South Korea is home to one of the planet’s most-celebrated airports and the busiest air route in the world, but that’s not stopping one of its top officials from pitching a good, old-fashioned trade ride to the Olympics.
On Tuesday, South Korean unification minister Lee In-young said he wants to send the country’s athletes and cheerleaders to the 2022 Beijing Winter Games using a railway that would pass through North Korean land. The idea itself is more than a decade old, but with just 10 months until the Beijing Olympics, Seoul is gunning for sports diplomacy and other projects to improve inter-Korean relations.
South Korea is home to one of the planet’s most-celebrated airports and the busiest air route in the world, but that’s not stopping one of its top officials from pitching a good, old-fashioned trade ride to the Olympics.
On Tuesday, South Korean unification minister Lee In-young said he wants to send the country’s athletes and cheerleaders to the 2022 Beijing Winter Games using a railway that would pass through North Korean land. The idea itself is more than a decade old, but with just 10 months until the Beijing Olympics, Seoul is gunning for sports diplomacy and other projects to improve inter-Korean relations.
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