11-08-2020 21:12 via uk.news.yahoo.com

Evictions, drugs, boxing rows: reliving '88 Games in Seoul

EDITORS — With the Tokyo Olympics postponed for a year because of the coronavirus pandemic, The Associated Press is looking back at the history of Summer Games.The 1988 Seoul Olympics were the last Summer Games of the Cold War era.The two weeks of events during the sweaty summer of 1988 had an impact that reached far beyond sports and influenced the shaping of South Korea as the nation it is today.
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