GOOD AND BAD NEWS ABOUT SOUTH KOREA

First, the good news.  Covid cases are crashing.  South Korea led the world in new Covid cases for many months, but finally was overtaken this past week by the USA.

                                 Last Week       This Past Week  Weekly Case Change

• World               404,396              74,913                     -81%
• USA                   39,033               27,512                    -30%
• S. Korea           317,060               18,386                    -94%
• New Zealand       3,623                 4,477                    +24%

Like the USA, South Korea's women's soccer team was eliminated from the World Cup.  However, they did tie Germany, which also got the boot.

Nature has totally screwed up the 25th World Scout Jamboree in Saemangeum, North Jeolla, South Korea.

• August 1-12, 2023.
• 43,000 participants from 158 countries.
• First, there were floods that inundated this tideland.
• Then, it became that there were going to be sanitation, water, transportation and infrastructure problems.
• Then a heat wave came with temperatures up to 95 F.  On August 4 alone, 1,486 visited the on-site hospital.
• Several countries like the USA pulled out, sending our Boy Scouts to Camp Humphreys, a U.S. military base in the country.
• Then, Typhoon Khanun changed courses and was projected to head for South Korea, to arrive on August 10.
• Key events were moved to the Seoul area from August 4.
• Today, all Jamboree participants were told to leave the site.

Now, Typhoon Khanun is head for South Korea, with landfall in the general vicinity of Busan.

Day 3 of the African Blood Lily.

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