Seoul to Bid for 2036 Olympic Games without North Korea’s Pyongyang

A visitor walks past the Olympic Rings Monument in Tokyo, Japan, 28 February 2023. (EPA)

Seoul will pursue a bid for the 2036 Summer Games without reviving efforts to co-host an Olympics with the North Korean capital of Pyongyang, Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon told Reuters.

Amid hopes for better relations with the nuclear-armed North, Seoul sent a proposal for co-hosting the 2032 Olympics with Pyongyang to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 2021, before Brisbane was named as host city.