the last time south korea hosted the summer olympics was 2018.
the last time south korea hosted the summer olympics was 2018.
when was the last time south korea hosted the summer olympics?
2018
south korea hosted the asian games in 1986 (seoul), 2002 (busan) and 2014 (incheon). it also hosted the winter universiade in 1997, the asian winter games in 1999 and the summer universiade in 2003, 2015. in 1988, south korea hosted the summer olympics in seoul, coming fourth with 12 gold medals, 10 silver medals and 11 bronze medals. south korea regularly performs well in archery, shooting, table tennis, badminton, short track speed skating, handball, hockey, freestyle wrestling, greco-roman wrestling, baseball, judo, taekwondo, speed skating, figure skating, and weightlifting. the seoul olympic museum is a museum in seoul, south korea, dedicated to the 1988 summer olympics. on july 6, 2011 pyeongchang was chosen by the ioc to host the 2018 winter olympics.
south korea
busan is the second city in south korea, after seoul in 1986 to host the games. this was the second time south korea hosted the event. a total of 419 events in 38 sports were contested by 7,711 athletes from 44 countries. the games were also co-hosted by its four neighbouring cities: ulsan, changwon, masan and yangsan. it was opened by president of south korea, kim dae-jung, at the busan asiad main stadium.
2002 asian games