OLYMPIA, Greece, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Football star Park Ji-sung became the first South Korean torchbearer for the PyeongChang Winter Games after receiving the flame from Greek cross-country skier Apostolos Angelis at the Pierre de Coubertin Monument on Tuesday. Park, who starred as a midfielder for Manchester United, said on Tuesday he feels honored to [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Some 200 former and current South Korean athletes, including Olympic gold medalists, will volunteer during the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Games, the national Olympic committee said Monday. The Korean Sport & Olympic Committee (KSOC) held a launch ceremony for a team of athlete volunteers at the National Training Center in [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Medals to be awarded at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics were unveiled Thursday, with the Korean alphabet hangeul as their motif. Presented at a ceremony simultaneously held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City with President Moon Jae-in in attendance, gold, silver and bronze medals, designed [...]
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 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — With the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics just five months away, South Korea’s provincial governments are ramping up efforts to use the quadrennial event as a springboard for luring more foreign tourists. The Winter Games will be held in the alpine county of PyeongChang, some 180 kilometers east of Seoul, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The upcoming 2018 PyeongChang Olympics will likely be a showcase of South Korean know-how in state-of-the-art information and communication technology (ICT), with mobile operators and carmakers to highlight their prowess at the world’s biggest winter sports competition. KT Corp., the country’s No. 1 fixed-line Internet operator, will test run [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO), the state-run public utility firm, signed on as a corporate sponsor for the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics on Wednesday. KEPCO is the first public corporation to lend support to PyeongChang 2018. As a “Tier One” partner, KEPCO reserves a wide range of marketing rights, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The organizing committee for the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics and the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) on Tuesday announced their launch of a Korean youth mentorship program. In a statement, the organizations said the goodwill campaign is part of the USOC’s “Thank You, PyeongChang” initiative, designed to “contribute to [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — With less than 200 days remaining before the start of the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, South Korea is going all-out to make the event a successful endeavor for the host country, with the economic benefits being at the forefront of things being keenly considered. Earlier, Lee Hee-beom, the chief [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Hwacheon’s famous tomato festival is back for the 15th time this year, with a host of interesting activities on tap including firework shows and singing contests, to be held over a period of four days starting next Friday. Modeled after Spain’s famous tomato fight festival ‘La Tomatina’, Hwacheon’s tomato [...]