Five rings over Korea

the secret negotiations behind the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul

by Richard W. Pound

1994 446 pages eng

In 1981, when the International Olympic Committee chose Seoul, South Korea, to be the site of the 1988 Summer Games, the decision was considered risky at best, potentially explosive, perhaps even fatal to the Olympic Movement. Amid a tenuous political climate, caught between the polarized agendas of…