A meeting was held at the athletes' village for the 2015 Gwangju Summer Universiade in Gwangju on June 17 to support the successful hosting of the games, which will kick off in just two weeks.

At the meeting, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism decided to run a "culture technology" pavilion at the athletes' village from July 1 to July 15. In addition, Gwangju City plans to run a familiarization tour for the athletes so they can experience traditional architectures or travel around the southern parts of the country by train. The city government also intends to run tours of Jeollanam-do (South Jeolla Province) everyday, instead of just on the weekends, and run theme-based walking tours and urban bicycle tours of the city.



Concerning the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) outbreak, Vice Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Kim Chong says that, 'All events will be held normally, without being downsized or postponed.' In response to the outbreak of the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), the Gwangju Summer Universiade Organizing Committee ran exercises to deal with the virus, practicing quarantine operations, physical examinations, the isolation of patients and epidemiologic investigations.



A press conference on the 2015 Gwangju Summer Universiade is held at the Korea Press Center in central Seoul for foreign correspondents in Korea. Separately, a press conference was held at the Korea Press Center in central Seoul on June 16 to explain the Gwangju Universiade to foreign correspondents in Korea. Kim Hwang-sik, chairman of the organizing committee, and Kim Yoon-suk, secretary general of the committee, and over 40 foreign journalists attended the event.

By Limb Jae-un
Korea.net Staff Writer
Photos courtesy of the Gwangju Summer Universiade Organizing Committee
jun2@korea.kr