How the World Scout Jamboree descended into chaos in South Korea
These were some of the conditions that about 40,000 teenage scouts had to contend with in the past week at the World Scout Jamboree, sending red-faced organisers South Korea scrambling to fix matters before a looming typhoon forced an everyone to leave the ill-fated campsite.
As far back as 2017, when South Korea won the bid to host the jamboree, the campsite on reclaimed mud flats was seen as potentially problematic, according to a Reuters review of publicly available government reports. However, in reports published in 2018 and 2020, North Jeolla provincial planners found that the original plans to plant "a rich forest" at the campsite would be impossible because the land was too salty. A province official said they had set up tunnels made of vines to help cool the area but acknowledged those weren't enough.
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