Pyeongchang and the Woman on the Crane
If every winning Olympic bid is a surprise, then the Winter Games Bid Committee’s July 7 decision must be counted among the greatest of them. After two successive failures, South Korea in 2018 will finally become the second Asian country after Japan to host the Winter Games
For the conservative government of President Lee Myung-bak, whose popularity has …
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