?What inspiration does the South Korean Winter Olympics give to the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics?

The PyeongChang Winter Olympics in South Korea concluded on February 25, 2018, and the Winter Olympics officially entered "Beijing time". The PyeongChang Winter Olympics is an important opportunity for Beijing to observe and understand its experience in hosting the Winter Olympics. In terms of competition organization, event services, venue management, humanistic promotion, etc., some practices of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics can be used as a reference for Beijing. At the same time, although the PyeongChang Winter Olympics has been politely dubbed "one of the most successful Winter Olympics", some problems have been exposed during the three-week schedule, which will allow Beijing to achieve "effectiveness" in the preparation process. Then change it, if not, then encourage it."

Food, clothing, housing and transportation are basic issues that everyone participating in the Winter Olympics will encounter, and they are also the guarantee for the smooth progress of the event. In this regard, the PyeongChang Winter Olympics has some experiences and shortcomings that Beijing can refer to.

Volunteers have always been a beautiful part of large-scale events. Information provided by the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics Organizing Committee shows that this Winter Olympics has recruited 17,300 volunteers from 62 countries and regions around the world, of which the ratio of Korean volunteers to foreign volunteers is 17:1. However, at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, this beautiful scenery turned into a "frozen" scenery.

Due to the special nature of the Winter Olympics, the issue of cold protection for volunteers who work outdoors for a long time is very important. However, the Korean organizing committee provided the same clothing to indoor volunteers and outdoor volunteers. Not only did it feel very thin, but it also had poor cold-proof performance and could not withstand the severe cold outdoors. In addition, the organizing committee stipulates that no other clothing can be worn in addition to the uniform, which is a hardship for volunteers working outdoors. In the evening, the temperature in the mountainous area dropped sharply, and the thin clothing of the volunteers formed a sharp contrast with the reporters and spectators who were wrapped up in three layers.

The Olympic Games is the world's largest comprehensive international sports event. How to ensure the food safety of participating athletes, staff and spectators is a top priority for the organizers. However, there have been some discordant voices at this Olympics.

The PyeongChang Winter Olympics was plagued by norovirus (a "gastrointestinal flu" virus) before the opening, and 1,200 security personnel were temporarily quarantined. During the competition, foreign media broke the news that two Swiss athletes had been infected. The department responsible for Olympic health and public security warned that norovirus has become a pandemic among Olympic staff, with reports of infections rising from more than 100 to more than 200, centered on security personnel and volunteers. .

In addition, the prices in the Olympic Village have also been frequently complained about. Taking the convenience store in the Gangneung Olympic Village as an example, the price of Korean instant noodles is 2,500-3,000 won (approximately 15-18 yuan). The general price of ordinary instant noodles in China is five or six yuan. By comparison, the price of instant noodles sold in the Olympic Village is three times that in China.

Living in Pyeongchang is also a problem. Since Pyeongchang is only a small town with a population of less than 50,000 people, its reception capacity is limited. On the other hand, local hotels have taken advantage of the Olympics to increase prices. Through investigation, the reporter found that the daily price of an average hotel in Pingchang ranges from 3,000 yuan to 6,000 yuan, and some hotels even cost over 10,000 yuan.

In addition, athletes’ accommodation conditions have also been criticized. Chinese speed skating star Zhang Hong once posted a picture of the room where she lives. Judging from the photos, the accommodation environment for the athletes is not good. There is only a small bed and a wardrobe in the room. This configuration is difficult to compare with the facilities in the Athletes Village of previous Olympic Games. In addition, according to media reports, members of the Japanese women's ski jumping team also complained about the bathing problem in the Olympic Village, saying that not only was the water temperature low, but the amount of water was not long-lasting; the players even said that "bathing is more nerve-wracking than competing."

Gangwon-do, where Pyeongchang is located, is one of the economically underdeveloped regions in South Korea. The accommodation capacity is bound to be limited by objective conditions. A large number of people participating in the event can only find accommodation in surrounding cities, which brings about problems. Come with a lot of commuting traffic problems. In particular, the traditional Chinese Spring Festival is also the biggest festival in South Korea. February 15th to 18th coincides with South Korea’s Spring Festival holiday, and the country also has its annual Spring Festival. South Korea has put a lot of effort into how to ensure transportation capacity during the Olympics while minimizing the impact on people's travel.

This Winter Olympics will be held in Gangneung, Pyeongchang and Jeongseon, South Korea.

South Korea officially announced that from February 10th to 25th, odd and even number driving restrictions will be implemented in the above-mentioned areas. The restricted vehicles are non-commercial vehicles with less than 10 seats. The daily restricted driving hours are from 8:30 am to 19:30 pm. Among them, Gangneung area is enforcing it, and the other two cities are encouraging it, that is, it is not mandatory to comply with the travel restrictions. In restricted areas, people who violate the restricted traffic regulations will be fined 50,000 won (approximately 294 yuan). However, South Korea has also introduced a series of humane regulations. For example, during the Spring Festival, if you drive back from other places to visit relatives, you will be exempted from fines if you can prove that your relatives are indeed in the local area. In addition, if Korean people who drive to watch the game can provide the area Proof of accommodation in a hotel is also exempt from fines.

In addition, the organizers have provided many large free parking lots outside the restricted areas of the competition venues for self-driving people to park and take free shuttle buses to various competition venues; at the same time, during the Olympic Games, all city buses in the above competition areas* **Transportation is free.

The Beijing Winter Olympics four years later will also coincide with the Spring Festival holiday. How to ensure the normal progress of the Olympics without affecting people's travel to visit relatives or travel? These practices from South Korea may be worth learning from.

However, South Korea also has some problems in transportation organization. On the day of the opening ceremony, due to an error in vehicle scheduling by the organizing committee, a large number of spectators were stranded after the opening ceremony. The audience, who had been freezing outside for an hour or two, expressed their dissatisfaction. In addition, during the time when the evening games were concentrated, the organizers did not increase the transport capacity in a timely manner and still departed at the original time. Some shuttle buses had to wait for half an hour or even longer, which made reporters after a hard day's work "full of complaints." During the Spring Festival holiday, traffic jams in the Olympic Village were severe. The originally 10-minute journey sometimes took half an hour or more to reach the venue.

In addition to food, clothing, housing and transportation, reporters also noticed some details in other areas. First of all, the communication support and the work of organizing the audience to leave the opening and closing ceremonies of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics were not satisfactory. During the opening ceremony, the mobile phone signals of many reporters and spectators were close to being paralyzed; when the opening ceremony ended and exited, because the organizing committee did not open all exits, there was a short-term crowding situation.

It is worth learning that South Korea regards the PyeongChang Olympics as an excellent window to promote "Korean Wave Culture" to the world and has done a lot of work in this regard.

The PyeongChang Winter Olympics launched the concept of "Cultural Olympics". Choi Moon-soon, the governor of Gangwon Province in South Korea, said in an interview with reporters, "The primary goal of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics is peace, and the second goal is the 'Cultural Olympics'." Gangwon Province held more than 450 kinds of colorful performances during the Winter Olympics, with more than a thousand performances. Performers include not only Korean performance groups, but also performance groups from all over Asia to participate, promoting Asian culture to the world.

In addition, the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics also opened 5 experiential tourism projects with different characteristics for media reporters, among which the "38th Line" tourist route with the theme of "Road to Peace" has attracted the most attention; There are also tourist routes with temple themes, Arirang culture, food experience, etc. Journalists from various countries, especially those from Europe and the United States, are particularly interested in such activities. The staff provided by South Korea are also very professional and dedicated. They actively introduce their own culture to reporters from various countries during the experience activities, which has produced good publicity effects.

In addition, in order to avoid over-investment in the PyeongChang Winter Olympics and burden the local government, the PyeongChang Winter Olympics Organizing Committee carefully considered the venue construction plan at the beginning of the preparations. Only 6 of the 13 venues in this Winter Olympics are completely new, and most of the rest are repairs and reconstructions of the original facilities in Gangwon Province. In addition, many Olympic facilities can be dismantled after the Winter Olympics, saving the maintenance and management costs of related facilities after the Olympics.

In this regard, the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee and Pingchang have "the same ideas." Liu Yumin, executive deputy director of the Planning and Construction Department of the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee, previously stated that the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics will have 26 venues, including 11 new venues. There are 13 venues in the Beijing Division ***, most of which were renovated and constructed using the legacy of the 2008 Olympic Games.

Sustainable development is one of the three pillars of the International Olympic Committee's "Olympic Agenda 2020". Therefore, Beijing can learn from Pingchang in terms of hosting the Olympics frugally and making the Olympics serve the sustainable development of the city. A lot of experience.