Beijing Olympic Flame arrives in South Korea
27/4/2008 10:47
The Beijing Olympic Flame arrived today at Incheon international airport,
South Korea, for a torch relay later in the day.
The chartered plane,
dubbed "Olympic Flame," touched down at 1:05 am local time (1605 GMT). Li
Binghua, vice president of the Beijing Organizing Committee of Olympic Games
(BOCOG), stepped of the plane first with the flame lantern.
The flame
delegation was warmly greeted by Kim Sang-Woo, Secretary General of the Korean
Olympic Committe and Ning Fukui, Chinese Ambassador to South Korea, and other
officials as well as some 160 Chinese students in South Korea.
The torch
relay is scheduled to start at 2:00 pm (0500 GMT) in the South Korean capital of
Seoul, where the 1988 Olympic Games were held.
The route of the torch
relay and the list of torch bears, however, have yet to be officially unveiled.
Seoul is the 17th leg of the global Olympic torch relay, which is to
reach a total of 21 cities on five continents outside the Chinese mainland
before arriving in Beijing for the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic
Games on August 8.
Xinhua
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