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Teenage Winter Sports Athletes from ‘No-Snow’ Countries Begin Training in S. Korea

SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of teenage winter sports athletes from countries that have little snow will have off-season training in South Korea. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the Gangwon provincial office and the Pyeongchang Memorial Foundation jointly announced that 100 teenage athletes from 14 countries, including Thailand and Ethiopia, [...]

Dream Programme Offers Overseas Youth a Winter Experience

GANGNEUNG, South Korea, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – The Dream Programme was launched by Pyeongchang in 2004 to introduce winter sports and culture to young people from countries that either have no snow, or lack the environment for experiencing such activities. A total of 1,749 youth from 80 countries have so far taken part in [...]