<< Pyeongchang Olympic 1 >>
It’s been a while since last time I posted my writing.
Anyway, Winter Olympic game finally began
in South Korea. You might be watching it on TV. I don’t know what kind of
impression you got in your country. As far as I read news in English, it seemed
the opening ceremony was successful. However, I have been getting different information from news that is unavailable in English.
Please take a look at the attached images
below.
These are actual photos from Japanese TV
programs broadcasted the opening ceremony of Winter Olympic games.
As you can see there were almost no people sitting
in the stadium. The only people you can see are those who are sitting in the
front stand. Isn’t this creepy? You haven’t seen any Olympics like that before,
right?
I am sure US media were shooting the images
with those audiences behind so that they could hide the fact that almost no
people were in the stadium during the opening ceremony.
US media was demanding South Korea to fill
up the empty seats and even requested to do the ceremony at night so that they
could broadcast the live show on TV.
However, as far as I read Korean newspaper,
tickets weren’t sold enough to reach their goal even before two days before the
event.
Let me quote information from many sources
to grasp the condition more accurately.
According to Sankei News reported on Feb 9th,
because there weren’t enough audiences due to unsold tickets, Olympic committee
and local officials gave out free tickets to local volunteers to stage fake
audiences during the games. Those fake audiences are on a mission to show up
one game after another when the audiences aren’t enough number to shoot Live
broadcasting.
According to The Korea Herald, Olympic committee
offered to give out free tickets to 17,000 volunteers to stage fake audiences
for unpopular sports such as Nordic ski jump and Curling.
===( Source)===========================
http://www.sanspo.com/pyeongchang2018/news/20180210/pye18021005020019-n1.html
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According to AERA, which is an online
journal published by Asahi Newspaper, the ticket for the opening ceremony was
sold at nearly $800 on that day so the price was a huge rip-off as it was
rumored.
Also even if you could buy the ticket and
enter the stadium, once you left the stadium, you couldn’t re-enter the stadium
so that many foreign audiences ended up being left outside were observed.
Some of Canadian audiences requested Korean
volunteers to let them re-enter but the volunteers flatly rejected their
request and made them left appalled.
The observer tickets for Feb 10 and 11 were
said to be all sold out
==( Source )==============================
https://news.goo.ne.jp/article/dot/nation/dot-2018021000039
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According to “The Answer”, which is Japanese
media, only 40% of seats were occupied for Ice Hockey game by United Korea.
Ice Hockey and Figure Skate were the two of
the most popular games in Winter Olympics in addition to the fact observing the
play of Team United Korea was the most wanted by local Korean audiences.
Nevertheless, audiences were sparse. The reason is explained in the local
Korean newspaper “Sports Seoul”. It was all because of rip-off brokers. They
sold the tickets as much as five times of its original price on the internet.
Sports Seoul says that a special law for
Pyeongchang Olympic was made in last July to punish up to $5,000 fine if anyone
sold the ticket for more than the original price but it wasn't working at all.
==( Source )==============================
https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/article?a=20180211-00017408-theanswer-spo
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Korean people never follow regulations as
their common sense but violate every law and promise.
Prior to the opening ceremony, there were ominous rumors circulating
in Japanese web community.
First one was that the stadium could
collapse during the opening ceremony and many people would die.
Last time I showed you a picture of beam
structure of Olympic stadium.
One of web community people sent the
picture to a construction company in seek for professional opinions about the
beam structures of the stadium and got back a reply “People might die! It can’t
be! Koreans might have used aluminum beams too. I hope they didn’t!” And this
exchange was shared on the internet and got a huge attention. That’s why I
posted the picture in my blog last time.
It is well-known Korean construction is a
very sloppy job and there have been a lot of accidents involving death toll due
to their imperfect jobs before.
According to Sankei News (Japanese newspaper) reported last year on
Nov 2nd, Korean news investigated Olympic stadium and revealed the
condition as follow.
“When strong gust of wind blows, or a group
of people moves, the whole floor of chairs wobbles”
==( Source )============================
http://www.sankei.com/premium/news/171102/prm1711020002-n1.html
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South Korea had an intention to disassemble
the Olympic stadium as soon as the event was over so they built a makeshift
stadium. But as the result, it seemed they sacrificed the safeness in exchange
for efficiency to save the cost.
So we were thinking that something huge
accident was going to happen at the stadium during the ceremony.
However, it turned out to be the opening
ceremony was executed without audiences sitting in the stadium.
< Speculation >
This is my personal speculation.
Olympic committee decided not to let
audiences sit the stadium except the front stage which was exceptionally built with
hard concrete.
They just didn’t want to run a risk of
triggering the death toll from the collapsed stadium on the first day of
Olympic games. If it did happen, it would be a huge human error accident in
Olympic history.
Another reason could be, 6 days prior to
the opening ceremony, they held a rehearsal ceremony with 20,000 volunteers in
the stadium, and they encountered many problems.
First problem was that people couldn’t get
inside the stadium because ticket reading machines didn’t work due to freezing
cold temperature.
The officials were at first going to
practice body check to prevent terrorism but because everything went
malfunction and volunteers were kept hanging in freezing cold temperature, thus
Korean volunteers were running out of their patience and becoming antsy, the
officials let all volunteers in the stadium without body check or checking
their ticket. I think the official must have realized that they couldn’t
prevent terrorism if a lot of audiences came to visit the opening ceremony.
Once people went inside the stadium, people
were exposed to minus 16 degree in Celsius (3.2 degrees in Fahrenheit) with
blowing wind because there were no wind proof walls. (Hahaha)
It was way colder than outside of stadium because people were positioned higher than ground so that minus 16 degree freezing cold wind directly blew their bodies! (Hahaha)
It was like "Come on! Let us in! It's too cold outside! We're going to be frozen to death! Hurry up!" So the officials say "Okay! Come inside! Hurry up!" Then it turned out to be way colder inside than outside. (Hahaha)
After about an hour passed, people began to leave the stadium because it was unbearably too cold to withstand.
It is said that there was one of the volunteers left the stadium while screaming in pain “My toe fingers are going to get torn apart!” because he was wearing regular athletic shoes. (Hahaha)
It was way colder than outside of stadium because people were positioned higher than ground so that minus 16 degree freezing cold wind directly blew their bodies! (Hahaha)
It was like "Come on! Let us in! It's too cold outside! We're going to be frozen to death! Hurry up!" So the officials say "Okay! Come inside! Hurry up!" Then it turned out to be way colder inside than outside. (Hahaha)
After about an hour passed, people began to leave the stadium because it was unbearably too cold to withstand.
It is said that there was one of the volunteers left the stadium while screaming in pain “My toe fingers are going to get torn apart!” because he was wearing regular athletic shoes. (Hahaha)
==( Source )============================
https://mainichi.jp/sportsspecial/articles/20180204/k00/00e/050/203000c
http://blog.livedoor.jp/rakukan/archives/5327449.html
http://japanese.joins.com/article/267/238267.html
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It is reported by Olympic committee that there
were about 17,000 volunteers at first but before the opening ceremony, 3,000
people quit. I am sure the rehearsal ceremony was horrible enough experience to
make up their decisions. (Hahaha)
==( Source )============================
http://zapzapjp.com/52902146.html
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To be continued.
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