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SOCULTURES DECEMBER 2018
February
The Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, were from
February 9 to 25, 2018
This is the second time
South Korea has hosted
the Games, thirty years
after the 1988 Summer
Olympics in Seoul, and
the third time Asia has
served as host. The
motto of Pyeongchang's
By Korea.net / Korean Culture and Information Service (Photographer name), CC BY-SA 2.0,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=68149530
winning bid was “New Horizons”. The 32nd Olympiad, which had last till
February 25 th in Pyeongchang were organized successfully though there was
the backdrop of tensions over nuclear program of North Korea.
Jacob Zuma resigns
On Feb 15 th , after nearly a
decade of staying in power
and facing immense
pressure from within his
own party, the South
African President resigned
from his position. He was
succeeded by Cyril
Ramaphosa.
By Australian Embassy Jakarta - This file has been extracted from another file: Malcolm Turnbull and Jacob Zuma in
Jakarta 2017 11.jpg, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=65399415
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