Talk:Pyeongchang

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)

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)

That's that I've been thinking too. And why is the C in PyeongChang capitalized but is lowercase in the county name? _└^Jared_┘^┌_t^┐  03:39, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

I think it's very safe to assume that the IOC does not intend "city" in its legal sense, as defined by the country in question. Why would it give local authorities that call? Also, it would mean that it would be impossible for places in e.g. Sweden (lacking a formal city concept) to bid, which it clearly is not. —JAO • T • C 12:06, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

As stated above, Pyeongchang is a county, not a city, so I removed the statement in the article that it is South Korea's third largest city. This used to read "third largest county," which, if true, should be added back in, but I was unable to verify it (and it seems unlikely, given that counties in South Korea can apparently have up to 150,000 residents). Slb36cornell (talk) 12:40, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

• Isn't the host city in fact the town of Pyeongchang-eup ? 83.204.29.107 (talk) 10:31, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

Name - Pyeongchang or PyeongChang

Why is it Pyeongchang for the title yet PyeongChang throughout the article? It should either be one or the other.71.197.65.138 (talk) 06:40, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

• Maybe we should have a sentence somewhere saying that by wikipedia rules we call the city Pyeongchang but that the local authorities and the IOC have chosen to use the camelCase PyeongChang? Hektor (talk) 10:33, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

Map

The map is not the best map for the article. It gives the viewer no idea of where, in South Korea, Pyeongchang is. I took a look at the article because I wanted to know how close to North Korea the future city lies. I still don't know. A map with larger view of Korea is needed. Dincher (talk) 22:22, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

North or South

The text of the article creates confusion on wheter the town is situated in North- or South Korea. This should be rectified.

Lignomontanus (talk) 09:12, 8 July 2011 (UTC)

Why is this article written in this style and tone?

This is NOT the first time I've noticed, but most articles that are about Korea always have a certain tone in them that makes it boastful and biased with a slight arrogant tone. It's as if the editors who wrote this information is trying to make everything grander than they appear to be and there is unnecessary details about being first or best. Shouldn't this article, and others as well, be revised to reflect a more neutral and "humble" tone instead of this "in-your-face" style? And this problem isn't only in these Wikipedia articles. — Preceding unsigned comment added by M0rphzone (talk • contribs) 05:41, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

• Well this is the host city of the Olympics so it is not a generic mountain town. Hektor (talk) 15:47, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
• It's a result from 열등감 aka "inferiority complex" and it is very real. It's actually really entertaining to me that you can see that through Wikipedia pages. Rickinasia (talk) 23:26, 3 November 2011 (UTC)