PyeongChang Olympics 2018: Day 16 South Korea Medal Count

Day 16-February 25

The Olympics have come to a close. South Korea had a pretty good run.

South Korea won 2 medals on the sixteenth day of the Olympics.

Medal Counts

Bronze 4

Silver 8

Gold 5

Medal Winners

Bobsleigh-4 men-Silver

Curling-women-Silver

Korea ends the Olympics in 7th place by number of Gold medals.

South Korea won 17 medals total.

PyeongChang Olympics 2018: Day 15 South Korea Medal Count

Day 15: February 24

South Korea won 3 medals on the fifteenth day of the Olympics.

Medal Count

Bronze 4

Silver 6

Gold 5

Medal Winners

Snowboard-Men's Parallel Giant Slalom-Silver-Lee Sangho

Speed skating-Ladies Mass Start-Silver-Kim Bo-Reum

Speed skating-Men's Mass Start-Gold-Lee Seung-Hoon


South Korea is in 7th place by  number of gold medals.

PyeongChang Olympics 2018: Day 14 South Korea Medal Count

Day 14-Feb 23

South Korea won 1 medal on the fourteenth day of the Olympics.

Medal Count

Bronze-4

Silver-4

Gold-4

Medal Winners

Speed Skating-Men’s 1000m-Bronze-Kim Tae-yun

South Korea is in 9th place by number of gold medals.

PyeongChang Olympics 2018: Day 13 South Korea Medal Count

Day 13-February 22

South Korea won 2 medals on the thirteenth day of the Olympics.

Medal Count

Bronze 3

Silver 4

Gold 4

Medal Winners

Short Track Speed Skating-Men's 500m-Silver-Hwang Daeheon
                                                                  Bronze-Lim Hyojun

South Korea is in 9th place by number of gold medals

PyeongChang Olympics 2018: Day 12 South Korea Medal Count

Day 12-February 21

South Korea won 1 medal on the twelveth day of the Olympics

Medal Counts

Bronze 2

Silver 3

Gold 4

Medal Winners

Speed Skating-Men's Team Pursuit-Silver


South Korea is in 8th place by number of Gold medals.

PyeongChang Olympics 2018: Day 11 South Korea Medal Count

Day 11- Feb 20


South Korea won 1 medal on the eleventh day of the Olympics

Medal Counts

Bronze 2

Silver 2

Gold 4

Medal Winners

Short Track Speed Skating-Ladies 3000m relay-Gold

South Korea is in 9th place by number of Gold medals

PyeongChang Olympics 2018: Day 10 South Korea Medal Count

Day 10- Feb 19


South Korea won 1nmedal on the tenth day of the Olympics

Medal Counts

Bronze 2

Silver 2

Gold 3

Medal Winners

Speed Skating-Mens 500m-Silver-Cha Min Kyu

South Korea is in 9th place by number of Gold medals

PyeongChang Olympics 2018: Day 9 South Korea Medal Count

Day 9- Feb 18

South Korea won 1 medal on the ninth day of the Olympics

Medal Counts

Bronze 2

Silver 1

Gold 3

Medal Winners

Speed skating-Ladies 500m-Silver-Lee Sang-hwa

South Korea is in 9th place by number of Gold medals

PyeongChang Olympics 2018: Day 8 South Korea Medal Count

Day 8-Feb 17

South Korea won 2 medals on the eighth day of the Olympics

Medal Counts

Bronze 2

Silver 0

Gold 3

Medal Winners

Women's Freestyle skiing-slopestyle-Gold-Choi Minjeong

Short Track Speed skating-Men's 1000m-Bronze-Seo Yira

PyeongChang Olympics 2018: Day 7 South Korea Medal Count

Day 7-Feb 16

South Korea won 1 medal on the seventh day of the Olympics

Medal Counts

Bronze 1

Silver  0

Gold  2

Medal Winners

Skeleton-Gold--Yun Sungbin

South Korea is in  10th place by number of  Gold medals

PyeongChang Olympics 2018: Day 6 South Korea Medal Count

Day 6-Feb 15


South Korea won 0 medals on the sixth day of the Olympics

Medal Counts

Bronze 1

Silver  0

Gold   1

South Korea is in 10th place by number of  Gold medals

Simone Handbag Museum

Location: Sinsa Station, subway line 3 (15-minute walk) : walk about three blocks until you reach a corner with the area’s tallest building – J Tower. Turn left onto garosugil. 
subway line 3 to apgujeong station (exit #5) and walk about 15 minutes. Turn left at the MANGO

Hours: Closed Monday
            Tuesday-Saturday 10-7
            Sunday 11-7

Admission: 5,000 KRW

Website: http://simonehandbagmuseum.co.kr/en/

**No Parking available

This is a small museum that you can easily see in less than 30 minutes. You can't take pictures, but they do give you a booklet that has pictures of every bag in the collection. There are 2 floors. The first floor (floor 3) is modern day handbags. The 2nd floor (floor 4) is historical handbags dating back to the 1500's.

There were a few interesting things to see like how purses evolved over time. I think the historical handbags were the most interesting to me. I just went because it was one of the things I could see with the Discover Seoul Pass.

Overall I don't think its worth the money unless you are really interested in handbags. There isn't that much to see.

You can view the whole collection online on the website.

Korean Food: 해물파전 Seafood Pancake

Korean Street Food: 계란빵 egg bread

PyeongChang Olympics 2018: Day 5 South Korea Medal Count

Day 5-Feb 14

South Korea won 0 medals on the fifth day of the Olympics

Medal Counts

Bronze 1

Silver  0

Gold   1

South Korea is in 10th place by number of  Gold medals

PyeongChang Olympics 2018: Day 4 South Korea Medal Count

Day 4-Feb 13


South Korea won 1 medal on the fourth day of the Olympics

Medal Counts

Bronze 1

Silver  0

Gold   1

Medal Winners

Bronze medal-Speed Skating-Mens 1500m-Kim Min Seok

South Korea is in  10th place by number of  Gold medals

PyeongChang Olympics 2018: Day 3 South Korea Medal Count

Day 3-Feb 12


South Korea won 0 medals on the third day of the Olympics

Medal Counts

Bronze 0

Silver  0

Gold   1



South Korea is in a tie for 8th place by number of  Gold medals

PyeongChang Olympics 2018: Day 2 South Korea Medal Count

Day 2-Feb 11

South Korea won 0 medals on the second day of the Olympics

Medal Counts

Bronze 0
Silver   0
Gold    1

South Korea is in a tie for 5th place by number of Gold Medals.

Olympic Park Gangneung (Pictures)

Click on the link to see pictures:

Gangneung Olympic Park

Olympic Mascots around Seoul and airport

At the airport

Myeong Dong in Seoul

Korean Street Food: 오뎅

오뎅 is also known as fish cake. You can find these in carts all over Korea. They are usually very cheap. You usually get one for 500 won (about 50 cents) or 1000 won for 2 (about 1 dollar)

It is a processed seafood product made of ground white fish and other ingredients such as potato starch, sugar and vegetable

Korean Street Food: 호떡

호떡 is a type of pancake that can have a variety of fillings. Usually there is brown sugar, honey, chopped nuts and cinnamon. I have also had some that were filled with chocolate and vegetables.

These usually cost about 1000 won (about 1 dollar)

호떡 is usually eaten in the winter season. They usually fold it and put it in a cup.

Pictures:

this one is a typical one you will find with a sweet filling

야채호떡

Filled with vegetables and noodles

똥아호떡

This one is in the shape of poo

It is filled with chocolate

PyeongChang Olympics 2018: Team Event Figure Skating

On Feb 9 I was able to attend an Olympic event!! I attended the Team Event for Figure Skating-Men's single short program and Pairs short program. It was held in the Gangneung Ice Arena from 10:00-1;25. I had a Category C ticket which costed 150,000 won ($138 USD at the time of purchase). This was the only Olympic ticket that I bought.

10 countries participated in the event: United States, Italy, Korea, China, Japan, Germany, France, Canada, OAR (athletes from Russia), and Isreal.

After the competition was over the standings were:

1st Canada
2nd USA
3rd Japan
4th OAR
5th Isreal
6th China
7th Italy
8th Germany
9th France
10th Korea

Pictures:

Figure Skating Pictures

PyeongChang Olympics 2018: Day 1 South Korea Medal Count

Day 1-Feb 10

South Korea won 1 medal on the first day of the Olympics

Medal Counts

Bronze
Silver   0
Gold    1

Medal Winners:

Lim Hyojun-Short Track Speed Skating-Men's 1500m


South Korea is in 3rd place by number of Gold Medals.

PyeongChang Olympics 2018: South Korean Olympians

The Winter Olympics will be held in PyeongChang in South Korea this year from February 9-25. South Korea and North Korea will enter together at the opening ceremony.

This year South Korea has 146 Olympians in 15 sports.

Alpine Skiing

Men
Jung Dong-hyun
Kim Dong-woo

Women
Gim So-hui
Kang Young-seo

Biathlon

Men
Timofey Lapshin

Women
Ekaterina Avvakumova
Anna Frolina
Jung Ju-mi
Ko Eun-jung
Mun Ji-hee

Bobsleigh

Two-Man
Won Yun-jong
Seo Young-woo

Four-man
Jun Jung-lin
Kim Dong-hyun
Seo Young-woo
Won Yun-jong

Two-women
Kim Min-seong
Kim Yoo-ran

Cross-country skiing

Men
Kim Eun-ho
Magnus Kim

Women
Ju Hye-ri

Lee Chae-won

Curling

Men's Tournament
Kim Chang-min
Seong Se-hyeon
Oh Eun-Su
Lee Ki-bok
Kim Min-chan

Women's Tournament
Kim Eun-jung
Kim Kyeong-ae
Kim Seon-yeong
Kim Yeong-mi
Kim Cho-hi

Mixed Doubles
Jang Hye-ji
Lee Ki-jeong

Figure Skating

Men's Singles
Cha Jun-hwan

Ladies Singles
Choi Da-bin
Kim Ha-nul

Pairs
Kim Kyu-eun / Alex Kangchan Kam

Ice Dancing
Yura Min / Alexander Gamelin

Freestyle Skiing

Aerials

Women's Aerials
Kim Kyoung-eun

Halfpipe

Men's Halfpipe
Lee Kang-bok

Women's Halfpipe
Jang Yu-jin

Moguls

Men's Moguls
Choi Jae-woo
Seo Myung-joon S
Women's Moguls
Seo Jee-won
Seo Jung-hwa
Slopestyle
Women's Slopestyle
Lee Mee-hyun

Luge

Men's Singles
Lim Namkyu

Doubles
Cho Jung Myung
Park Jinyong

Women's Singles
Aileen Frisch
Sung Eunryung

Nordic Combined

Park Je-un

Short Track Speed Skating

Men
Hwang Dae-heon
Kim Do-kyoum
Kwak Yoon-gy
Lim Hyo-jun
Seo Yi-ra

Women
Choi Min-jeong
Kim A-lang
Kim Ye-jin
Lee Yu-bin
Shim Suk-hee

Skeleton

Men's
Kim Jisoo
Yun Sungbin

Women's
Jeong Sophia

Ski Jumping

Men
Choi Se-ou
Kim Hyun-ki

Women
Park Guy-lim

Snowboarding

Men
Freestyle
Big Air and Slopestyle
Lee Minsik

Halfpipe
Kim Ho Jun
Kweon Leejun
Lee Kwang Ki

Women
Freestyle
Big Air
Chung Ji Hye

Halfpipe
Kwon Sunoo

Parallel
Men's Giant Slalom
Choi Bogun
Kim Sangkyum
Lee Sangho

Women's Giant Slalom
Jeong Haerim
Shin Dahae

Speed Skating

Men
Cha Minkyu 500m, 1000m
Chung Jaewon mass start
Chung Jaewoong 1000m
Joo Hyongjun 1500m
Kim Junho 500m
Kim Minseok 1500m, mass start
Kim Taeyun 500m, 1000m
Lee Seunghoon 5000m, 10,000m, mass start
Mo Taebum 500m, 1000m

Women
Kim Boreum 1500m, mass start
Kim Hyunyung 500m, 1000m
Kim Hyunyung 500m, 1000m
Lee Sanghwa 500m, 1000m
Noh Seonyeong 1500m, mass start
Park Jiwoo mass start
Park Seunghi 500m, 1000m

Team Pursuit
Men's Team Pursuit
Chung Jaewon
Joo Hyongjun
Kim Minseok
Lee Seunghoon

Women's Team Pursuit
Kim Boreum
Noh Seonyeong
Park Jiwoo
Park Seunghi