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{{Short description|South Korean Scouting organization}}
{{Infobox WorldScouting
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The '''Korea Scout Association''' ({{Korean|hangul=한국스카우트연맹}}) is the national [[Scouting]] association of [[South Korea]].
 
[[Scouting]] was founded in [[Korea]] in 1922 while under [[Japan]]ese rule, and sent representatives to the first Far East Scouting competition in [[Beijing]] in 1924. However, it was banned by the [[Korea under Japanese rule|occupation authorities]] from 1937 until August 15, 1945.<ref>{{cite web|title=History|work=Korea Scout Association website|url=http://www.scout.or.kr/eng/history.htm|accessdateaccess-date=2006-01-10|deadurlurl-status=yesdead|archiveurlarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050204165724/http://www.scout.or.kr/eng/history.htm|archivedatearchive-date=2005-02-04|df=}}</ref> It existed in all areas of the Korean peninsula prior to the [[Korean War]] in 1950. <!-- [[Hae-Geun Park]] (1926-2000) reestablished Scouting in Korea after the [[Korean War]] with the assistance of the [[US Army]]{{cn|date=October 2016}}; unable to find source or reference in Google --> [[World Organization of the Scout Movement]] recognition came in 1953. The total membership in 2011 was 201,455 registered Scouts.<ref name="Census_2010">{{cite web |title=Triennal review: Census as at 1 December 2010 |url=http://scout.org/en/content/download/22261/199900/file/Census.pdf |publisher=World Organization of the Scout Movement |accessdateaccess-date=2011-01-13 |deadurlurl-status=yesdead |archiveurlarchive-url=https://wwwweb.webcitationarchive.org/6AJxh3uLm?url=web/20120508035838/http://www.scout.org/en/content/download/22261/199900/file/Census.pdf |archivedatearchive-date=318 AugustMay 2012 |df= }}</ref>
 
Dr. [[Kim Yong-woo]], the first [[Tiger Scout (Korea Scout Association)|Tiger Scout]] and former [[Ministry of National Defense (South Korea)|Minister of National Defense]] was awarded the [[Bronze Wolf Award]], the only distinction of the [[World Organization of the Scout Movement]], awarded by the World Scout Committee for exceptional services to world Scouting, in 1975.
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! council
! 2015 membership<ref name="local_councils">{{Cite web|url=http://english.scout.or.kr/local_councils.do?tid=eng20|title=Korea Scout Association}}</ref>
! founding year
! council badge or totem
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* International Patrol Jamboree, 2002
* Asia Pacific Regional Workshop on PR, ICT and Marketing, 2003
* 25th World Scout Jamboree, Saemangeum, 2023
 
==Scouting in North Korea==
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*[[World Buddhist Scout Brotherhood]]
*[[Simon Hang-Bock Rhee]]
*[[Kim Eun Gui]]
 
==References==
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{{WOSM|asia}}
{{Scouting}}
{{Authority control}}
 
[[Category:Scouting in South Korea]]
[[Category:World Organization of the Scout Movement member organizations]]
[[Category:Youth organizations established in 1922]]
[[Category:1922 establishments in Korea]]
[[Category:Organizations based in Korea under Japanese rule]]