SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean star actor Lee Dong-wook on Friday was named an honorary ambassador for the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics that will kick off next month. In a ceremony held in Seoul, Lee joined a slew of other Korean wave stars including actors Lee Min-ho and Kim Woo-bin as the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s major hospitals have launched task forces to care for injured athletes participating in the Winter Olympics and Paralympic Games in PyeongChang next month, sources said Wednesday. Seoul National University Hospital (SNUH) said it has formed a team made up of 130 medical staff, including 48 doctors, so [...]
PANMUNJOM, Korea, Jan. 9 (Joint Press Corps-Yonhap) — North Korea on Tuesday offered to send a high-level delegation and performing arts squads to next month’s PyeongChang Winter Olympics, while the South proposed their athletes’ joint entrance to the games’ opening and closing ceremonies, Seoul officials said. The two Koreas exchanged their proposals in the morning [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwie) — The PyeongChang Winter Olympics will only accept Visa credit cards for purchases of tickets, souvenirs and other goods at the games venues, officials said Sunday, a move that could cause inconvenience for people who use other cards. Visa enjoys the exclusive right to be the only credit card that [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Three out of four South Koreans are in favor of North Korea’s participation in the upcoming Winter Olympics, which will be held in the South Korean alpine town of PyeongChang, a poll showed Thursday. The survey was conducted Wednesday after North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, in his New Year’s [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Remodeled public restrooms in Pyeongchang have been unveiled ahead of the 2018 Winter Olympics. The Ministry of the Interior and Safety announced on Thursday that it has revamped 52 public restrooms and built seven new facilities after spending nearly 3.9 billion won. Aging facilities have been replaced, barriers between [...]
PYEONGCHANG, GANGNEUNG, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – With one eye on the upcoming Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics, certain accommodations businesses in Pyeongchang and surrounding areas have set prices sky-high, resulting in voices criticizing the entire area as the “rip-off Olympics”. At the same time, concerns are being raised that come February, large blocks of suites [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Organizers of the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics said Wednesday they “respect” the decision by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to ban Russia from the competition over its state-sponsored doping. The IOC’s Executive Board announced in Lausanne, Switzerland, that it would suspend the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) with “immediate effect.” [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – The Gangneung City Government has launched a special task force as part of efforts to crack down on unscrupulous lodging establishments during the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. The task force is the latest effort by the government officials of Gangneung City to prepare for the Winter Olympic Games this winter, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – One hundred days before the start of the 2018 Winter Paralympics, the Ministry of Science and ICT held an opening ceremony for the ICT Center, where officials and journalists in attendance got a first look at some of the cutting-edge technology that will be part of the Winter Olympics [...]