The 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games will run from Feb. 9-25 in the alpine town and nearby cities of Jeongseon and Gangneung in South Korea.
This aerial photo, taken Nov. 30, 2017, shows the Alpensia Biathlon Center, the Cross-Country Skiing Center and the Alpensia Ski Jumping Stadium, where artificial snow is being made, in PyeongChang, 180 kilometers east of Seoul, ahead of the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games that will run from Feb. 9-25 in the alpine town and nearby cities of Jeongseon and Gangneung. (Yonhap)/2017-11-30
Dignitaries and guests including Culture Minister Do Jong-hwan and Lee Hee-beom, head of the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics and Paralympics organizing committee, take part in a ceremony at a training center for disabled athletes in the city of Icheon, south of Seoul, on Nov. 29, 2017, to unveil a clock tower showing the 100-day countdown to the first Winter Paralympics in South Korea. PyeongChang, an alpine resort town 180 kilometers east of Seoul in Gangwon Province, will host the Winter Paralympic Games from March 9 to 18 next year, under the slogan “Passion. Connected.” The event follows the Winter Olympic Games, scheduled from Feb. 9 to 25. (Yonhap)/2017-11-29
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Torch Relay:
Kim Sung-tae (L), head of the Taekwondo Promotion Foundation, and the foundation’s practitioners of the Korean traditional martial art taekwondo pose for a photo at a taekwondo arena in the southwestern town of Muju on Nov. 30, 2017, as they take part in the relay of the torch for the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics. The Olympic torch relay in South Korea, which began Nov. 1, will cover 2,018 kilometers — the same number as the year of the games. (Yonhap)/2017-11-30
Kim Sang-joo (C), a resident of the southwestern city of Gwangju, carries the torch for the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics at the May 18th National Cemetery in the city on Nov. 25, 2017. The Olympic torch relay in South Korea, which began Nov. 1, will cover 2,018 kilometers — the same number as the year of the games. (Yonhap)/2017-11-25
Seo Ki-won, an Army helicopter pilot, carries the Olympic flame for the 2018 PyeongChang Games in Jindo, South Jeolla Province, on Nov. 21, 2017. (Yonhap)/2017-11-22
More highlights from the Torch Relay still in progress:
