The KSOC are reportedly set to move into their new training centre in October ©KSOC

Korean Sport and Olympic Committee (KSOC) officials have said that the country's new training centre will officially open in October, in time for their home Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics in February. 

The Jincheon National Training Centre has been partially open since 2011, with construction at the site beginning in 2009.

According to KSOC officials, the centre is nearly 90 per cent complete with a proposed finish date of October.

The centre is based in North Chungcheong Province, with several sports already using the facilities.

When building work has been completed, around 16 sports are expected to move from their current base at the Taereung National Centre in Seoul.

Ice hockey, curling and speed skating bodies will use the centre prior to Pyeongchang 2018 ©Getty Images
Ice hockey, curling and speed skating bodies will use the centre prior to Pyeongchang 2018 ©Getty Images

"This is the birth of a world top level athlete training centre," Lee Jae-kun, chief of the centre, told Yonhap News.

"Not just a training centre's move from Taereung to Jincheon."

Ice hockey, curling and speed skating are expected to move into the centre when it officially opens, as they conduct their final preparations before Pyeongchang 2018.

It is claimed the centre will be able to house more than 1,000 athletes from 35 different sports.

Pyeongchang 2018 will run between February 9 and 25.