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Yongpyong Resort. Alpensia; Alps Resort – closed but facilities are maintained; Elysian Gangchon [1] High1; Jeongseon Alpine Centre – closed but facilities are maintained; Oak Valley [2] O 2 Resort [3] Phoenix Pyeongchang; Vivaldi Park [4] Welli Hilli Park; Yongpyong Resort
Despite political tensions with neighbouring South Korea, leaders in the North hoped to host some events at the 2018 Winter Olympics. [3] Constructed in just ten months, North Korea's first public ski resort was part of a drive by leader Kim Jong Un to increase foreign tourist numbers from 200,000 to 1 million per annum by 2016. [4]
Night skiing is available from 6:30 pm to 10 pm. Alpensia is a 5–10-minute car ride to the more extensive Yongpyong Ski Resort which has a full range of runs. In the resort village are three main accommodation providers: Intercontinental Hotel, Holiday Inn Hotel, and Holiday Inn Suites.
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Yongpyong (Dragon Valley) Ski Resort is a ski resort in South Korea, located in Daegwallyeong-myeon, Pyeongchang, Gangwon Province. It is the largest ski and snowboard resort in Korea, [1] and offers golf in the summer months. In 2003, Segye Ilbo, which is owned by the Unification Church, bought Yongpyong Resort.
Welli Hilli Park (Korean: 웰리힐리파크), formerly known as Hyundai Sungwoo Resort is a ski resort in Hoengseong, South Korea. The resort was opened in December 1995 by Sungwoo Group, a family company with Hyundai Group. The resort was acquired by Shinan Group in 2011 and took the current name in 2012. The top of the resort is Suri-bong, a ...
Alpensia Ski Jumping Centre (Korean: 알펜시아 스키점프 경기장) is a ski jumping hills located at Alpensia Resort in Pyeongchang, South Korea. They hosted the ski jumping and the nordic combined events during the 2018 Winter Olympics. They also operate as an association football venue by using their landing area as the pitch. [1]
In Europe, most ski resorts are towns or villages in or adjacent to a ski area–a mountainous area with pistes (ski trails) and a ski lift system. In North America , it is more common for ski areas to exist well away from towns, so ski resorts usually are destination resorts , often purpose-built and self-contained, where skiing is the main ...