'Safest thing to do': Irish scouts in South Korea 'relieved' at decision to relocate due to storm

Tents pitched at a scout camping site during the World Scout Jamboree in Buan, South Korea. Picture: Choe Young-soo/Yonhap via AP

South Korea evacuating tens of thousands of scouts — including 144 from Ireland — from a coastal jamboree site as Tropical Storm Khanun looms, officials said.

The World Organisation of the Scout Movement said it received confirmation from South Korea’s government of the early departure for all participants in the south-western county of Buan.