# South Korea Gets 2018 Winter Olympics **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [July 6, 2011, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-korea-gets-2018-winter-olympics/588066 "2011-07-06T18:06:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2011, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-korea-gets-2018-winter-olympics/588066/21 "2011-07-08T00:41:59Z")
> [@HazelNutCoffee](#): > > It’s a lovely area but it is going to have to do a lot of shaping up in terms of tourism. The only decent accommodation we could find there (we visited in spring) were for huge groups of people (like for company retreats). Plenty of seedy “love motels” though. I stayed at a seedy “love motel” when I was in one of the Korean cities for the World Cup, for a couple of nights. It was kind of funny, although I got no love at all. I think you had to bring your own partner. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2011, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-korea-gets-2018-winter-olympics/588066/22 "2011-07-10T02:39:17Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > The winter sports are all coordinated to the northern winter. Sure, the indoor sports could be held anywhere, but the outdoor ones would have to be held in July or August in the south, and that would totally bollocks up everybody’s schedule. That’s when winter athletes rest and train, and it would screw up their sports something fierce if they had to somehow be at their peak at a different part of the calendar. What about the winter athletes _from_ the Southern Hemisphere? Do they train as if they were in the Northern? ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2011, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-korea-gets-2018-winter-olympics/588066/23 "2011-07-10T11:38:50Z")
The ones at the top level DO train and compete in the North. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-korea-gets-2018-winter-olympics/588066/24 "2011-07-11T15:10:32Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > I stayed at a seedy “love motel” when I was in one of the Korean cities for the World Cup, for a couple of nights. It was kind of funny, although I got no love at all. I think you had to bring your own partner. I’ll bet the hotel would have been happy to rent you one. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-korea-gets-2018-winter-olympics/588066/25 "2011-07-11T18:59:56Z")
A winter olympics in the summer would make the NHL happy. Its players wouldn’t have to miss any league games. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2011, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-korea-gets-2018-winter-olympics/588066/26 "2011-07-12T12:04:10Z")
Crap! If I have my way, that’ll be my kids _first_ shot at the games. I don’t want to go to Korea! 😃 Lets hope for a better pick for 22. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-korea-gets-2018-winter-olympics/588066.md?page=1)