Tens of thousands of young scouts to leave South Korean world jamboree as storm Khanun looms

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South Korea is making arrangements to move tens of thousands of scouts from a coastal jamboree location in the face of the approaching Tropical Storm Khanun, according to scouting authorities on Monday.

The World Organization of the Scout Movement confirmed that the South Korean government has given notice of the early exit for all attendees in the southwestern region of Buan. This requires the rapid relocation of tens of thousands of mostly teenage scouts from 158 nations away from the storm’s trajectory.

The country’s meteorological department predicts the region could be impacted by the storm as soon as Wednesday.

The office of President Yoon Suk Yeol stated that he has requested “contingency” measures, potentially moving the scouts to accommodations like hotels within Seoul and surrounding urban areas.

Earlier hot weather has already prompted thousands of scouts from Britain and America to leave the site, which was constructed on land recovered from the ocean. Since the jamboree began on Wednesday, numerous participants have been treated for heat-related conditions. Critics had previously voiced concerns about hosting such a significant number of youth in a vast, treeless region with little shielding from the summertime heat.

On Monday, the jamboree’s organizers were hastily devising evacuation strategies ahead of the storm’s landfall. Choi Chang-haeng, the secretary-general of the organizing committee, reported that more than 340 shelters, including community centers and gyms in areas close to Buan, have been arranged.

The Jamboree drew around 40,000 scouts, mainly teenagers, from 158 different countries to a campsite on land that was once under the sea. The U.K. supplied the largest national group with about 4,500 scouts, and around 1,000 came from the United States.

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