The 17th World Scout Jamboree

1991 Gangwon-do from August 8 to August 16 This is the World Scout Jamboree held in Goseong-gun . It was an international event held after the 1988 Seoul Olympics and was conducted at the government level. # The crew consisted of people born between 1974 and 1977 . At this time, the Swedish king Carl XVI Gustav Born in 1946? He also participated as a scout, and the tent he used was donated to South Korea after the event. In addition, in Morocco , Prince Moulay Rashid, the second son of King Hassan II, participated as a scout.

At the time, it was sponsored by Ssangyong Group and Haitai Group .[2] In particular, Ssangyong Group Chairman Kim Seok- won , who was serving as the Boy Scouts president at the time, wore a uniform and was courteous at the opening ceremony.[3] He made a splendid entrance and provided a computer from Ssangyong Information and Communications, an affiliate of Ssangyong Group. Also, the opening and closing ceremonies were broadcast live on KBS 1TV .

Meanwhile, during the Jamboree, a temporary radio broadcast was operated within the city via FM 95.9MHz. The callsign was HLKJ-FM, output 5W, broadcast from 6:00 am to 11:00 pm. Kim Ye-ryeong, who was a college student at the time, participated as a reporter, PD, and announcer as a station staff. In fact, it is quite unusual that the Jamboree event was broadcasted on the radio, and it can be seen that it was in fact a nationally supported event. In addition, an English-language newspaper called " The Sorak Daily " was published and distributed to participants around the world. At the time, Hong Jeong-wook , a former member of the National Assembly , was an intern at NBC's Seoul office while attending college.[5] I participated in the publication of this English newspaper as a staff member.[6] “This was crazy, ” he recalled of his hardships at the time. To produce a daily newspaper with a small number of manpower, there was a limit no matter how much the government provided budget support. Still, the daily newspaper was produced and distributed for 16 days without any problems.

The Jamboree site, which was held at the time, is operated as a training center in Gangwon- do under the name of Gangwon-do World Jamboree Training Center . However, the size has been reduced compared to that time.

Ring Road , a road on the outskirts of downtown Chuncheon , was built in preparation for this competition and was named Jamboree Road when it opened.[7]

KBS 2TV on July 22 of the same year In the popular corner of ' Bongsunga School ', with a good laugh, Mang-gu (Lee Chang-hoon) incorrectly says "Jam Bala Contest" over the World Jamboree , or Oh Seo-bang ( Oh Jae- mi) is crying sadly, but why is there a jam throwing contest ? ( Related video ) At the time, it was popular enough to be covered in a popular comedy program, and one of the words that assistants say when nagging trainees at the military boot camp is, "Are you guys coming to the Jamboree? " It was called.

Let me tell you the news, hiccup! According to the book, an announcer who was broadcasting news related to this jamboree misread the 8 nights and 9 days in the news manuscript and said that it would "run for 899 days."

It was reexamined as being better than the jamboree held in Saemangeum 32 years later .