25th World Scout Jamboree

The 25th World Scout Jamboree is a planned World Scout Jamboree that is scheduled to be held in 2023 in South Korea.

25th World Scout Jamboree
Candidacy logo for Korea
ThemeDraw Your Dream
LocationSaemangeum, Buan-gun
CountrySouth Korea
Date1 to 12 August 2023
AffiliationWorld Organization of the Scout Movement
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Website
http://www.2023wsjkorea.org/

The two candidate countries for the 2023 World Jamboree were Poland[1] and South Korea.[2] The World Organization of the Scout Movement was to have selected the host country in 2014 at the 40th World Scout Conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia, however this was postponed past the 23rd World Scout Jamboree, where both contingents still made bids.[3]

On 16 August 2017, during the 41st World Scout Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, the World Organization of the Scout Movement announced that the 25th World Scout Jamboree would be held in South Korea.[4]

Candidacy
Candidacy logo for Poland

Both the ZHP (Polish Scouting and Guiding Association) and the Korea Scout Association launched bids to host the 25th World Scout Jamboree.

The ZHP's proposed theme was "Be the Spark".[5] They received support from the city of Gdańsk to host the jamboree there and Mayor Paweł Adamowicz wrote an article for the Huffington Post about why Gdańsk was the ideal host city.[6][7]

The Korea Scout Association was seeking to host the jamboree to celebrate their centenary, which takes place in 2022.[8] The proposed location for the jamboree is Saemangeum. Their theme was "Draw Your Dream".[9]

European Scout Jamboree 2020

In response, Scouts from almost 30 European countries requested the Polish Scouting Association to consider organizing European Jamboree 2020, which would have taken place in Gdańsk, Poland, in 2020. In April 2020, the Jamboree was postponed, and rescheduled to take place instead in August 2021 due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.[10] In November 2020 the Jamboree Executive Team and Jamboree Planning Team made the decision to cancel the Jamboree in 2021.[11] The decision came after registered participant numbers dropped below the minimum needed of 10,000 as well as more COVID-19 related risks. The result of this meant it was not financially viable for the Jamboree to go ahead and ultimately lead to the full cancellation.

References
  1. "Polska 2023: Be the spark! | 25th World Scout Jamboree Candidate". Archived from the original on 2 October 2015. Retrieved 24 August 2015.
  2. "Official Declaration of 2023 / 25th World Scout Jamboree bidding of KSA". Korea Scout Association. 9 March 2011. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
  3. "The City of Gdansk is World Scout Jamboree candidate for 2023". HuffPost. 6 December 2017. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
  4. "World Scouting on Twitter: "And the host of the 25th World Scout Jamboree is the Korea Scout Association! Congratulations!… "". Twitter. 16 August 2017. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
  5. "POLSKA 2023 World Scout Jamboree Bid | Be the spark!". polska2023.pl. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
  6. Pawel Adamowicz (4 February 2016). "The City of Gdansk is World Scout Jamboree candidate for 2023". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
  7. Pawel Adamowicz (9 November 2016). "Gdansk ready to host World Scout Jamboree 2023". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
  8. "Korea Scout Association". english.scout.or.kr. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
  9. "25th World Scout Jamboree SaeManGeum, Korea 2023". www.2023wsjkorea.org. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
  10. "European Jamboree 2020 - European Jamboree rescheduled to 2021". European Jamboree 2020. Retrieved 29 November 2020.
  11. "European Jamboree 2020 - European Jamboree Cancelled". European Jamboree 2020. Retrieved 29 November 2020.
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