South Korea wins 2018 Winter Olympics

Reuters ^ | 6/18/2011 | Paul Radford

[mkboyce]

"The Koreans put in a determined bid, stressing their virtues of perseverance and patience, and employed their country's President Lee Mying-bak and Olympic women's figure skating champion Kim Yuna to persuade and charm the IOC."

[mkboyce]

Hey Barack...take notes you narcissistic loser. LOL!

[Wuli]

That's great. 멋지 네요. Meot ji ne yo. That's wonderful. 매우 훌륭하네요. Mae u hul lyung ha ne yo. Congratulations to South Korea. 한국 축하합니다. Han gug chuk ha hap ni da.

[Minn]

I didn’t realize Korea had the mountains or snow necessary to host winter games. Those things on MASH just look like little Southern California hills.

[Wuli]

As a peninsula jutting off the northern end of the Asian mainland, it is affected by the mainland weather in the winter - ground frozen like a rock, and the ocean-current weather streams in the summer - monsoons. In such a small place it has four very distinct, and extremely different seasons.

The South Korean topography is predominately tons of small mountains and valleys and not a ton of flat lands. I am not sure how high its highest mountains are, or where their ski areas are located, but apparently the Olympic committee does.

[Wuli]

As a peninsula jutting off the northern end of the Asian mainland, it is affected by the mainland weather in the winter - ground frozen like a rock, and the ocean-current weather streams in the summer - monsoons. In such a small place it has four very distinct, and extremely different seasons.

The South Korean topography is predominately tons of small mountains and valleys and not a ton of flat lands. I am not sure how high its highest mountains are, or where their ski areas are located, but apparently the Olympic committee does.

[Wuli]

http://www.lifeinkorea.com/travel2/skiing

[Lurker]

That’s pretty amazing considering the 2018 Olympics haven’t happened yet.

[Wuli]

S. Korea winter Olympic site

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyeongchang