The PyeongChang Winter Olympics opened Friday evening for a 17-day run at the county in South Korea's Gangwon Province. 
 
More than 29-hundred athletes from 92 countries are taking part in the world's biggest winter sports event. The 23rd Winter Olympics will run until February 25th under the slogan "Passion. Connected."
 
It's the second Olympics that South Korea has hosted since the 1988 Seoul Summer Olympic Games 30 years ago and also the third-ever Winter Games held in Asia.
 
The South and North Korean teams were 91st, last to enter the Olympic Stadium under a unified Korean Peninsula flag to thunderous applause from 35-thousand spectators. It was carried by South Korean male bobsleigh athlete Won Yun-jong and North Korean women’s ice hockey player Hwang Chung-gum. 
 
It was the two nations’ tenth joint march at an international sporting event since they walked together during the opening ceremony of the 2000 Sydney Summer Olympics. They marched together most recently in 2007 at the Asian Winter Games in Changchun, China. 

The two Koreas have also fielded a single women’s ice hockey team, a first in Olympic history.
 
The crowning moment of the opening ceremony came when Kim Yuna, the figure skating gold medalist in the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, lit the Olympic cauldron. 

Another significant feat for Korea is that it has hosted not only the summer and winter games but also the World Cup and the World Athletics Championships, which are considered the top four global sports festivals. Only four other countries have achieved this milestone: France, Germany, Italy and Japan.
 
A total of 102 gold medals are up for grabs in 15 separate categories. Team Korea aims to garner eight golds, four silvers and eight bronzes to finish in the top four in the overall medal tally.