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’ [...]
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – A senior International Olympic Committee (IOC) member said Friday the biggest challenge facing PyeongChang, host of the 2018 Winter Games, is promoting the event across the world. The IOC’s Coordination Commission on PyeongChang, headed by Gunilla Lindberg, wrapped up its seventh visit Friday. Having held meetings with [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea is on its way to complete venue construction on time as the country aims to make its first ever Winter Olympics an environmentally friendly event. With the 2018 Winter Games now 500 days away, the South Korea host city PyeongChang, some 180 kilometers east of Seoul, and [...]
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea, Aug. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – More than 43,000 people have applied for volunteer positions at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, the organizers of the quadrennial event said Thursday. The PyeongChang Organizing Committee for the 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (POCOG) started their volunteer recruitment campaign from July, hoping to bring on [...]
GANGNEUNG, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Gangneung, a city in Gangwon Province, is hosting the ‘Global Innovator Festa 2016 Gangwon’, a creative idea competition with the theme “When Winter Olympics Meet High-Tech ICT (Information and Communications Technology)”. It’s also an event to promote creativity and youth start-ups, and to discover new talent and fresh ideas. [...]
GANGNEUNG, June 24 (Korea Bizwire) – With only two years left to go until the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, a suggestion popped up during a strategy forum at Gangneung, a city in Gangwon Province, that Korea should host a food festival that introduces the province’s food culture to the rest of the [...]
JEONGSEON, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – A South Korean alpine skiing venue for an upcoming Winter Games test event officially opened Friday, two days after receiving its approval from the sport’s international governing body. The Jeongseon Alpine Centre, the venue for the International Ski Federation (FIS) Alpine Skiing World Cup on Feb. 6-7, was declared [...]