In the nearly finished skating arena, former Olympic skating gold medalist and organizer Kim So-Hee told NBC News that "we are a little bit nervous, but we are so excited." PyeongChang won the bid to host the Games at the third attempt, having narrowly lost the votes won by Vancouver and Sochi.
"We want to host the best Winter Games ever made," said Lee Hee-beom, the president of PyeongChang's Organizing Committee.
The organizers hope new roads and venues will make the mountainous area in Korea's East a magnet for tourists and skiers from across Asia.
The facilities rising fast from Korea's red earth are all within 30 minutes of each other, as Korea aims to hold the most compact and athlete-friendly Games to date.
They also hope there will be no repeat of their last Olympics Seoul 1988 when their neighbors from Communist North Korea boycotted the Games.
"I hope these Games can improve relations with North Korea, true to the spirit of the Olympics." PyeongChang added that capital letter "C" to the middle of its name to avoid confusion with the Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea.
This week's heatwave in PyeongChang, its cable cars rising amid lush, almost tropical forest and the green slopes of the downhill ski area make it hard to imagine the Winter Olympics here.
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