About 40,000 participants of the 2023 World Scout Jamboree are set to gather in Seoul on Friday for a K-pop concert, which will wrap up the world event plagued by a heat wave and a typhoon with a glitzy entertainment show.
The "K-pop super live" concert is scheduled to kick off at 7 p.m. for two hours at Seoul World Cup Stadium in western Seoul.
A total of 19 teams of K-pop artists, including NewJeans, IVE, NCT Dream, ITZY, Mamamoo, The Boyz, Kang Daniel and fromis_9, will perform at the show, the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Sports said.
Also on the list are Shownu X Hyungwon, Zerobaseone, Kwon Eun-bi, Jo Yuri, P1Harmony, KARD, The New Six and ATBO.
The show will be co-hosted by actor Gong Myoung, ITZY's Yuna and NewJeans' Hyein and broadcast live on KBS and its YouTube channel.
Ahead of the farewell concert, a closing ceremony will take place for 30 minutes to look back on highlights of the global youth event and hand over the Scout flag to a representative from Poland, the host country for the 2027 jamboree.
Prime Minister Han Duck-soo plans to deliver a closing address during the ceremony, with the attendance of co-chairs of the jamboree's organizing committee -- ministers of gender equality and family, security and public administration, and culture, sports and tourism.
Andy Chapman, chairman of the World Scout Committee, and Ahmad Alhendawi, secretary-general of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, will also take part in the ceremony.
The K-pop concert was originally scheduled to take place at the campsite in Saemangeum -- a reclaimed tidal land area in Buan, North Jeolla Province -- last Sunday but was postponed due to concerns about accidents and heat-related illnesses.
The venue was initially changed to Jeonju World Cup Stadium, about an hour's drive from the campsite, and again to Seoul World Cup Stadium as a precaution against the approach of Typhoon Khanun toward the provincial area.
Seoul World Cup Stadium has a capacity of over 66,000 seats and is a major venue for sports games and music concerts.
The police will control the flow of traffic around the stadium in the afternoon as over 1,000 buses carrying jamboree participants are set to flock to the venue for the show.
About 40,000 young Scouts and adult volunteers from 156 countries have been staying across the nation after they left the campsite in Saemangeum, which was struck by bad weather but also plagued by mismanagement and safety risks.
The quadrennial global event kicked off in Saemangeum on Aug. 1 for a 12-day run, but British, U.S. and some other contingents pulled out of the campsite after just a few days amid safety concerns arising from a prolonged heat wave and a lack of sanitation in the reclaimed treeless land area.
On Tuesday, the rest of the Scouts were evacuated to Seoul and seven other regions as Typhoon Khanun was forecast to make landfall near the region. The typhoon passed vertically through South Korea on Thursday and dissipated after reaching North Korea early Friday.
Provincial governments and local companies hosted various cultural programs, including K-pop dance programs, temple stays, museum visits and factory tours, for the participants scattered across the country to help replace the campsite event with alternative culture programs.
Source: Yonhap News Agency