[Svartalfiar]

Eighty-eight percent of the hotels, motels, inns and guesthouses in the area do not have a single room booked during the Olympic period.

Huh? This comment right here tells me this article is bullshit. NO hotel in any kinda-big city goes nearly three weeks with no guests. Even when it's not a major international event like the Olympics. In a mountainous country with lots of skiing and such. I'm guessing the author went rather hyperbolic, and with the state of today's media, not the best idea really...

[topher]

I will not disagree. But the article has been on the Korea Herald for three days now... I think that South Korean newspapers should be trying to promote the games.

That is such a negative statistic that it does raise flags (that it is true or not) or if there is a serious problem with attendance at these games.