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Pyeongchang’s Bidding Committee for
2018 Olympics Sets Up the Environment
Subcommittee
Pyeongchang is determined to host an eco-friendly, low-carbon Olympics
On January 26, Pyeongchang's bidding committee for the 2018 Winter
Olympics set up the “Environment Subcommittee" in a bid to realize an ecofriendly,
low-carbon Olympics. The Environment Subcommittee held its kickoff
meeting at the Bears Tourist Hotel in Chunchon. The Subcommittee appointed
16 experts on ecosystems, climate chang, and water quality as subcommittee
members, and Lee Jong-beom, professor of Environmental Science at
Kangwon National University, as its head.
At the kick-off meeting, the Environment Subcommittee prepared answers to
environmental questions, which will be included in Pyeongchang's application
file.
The paper discussed specific ways to outsource research activities to achieve a
green Winter Olympics in 2018. Subcommittee chairman Lee Jong-beom said,
"When it comes to the environment, Pyeongchang will come up with the most
detailed and feasible master plan to differentiate Pyeongchang's version of an eco-friendly Winter Olympics from the rest. And transportation
and management of stadiums will be prepared in a way that could contribute to the international efforts to tackle the issues of
global warming and greenhouse gas emissions. The Environment Subcommittee plans to meet on a quarterly basis to advise
Pyeongchang's bidding committee for the 2018 Winter Olympics on the construction of stadiums and the overall management. In addition,
the Subcommittee will actively provide environmental input into the preparation of the application and candidate city files,
which will be submitted to the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
KDC Operates Total Digitalization System
On January 27, Korea Digital Communications Corporation (KDC) announced
that they will open KDC Scan Center, a digitizing documents system, in order to
support an establishment of electronic documents management system. The KDC
Scan Center, located in Guro Digital Complex and boasting its 820 spare meters of
space, has more than 600 millions of word processing capabilities per year. It provides
total service solutions including consultant, building operating, maintenance
and management. That deal with overall electric word processing operations, database
building business solutions and financing operations for enterprises, research
centers and public organizations. Documents digitization is used to describe the systems that transform all the papers to electronic documents.
This allows for word processing operations to make exactly the same document as the original. It is expected to reduce a lot of
time and cost as digital operation can be done online Kim Sang-jin, president of KDC said, "KDC Scan Center will provide us a lot of
benefits such as increasing work efficiency, enabling faster processing and improving transparency in management because everything
is done based on electronic certified system. Especially, 16 outsourcing offices that will be established soon in domestic market will be
connected together through KDC Scan Center."
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