The Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) announced today (February 10, 2018) that it will no longer go forward with plans to set up a mobile multi-faith prayer room for spectators in Gangneung, where all of the 2018 Winter Olympics Games' indoor events are taking place, following strong opposition from anti-Muslim protestors, according to the Yahoo Sports website.
"We sat down with them [Muslim officials] for talks, but in the end, we had to cancel the plans," Gangneung city government tourism division chief Kang Suk-ho said.
The KTO's Kim Yeong-ju said that the opposition to the prayer room was so strong that local officials "could no longer do their jobs."
"The government has already spent too much of the taxpayers' money on the Games, and we shouldn't spend more building a prayer room," Seo Ji-hyun, the director of operations at the Islam Countermeasure Association, said.
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