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 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s No. 1 carmaker, said Sunday its autonomous vehicles have succeeded in a test drive from Seoul to PyeongChang, an alpine town that is hosting the upcoming Winter Olympics. Hyundai has been expanding its self-driving vehicle program and plans to promote its technology at the [...]
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The controversy surrounding the South Korean Olympic alpine skiing team selection will spill into court, a source revealed Sunday. The source, who is close to alpine skier Kyung Sung-hyun, said the athlete will file a court injunction against the Korea Ski Association (KSA) on Monday to suspend [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea’s seven-member delegation entered the South on January 21 as it began its two-day journey to conduct site inspections of performance venues in Seoul and Gangneung, a city near PyeongChang where the 2018 Winter Olympics will be held. The delegation, led by North Korean pop singer Hyun Sung-wol, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said Friday it carried out more than 14,000 doping tests last year ahead of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, marking a whopping 70 percent on-year growth. The IOC said the tests were conducted between April and December on around 6,000 athletes from 61 countries taking [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – The organizers of the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics said Thursday they are operating a special team of technicians managing radio-spectrum issues at venues to avoid interference of wireless devices and ensure accurate tracking of records. PyeongChang’s organizing committee and the Ministry of Science and ICT said the team of [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government is being criticized for pushing for a showcase of inter-Korean unity at the PyeongChang Olympics through a series of high-level talks. Dialogue between the two Koreas continues over the logistics of North Korea’s participation in the Winter Olympics next month, as officials from Seoul and Pyongyang [...]