SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — President Moon Jae-in and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will hold a summit in PyeongChang, the alpine town that will host the upcoming Winter Olympics, the foreign ministry said Friday. Abe will fly to South Korea through Yangyang International Airport near PyeongChang to celebrate the Olympics, a ministry official [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Thursday a North Korean art troupe’s planned performances in the South will not involve any provision of financial rewards, such as performance fees. The North will send its 140-member Samjiyon art troupe, which includes an orchestra, to the South for a concert in Gangneung, a sub-host [...]
CHUNCHEON, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — By 5 in the evening on February 2, Gangneung Gyeongpo Beach in Gangwon Province will have transformed into an outdoor museum with bonfires bringing various artworks to life. As a core element of the culture aspect of the upcoming 2018 Winter Olympics to be held in Pyeongchang, the Fire [...]
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 [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Hancom Inc., a South Korean software maker, on Monday unveiled a new interpretation service that will be available for the upcoming PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games. GenieTalk, co-developed by the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, has been designated as the official translation software for next month’s games, which are [...]
PYEONGCHANG, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Research has found that 1 in 10 athletes who participated in the 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics suffered an injury during the games. According to the findings of the British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM), which undertook the study upon request of the International Olympic Committee, 11 percent of [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean officials who recently inspected a ski resort in North Korea found the facilities are in a good enough condition to host joint ski training ahead of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, a government official said Friday. The two Koreas agreed last week to hold cultural events at Mt. [...]
GANGNEUNG, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — For the greater convenience of tourists planning on staying in or around Gangneung, the city near PyeongChang where the 2018 Winter Olympics are scheduled to be held starting early February, lodgings businesses have placed QR codes in rooms that reveal detailed information in a handful of languages when accessed [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean delegation is set to travel to North Korea on Tuesday to inspect the venues where the two Koreas will hold joint cultural and sports events to celebrate the upcoming 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics. The visit by 12 officials follows a North Korean team’s two-day stay in [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Reports that star short-track speed skater Shin Suk-hee went missing after allegedly being physically assaulted by her coach have once again reaffirmed the sport as the problem child of the Winter Olympics. Ever since short-track speed skating was included as a Winter Olympics competition in 1992, South Korean representatives [...]