Talk:Pyeongchang County

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My long-term desire is to move articles ending in "-si" (City) and "-gun" (County) to their root name; thus, move "Pyeongchang-gun" to "Pyeongchang." But Egon has already created all these articles for Gangwon, and their titles all end in "-si" or "-gun." So for now, keep it here... --Sewing 01:56, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)

The IOC only accepts Olympic bids from cities, so I guess that there is also a city called Pyeongchang. By the way in the bid the spelling PyeongChang with a capital C was used... --Hektor 03:46, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)

This article should really be more than just a summary of the city's Olympic bids. Anyone know anything else about Pyeongchang? - Cuivienen 04:15, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

I can see what I can find about Pyeongchang. --Cameron 12:39, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

OK, I have tried my best to expand the article and I will continue to do some research (although I may have to search for non-English language sites then try to make sense of the translation Google gives me). --clearthought 23:08, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 Snowball's chance in hell. 2 move 3 Width???? 4 PyeongChang - the city

[edit] Snowball's chance in hell.

In all fairness, DPRK (North Korea) would consider it an act of war if South Korea tried to host an olympic alone again. The two are still at war and do not recognize the divided peninsula. So RoC would need to give hosting some events to the North as a gesture and that would be pretty much unacceptable for the rest of the world. So to summerize, Korea has no chance. The russian site is very near chechen terror area, so only Austria remains viable.

I would say this is simply incorrect; South Korea held the 2002 World Cup, and no events were held in the north. Furthermore, a city hosts the Olympics - not a country. When Los Angeles hosted the 1984 Olympics, they did not hold events in Phoenix. And the People's Republic of China will be holding the 2008 Olympics, apparently without permission from the Republic of China. --Golbez 08:31, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Talk pages are for discussion involving the improvement of the article, not for debate that would not be a service to the improvement of the article. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and not an opinion forum and debating views on whether Pyeongchang will be able to host the Olympics is not part of this article, nor should it be part of the talk page intended to further the article's progress. See: [1] --clearthought 20:50, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] move

Since the name of the place on their English website is PyeongChang, perhaps we should capitalize the C? --Golbez 16:21, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

I don't know... it seems to me like Wikipedia, for one-word place names, usually only capitalizes the first letter, not anything extra. E.g., for East Asian place names: [2], [3], [4], [5]. --clearthought 17:02, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Width????

"and the 3rd largest county (in width) in the country." How is this at all notable? Does this hold some significance in South Korea I'm not aware of? Seems like an uninteresting piece of sub-trivia to me... -Elmer Clark 19:30, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Geographically it seems noteworthy. It is like saying that Alaska is the largest U.S. state or that Vatican City is the smallest country. Most sources said it was the 3rd largest, but their own county government website (not province website) said it was the 3rd largest in width. All of the sources noted in their main summary about the county that it was the 3rd largest (their specific government site said width). Since you brought up that comment, I will remove the width since all but one of the sites used that term. I agree that the width part sounds odd, but I disagree that the fact that it being the 3rd largest county in South Korea is "an uninteresting piece of sub-trivia". ~ clearthought 19:43, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

I agree that if you're talking about actual area it's notable. However, being the third widest county doesn't necessarily say anything about its area - Chile is the "longest" country in South America, but certainly not the largest by area. The article now says it's the third largest in area. This is an entirely different statement, but, assuming it's still true, is much more worthwhile. -Elmer Clark 09:23, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Yes, I removed the width statement on account that most of the sources said it was the largest; period. ~ clearthought 14:53, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] PyeongChang - the city

• Is there any hope to have an article dedicated to PyeongChang, the city ? After all it has a fair chance to host the Olympics. Hektor 08:55, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

That would be this article, right here. It is a county, not a city. -- Visviva 09:23, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

I don't understand. Olympic rules only allow cities to bid. There must be a host city. Hektor 10:54, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

The terms "city" and "county" have a rather specific meaning in South Korea; see Administrative divisions of South Korea. Because Pyeongchang is a district with a relatively rural area with a low population, it is officially categorized as a county. I don't know what bearing this might have on the Olympic bid, but presumably the IOC would have noticed before now if it were a serious problem. -- Visviva 12:30, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

I can only quote the Olympic Charter, article 33.2 : The honour and responsibility of hosting the Olympic Games are entrusted by the IOC to a city, which is elected as the host city of the Olympic Games. Hektor 09:28, 22 March 2007 (UTC)