PyeongChang Olympic Torch Relay Archives

South Korean Navy Joins PyeongChang Olympic Torch Relay

CHANGWON, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s Navy joined the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics torch relay in Changwon on Tuesday. The Olympic flame was carried by a Navy official on Munmu the Great, the first time in history an Olympic torch relay has taken place on a Navy destroyer, according to the PyeongChang Organizing Committee. Representing [...]

Disabled Athletes Run PyeongChang Olympic Torch Relay

GIMHAE, Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The 2018 PyeongChang Olympics torch relay began in South Gyeongsang Province over the weekend, with scores of torchbearers holding the flame aloft, including disabled athletes. Paralympic swimmer Kim Se-jin and aspiring swimmer Kim Dong-hoon were among the torch bearers during the first day of the torch relay in South Gyeongsang [...]