The '''Korea Scout Association''' is the national [[Scouting]] association of [[South Korea]].
[[Scouting]] was founded in [[Korea]] in 1922 while under Japanese[[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|accessdate=2006-01-10}}</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 |accessdate=2011-01-13}}</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.
