South Korea will evacuate tens of thousands of scouts – mostly teenagers – by bus from a coastal jamboree site as Tropical Storm Khanun looms.
— South Korea will evacuate tens of thousands of scouts by bus from a coastal jamboree site as Tropical Storm Khanun looms, officials said Monday. Beginning Tuesday morning, vehicles will move 36,000 scouts — mostly teenagers — from the World Scout Jamboree in the southwestern county of Buan, according to Kim Sung-ho, a vice minister at South Korea's Ministry of the Interior and Safety.
South Korea categorizes Khanun as a typhoon, defined as a tropical storm with winds stronger than 38 miles per hour. South Korea's weather agency expects Khanun to weaken to a storm within the next five days. The plans to evacuate the scouts were announced hours after President Yoon Suk Yeol's office said he had called for"contingency" plans, including relocating them to hotels and other facilities in the greater capital area.
Kirvil Kaasa of the Norwegian Guide and Scout Association told Norway's news agency NTB that"the evacuation is taking place well before the ."
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