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South Korea built a $109 million Olympic stadium just to eventually tear it down

Pyeongchang constructed a temporary venue without heating and a roof to avoid the "white elephant" pitfalls that past Olympic cities fell into.

  • South Korea spent $109 million on the construction of a stadium for the 2018 Winter Olympics.
  • The complex is a temporary arena. After the games end, the city of Pyeongchang will demolish it.
  • Future host cities might want to consider ephemeral stadiums, considering many former host cities are still grappling with abandoned Olympic venues.

Every two years, the chooses a city to host the games. Local governments then proceed to spend billions of dollars building lavish venues for Olympians and fans.

But after the athletes leave and the world's TVs tune out, many of these shiny stadiums go unused and fall into disrepair. Just six months after the 2016 Summer Olympics ended in Rio de Janeiro, the Olympic Village had already turned into a ghost town, and most of the venues laid abandoned. According to the

Even if the 2018 Winter Games is a huge money pit for South Korea, at least the people of

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