Dr Kang eager to share experiences among youth members in all categories

A top team of Korea Scout Association (KSA), headed by its President Dr Kang Young Joong, had a brief stay at the World Organization of the Scout Movement, Asia-Pacific Regional Office in Makati City on 26 January 2011, and met with the staff where he watched the video presentation on Scouting in the Asia-Pacific Region. Dr Kang appreciated the presentation and said, “Scouting can be used as a tool to touch others like sports and culture, and there is a necessity to establish a channel between youth foundations and Scouting as they share a common vision".


The KSA team was visiting Manila to present the prestigious "Gold Mugunghwa Award" to Jejomar C Binay, Chairman of Asia Pacific Regional Scout Committee. The presentation was made at his new official residence as Philippine Vice-President, the Coconut Place, in the presence of the executive board members of Boy Scouts of the Philippines.

World Scout Committee Chairman Simon Rhee joined the delegation as KSA Vice-President. This is the first visit of Simon Rhee to a member-country after his election as WSC Chairman. Also in the KSA team were International Commissioner Dr Eugene Gui Kim and Secretary General Hong Seung-Soo.
Mugunghwa is South Korea’s national flower and its symbolic significance stems from the Korean word mugung, meaning immortality. The award recognizes Chairman Binay’s many years of involvement and active contributions to Scouting having served the local, national and international levels of the organization.
Over many years KSA and BSP have sustained partnership projects engaging Scouts from both countries in medical missions to depressed communities in the Philippines, cultural exchanges and community projects.



The team visited one of the Scout troops in Manila under the APR Ticket to Life Project where street children in the area are registered as Scouts. Dr Kang was delighted to see the young children. He said, "I see hope and aspiration in your faces". He told the children to keep working hard, that being rich or poor is not based on wealth but on the willingness to work hard and never giving up. The children demonstrated some of their Scouting skills like survival cooking, knotting, and bandaging. The team was welcomed by Father Dan O'Malley.
What followed was a stop over at the newly constructed 16-story building of Boy Scouts of the Philippines at the heart of Manila at the current headquarters premises. Earlier that day, Dr Kang and his team passed by the construction site at the center of Makati City where the BSP Convention Centre will rise, which will have a conference cum exhibition hall with over 1000 seating capacity and three residential towers.