Good Luck Finding a Bed During the Pyeongchang Olympics

The Olympic motto is “Citius, Altius, Fortius,” Latin for “faster, higher, stronger.” It appears that the hoteliers and guesthouse owners of Pyeongchang, the mountain town where South Korea will host the 2018 Winter Olympics this winter, have been applying the second of these principles to their prices with a vengeance. One prospective foreign volunteer told Korea Exposé she had been quoted a price of 13,500 Canadian dollars for 20 nights (675 Canadian dollars/508 US dollars per night) in Gang