SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – On the evening of August 29, pedestrians around Seoul Station stopped and watched as giant silhouettes of speed skaters were superimposed on the expansive Seoul Square building across the street. As part of a collaborative project, writers Cha Dong Hoon, Kim Min Sun and Choi Moon Sun (also known [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Former South Korean national figure skating champion Lee June-hyoung said Friday he’s determined to win an Olympic spot at the final qualifying event next month. Lee, a three-time South Korean champion, won the men’s singles title at the Figure Skating Korea Challenge last month in Seoul and earned the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The organizing committee for the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics and the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) on Tuesday announced their launch of a Korean youth mentorship program. In a statement, the organizations said the goodwill campaign is part of the USOC’s “Thank You, PyeongChang” initiative, designed to “contribute to [...]
Rome, Aug. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korean Cultural Center in Italy announced that it had held a “Korean Day” event in the popular tourist destination Pietrasanta on August 14. Sometimes called the “City of Artists”, the medieval town is famous for its legacy of art and sculpture. Residents and visitors to the town were [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Dozens of South Korean companies have pledged to sponsor more than 894 billion won (US$781 million) to the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, the PyeongChang organizing committee said Saturday. The pledge is about 5 percent shy of the committee’s goal of drawing 940 billion won and accounts for 33.6 percent of the total budget for South Korea’s first-ever Winter Olympics to be held in the country’s eastern alpine city of PyeongChang in February. Samsung Group, South Korea’s largest [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — With less than 200 days remaining before the start of the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, South Korea is going all-out to make the event a successful endeavor for the host country, with the economic benefits being at the forefront of things being keenly considered. Earlier, Lee Hee-beom, the chief [...]
SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) – The top organizer of the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea has offered to open the land route for North Korean athletes if they decide to compete south of the tense border. In a meeting with journalists at the South Korean Embassy in London on Thursday (local time), Lee [...]
PYEONGCHANG, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – With a little over a year left until the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, several test events will be taking place in the coming weeks. There will be a total of 14 events hosted in 14 different disciplines until April 8, which will feature the participation of 1,515 athletes and [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea plans to spend 937.2 billion won (US$779.7 million) this year in support for the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games preparations, the sports ministry said Tuesday. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said its 2017 budget for the Olympic preparations is down 49.4 percent from [...]
PYEONGCHANG/SEOUL, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – While the world’s top hockey players enjoy competing at the Winter Games, they won’t necessarily want to pay to travel to South Korea for the next Olympics, a visiting official of the sport said Thursday. Mathieu Schneider, special assistant to the executive director of the National Hockey League Players’ [...]