" Their brilliant They are bringing people from tensharies countries that don't have snow, from southeast Southeast Asia, from Africa and they they've got good intentions in trying to make a Pyeongchang an area where it's not just central to Korea. "

But Lee says the heart hard part is making Pyeongchang Pyeongchang's facilities meet international expectations. The area does not have much in the way of après-ski culture, and major transportation projects are planned to make the three-hour-trip three-hour trip from Seoul a little less of tracka trek.

But Lee says he's confident the Koreans will have it all done by 2018. " There is are a lot of things that need to be built, but it's been one of the those things we will do it once for proximity's we promised these games . and I think, yeah, they definitely do have a long way to gobut . But the fact that they have the support of the Olympic media Committee now, the nation is fully behind it. "

South Korea becomes the second Asian nation, after Japan, to hold the winter gamesWinter Games.

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