With less than two weeks to go before the Winter Olympics kick off in South Korea's alpine town of PyeongChang,... busy days are ahead for the two Koreas. <br />A team of North Korean athletes will be heading south later this week,... and a joint cultural event will be held in the North. <br />Lee Ji-won reports. <br /> South and North Korean delegates have completed their inspections of the facilities where joint events will be held in the lead-up to the PyeongChang Winter Olypmics. Now the events just need to be carried out as planned.<br /><br />The pre-Olympic events are likely to start with joint ski training in the North at the Masikryong Ski Resort.<br />From as soon as Wednesday, alpine ski and cross-country skiiers from both sides will be at the resort to train for two days. <br /> The South Korean skiers, however, will not be athletes competing at the Olympics.<br /><br />The two sides have also settled on holding a joint cultural event at the North's Mount Kumgang resort on the 4th of February.<br />The event is likely to consist of an hour-long performance by each side, with around 600 members of the audience coming from South and North. <br /><br />North Korea's Samjiyon Orchestra, which has 140 members, is due to come to the South to perform in Seoul and Gangeung.<br />They'll use the Gyeonggui Line train route on the western side of the Peninsula on the 6th, with concerts scheduled in Gangeung on the 8th... and in Seoul on the 11th.<br /><br />And just two days before the Winter Games kick off, the rest of the North Korean Olympic participants are due to arrive in South Korea, including a 230-member cheering squad and a 30-member Taekwondo demonstrators.<br /> But South Korea has not yet been told which North Korean dignitaries will be coming or when they'll come.<br />It's expected that'll be announced right before the opening ceremony. <br />Lee Ji-won, Arirang News. <br />
