PyeongChang’s bid for the 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games has received additional support from Korea’s students and a group of national sporting heroes.
A Korean student volunteer group called Saeng-jon-gyeong-jaeng has been travelling around Asia since the beginning of 2011 to help promote PyeongChang’s bid, collecting 2,018 messages of support in that time. The group is led by Professor Kyung-deok Seo of Sungshin Women’s University, who accompanied the students on their travels.
The students collected these messages of support from members of the public when they visited cities including Nagano in Japan, Bangkok in Thailand and Guangzhou in China. They also received further messages of support from overseas tourists visiting Korea. By undertaking a tour of different Asian cities, the students helped to communicate PyeongChang’s unique vision, ‘New Horizons’, and highlight to people how a Winter Games in PyeongChang will help spread winter sports to new parts of the world including Asia.
The students have now received the backing of a group of Korean sports stars, who have been very impressed by the young people’s efforts to help PyeongChang’s bid. Byung-Ji Kim (Football), Dong-Gook Lee (Football), Sung-Min Moon (Volleyball), and Seung-Gyun Choo (Basketball) have announced their backing for the bid and have decided to donate funds to the student group to support them as they continue to promote PyeongChang 2018.
Byung-Ji Kim, a member of South Korea’s national team squad for the 1998 and 2002 FIFA World Cup, said: "It’s incredibly inspiring to see these young students work tirelessly to support PyeongChang’s bid. As a professional sportsperson I know that the country is passionate about Winter Sports, and it would be a great honour for us to host the Winter Games and welcome athletes from around the world to Korea in 2018."
Yang Ho Cho, PyeongChang 2018 Chairman and CEO, said: "The hard work and energy shown by this group of students has once again highlighted that the people of Korea are wonderfully supportive of our bid, and it would mean so much to them to see the 2018 Winter Games come to PyeongChang. We are also delighted to see that our core message of ‘New Horizons’ is resonating around Asia and we very thankful for all the messages of support we have received from people in so many different international cities."
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