Former Olympic figure skating champion Kim Yu-na, an honorary ambassador for the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, poses for a photo with the Games' mascots -- Soohorang (L), the white tiger, and Bandabi, the Asiatic black bear -- in a ceremony at an elementary school in the host city of PyeongChang, some 180 kilometers east of Seoul, on July 18, 2016. Organizers began a nationwide tour of the mascots the same day, hoping they will help whip up interest in the country's first Winter Games. (Yonhap) (END)