Part 2 - LA84 Foundation

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19. Olympic Village
19.12
Sub-Village Operation
19.12.1
Pusan
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Sub-Village
The SLOOC assigned the Korea Condominium
Hotel and Glory Condominium
Hotel as Village No. 1 and
No. 2 for the athletes participating in
the yachting competition and the football
preliminary matches in Pusan.
No.1 was located 3.3 kilometers from
the yacht venue, 15.4 kilometers from
the Sajik Stadium, 13.1 kilometers
from Dongwon Technical High School
and 23.9 kilometers from Kooduk
Stadium.
Village No. 2 was located at a similar
location, causing no serious inconveniences
for the athletes. Park Sung-gi,
Chairman, directors of the board of
Buniel School Foundation, was
appointed the mayor of the Pusan
Sub-village. Village No. 1 was
operated from September 3 to October
3 and No. 2 was operated separately
from September 8 to October 2.
Facility and materials
Village No. 1, Korea Condominium
Hotel, was a modern hotel structure
with 18 stories above ground and three
below ground, with a combined floor
space of 29,739 square meters built on
a 6,162 square meters of tract. Five
elevators were in full operation, and 13
facilities including three restaurants
and a discotheque were provided.
There were four room sizes: 43 square
meters, 60 square meters, 83 square
meters and 93 square meters. The
NOC athletes used 190 rooms of
83-square-meter type.
Village No. 2, Glory condominium, was
also a modern hotel building with 17
stories above ground and two below
ground, with combined floor space of
20,013 square meters on a 2,826
square meters of tract. Three elevators
were in full operation and there were
12 facilities including two restaurants
and sauna. The village area to be
used for flag-raising ceremonies,
opening ceremony and festivals, was
set up on the coastal garden area of
Korea Condominium Hotel with floor
space of 760 square meters where 70
flagpoles were posted. Operation
facilities were established on the second
floor of Village No. 1 and
amenities facilities such as shopping
center, billiard room, table tennis room
and video game room were installed at
the China Exhibition Room on the first
floor of Village No. 2.
Commodities were basically obtained
from the condominiums while the
SLOOC supplied 4,503 items of 146
kinds.
Hotel beds were not sufficient, and 481
single beds and 172 spare beds had to
be rented. Storage management,
materials distribution and stock control
were operated in the same system as
the Seoul Olympic Village except for
special materials management system
for the yacht competition.
Housing operation and food
management
Initially, Village No. 1 was assigned for
the yachting competitors and No. 2 for
football delegations. Yachting team
members who could not be accommodated
at Village were accommodated
at No. 2. Rooms were allotted
in the order of arrival from upper floors
with extra attention to such matters as
room shape, delegation size, political
and religious backgrounds and place
of origin. One room each was
assigned to team representatives,
while athletes and officials shared one
room between two people. Yachting
teams from 34 nations were assigned
173 rooms of Village No. 1, and 92
rooms of Village No. 2 were assigned
to yachting teams from 26 nations.
Eight additional rooms were assigned
to 11 NOC officials from seven
countries.
Village No. 2 accommodated 184 people
from seven countries (138 athletes
and 46 officials). A total of 371 rooms
of Village No. 1 and No. 2 were used
as accommodation.
Food service program was the same
as in the Seoul Olympic Village. The
menu was served on a five-day cycle
with a daily minimum of 6,000 calories,
self-service buffet-style. But the order
of daily menu was changed after consultations
with, Seoul Olympic Food
Service Advisory Association ARA,
because of regional characteristics.
The menu included regional foods
such as Korean and Arabic traditional
dishes in addition to regular international
cuisine.
A menu sampling party was held June
9,1988, at "Blue Sky" on the 18th floor
of Village No. 2 with 110 local guests.
Many of the suggestions made on the
taste and coloring of the food at the
sampling party were reflected in the
final menu. Box lunch menus were
also changed on a five-day cycle.
At Village No. 1, the dining hall was
located in the basement (803 square
meters), on the second floor (344
square meters) and on the 18th floor
(357 square meters). In Village No. 2,
a snack bar (231 square meters) was
added to the two dining halls (total 793
square meters), on the 18th floor. Raw
food ingredients hard to find in
markets were supplied by hotels
affiliated with Korea Travel Bureau. For
athletes and officials who were unable
to come to the dining hall due to their
competition and training schedules,
box lunches were delivered to the field
if requested one day in advance. A
total of 11,540 box lunches were supplied
including, 8,847 for Village No. 1
and 2,693 for Village No. 2.
Amenities facilities
Nineteen amenities facilities were
offered to athletes and officials.
Temporary banks set up for money
exchange were used by 2,515 people,
and the exchanged amount totalled
U.S. $272,000. A total of 7,302 people
used the post office; 692 people used
the telegraph and telephone office;
and 300 people visited the photo
studio. The shopping center was open
from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. and 419 people
bought items amounting to 16.89
million won. 1,725 people visited the
video game room and 2,340 people
crowded around to get a commemorative
stamp on T-shirts and
autograph books. The table tennis
room was used by 835 people, and
1,012 people visited the billiard room.
The religious
center for Catholic, Protestant, Buddhist
and Islamic worshippers was visited by
718 people. The medical center was
open 24 hours a day for medical
examination, medication and physical
therapy for athletes and officials; it
served a total of 676 people. A beauty
salon/barber shop, laundry room,
atelier, sauna and supermarkets were
also provided for the convenience of
athletes and officials.
Village events
The opening ceremony of the Pusan
Sub-village was held on September 3
at the Flag Plaza of Korea Condominium
Hotel in the presence of 300
people, including the secretarygeneral
of the SLOOC, mayor of
Pusan, operational personnel and
hotel employees; 140 flagmen hoisted
the flags of 62 nations, and a luncheon
and sampling party were followed by a
village tour.
Starting with the 24-member New
Zealand delegation, 182 people from
10 countries, Federal Rep. of Germany,
Canada, British Virgin Islands, Spain,
the U.S.S.R., Iceland, Austria, Turkey,
Sweden, held their flag raising
ceremonies. By September 19, 630
people from 60 countries had entered
the village on 12 separate occasions.
Various programs such as birthday
parties, home visits and industrial
tours were prepared. Village
ceremonies were performed three
times each for Village No. 1 and No. 2
and classical music concerts and
video showings were also offered. The
closing ceremony was held October 3.
19.12.2
Taegu Sub-Village
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The Olympic Taegu Sub-village was
established at Susung Tourist Hotel
located in Dusan-dong, Susung-gu in
Taegu. The SLOOC concluded the
contract with the Susung Tourist Hotel
concerning the operation of Taegu Subvillage
on May 11, 1988, and
established a sub-village office on
June 1. Preparations were made for
235 expected delegates from eight
countries.
The sub-village was officially opened
on September 3 as scheduled and
operated for 24 days until September
26. However, the village actually
opened when the delegation from
Argentina arrived September 9. The
number of village residents was 134
people from five nations — Argentina,
Spain, the U.S.S.R., the U.S.A. and
Italy. Fifty three people from Tunisia
and Federal Rep. of Germany checked
in on the day of the competition at 12