WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — U.S. President Donald Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, will lead her country’s delegation to the closing ceremony of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics Sunday, U.S. officials said. Ivanka Trump, who serves as an adviser to the president, will depart Thursday and arrive the following day in South Korea, where she is scheduled [...]
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – The governor of Gangwon Province, where PyeongChang is located, said Saturday he is considering a bid to co-host the 2021 Asian Winter Games (AWG) with North Korea. “We will start the process (for a feasibility review) soon after the PyeongChang Winter Games,” Gov. Choi Moon-soon said at a press conference in Gangneung, a sub-host city of the PyeongChang Winter [...]
GANGNEUNG, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — An interesting phenomenon took place before the women’s 500-meter short track speed skating final Tuesday night at Gangneung Ice Arena in Gangneung, just east of PyeongChang. The crowd in the arena, which was in a somewhat tense mood between matches, instantly began to stir when the video for Psy’s [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Wednesday approved a plan to use a government fund to support North Korea’s participation in the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, officials said. The South and North Exchange and Cooperation Promotion Council passed $2.64 million (2.86 billion won) in spending from the government budget for inter-Korean cooperation to [...]
PYEONGCHANG, Feb. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Many hotel rooms in Pyeongchang and the surrounding area are vacant despite the influx of tourists attending the Winter Olympics, as reports of rip-off prices seem to have put tourists off staying in the area. According to the latest figures from the Gangwon provincial government, only 45 percent of the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean President Moon Jae-in and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe are set to hold bilateral talks Friday, amid a renewed dispute over Japan’s wartime sexual slavery of Korean women. The Moon-Abe summit will be held in PyeongChang, the host town of the 2018 Winter Olympic Games located some [...]
London, United Kingdom, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — SNOMED International announced today that its SNOMED CT global standardized clinical terminology will be used to support athlete care and treatment at the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018. Used in more than 50 countries worldwide, SNOMED CT is an international standard for clinical terminology. It enables the [...]
SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — NBC Olympics, a division of the NBC Sports Group, has selected Cisco to provide IP video contribution and distribution solutions, along with networking and security solutions for its production of the XXIII Olympic Winter Games, which take place in PyeongChang, South Korea, from February 8 – February [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The head of South Korean retail giant Lotte is planning to stay in PyeongChang throughout the Winter Olympic period to carry out sports diplomacy, company officials said Thursday, with the international event now just one day away. Lotte Group Chairman Shin Dong-bin will head to the alpine town of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea has asked South Korea to supply fuel to its ship that carried the North’s art troupe to the South a day earlier as the ferry will be used for its lodging, Seoul’s unification ministry said Wednesday. The Samjiyon art troupe traveled to the South by ferry Tuesday [...]