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UK Scouts’ chief executive Matt Hyde has said the organisation feels “let down” over the planning of an event which saw 4,500 members relocated across South Korea.
What happened at the South Korean Scout Jamboree
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/GettyThe World Scout Jamboree this month in South Korea was to have been a great propaganda blitz akin to the glory days of the 1988 Seoul Olympics, the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, and the 2002 World Cup—heralding South Korea’s debut as a major power able to compete with the rest of the world.In the end, Korea’s turn hosting this year’s 25th edition of the quadrennial shindig ended up being somewhat of a national embarrassment. Officials
Six years and tens of million of dollars later, the 2023 World Scout Jamboree has culminated in what some say is a national embarrassment.
British contingent driven to leave event in South Korea amid fears for safety