The advertising hoarding promoting the 2018 Winter Olympics stands in the mountain cluster of PyeongChang February 9, 2015. REUTERS/Pawel Kopczynski
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea launched a support team aimed at helping the home nation finish in the top four at the 2018 Winter Olympics on Wednesday and announced it had increased a special grant to help athletes prepare for the Games to almost $30 million.
The alpine town of Pyeongchang will host Asia's first Winter Games outside Japan in almost exactly a year's time. South Korea will send more than 130 athletes to participate in seven sports with the aim of winning 20 medals.
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