Keeping the spirit of PyeongChang 2018 alive

The PyeongChang 2018 Legacy Foundation’s main purpose is to promote and safeguard the legacy of the XXIII Olympic Winter Games, ensuring it is passed down to future generations.

The Foundation’s brief includes the post-Games management and use of competition venues, the development of winter sports in the Republic of Korea, and the promotion of sport for young people, the Olympic values and legacy through its activities. One such initiative is the Dream Programme, which offers winter sports training opportunities and support for young people from countries with no access to winter sports. Making use of PyeongChang 2018’s competition venues, this annual programme has hosted over 2,500 young people from 97 countries. Over 200 participants have gone on to compete in international competitions, 39 of them at the Gangwon 2024 Winter Youth Olympic Games.

A similar PyeongChang 2018 Legacy Foundation venture was the New Horizons Sliding Champions programme. Now known as the New Horizons Academy, it gives training in sliding sports to athletes from countries with little or no access to ice or snow.  

The Foundation’s nationwide education and sports legacy projects include sports camps for young people at Olympic venues and high-performance training programmes in each winter sport at PyeongChang 2018 competition venues. In 2022 alone, more than 17,000 people took part in the activities it organises.

The Foundation also oversees an extensive range of leisure activities and tourist attractions at the venues, including wheel bobsleigh at the Alpensia Sliding Centre and laser gun biathlon at the Alpensia Biathlon Centre. 

Thanks to the Foundation, Olympic venues have been made available for a series of international competitions in recent years, hosting events such as the FIL Luge Asian Championship, the IBSF Intercontinental Cup, the IIHF U20 Ice Hockey World Championship and the FIS Snowboard World Cup.

In addition, the PyeongChang 2018 Legacy Foundation was named the legacy entity for the Gangwon 2024 Youth Olympic Games.

The Foundation was created by the Korean Ministry of Culture, Sport and Tourism, Gangwon State and the Korean Sport and Olympic Committee, with some of the surplus from the Games being allocated to it for its operations.