SEOUL, Aug. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean companies were scrambling Monday to support the heat-plagued World Scout Jamboree by providing supplies and health care professionals to try to alleviate any difficulties that young attendees might feel from the extreme heat. Samsung Group sent around 150 employees to the Saemangeum campsite, a reclaimed wetland on [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Municipal and provincial governments across South Korea were busy arranging various tourism programs for participants at the World Scout Jamboree under way in the country as alternative activities amid an ongoing extreme heat wave and other issues that have affected the global gathering. The event held in the southwestern [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Representatives of the participating countries decided to go ahead with the World Scout Jamboree on Saturday despite sweltering temperatures and other challenges that led U.S., British and other Scouts to pull out from the campsite on the country’s southwest coast. Prime Minister Han Duck-soo announced the decision after a [...]
BUAN, Aug. 5 (Korea Bizwire) —The 2023 World Scout Jamboree in Saemangeum, taking place amid a severe heatwave with temperatures surpassing 35 degrees during the day, is likely to be canceled. In an official statement released on August 4, the World Scouting Organization expressed its recommendation to the Korean Scout Federation to consider concluding the [...]
BUAN, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean organizers of the 25th World Scout Jamboree have touted the quadrennial global event as a cultural Olympics for youth expected to provide opportunities for young Scouts to learn about different cultures and build friendships through outdoor camping and cultural activities. But the event, which drew about 43,000 [...]
BUAN, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The 25th World Scout Jamboree officially took off Wednesday, with about 43,000 young Scouts from 158 countries gathered at a massive campsite in Saemangeum Reclaimed Area on the southwestern coast. The opening ceremony for the world jamboree, dubbed the “cultural Olympics for youth,” began with representative Scouts taking an [...]
BUAN, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – The World Scout Jamboree, the largest international Scout event, kicked off in Saemangeum, a reclaimed land area on the southwestern South Korean coast, on Tuesday, bringing together over 43,000 young Scouts from 158 countries. The 25th edition of the world jamboree will continue through Aug. 12 in the Saemangeum [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – The news that South Korea had won its bid to host the 2023 World Scout Jamboree over Poland came as a surprise to many who felt the Asian nation had the cards stacked against it. The dream of hosting the global event began when the current governor of North [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea won the bid to host the 25th World Scout Jamboree in 2023 in a vote at the World Scout Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan on Wednesday (local time). South Korea’s Saemangeum in North Jeolla Province beat Poland’s Gdansk in a ballot held among 168 members of the World [...]