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building was attended by Gangwon Governor Choi Mun-sun, Head
of Organization Committee Lee Hee-beom, and the Minister of National
Defense. With the MOU, the MND agreed to provide personnel, equipment,
and resources for the games and take part in PR events.

| Support for the Olympic Torch Relay | To raise public interest in
the games, the MND provided support for the Olympic torch relay. The
MND sent its Korean traditional orchestra (Chwitadae) to the Olympic
Olympic Torch Relay in
torch arrival ceremony presided by the Prime Minister and contributed to
“Freedom Village”
setting the atmosphere for the games with the world’s first torch relay on
a military vessel (Destroyer ROKS Munmu the Great), torch relay on a Surion helicopter over 1,004 islands
in Shinan-gun, followed by a celebratory airshow by the Black Eagles, then continued with a special relay
in Daeseong-dong(the “Freedom Village” at the northernmost point of South Korea) 6) followed then by a
bicycle relay in the DMZ and the Imjin Classic show. 7) The torch relay on Munmu the Great was extensively
covered by major newspapers and TV networks, spreading word of the ROK Armed Forces’ dedication to
supporting the Olympic and Paralympic games. The bicycle torch relay in DMZ bore significance for its
message on collective yearning for peace.

Support for Olympic Torch Relay
Torch relay on the Torch relay on a
Classifica Celebratory Flight Bicycle Torch relay Assistance with
Sea and a Military Helicopter over
tion by Black Eagles in Daeseong-dong Imjin Classic show
Vessel Shinan-gun islands
welcome party
1 destroyer,
(1,150 participants),
2 patrol killers, 3 helicopters, 8 T-50’s, 20 24-person tents,
Details convoy and military
2 helicopters, 1 runner 1 runner exhibits, etc
band,
2 runners
5 runners
| Personnel Support | The ROK Armed Forces dispatched a total of 14,199 personnel (total of 425,652
individual work-days) across various areas to assist with the games: vehicle operation, transportation
of doping test samples, operation of a general operations center, provision of event venues, honor

6) The only ROK village in the DMZ. The village was formed near the Panmunjom Joint Security Area (JSA)
around July 1953 and is currently inhabited by around 50 households.
7) A reenactment of an ice hockey match played by Canadian military members near the Imjin River during the
Korean War to consolidate their comradeship and appease their homesickness

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