Every four years, the Winter Olympics takes place, bringing countries all around the world to participate in a friendly competition, to show pride for one's country. This Winter Olympics, South Korea was announced as the hosts, and having the topic of Asian Studies in Socials Studies class, I'm taking the opportunity to write about the event. This time around, tension of countries around the world have been very high, and this Winter Olympics had a potential problem of North Korea, since the border of the 2 neighbouring countries are heavily guarded and the 2 countries have a history of disagreement. No one knew how this Olympics was going to turn out, due to the unpredictable nature of Kim Jong-un but he was surprisingly keen in having North Koreans represent their country. He also accepted the formation of the South-North Korean hockey team which competed in the Olympics together. Another great occurrence was at the opening ceremonies.Kim Jong-un sent his sister to South Korea to attend the opening ceremonies. This was a huge moment for both countries history's because it was the first time a person of the North Korean royal family visited North Korea ever since the end of the 1950-1953 Korean War. Overall the olympics went really well, with many countries getting several medals including our own Canadian Team :).
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