PRIME TIME NEWS 22:00 Asian Games Incheon 2014: All you need to know on opening night HD

PRIME TIME NEWS 22:00 Welcome to Prime Time News. Live from Seoul... I′m Sean Lim. And I′m Kang Chery. Thanks for joining us this evening. Title: Asian Games Incheon 2014: All you need to know on opening night The 17th Asian Games... have officially begun in Korea′s western port city of Incheon. This is the biggest sporting event in the region... in terms of participating athletes, medals and sports. 95-hundred athletes will take part in 36 different sports... where 4-hundred-39 gold medals are up for grabs that′s more than the Olympics. Yes you′ll see sports like bowling and sepak takraw... a southeast Asian kick volleyball. Song Ji-sun joins us now for details of the opening night. It was a showstopping performance full of Korea′s brightest stars. That′s right. The Asian Games opened with a ceremony at 6 p.m. Korea time, this Friday,... marking the beginning of its 16-day journey. Much like the 1988 Seoul Summer Olympics got off to a start with a boy rolling a hoop,... the Incheon Asian games will open with a girl doing the same - a 13-year-old rhythmic gymnast from the host city who actually made use of the appartus by flaunting her gymnastics skills. The cultural performances were definitely NOT be focused on flaunting national power like in the previous Asian Games like the event′s executive producer Lim Kwon-taek explained beforehand. The four acts of the show center around the theme, "Asia as One," portraying the past, present and the future of Asia in the most unexpected scheme. The delegations from the 45 participating countries made their entrance in the alphabetical order of their country according to the Korean language, Hangul... with Nepal walking in first and host country South Korea last. And the final torch bearer who lit the main stadium was _ who was _ as expected. Title: Asian Games Incheon 2014: Star athletes to shine Let′s talk about Team Korea. Which athletes are drawing the most attention? Take a look at these figures released just a day before the opening of the Asiad. According to a survey conducted by PMI, rhythmic gymnast Son Yeon-jae was voted as the star athlete who most people think will shine the brightest at the Asian Games. She came in fifth at the 2012 London Olympics... and third at the Asian Games in Guangzhou four years ago,... but will be hoping to win this time around to become Korea′s first ever gold medalist in rhythmic gymnastics here at home. For someone who′s already raked in a dozen medals at the Olympics and Asian Games combined, Marine Boy Park Tae-hwan came home with 3 gold medals each from the previous two Asian Games. He will be competing at a venue that′s been named after him, setting the bar even higher for the fans waiting for not just more medals, but new records as well. Title: Asian Games Incheon 2014: Games not to miss And which games games do Team Korea have a good chance at winning? For several sports, the cometitions have actually starte