Olympic Games in South Korea officially opened.

The ceremony turned out colorful, but economical. To organize such major competitions, South Korea spent $ 11.8 billion, which is 4 times less than in Sochi. The opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympics South Koreans spent more than $ 2.5 billion, write "Vedomosti". However, a small number of people will attend sports events. The organizers realized only 30% of tickets, which has already become an anti-record in the history of the Olympics, notes The Bell. Probably one of the reasons why a significant part of tourists did not come to the Olympics was frightened by the DPRK nuclear program. After all, from Pyeongchang to the border of North Korea, only 100 km. According to the artist-designer and designer Boris Krasnov, South Korea in terms of the organization will not reach the scale of China, where the Olympics took place in 2008. "The opening ceremony in Pyeongchang was in the shadow of the action that was presented at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. It is clear that there were colossal opportunities: both creative resource and finance. In Pyeongchang, the opening ceremony looked very restrained, "- quotes his" MK ".

Also attractiveness of the sports holiday was not added and terribly cold weather, established in Pyeongchang. The ceremony was attended by about 35 thousand spectators, but all of them were in a terrible frost. The temperature in Pyeongchang fell below - 20 ° C. Finally, the doping scandal around Russian athletes also could not but affect the spectacle of the competition. After all, many olimpischennye Olympians were leaders of the Russian team. At the same time, the organizers hope to get almost $ 55 billion from the competition. How they derived this figure is unclear.