South Korea Displays Technological Prowess At Opening Ceremony Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics

A general view during the opening ceremony of the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics in the Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium, Pyeongchang, South Korea, on Feb. 9, 2018. Reuters/Pawel Kopczynski

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea–The Winter Olympics sparked to life in a vivid, colorful ceremony of fire and ice in South Korea on Friday.

South Korea, which is using the Pyeongchang Games to break the ice with North Korea, seated its presidential couple alongside U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and his wife, with two of the North’s most senior officials sitting in the row behind.