Organizers of the Winter Olympic Games in 2018 admitted that they had to "tighten their belts" because of the limited budget for the preparation of the opening ceremony of the competition.
At the opening of the Olympics was spent 70 billion Korean won, this is about 65 million dollars.
According to the chief engineer of the ceremony, for foreign visitors and viewers I wanted to arrange a whole show program.
Two months before the ceremony, we were allocated 10000000000 won additional budget - this is the installation of televisions, the sublighting of seats and the launching of drones.
It is noteworthy that the leadership of the competition spent significantly less money than their colleagues from the last Olympics, which was held in Rio.
As reported in "Ura-Inform", earlier short-track player Lim Hyo Zhong brought South Korea the first gold medal in the national team's asset at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.