Part 2 - LA84 Foundation

16. Reception and Protocol
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maps of venue locations, map of facility
layout at the headquarters hotel,
schedules of international conference,
banquet schedules, tour and functions
schedules for spouses, panels containing
games schedule and other
important information, and SLOOC
publications.
The Orientation Center enabled Olympic
Family members to keep themselves
informed on significant events
and details of the Games; schedules
directly linked with their own activities;
and facilities and services available to
them. The Orientation Center took
quick steps to solve inconveniences
and problems.
16.2.4
Banquets and Gifts
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Banquets
As host, the SLOOC extended its welcome
to the VIPs and Olympic Family
by hosting various banquets. The
banquets were divided into the official
banquets for all the important members
of the Olympic Family, and unofficial
banquets for selected invitees.
Banquets were held by various sponsoring
agencies, while the SLOOC
coordinated in advance the official
banquets to avoid overlapping. The
unofficial banquets by the SLOOC
were coordinated by the Protocol
Department.
Official banquets
• Games-eve festival welcoming
reception
Date: September 16, 1988 (Friday),
7:20 p.m.
Place: Sejong hall, Sejong Cultural
Center
Host: The SLOOC president and his
wife, mayor of Seoul city and his wife
Participants: 500 Koreans, and 650
foreigners including IOC, IFs, NOC,
GV personnel.
The reception was held immediately
after the Games eve festival.
• Full Moon Festival dinner
Date: September 25, 1988 (Sunday),
6:30 p.m.
Place: Olympic Cultural Center,
Olympic Park
Host: SLOOC president
Participants: 700 persons including
IOC, IFs, NOCs, GV personnel and
companions, and local invitees
Unofficial banquets
• Dinner in honor of IOC president
and his wife
Date: September 5, 1988 at 7:30 p.m.
Place: Continental Restaurant on the
23rd floor of Hotel Shilla
Host: SLOOC president and his wife
Participants: IOC president, IOC
secretary general, IOC member Kim
Un-yong, SLOOC secretary general
and their spouses; totalling 10.
• Dinner by representatives of political
parties
Date: September 8, 1988 at 7 p.m.
Place: VIP lounge by the lake side in
Olympic Park
Host: The representatives of four leading
political parties
Participants: IOC president and wife;
SLOOC president, vice president,
secretary general and their spouses,
mayor of the Olympic Village and his
wife, IOC members and secretary
general; totalling 23.
• IOC Executive Board luncheon
Date: September 11, 1988 at 1 p.m.
Place: Shangrila of Hotel Shilla
Host: Kim Un-yong, IOC member
Participants: 16 including IOC Executive
Board members, and the participants
in the IOC Executive Board
meeting
• Banquet for commanders of U.N.
Command in Korea
Date: September 16, 1988 at 9 p.m.
Place: Sejong Restaurant
Host: SLOOC president
Participants: incumbent commander of
the U.N. Command, incumbent and
past American ambassadors and their
wives, and local invitees; totalling 40
• Korea Toegyehak Society Reception
Date: September 20, 1988 at 5 p.m.
Place: VIP lounge, Olympic Park
Host: SLOOC president
Participants: 130 persons who
attended Korea Toegyehak Society
• VIP dinner
Date: September 21, 1988 at 12:00
Place: Chongnamdae
Host: Korean presidential couple
Participants: IOC president and his
wife, SLOOC president and his wife,
IOC vice presidents, members and
secretary general and their spouses;
totalling 21
• Luncheon for the World MRA Korea
Convention
Date: September 25, 1988 at 12:00
Place: VIP lounge, Olympic Park
Host: SLOOC secretary general
Participants: 120 participants of the
World MRA Korea Convention
SLOOC president and IOC member
Kim Un-yong hosted 14 small-scale
banquets for important persons from
those countries with which Korea
had no diplomatic ties. Receptions,
dinners, luncheons and tea parties
were held in support of the Games
under the sponsorship of the Korean
President, IOC president, Korean
sports minister and the wife of the IOC
president
Presentation of gifts
To augment the atmosphere of welcome,
and to ensure that participation
in the Games would-be a long-held
memory, the SLOOC presented gifts
symbolizing the Games to the Olympic
Family.
The official gifts for the Olympic
Family were managed by the Protocol
Department; the recipients of the gifts
were classified by category, and the
gifts were selected from among those
which were developed by Olympic
marketing firms.
The volume of the gifts was based on
the maximum projected number of the
participants.
Care was taken to keep the presentation
of gifts to a reasonable level or so
as to reduce possible budget waste.
The gifts were divided into official gifts
and special gifts; the official gifts
included participation medal, official
commemorative medal, participation
diploma, bag, commemorative coin,
cap, ball-point pens, badge. Hodori
toy. The special gifts included camera,
rain coat, silk cloth, desktop clock, and
a wooden plaque of commemoration.
16.2.5
Sightseeing and Functions for
Spouses
VIP tours ana functions Tor spouses
were arranged for the purpose of
introducing Korea's traditional culture
and to help boost the public relations
effect for Korea.
The programs which were considered
to be most typical of things Korean
and the most popular were selected
from among programs featured in past
international events held in Korea.
The SLOOC selected seven programs
to suit the tight schedules of the Olympic
Family, especially IOC members
and other VIPs. Except for the tour of
the truce village of Panmunjom, the
programs were so arranged as to need
only about half a day. The welcome
luncheon and fashion shows, which -
were especially popular during the
Asian Games, were reshaped to
present the best possible picture of
Korean costumes and fashions.
Those who wanted to participate in the
VIP tours and function for spouses
were required to apply for participation
at the Headquarters Hotel and official
hotels.
The tours and the functions for
spouses were as follow:
• Tour of Olympic Park
Date: September 12; from 2 p.m. to
5 p.m.
Place: In front of the Peace Gate,
Olympic Park
Participants: 35 persons, including
IOC president, ANOC president, and
ASOIF president
Highlights: Opening Ceremony for
Peace Gate, lighting ceremony for
Flame of Peace, dedication ceremony
for Olympic Sculpture Park, President's
reception
• Korean Traditional Performance
Date: September 14; 2:00 p.m.5:00
p.m.
Place: Songnakwon
Participants: 45 persons, including the
wife of IOC president, and wife of IOC
secretary general
Highlights: Traditional tea and beverage
reception, demonstration of traditional
wedding ceremony and tea
ceremony
Special Note: Participants showed
great interest in the traditional Korean
culture and customs shown in a setting
of a traditional Korean home and
yard; they showed particular interest in
the tea ceremony.
• Welcoming luncheon and fashion
show hosted by the wife of SLOOC
president
Date: September 6; 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
Place: Convention Center, Hilton Hotel
Participants: 535 persons, including
348 companions of IOC, IFs, NOC, GV
personnel, and 187 wives of local VIPs.