Over 920 UK Jamboree Scouts Create 'Precious Memories' at Paju Camp Greaves

British Jamboree scouts visited Camp Greaves in Paju on the 15th and are receiving explanations from officials.

Over 920 British youths participating in the World Scout Jamboree had a valuable experience learning about the importance of peace at the Camp Greaves DMZ Experience Center in Paju.

On August 15, Liberation Day, the Gyeonggi Tourism Organization announced on the 16th that it operated an exhibition tour program at the Camp Greaves DMZ Experience Center in Paju for over 920 British youths who came to Korea to participate in the '2023 25th World Scout Jamboree.'

On that day, the participating youths toured Camp Greaves, which transformed from a U.S. military base stationed after the armistice into the DMZ Experience Center and exhibition space, as well as Gallery Greaves displaying a copy of the Armistice Agreement, the Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission special exhibition hall, and the ammunition depot media art exhibition hall.

Located in the civilian control zone of Gunnae-myeon, Paju City, Camp Greaves was the site where the U.S. 2nd Infantry Division was stationed for over 50 years following the Korean War armistice in 1953. After the withdrawal of U.S. forces in Korea in 2004, it was returned to the Korean government in 2007.

Gyeonggi Province and the Gyeonggi Tourism Organization remodeled this site in 2013 into a peace and unification experience facility for civilians, utilizing it as the only lodging-type cultural and artistic experience space within the civilian control zone.

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