{"id":57394,"date":"2023-08-09T15:00:06","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T06:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/09\/wednesday-briefing-what-went-wrong-at-south-koreas-world-scout-jamboree"},"modified":"2023-08-09T15:00:06","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T06:00:06","slug":"wednesday-briefing-what-went-wrong-at-south-koreas-world-scout-jamboree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57394","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday briefing: What went wrong at South Korea\u2019s World Scout Jamboree?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s newsletter: As thousands of scouts are evacuated from their quadrennial global get-together, the host nation\u2019s handling of the event is in the spotlight<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global\/2022\/sep\/20\/sign-up-for-the-first-edition-newsletter-our-free-news-email\">Sign up here for our daily newsletter, First Edition<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Good morning. Imagine you are going on a school trip, but it\u2019s with thousands of other schools, and the trip is to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global\/2017\/dec\/20\/fyre-festival-i-paid-4000-to-go-its-fair-game-to-make-fun-of-me\">Fyre festival<\/a>, and the guys from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7RoMaS1pzOE\">Trainspotting<\/a> are taking care of the sanitation. Oh, and there\u2019s an enormous hurricane on its way.<\/p>\n<p>That may sum up what 4,500 British scouts have felt this week, after their trip of a lifetime to the World Scout Jamboree in South Korea turned into a bad comedy marked by successive calamities, natural and human-made, that yesterday culminated in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/08\/south-korea-scouts-1000-buses-evacuation-typhoon-khanun\">mass evacuation<\/a> of all 43,000 young people.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Northern Ireland<\/strong><\/em> | A \u201cmonumental\u201d data breach has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2023\/aug\/08\/major-data-breach-involving-northern-ireland-police-officers-and-staff\">exposed the names and rank of every serving Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) officer<\/a>. A spreadsheet was mistakenly published online for up to three hours in response to a freedom of information request. The Police Federation for Northern Ireland said it was a \u201cbreach of monumental proportions\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Security <\/strong><\/em>| The data of millions of voters was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/aug\/08\/uk-electoral-commission-registers-targeted-by-hostile-hackers\">accessible to hackers in a cyber-attack<\/a> by \u201chostile actors\u201d discovered almost a year ago, the Electoral Commission has admitted. The watchdog apologised for the security breach in which the names and addresses of millions of voters were accessible to hackers as far back as 2021.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Health <\/strong><\/em>| Millions of people under the age of 65 in England will be<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2023\/aug\/08\/england-to-deny-covid-and-flu-jabs-to-under-65s-amid-fears-for-nhs-this-winter\"> denied flu and Covid jabs this winter<\/a> despite one of the government\u2019s top public health officials warning that coronavirus has not \u201cgone away\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Conservatives <\/strong><\/em>| The Home Office spent more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2023\/aug\/08\/painting-over-murals-for-children-at-asylum-centre-cost-home-office-1550\">\u00a31,500 of public money<\/a> painting over cartoon murals that were meant to welcome children to a controversial asylum reception centre, it can be revealed.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>France <\/strong><\/em>| Five Marseille police officers have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/08\/five-officers-arrested-in-marseille-over-death-of-man-during-riots\">detained for questioning over the death of a 27-year-old man<\/a> during rioting in the French city on 1 July. The public prosecutor suggested it was \u201cprobable\u201d Mohamed Bendriss died after \u201ca violent shock to the thorax caused by a \u2018flash-ball\u2019 type projectile\u201d, a controversial police weapon, that caused him to go into cardiac arrest.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/09\/wednesday-briefing-what-went-wrong-at-south-koreas-world-scout-jamboree\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s newsletter: As thousands of scouts are evacuated from their quadrennial global get-together, the host nation\u2019s handling of the event is in the spotlight\u2022 Sign up here for our daily newsletter, First EditionGood morning. Imagine you are going&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1375,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,245,2959,79,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-children","category-scouts-and-scouting","category-society","category-south-korea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1375"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57395,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57394\/revisions\/57395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}