The opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics was held at the Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium in Pyeongchang, South Korea on 9 February 2018. It began at 20:00 KST and finished at approximetely 22:20 KST. The Games were officially opened by President of the Republic of Korea Moon Jae-in.
The site of the opening ceremony Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium was built specifically for the games. It seats 35,000. No Olympic or Paralympic events will be held at the stadium, which will only be used for the opening and closing ceremonies. The broadcast of the Opening Ceremony of 2018 Winter Olympic Games was available in more than 200 countries across the world.
Ha Hyun-woo of the band Guckkasten, Ahn Ji-young of the musical duo Bolbbalgan4, Lee Eun-Mi and Jeon In-kwon with his band Deulgukhwa will perform at the opening ceremony.
Rainbow Children's Choir will perform an arrangement (in Korean traditional music instrument) of the national anthem, “Aegukga”.
Insooni sang the theme song for the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Torch Relay, “Let Everyone Shine” is expected to unite the nation and help share the Olympic spirit as the Olympic flame.
The ceremony's message centred on peace, with five children from rural Gangwon province leading the ceremony, and included animals, nature and a cast of 2,000. Augmented reality and 5G technology were also incorporated in the event.
The Parade of Nations were led, according to custom due to hosting the original ancient Olympics, by the Greek team, followed by other competing countries in alphabetical order based off their names in the Korean language, with the host country, South Korea, culminating the march, again in accordance with custom of Joseon. The delegations from both the host nation South Korea and North Korea marched under the Korean unification flag.
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