{"id":215,"date":"2014-03-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yule-tide.generalsemiotics.net\/index.php\/2014\/03\/17\/post-208-pyeongchang-olympics-2018\/"},"modified":"2014-03-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T00:00:00","slug":"post-208-pyeongchang-olympics-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/2014\/03\/17\/post-208-pyeongchang-olympics-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-208: Pyeongchang Olympics 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Who&#8217;d ever heard of &#8220;Pyeongchang&#8221; (\ud3c9\ucc3d) before the news came out that it would host the Winter Olypmics? Nobody, I think. Not me. It&#8217;s a small mountain place somewhere out there.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a billboard I saw about a year ago, while visiting Gapyeong (\uac00\ud3c9) (see <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.yuletyde.com\/1\/post\/2013\/04\/post-15-gapyeong-and-chuncheon.html\">post-15<\/a>), near Chuncheon (\ucd98\ucc9c):<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"wsite-image wsite-image-border-hairline wsite-image-border-black\" style=\"padding-top: 0; padding-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; text-align: center;\"><a><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 1066px;\" src=\"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/353037_orig.jpg\" alt=\"Picture\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"display: block; font-size: 90%;\">Billboard for 2018 Olympics \/ Spring 2013 \/ Chuncheon, South Korea<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div><!--BLOG_SUMMARY_END--><\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">That&#8217;s Korean ice-skater Kim Yuna on the poster. A much-less-flexible bear imitates her, with some success.<\/p>\n<p>Koreans, being Koreans, began marketing &#8220;Pyeongchang Water&#8221; shortly after the announcement. My favorite bottled-water brand name remains &#8220;DMZ Water,&#8221; though. (This is not to say I <em>bought<\/em> it; I actually bought whichever was cheapest, which for me was HomePlus water at 500 Won [45 US cents] per 2-L bottle.)<\/div>\n<div>\n<div style=\"height: 20px; overflow: hidden; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"styled-hr\" style=\"width: 100%;\" \/>\n<div style=\"height: 20px; overflow: hidden; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who&#8217;d ever heard of &#8220;Pyeongchang&#8221; (\ud3c9\ucc3d) before the news came out that it would host the Winter Olypmics? Nobody, I think. Not me. It&#8217;s a small mountain place somewhere out there. Here is a billboard I saw about a year ago, while visiting Gapyeong (\uac00\ud3c9) (see post-15), near Chuncheon (\ucd98\ucc9c): Billboard for 2018 Olympics \/ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-korea","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}