Greece, Ghana, Nigeria and South Africa will be the first countries to emerge at the opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

The 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony on Friday, Feb. 9 follows many traditions, and one of them includes a specific order in which the countries march with their respective flags. At first ...

The countries enter the stadium based on Korean alphabetical order – with two exceptions: The parade starts with Greece (the birthplace of the Games) and ...

Korean alphabet trips up Olympic viewers . Pyeongchang (South Korea) (AFP) – Issued on: 10/02/2018 - 10:50. Advertising. ... but it was indeed in alphabetical order -- in Korean. ...

Teaching Hangul, the Korean alphabet, to Cia-Cia children in Baubau, Indonesia. People trying to preserve the tribe’s spoken language found that the Korean script was a good fit for it.

Alphabetical order is not always as easy as ABC. ... The logic lay in "hangul", the South Korean alphabet, a sequence of 24 syllabic blocks that underpin that nation’s language.

For non-personal use or to order multiple copies, ... Now linguists from South Korea are trying to convince the locals to use the Korean alphabet. WSJ's Tom Wright reports.

The apparently random sequence in which countries marched out at the opening ceremony of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics had many observers scratching their heads, but it was indeed in alphabetical ...

Organisers have clarified that the order of the countries in the opening ceremony were based on the Korean alphabet Hangul. PHOTO: AFP PUBLISHED Feb 10, 2018, 05:03 PM ...