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Ticket sales at the PyeongChang 2018 Parlalympic Winter Games have set a new record. The photo shows the stadium during the Paralympic ice hockey match between Korea and Japan at the Gangneung Hockey Centre on March 10. (Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism)

By Kim Eun-young and Hahm Hee-eun 

Ticket sales at the PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic Winter Games have set a new Paralympic record.

The PyeongChang Paralympic Organizing Committee reported on March 13 that it has sold more than 320,000 individual tickets, exceeding its initial sales target of 220,000.

This exceeds the 210,000 tickets sold at the Vancouver 2010 Paralympics, as well as the 200,000 or so tickets sold at the Sochi 2014 Paralympics. Ticket sales at the PyeongChang Paralympics are even higher than the total tickets both sold and unsold at the Sochi Paralympics, which were around 316,000.

Lee Hee-beom, head of the organizing committee, said, “We’re grateful for the public interest and support we received for the PyeongChang Winter Paralympics. We’ll make sure that Game operations and visitor services are thoroughly organized, until the final moment, so that the Games can be remembered as a historic event.

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