{"alias":"newsItem","byline":"Last updated: 12:15pm Friday 11 August 2023","standfirst":"UK Scouts has transferred our young people and adult volunteers from the Jamboree site at SaeManGeum to Seoul.","content":{"layouts":[{"type":"singleColumn","areas":[{"items":[{"gridType":"RichTextBlock","content":"\u003Cp\u003EThey\u2019d all arrived in Seoul by Sunday 6 August. This followed announcing our plans to transfer from the site on Friday 4 August.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAll young people and adult volunteers are in hotel accommodation in Seoul where their Jamboree experience has continued.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe UK Embassy and the Mayor of Seoul have supported the UK team to develop programme activities so our young people could still get the most from the rest of their Jamboree experience in South Korea. This includes cultural events with other Scouts from around the world, visits to palaces, temples, cultural centres and tourist sites Seoul has to offer.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EA cultural day was held in Seoul this week which saw UK Scouts get together with Scouts from around the world to find out more about their cultures. Young people from the UK got to share experiences with Scouts from Germany, Pakistan, Mauritius, Chile, India, Japan, Togo, Canada, Singapore, Sweden and others.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOn Monday 7 August the World Organisation of the Scout Movement announced all participants would be moved off the Jamboree site.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOn Friday 11 August all 45,000 Scouts attending the World Scout Jamboree came back together for the closing ceremony in Seoul at the World Cup Stadium, which featured some of the biggest K-pop (Korean pop) bands in the world.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EYoung people will travel home as originally planned from Sunday 13 August.\u003C/p\u003E","gtmId":"","gtmClass":""},{"value":"https://player.vimeo.com/video/852230482?app_id=122963","gridType":"embed","gtmId":"gtmId","gtmClass":"gtmClass"},{"type":"Promo","cta":"","body":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMatt Hyde, Scouts UK Chief Executive, shares an update direct from South Korea on Monday 7 August\u003C/strong\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca rel=\u0022noopener\u0022 href=\u0022https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5xG4nlLslo\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 title=\u0022Video on YouTube\u0022 data-anchor=\u0022?v=v5xG4nlLslo\u0022\u003EView the video without subtitles on YouTube\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/p\u003E","link":null,"colour":"#f1f1f1","title":"","image":null,"imageFocus":"","imageId":0,"imageKey":"00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000","imageCrop":"","gridType":"card","gtmId":"","gtmClass":""}]}],"config":null}]},"searchDescription":null,"pageType":null,"location":null,"versionDate":"04 August 2023","reviewDate":null,"furtherReading":[],"relatedLinks":[],"id":75577,"nodeName":"World Scout Jamboree update","title":"25th World Scout Jamboree: Update from the UK Contingent","type":"newsItem","image":{"url":"/media/21477/wsj.jpg?width=800\u0026height=450\u0026v=1d9cabe46a621b0","caption":"WSJ","type":"","size":0,"width":0,"height":0,"altText":""},"assets":null,"headerOptions":{"headerTitle":"25th World Scout Jamboree: Update from the UK Contingent","headerSubTitle":null,"headerCta":null,"headerCtaText":null,"headerCtaLink":null,"headerBackgroundColour":null,"showSEOImage":false,"headerBackgroundImage":null,"quickLinks":null},"subHeader":"UK Scouts has transferred our young people and adult volunteers from the Jamboree site at SaeManGeum to Seoul.","browserTitle":"25th World Scout Jamboree: Update from the UK Contingent","silktide":"eyJjbXMiOiJVbWJyYWNvIiwiZWRpdG9yVXJsIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly9wcm9kLWNtcy5zY291dHMub3JnLnVrLy91bWJyYWNvIy9jb250ZW50L2NvbnRlbnQvZWRpdC83NTU3NyJ9","canonicalUrl":"https://www.scouts.org.uk/news/2023/august/world-scout-jamboree-update/"}