Korean Companies React on Short Notice to Housing and Provide Tour Programs for Scouts Attending Mismanaged Jamboree
One way of looking at this is that this is one of the best aspects of Korea is how people can come together to protect the country’s image. Can you imagine what the reaction in the U.S. would be if the President asked private companies to accommodate a bunch of Scouts and provide tour programs for them because of government incompetence?:
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| GS E&C employees put up tents on a football field at the company’s training center in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, Tuesday, for Scouts from Greece, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Zambia and Botswana. Courtesy of GS E&C |
The abrupt relocation of participants of the 25th World Scout Jamboree on Tuesday from the Saemangeum campsite in North Jeolla Province to lodgings in eight other regions around the country has not only confused public servants nationwide, but also drawn complaints from employees working at privately owned companies which have been drafted to offer their facilities.
Korea Times
Amid the efforts of domestic firms to minimize damage to Korea’s reputation by offering an additional labor force, plus other basic necessities, due to the poor management of the global event, workers have been objecting to being forced to do tasks that are not relevant to their roles and responsibilities.
“We received a call from the presidential office on Monday night to prepare suitable accommodation, tourism programs and plans to transport the Scouts to the K-pop concert and the airport,” a GS E&C employee wrote on Blind, an anonymous chat forum app for verified employees. “After the abrupt request, my colleagues had to prepare tourism programs and put up tents for the Scouts.”
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“Can you imagine what the reaction in the U.S. would be if the President asked private companies to accommodate a bunch of Scouts and provide tour programs for them because of government incompetence?”
This is what actually happens with illegal migrants and homeless junkies here in the US.
@Moose Knuckle, last I checked I don’t see Apple, Microsoft, Google, GM, etc. opening up their office facilities to homeless and illegal immigrants and being asked to entertain them. The fact that major Korean companies are reacting on short notice to house and provide programs for 37,000 Scouts in order to protect Korea’s image shows Korean nationalism is still strong which is a good thing.
How many major companies in America really care about protecting America’s image?
This was all arranged by the aces in the Moon administration, of course. And they took numerous overseas trips to see how it’s done.
Also involved but never mentioned are the Scout leadership. Did they come in and sign off on all of this? “Nice, unobstructed views because there are no trees. Drainage and toilet areas look fine. No insects. We’re good ” Or did they just show up on opening day?
I guess there’ll be an investigation.
It’s pretty clear who saved the day. Korea came out of it all looking good.
South Korea under Yoon pulled International Scouting’s nuts out of the fire to be sure. But all of these international events are run by organizations as corrupt as the CCP…
It’d surprising to me that parents send their kids.
In the end, the most responsible party is the World Organization of the Scout Movement or whichever grifting operation is quick to take dues and donations but slow to look over jamboree plans and compare them to their 100 year-old To-do Checklist and Lessons Learn chart.
Individual national scouting organization should have done the same. Before bringing a bunch of kids halfway around the world, I would get my team together and do a risk assessment of every annoyance, problem, and disaster in institutional memory. Then I would create a management plan for each one.
We live in 2023. Bugs, heat, shade, rain, wind, water, etc., are fully managable with proper preparation and easily available equipment… which is supposed to be some kind of scouting fundamental. The adults in the room are supposed to be teaching these processes to the next generation.
(The American team pulling out instead of managing the situation is shameful.)
Pretty much everyone had a hand in creating this completely avoidable disaster, though.
Bonus thought: Brilliant plan to hold this on reclaimed land without distractions like trees or geographical features or animals or things to climb. Somewhere, there is a Walmart parking lot or a supermax recreational yard waiting to host a jamboree.
Why so many China lovers? Let’s get rid of all the Chinabots!
“Why so many China lovers? Let’s get rid of all the Chinabots!”
Do you really want to get rid of your socks after you invested so much time?
“Fooling peole is easy, but not when you are stupid.” – John Wayne (probably)
@GIKorea
Of course Apple, Microsoft, Google, FM, etc don’t open up their office facilities to homeless and illegals immigrants. Those are the “noble savages” anthropologist celebrate all so often. It would be imperialistic to impose modernity upon them. Nay, precious office space is for the truly needy! I see though, your perception of America’s image needs updating.
America’s image is global LGBT and BLM. It is those flags that take center stage in the White House and US Embassies these days. nearly all major companies will bend over backwards to accommodate government demands for “diversity, equity, and inclusion” under threat of congressional hearings, FBI/IRS/NRLB/etc harassment, hordes of government backed NGOs funding hostile lawsuits, and government backed paramilitaries of ANTIFA and BLM to rough them up in case of non-compliance.
Microsoft alone has poured billions into the DEI money sink. It does not help them make better software. In fact it probably makes worse software. From a purely capitalistic viewpoint, this makes no sense, but as a tithe to the prevailing regime, it’s a sign of “patriotic” fervor.
On a more serious note, the Chaebols have more freedom from government interference than American small business, and American large cap has its balls in an alphabet agency vice grip. The demands on Chaebols are often merely minor wealth redistribution, whereas the demands on American companies are to practice self castration,