Typhoon forces South Korea to evacuate scout jamboree

  • last year
Organisers of the World Scout Jamboree asked host South Korea Monday to "urgently" evacuate tens of thousands of children from their campsite ahead of a typhoon, just days after a heatwave. The government had said it would send 1,000 buses to move the mostly teenage scouts from the site.
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00:00 We're in a troop and in a patrol, stay together!
00:05 It's so exhausting with the heat and drinking every day as much as somehow possible.
00:13 And then after a break it's okay again, but...
00:18 The worst thing about all of this is, it was for the kids.
00:26 I'm 62 years old, but this was all for the kids.
00:30 And now they go home disappointed. It should have been such a nice experience.
00:54 I feel very, very sorry for the Korean nation and the Korean people because
01:00 I think that they would have loved to present their country, their culture, their community in a more positive way.
01:23 I think it's sad because it feels like the participants cannot enjoy the whole experience.
01:31 And that's why I'm sad, because there would have been more they could have participated in.
01:43 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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