Mona Yongpyong
South Korea's largest ski resort and 2018 Olympic alpine venue.
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Mona Yongpyong, or Yongpyong Resort, sits in Daegwallyeong-myeon, Pyeongchang, Gangwon Province, South Korea. It holds the title of the country’s largest ski and snowboard resort, and also features golf during summer.
The Unification Church, a new religious movement founded by Sun Myung Moon, owns the resort through the Tongil Group. The ski season spans November to early April, offering 31 slopes and 15 lift facilities, including a 3.7 km gondola and Korea’s biggest ski house, Dragon Plaza. The base sits at about 770 meters above sea level, with the lift-served summit at Dragon Zone reaching 1,458 meters.
Quick Facts
- Location
- Daegwallyeong-myeon, Pyeongchang, Gangwon Province, South Korea
- Base elevation
- 770 m above sea level
- Summit elevation
- 1458 m above sea level
- Number of slopes
- 31
- Number of lift facilities
- 15
- Longest gondola length
- 3.7 km / 12,139 ft
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Events
Yongpyong Resort has hosted men's World Cup technical events in four seasons (1998, 2000, 2003, 2006) with giant slalom on the Rainbow 1 slope. It was one of the three main sites of the 1999 Asian Winter Games which were hosted by Gangwon. It was the site of the IPC Disabled Alpine World Cup and the 2009 Biathlon World Championships, although the event was marred by lack of snow due to an unseasonable warmth, and criticized for poor spectator attendance.
Yongpyong hosted the technical alpine skiing events for the 2018 Winter Olympics and Paralympics in Pyeongchang. It was also part of the unsuccessful bids for the 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics (missing out to Vancouver and Sochi, respectively). With a greater vertical drop, Jeongseon Alpine Centre was developed to host the alpine speed events of Downhill, Super-G, and Combined. The capacity of the venue for these events is 12,000 (4,500 seats / 7,500 standing).
In media
Some scenes of the 2002 Korean Broadcasting System drama Winter Sonata were filmed at the resort. The resort was also used as a filming location for 2013 Seoul Broadcasting System drama That Winter, the Wind Blows. The filming, during a two nights and three days film shoot at the Resort, was featured in a pictorial in Issue 97 March 2013 edition of fashion magazine, High Cut, with lead actors Jo In-sung and Song Hye-kyo featured on the cover. It was also featured in the Korean drama Goblin (2016–17) and the Korean drama Sad Love Story (2005).
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Sources
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- Wikipedia: Mona Yongpyong (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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