SEOUL, Nov. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s unification ministry on Friday dismissed a report that North Korea has notified the global skating body of its intent to take part in the pairs figure skating competition in the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics. North Korea’s pairs figure skating tandem Ryom Tae-ok and Kim Ju-sik in September gained [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s top economic policymaker said Friday that the upcoming PyeongChang Winter Olympics will be a boon for the country tourism industry, coupled with recent improvement in relationship with China. “Tourism is an important industry that creates more jobs than other sectors,” Finance Minister Kim Dong-yeon said in a [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean internet companies Naver and Kakao are planning to release English versions of their map apps in anticipation of the increased influx of foreign tourists for the upcoming 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics. According to market analysis by media company Wiseapp, Naver Map leads the field with 8.08 million [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — This year’s Wonju Hanji Festival and an accompanying fashion show will be held on October 21 and 22 at Wonju Hanji Theme Park in celebration of the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics. The annual festival and fashion show, which celebrates the beauty of hanji, or traditional Korean paper, is back this [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Specially minted 2,000 won bills celebrating the upcoming Pyeongchang Winter Olympics are selling like hot cakes. A standalone bill costs 8,000 won, while an uncut sheet of two bills goes for 15,000 won. The first commemorative bills to be printed in South Korea, each bill is reported to have [...]
YANGPYEONG, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – A train crash that occurred in Gyeonggi Province on Wednesday is causing controversy as it has been reported the accident occurred on a railway line set to be used to carry passengers to Pyeongchang during next year’s Winter Olympics. During the deadly train crash, which took place in the early [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean football legend Park Ji-sung will be named an honorary ambassador for the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Games, the event’s organizers said Wednesday. PyeongChang’s organizing committee said Park’s appointment ceremony will take place in Seoul on Friday. Park was one of South Korea’s most iconic football stars until his [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Three up-and-coming South Korean figure skaters, Lim Eun-soo, Kim Ye-lim and You Young, have grown by leaps and bounds of late, an encouraging development for a nation always hungry for new stars on the ice. And it turns out the three young ladies have also grown up quite a [...]
JEONGSEON, South Korea, July 24 (Korea Bizwire) –A walking festival will open later this week on an Olympic trail in the South Korean mountain county of Jeongseon to wish for the success of the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, an official said Monday. The 131.7-kilometer Olympic Aribau Trail links the Olympic cities of PyeongChang, Gangneung and [...]
SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Media art will light up the facade of a giant building in central Seoul next month in a cultural project to celebrate the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, the culture ministry said Tuesday. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said the art project is to send a message that global [...]