SEOUL, January 25 (AJP) - Sunghoon, a member of boy band Enhypen, will participate in a torch relay for the upcoming Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo and Milan, scheduled to kick off early next month.
The relay began its journey of carrying the flame across over 100 Italian provinces early last month, but details about which stretch Sunghoon will cover have not been disclosed.
The former figure skater-turned-singer is expected to deliver a "message of peace and friendship" as one of some 10,000 torchbearers including Swedish football legend and former AC Milan striker Zlatan Ibrahimović.
Sunghoon, who has been serving as a promotional ambassador for the country's sporting governing body, the Korean Sport & Olympic Committee, since last year, was selected on the recommendation of Samsung Electronics, an official sponsor of the quadrennial sporting event on ice and snow.
"I know how much passion and effort athletes have poured into preparing for the Olympics, so what I want most is to cheer them on," he said in a press release from his management agency Belief Lab. "Personally, competing at the Olympics was my dream when I was training as an athlete, so I'm very happy and honored that it feels like I've achieved it," he added.
Meanwhile, this year's Winter Olympics will kick off on Feb. 6 and run for about two weeks, bringing together around 3,500 athletes from more than 90 countries to compete for 116 medals across 16 disciplines.
South Korea will field 71 athletes in snowboarding, bobsleigh, speed skating, short-track skating, and figure skating.
The relay began its journey of carrying the flame across over 100 Italian provinces early last month, but details about which stretch Sunghoon will cover have not been disclosed.
The former figure skater-turned-singer is expected to deliver a "message of peace and friendship" as one of some 10,000 torchbearers including Swedish football legend and former AC Milan striker Zlatan Ibrahimović.
Sunghoon, who has been serving as a promotional ambassador for the country's sporting governing body, the Korean Sport & Olympic Committee, since last year, was selected on the recommendation of Samsung Electronics, an official sponsor of the quadrennial sporting event on ice and snow.
"I know how much passion and effort athletes have poured into preparing for the Olympics, so what I want most is to cheer them on," he said in a press release from his management agency Belief Lab. "Personally, competing at the Olympics was my dream when I was training as an athlete, so I'm very happy and honored that it feels like I've achieved it," he added.
Meanwhile, this year's Winter Olympics will kick off on Feb. 6 and run for about two weeks, bringing together around 3,500 athletes from more than 90 countries to compete for 116 medals across 16 disciplines.
South Korea will field 71 athletes in snowboarding, bobsleigh, speed skating, short-track skating, and figure skating.
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