GANGNEUNG, South Korea, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea reached the semifinals of the wheelchair curling competition at the PyeongChang Winter Paralympics on Thursday after finishing top of the qualifying round. The team of Seo Soon-seok, Bang Min-ja, Cha Jae-goan, Jung Seung-won and Lee Dong-ha beat China 7-6 in their last qualifying match at [...]
GANGNEUNG, South Korea, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s mixed wheelchair curling team suffered its second loss at the PyeongChang Winter Paralympics on Wednesday. The team of Seo Soon-seok, Bang Min-ja, Cha Jae-goan, Jung Seung-won, Lee Dong-ha, fell to Norway 9-2 in their eighth match in the wheelchair curling competition at the PyeongChang Winter [...]
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea, March 6 (Korea Bizwire) – The organizers for the PyeongChang Winter Paralympic Games said Tuesday they’re ready to clear heavy snow forecasted to come ahead of the opening ceremony. The local organizers expect about 10 to 20 centimeters of snow to fall from Thursday to Friday morning. The opening ceremony for the PyeongChang Paralympics is scheduled for 8 p.m. Friday at the Olympic Stadium in PyeongChang, Gangwon Province. The pentagon-shaped arena, which can [...]
SEOUL, March 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The medals for the PyeongChang Winter Paralympics are similar to those of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics as they are both inspired by unique Korean culture, but there are differences. According to local organizers Monday, both medals for the Olympics and the Paralympics were inspired by the Korean alphabet, “hangeul,” [...]
SEOUL, March 2 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean squad for the PyeongChang Winter Paralympics was launched on Friday as athletes vowed to give their best at the quadrennial event. The delegation of 83 members, including 36 athletes, held the ceremony for the 2018 Winter Paralympic Games at Sejong Center in Seoul with some 180 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 200,000 tourists visited a facility for promoting South Korea and providing support for international athletes and guests during the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, a state tourism agency said Monday. The Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) and the Korean Sport & Olympic Committee jointly operated Team Korea House at the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea has been invited to participate in the Paralympic Games in South Korea next month, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) said Friday. The IPC said that it has invited North Korea to take part in its first Winter Paralympics and offered two bipartite slots to athletes to compete [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Ticket sales for the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Paralympics have surpassed 70 percent, the event’s organizers said Friday. There are less than 50 days left until the opening of the first Winter Paralympic Games in South Korea. And as of Thursday, 155,000 tickets had been sold, or 70.4 percent of the organizers’ target of 220,000 tickets. The Winter Paralympics will be staged from March 9 [...]