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Catholic Kwandong University Gymnasium is located on the grounds of Catholic Kwandong University in

Gangneung Gangneung () is a municipal city in the province of Gangwon-do, on the east coast of South Korea. It has a population of 213,658 (as of 2017).Gangneung City (2003)Population & Households. Retrieved January 14, 2006. Gangneung is the economic ...

, Gangwon-do,

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...

. During the

2018 Winter Olympics , nations = 93 , athletes = 2,922 (1,680 men and 1,242 women) , events = 102 in 7 sports (15 disciplines) , opening = , closing = , opened_by = President Moon Jae-in , cauldron = Kim Yun-a , stadium = Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium , wint ...

, it is one of the two venues for

Ice Hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two opposing teams use ice ...

. The official name as the Winter Olympic venue is Kwandong Hockey Centre ( ko, 관동 하키 센터, Gwandong Haki Senteo). For the Winter Olympics, it was rebuilt replacing the former gymnasium of the university. Construction started in June 2014 and was completed in February 2017. The

seating capacity Seating capacity is the number of people who can be seated in a specific space, in terms of both the physical space available, and limitations set by law. Seating capacity can be used in the description of anything ranging from an automobile tha ...

is 6,000. There is one Olympic size ice rink (60m x 30m), four floors above ground and one underground level. After the Winter Olympics, it will be used as a multi-purpose gymnasium of the university.

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Indoor arenas in South Korea Sports venues in Gangneung Venues of the 2018 Winter Olympics Olympic ice hockey venues {{coord, 37.7382222, 128.877092, region:KR-42_type:landmark, format=dms, display=title