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25th World Scout Jamboree
Official logo for 25th World Scout Jamboree
ThemeDraw Your Dream
LocationSaemangeum, Buan-gun
CountrySouth Korea
Coordinates35°42′56″N 126°35′39″E / 35.71556°N 126.59417°E / 35.71556; 126.59417
Date1-12 August 2023
Camp ChiefSimon Hang-bock Rhee
AffiliationWorld Organization of the Scout Movement
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Website
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The 25th World Scout Jamboree is being held from August 1–12, 2023 at Saemangeum, North Jeolla, South Korea, hosted by Korea Scout Association with the theme, "Draw Your Dream".[1] About 43,000 participants from 158 countries are attending.[2][3]

Planning and execution failures, in conjunction with a heat wave, led to health issues among attendees.

The location, Saemangeum, is an estuarine tidal flat on the coast of the Yellow Sea in South Korea. The campsite is flat, overlooks the sea on one side and features a view of the mountains. The site is about 8.8 km2, 6.2km by 1.7km (based on the longest points).[1]

The theme, "Draw your Dream!" expresses the desire of Scout Movement members to transform the 25th World Scout Jamboree into their own festival and grow dreams through the event.

The Korean goverment in cooperation with World Organization of the Scout Movement decided to end the jamboree early due to the typhoon Khanun.[4]

Candidacy

See also: 26th World Scout Jamboree

Both the ZHP (Polish Scouting and Guiding Association)[5] and Korea Scout Association (KSA)[6] launched bids to host the 25th World Scout Jamboree.

The World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) was to have selected the host country in 2014 at the 40th World Scout Conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia, however this was postponed past the 23rd World Scout Jamboree, where both contingents still made bids.[7]

The ZHP's proposed theme, "Be the Spark",[8] received support from the city of Gdańsk to host the jamboree. Mayor Paweł Adamowicz wrote an article for the Huffington Post promoting Gdańsk as an ideal host city.[9][10]

Korea Scout Association's proposed theme, "Draw Your Dream"[11] and location at Saemangeum, were supported by the Jeollabuk-do Provincial Government and Korea Government's Ministry of Gender Equality and Family. The jamboree also will celebrate the Scouting centenary in Korea.[12] Korean President Moon Jae-in and former United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon actively and publicly promoted KSA's candidacy.[13][14]

On 16 August 2017, during the 41st World Scout Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, the WOSM announced that the 25th World Scout Jamboree would be held in South Korea.[15] This is the second time a World Scout Jamboree has been held in Korea. In 1991, the 17th World Scout Jamboree was held in Goseong, Gangwon-do with 19,093 participants from 135 countries under the theme of "Many Lands, One World".[16][17]

Programme

Organization of attendees

World Scout Jamborees are attended by Youth Participants (14-18 years old at the time of the jamboree) and adult volunteers, serving in the capacity as Adult Leaders (AL), Contingent Management Team (CMT) members and International Service Team (IST) members. The smallest units are patrols. One patrol consists of nine Youth Participants (YP) and one Adult Leader (AL). Four patrols, or 36 YPs and 4 ALs, make up a Unit.

Pillars of the jamboree program

There are five pillars making up the jamboree program; Scouting for Life, Smart & Scientific, Safe & Secure, Sustainability and ACT (Adventure, Culture, Tradition).

  1. Scouting for Life: Refers to activities enabling participants to develop leadership and life skills through Scouting activities, challenge their perception about global issues and encouraging them to become active citizens. It incorporates Scouting's values, methods and current emphasis concerning global citizenship education and sustainable development education.
  2. Smart & Scientific: Refers to activities featuring the latest technology, from robotics to virtual reality, with a stream of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) programmes.
  3. Safe & Secure: Refers to activities educating and raising awareness to prevent and respond to communicable diseases, natural disasters, and other emergencies. It will also showcase Korea Scout Association's diverse safety education programmes. These are aimed at improving the ability of participants responding to danger and contributing as responders in emergencies.
  4. Sustainability: Refers to activities educating and raising awareness about United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals, and methods so that participants can act as peace messengers and promote sustainable development in their respective communities. The jamboree will feature Better World Tent and Global Development Village where participants learn about their role and connection with nature, procedures to create a culture of peace and dialogue, promote diversity and inclusion, and more.
  5. ACT (Adventure, Culture, Tradition): Refers to various adventurous activities featuring the environment and diverse terrain around Saemangeum, including the mountains and rivers, cross-cultural exchanges to experience the best of Korean culture and tradition from K-pop music to Bibimbap food to the Hangul alphabet and others.

Criticism and failures

Soon after Scouts began arriving it became evident that sanitation, transportation, infrastructure, and other basic needs of the visiting Scouts were not going to be met.[18] Poor planning and inept execution led to troubling and serious issues that were later exacerbated by the higher than anticipated temperatures.[19] The site of the Jamboree was previously tideland and the increased rainfall immediate before the opening ceremony only exacerbated the poorly constructed site.[19]

According to SBS News, the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, which prepared for the festival, received an estimated budget of about ₩200 billion (about US$154 million), constructional costs included. There was no proper drainage facility on the event site, so the ground was soaking wet.[18] The start of the Jamboree was delayed when unusually heavy rainfall resulted in flooding of part of the site, causing problems with water and power supplies.[20]

Food shortages and hygiene issues including spoiled food and unmanaged facilities have also been raised. According to reports, eggs with mold were given to some participants.[21] Basic infrastructure, such as sufficient and operational showering facilities, toilets, and trashcans were not provided by the organizers to sufficiently accommodate the 43,000 Scouts.[22]

The Jamboree was also significantly affected by a sweltering heat wave, with temperatures up to 35 °C (95 °F). On 4 August, 1,486 people visited the on-site hospital,[23] which secretary-general of the organizing committee Choi Chang-haeng attributed to high energy exertion during the opening ceremony's K-pop concert.[24]

President Yoon Suk Yeol instructed the government to provide air-conditioned buses and refrigerator trucks to protect participants suffering from the heat wave.[25]

The WOSM requested that the South Korean government end the Jamboree early, but they declined; the event is expected to last the full scheduled time.[26]

The "K-Pop Super Live" concert was rescheduled from 6 August at an outdoor stadium in Saemangeum to 11 August at the Jeonju World Cup Stadium.[27][28]

Contingent responses

On 4 August, UK Scouts (with 4,500 participants)[26] began removing all of their scouts from the event over the next 2 days to stay in hotels in Seoul instead.[29]

The Boy Scouts of America contingent (with 1,100 participants)[24] also decided to withdraw from the jamboree, and had their Scouts evacuated to Camp Humphreys, a US military base, instead.[30]

On 7 August, Taiwan (with 1,613 participants) also withdrew its Scouts from the event due to the inhospitable environment and safety concerns.[31]

The Singapore contingent also withdrew its scouts.[26]

References

  1. ^ a b "2023 SaeManGeum 25th World Scout Jamboree Official Site". 2023 SaeManGeum 25th WorldScout Jamboree Official Site. Korea Scout Association. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
  2. ^ Ji-hye, Jun (1 August 2023). "43,000 young Scouts gather at Saemangeum for World Jamboree". The Korea Times.
  3. ^ Ji-hye, Jun (3 August 2023). "World Scout Jamboree in Korea becomes nightmare due to mounting heat illnesses, hygiene issues". The Korea Times.
  4. ^ "WOSM Statements from the 25th World Scout Jamboree". scout.org. 7 August 2023. Retrieved 7 August 2023.
  5. ^ "Polska 2023: Be the spark! | 25th World Scout Jamboree Candidate". Archived from the original on 2 October 2015. Retrieved 24 August 2015.
  6. ^ "Official Declaration of 2023 / 25th World Scout Jamboree bidding of KSA". Korea Scout Association. 9 March 2011. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
  7. ^ "The City of Gdansk is World Scout Jamboree candidate for 2023". HuffPost. 6 December 2017. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
  8. ^ "POLSKA 2023 World Scout Jamboree Bid | Be the spark!". polska2023.pl. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
  9. ^ Adamowicz, Pawel (4 February 2016). "The City of Gdansk is World Scout Jamboree candidate for 2023". HuffPost. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
  10. ^ Adamowicz, Pawel (9 November 2016). "Gdansk ready to host World Scout Jamboree 2023". HuffPost. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
  11. ^ "25th World Scout Jamboree SaeManGeum, Korea 2023". 2023wsjkorea.org. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
  12. ^ "Korea Scout Association". english.scout.or.kr. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
  13. ^ Jung, Min-kyung (17 August 2017). "S. Korea to host 2023 World Scout Jamboree". The Korea Herald. Herald Corporation. Retrieved 18 August 2018.
  14. ^ "South Korea Overcomes Obstacles to Host World Scout Jamboree". The Korea Bizwire. Kobiz Media Co., Ltd. 18 August 2017. Retrieved 19 August 2017.
  15. ^ WOSM [@worldscouting] (16 August 2017). "And the host of the 25th World Scout Jamboree is the Korea Scout Association! Congratulations!…" (Tweet). Retrieved 13 September 2018 – via Twitter.
  16. ^ Love, Ben H. "Many lands, one world". Boys' Life. Vol. 81, no. 12.
  17. ^ "Korea to host 2023 World Scout Jamboree". The Korea Times. 17 August 2017.
  18. ^ a b "Koreans Are Humiliated At How Disastrous The 2023 World Scout Jamboree Held In Korea Is — 400 Kids Suffering From Heatstrokes". Koreaboo. 3 August 2023. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
  19. ^ a b Rashid, Raphael (4 August 2023). "'A bit horrific': Scouts at jamboree in South Korea on campsite conditions". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
  20. ^ Hall, Lauren (2 August 2023). "Floods cause delays at World Scout Jamboree". itv.com. ITV plc. Retrieved 5 August 2023.
  21. ^ Jung-Youn, Lee (4 August 2023). "World Scout Jamboree hit by heat, hygiene problems". Asia News Network. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
  22. ^ "World Scout Jamboree in Korea becomes nightmare due to mounting heat illnesses, hygiene issues". The Korea Times. 3 August 2023. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
  23. ^ "Hundreds of teenagers are falling ill from heat wave at World Scout Jamboree in South Korea". CNN. 4 August 2023.
  24. ^ a b "South Korea presses on with World Scout Jamboree as heat forces thousands to leave early". AP News. 5 August 2023. Retrieved 7 August 2023.
  25. ^ "Yoon orders unlimited air-conditioned buses for Jamboree participants". The Korea Herald. 4 August 2023.
  26. ^ a b c Rashid, Raphael (5 August 2023). "US and UK scouts pull out of world jamboree campsite due to extreme heat". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 7 August 2023.
  27. ^ "World Scout Jamboree 'K-Pop Super Live' Concert Postponed + Announces New Venue". Soompi. 6 August 2023.
  28. ^ Kim, Jack (6 August 2023). "Too hot for K-pop as South Korea scrambles to save scout jamboree". Reuters. Retrieved 7 August 2023.
  29. ^ "UK scouts pulled out of camp after S Korea heatwave". BBC News. 4 August 2023. Retrieved 4 August 2023.
  30. ^ "US, UK scouts quit S Korea World Scout Jamboree campsite over extreme heat". Al Jazeera. 5 August 2023.
  31. ^ 瑞杰, 邱; 政忠, 林; 德正, 葉. "南韓世界童軍大露營爆爭議 家長炸鍋 我童軍團將撤離". udn.com. United Daily News. Retrieved 7 August 2023.
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