SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The Olympic Sliding Centre, the cradle of the skeleton gold medal at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, has recently been upgraded with state-of-the-art technology. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism announced on Wednesday that it had installed an artificial environment-embodied chamber and a virtual reality simulation training facility [...]
CHUNCHEON, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The sliding center that hosted the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, Gangwon Province will house the world’s first ‘flying skeleton,’ a special chamber to try out the winter sliding sport. The provincial office announced Thursday that it expects to finalize plans to set up the flying skeleton by December, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean athletes have thus far turned in a surprising performance at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, with an ice dance pair becoming first South Koreans to compete in free dance, the women’s curling team through to the semifinal, and ‘Iron Man’ Yun Sung-bin winning Asia’s very first gold medal in [...]