Definition of "Pyeongchang"

The town of Pyeongchang eventually won the rights to host the Games — a $20 billion boon for the economy, according to one research institute’s forecast.

2012 December 9, Chico Harlan, “In S. Korea, the Republic of Samsung”, in The Washington Post‎, archived from the original on December 12, 2012, World‎

Pyeongchang sits nearly half a mile above sea level in the northeastern corner of South Korea, not too far from the border with the North. It is one of the coldest parts of the country — wind chill in February is often in single digits (Fahrenheit) — and notorious for a powerful, biting wind that gathers force as it barrels down out of Siberia and the Manchurian Plain and then across the jagged granite peaks of North Korea.

2017 December 21, Foster Klug, Kim Tong-hyung, Yong Jun Chang, “The cold returns for Winter Games in mountainous Pyeongchang”, in AP News‎, archived from the original on February 18, 2024‎

In the year after the Olympics, Pyeongchang did experience a 22 percent spike in visitors, according to South Korean news organizations. But foreigners accounted for less than 0.1 percent of the 6.1 million people who visited paid tourist attractions in the region in 2019, a Pyeongchang county government report stated.

2022 February 27, Kelly Kasulis Cho, “Pyeongchang Still Awaits Its Olympic Payoff”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 27 February 2022, Asia Pacific‎