By Here is how the Chosun Ilbo says that Korea won the right to host the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics:
The passion of the Korean people, the unyielding power to prevail and the firm support of the government made it possible for Pyeongchang to move the hearts of many hard-to-please IOC members this week in South Africa as Korea won the bid to host the 2018 Winter Olympics.
The article than goes on to list these as the key factors:
- Presidential Support
- Strategies
- Clear Message
- Prowess In Vancouver Olympics
No word if any white envelopes came into play. It just wouldn’t be the Winter Olympics without them.
Joking aside, congratulations to Pyeongchang for winning the right to host the games. They no doubt worked very hard over the past decade+ to host these games. I have no doubt that top facilities will be constructed and the games will be run smoothly. I think it will be interesting to see in the coming years if the North Koreans will try to use threats of making provocations before and during the Winter Olympics as way to extract hush money out of South Korea?
9:57 am on July 7th, 2011 1
CONGRATULATIONS REPUBLIC OF KOREA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DAE HAN MIN GOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
10:19 am on July 7th, 2011 2
Mi hap jun guk!
Anyway, nobody cares about the winter olympics.
3:11 pm on July 7th, 2011 3
We all know how this process REALLY works. Wink, wink. After what happened the last time, they probably made sure the bribees stayed bribed this time.
4:23 pm on July 7th, 2011 4
#3, so why didn’t Korea win it in two other bids prior to this one? Not enough bribes then? Maybe Vancouver which beat out the Korean city, paid more bribes?
Very strange, the many charges of bribes never comes up when Western countries get the games. Very strange indeed.
5:13 pm on July 7th, 2011 5
People in America care more about the Casey Anthony trial than about the Olympics.
5:41 pm on July 7th, 2011 6
#4 makes snese.
#5 this article is about what korean care about. This web site’s name wouldn’t be ROKdrop if it was all about America. common sense
5:46 pm on July 7th, 2011 7
I guess they didn’t learn from the 1988 Olympics, wonder what Roy Jones jr thinks?
7:22 pm on July 7th, 2011 8
# 7,
You mean this…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJYBV9BXQNY
Expect more of the same like in the above video, except in winter sport such as short track speed skating or any event a S. Korean athlete partakes.
Here is more typical S. Korean behavior(get ready for this in 2018)…
7:26 pm on July 7th, 2011 9
Tom, if you could read beyond your racial bias, you’d have noticed that pretty much everybody talking about Korea getting the games through bribe money are saying it is standard practice in Olympic bidding – so – yes – in fact – they are saying probably Canada gave more or better bribes…
(How’s the weather in Canada these days, anyway?)
8:33 pm on July 7th, 2011 10
#8 Yes, it was a shame that the Koreans felt the need to Disgrace themselves in such a way. Side not, I was at the Olympics in 1988. Tho I didn’t attend the boxing event. The Koreans outside were quite friendly. I was with my room mate from Trinidad. Tall, skinny black guy. They thought he was one of the basketball players and wanted him to sign their books. Then they looked at my white ars and said, “who you?”. I said I was his trainer and I had to “sign” also. It was a fun day.
8:42 pm on July 7th, 2011 11
1988 – A group of Korean monks did go through a process of prostrating themselves repeatedly and approached Jones to apologize for the nation. I wasn’t paying attention at the time, but from reports I’ve heard while following Jones’ career, it sounded like Korean society was ashamed about how ridiculous it made them look.
8:59 pm on July 7th, 2011 12
Roy Jones was named best athlete of the 88 games but refused it, the boxing venue was a sham to say the least.
9:30 pm on July 7th, 2011 13
Roy Jones also admitted to steroid use. It’s laughable for him to claim others are cheating.
10:13 pm on July 7th, 2011 14
http://www.boxingforum.com/boxing-forum-general-discussion/22719-roy-jones-jr-steroids.html
1:59 am on July 8th, 2011 15
# 13 Denny,
There wasn’t anything he used that was against the rules in 1988.
3:23 am on July 8th, 2011 16
“Roy Jones also admitted to steroid use. It’s laughable for him to claim others are cheating.”
Whatever. I watched practically every boxing matches during the 88 Games. Ray Downey would have most probably won gold if he hadn’t been so obviously robbed during his match with Park Si-Hun.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Downey
4:20 am on July 8th, 2011 17
#16, probably was drugged up as well, as most of them were at the time.
I mean it’s so laughable Western guys accusing Koreans of cheating, when you had the biggest cheat of them all, Ben Johnson trying to cheat on steroid and getting caught big time… Even that American Carl Lewis was on the dope as well.. fortune for him, he wasn’t caught… 
And of course, when Americans and Canadians get caught cheating, no problemo, it’s just one guy who brings shame to himself. I like the way how you guys have such double standards, it’s not even funny, but it’s sure is funny. 
5:43 am on July 8th, 2011 18
17 Tom, more diversion. You can not defend the actions of Korea in the 1988 Olympics.
You know you can’t. Laugh at that
5:48 am on July 8th, 2011 19
#18,
What’s even funnier is that he’s totally oblivious to what’s going on in the news.
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15218439,00.html
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/soccer/2011-07-07-3556441528_x.htm
11:51 am on July 8th, 2011 20
#19 You’re right Teadrinker. That is funnier! (laughing at Tom)
1:17 pm on July 8th, 2011 21
Roy Jones was a client of BALCO, the same BALCO that made Barry Bonds in his 40′s look like Incredible Hulk.
1:35 pm on July 8th, 2011 22
#20, I fail to see what’s North Korean women’s soccer team got to do with American cheating.
Roy Jones should have won the fight with Park Si Han. But then he should have been promptly disqualified for being under the influence of an illegal drug which was designed to enhance his performance, giving the upper hand on Park. So the decision to give Park the fight turned out to be the right one after all. Justice served.
1:52 pm on July 8th, 2011 23
Remember Tim Donaghy for placing bets on some NBA games in 2008?
How about all the fixed games in NBA?
2002, Game 6 of the Los Angeles Lakers and Sacramento Kings playoff.
or the
2005 playoff game between the Dallas Mavericks and the Houston Rockets?
All fixed.
The difference between K-League and NBA:
NBA – one guy took the fall, the rest got away scott free, nothing changed.
While the K-League, they’re arresting everybody and trying to clean up the game and officials even threaten to stop all the games.
Second point, it’s the American guys here who are accusing Koreans are natural born cheaters. It’s up to them to show me that their own hands are any more cleaner than anybody else’s.
2:21 pm on July 8th, 2011 24
I notice the Korean fighter in Tbonetylr 8′s second Youtube clip is named Byun Jong-Il. Is Jong-Il a common name?
11:06 pm on July 8th, 2011 25
Tom,
We’re talking about the Olympics, those that were held in 1988, S. Korea and those that will be held in 2018, Pyeongchang, S. Korea.
How did Roy Jones Jr. cheat in 1988(link)?
Let’s recap Roy Jones Jr. in 1988 Seoul, S. Korea Summer Olympics.
He dominated his opponents, pummeled S. Korean fighter Park Si-Hun for three rounds. Park himself apologized to Jones afterward, and the referee told Jones that he was dumbstruck by the judge’s decision. One judge shortly thereafter admitted the decision was a mistake, and all three judges voting against Jones were suspended.
An official IOC investigation concluded in 1997 found that three of the judges were wined and dined by South Korean officials
That led to calls for Jones to be awarded the gold medal, but the IOC still officially stands by the decision*bribe.
S. Korea’s 1988 cheating led Olympic organizers to establish a new scoring system for Olympic boxing.
You can bet that S. Koreans will cheat again in 2018(Winter).
11:32 pm on July 8th, 2011 26
#22,
You twit. If the judges weren’t corrupt, Park would not have made it to the final.
11:35 pm on July 8th, 2011 27
And it’s not Park Si-han. If you knew what you were talking about, you’d know better than to make that mistake.
11:39 pm on July 8th, 2011 28
“He dominated his opponents, pummeled S. Korean fighter Park Si-Hun for three rounds. Park himself apologized to Jones afterward, and the referee told Jones that he was dumbstruck by the judge’s decision. One judge shortly thereafter admitted the decision was a mistake, and all three judges voting against Jones were suspended.”
The saddest part is that Canada didn’t file a formal complaint about Park’s previous match. Anyone who had watched that match knew what to expect in the final one.
11:52 pm on July 8th, 2011 29
I can’t find a video of the match, but I still remember nearly 25 years later that there was a lot of this going on in that match:
http://laurierhouse.collectionscanada.ca/databases/olympians/001064-119.01-e.php?&photo_id_nbr=5871&brws_s=1&&PHPSESSID=dk2fi7e93rfb3lp94sfo24ilo7
Park would grab Downey every time he got hit hard…and he didn’t get penalized for it (hell, he won 5-0).
12:04 am on July 9th, 2011 30
Tom’s just stroking himself with all the responses to him. He didn’t know anything about Roy Jones and steroids until Denny’s comment.
He just jumped on it in order to get a rise and responses out of his race-baiting.
1:34 am on July 9th, 2011 31
#30,
I know. He does the same under a variety of names on different blogs and forums.
2:08 am on July 9th, 2011 32
#31, it takes one poser to accuse another innocent person.
Roy Jones Jr. was a cheater, he used drugs therefore this result was fair. On the other hand, Park didn’t cheat, as Roy Drug User Jones knowingly did. Of all indication, Park probably didn’t even know there was any bribe going around him. So all in all, the result was a fair result.
Why are Americans like to do drugs, even in sports? Why do they cheat all the time, but don’t call it cheating? It seems there’s always an exception for Americans. 
2:12 am on July 9th, 2011 33
“He just jumped on it in order to get a rise and responses out of his race-baiting.”
Oh, you’re such a fair minded moderator. When it comes to race baiting against Koreans like the comments constantly made by the likes of Tbonetyler, you are totally silent.
I’m sure you’ll have the same standards, irregardless of race or nationality?
4:24 am on July 9th, 2011 34
The actions of the 1988 Olympics clearly show the desire to cheat by Korea.
They cheated in 1988 so it is likely they will cheat in their next Olympics.
11:40 am on July 9th, 2011 35
# 32 Tom,
“Roy Jones Jr. was a cheater, he used drugs therefore this result was fair.”
What result? You claim Roy Jones Jr. cheated but can’t tell us exactly when, where, or against who(LINK)?
I’ve provided links on youtube that clearly shows Koreans cheating, but you haven’t even given one link.
How did you like those Koreans using violence, hitting the referee, throwing chairs, and acting like little children throwing temper tantrums?
2018 ~ SAME, SAME!!
1:24 pm on July 9th, 2011 36
34. many cheated at the 88 olympics. heck many cheat at pretty much every olympics.
what would the olympics be without accusations of doping, failed drug tests, bribes and accusations of women really being men? china added some new twists with fake birth certificates to spice things up even further.
americans admitted covering up drug tests from 1988 to 2002. so they likely did and will cover up drug tests on other olympics.
the biggest loser of the 88 olympics is probably calvin smith. the only one in the top 5 of the 100 meter race that didnt fail a drug test during qualifications and after the race. should have been the gold medalist with a few advertisement dollars thrown his way but had to settle for a bronze and obscurity in the american public.
1:43 pm on July 9th, 2011 37
Tom doesn’t care about Roy Jones or sports or cheating. All he cares about is getting a rise out of you (non-Koreans). His racial animosity feeds off knowing he is bothering the racially inferior…
5:53 pm on July 9th, 2011 38
“the biggest loser of the 88 olympics is probably calvin smith. the only one in the top 5 of the 100 meter race that didnt fail a drug test during qualifications and after the race.”
Yes, you’re probably right. The 100m runners suddenly became considerably slower after Johnson was caught. They tried to say it’s because it was like dogs chasing a rabbit. Take away the rabbit and the dogs don’t run as fast. Of course, we all know that was BS.
5:57 pm on July 9th, 2011 39
Oh, and what’s most telling was the athletes’ reaction when told by reporters that Johnson had been caught. None seemed to surprised that he was on steroids (well, that’s pretty obvious when you looked at him). They reacted by saying they couldn’t believe he had been caught, as if they were saying that a guy who was raking in so much cash could afford doctors who knew what they were doing.
8:32 pm on July 9th, 2011 40
The Olympics is a farce and a perverted caricature of itself.
All participants should either submit to mandatory drug tests…
…or the Olympics should ignore drug use completely and see what kinds of freaks modern science can produce.
I vote for the second one.
Can you imagine if every event was populated by 1976-style East German swimmers?
http://www.yourememberthat.com/files/f702cc69a3649e93.jpg
It would be like a world-class human monster truck show every four years.
I’d pay good money to see that.