that are normally restricted to athletes and authorized personnel, including a quick look at the Olympic Polyclinics, facilities tasked with keeping participants fresh and healthy. Located at each of the PyeongChang and [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Airbnb Inc. said Tuesday over 9,000 tourists will visit PyeongChang and adjacent cities where the 2018 Winter Olympics will be held via the global room-sharing platform, with the international sports event set to kick off later this week. The number of travelers who made reservations in Gangwon Province, including [...]
HOENGSEONG, South Korea, Feb. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — While the goal of many athletes at the PyeongChang Olympics is winning medals and doing their best, freestyle skier Lee Mee-hyun eyes one more thing: finding her birth parents in South Korea. Lee was born in Jinju, South Gyeongsang Province, in 1994, but she was adopted by [...]
SEOUL, Feb . 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Man and machine will work in tandem to ensure the safety of dignitaries visiting South Korea for the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics starting this week, the head security team promised via a press release on February 4. “A scientific security approach using cutting-edge technology will be implemented for [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – The PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics already set a world record a week before the opening ceremony with the announcement that 110,000 condoms — the most ever for a Winter Olympics — will be provided to athletes. AFP reported that the condoms are to be distributed free of charge before [...]