Becoming Rich with Daily Scavenging APP-Chapter 664: Boy Scout Summer Camp

Although Kasim said last night that the Crown Prince already believes that Saudi Arabia will definitely win the right to host this World Expo.

Kasim was still very nervous when it came time to vote.

Halfway through the voting, Kasim even sent someone to inform Schaefer.

If Saudi Arabia cannot secure it in one round of voting.

Then before the second round of voting begins, Schaefer must take action to find those wavering voting representatives, promise benefits, and ensure they continue to vote for Saudi Arabia in the second round.

Kasim himself would then approach those voting representatives with whom they had not reached an agreement before, offering better terms.

There are nominally five candidate cities for this World Expo, but in reality, there are only three.

Besides Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Busan, South Korea, and Rome, Italy, there's actually a city from Russia and Odessa, Ukraine.

But due to sanctions, Russia knew they didn't stand a chance, so they withdrew from the race.

And the Ukrainian city applying is the war-affected Odessa.

If people genuinely want to host a World Expo, they certainly wouldn't choose Odessa.

So, when the voting results were announced, Odessa unsurprisingly received 0 votes.

Next was the number of votes for Rome. Since Italy voluntarily withdrew and did not campaign much, Rome received only 17 votes.

After Rome's vote count was announced, Chen Yiyang turned to Schaefer and said.

"It looks like it comes down to the votes between Busan and Riyadh."

"I really hope Riyadh can take it in the first round; otherwise, I'll have to start lobbying everywhere," Schaefer said while watching the big screen in front.

In truth, he was quite nervous too, even though both he and Chen Yiyang had previously underestimated Busan.

But when it came time to vote, both were uncertain.

Soon, Busan's vote count was announced.

29 votes.

Chen Yiyang was stunned for a moment and then turned to Schaefer.

Although Schaefer had previously guessed that Busan could only garner around thirty votes.

But when Busan's votes were finally announced, Schaefer was still quite surprised.

"Wow, those South Koreans really only managed to get around thirty votes."

With Busan's vote count announced, there was no suspense left in this voting.

Because Riyadh directly received 119 votes, securing more than two-thirds of the votes in the first round.

A decisive victory in one round, confirming Riyadh as the host city for the next World Expo.

On Kasim's side, cheers had already erupted.

The Saudis were exuberantly gathered, celebrating.

But on the South Korean side, faces were grim.

The loss was simply too devastating this time.

119 votes to 29 votes, the defeat was just too severe.

Upon seeing the voting results, Schaefer took out his phone to show Chen Yiyang a live broadcast.

Chen Yiyang glanced at it and saw it was a live broadcast from South Korean SBS TV.

The broadcaster, seeing the voting results, angrily shouted that this was the result of Saudi's oil money offensive, claiming Saudi Arabia had broken the rules.

"I really can't understand the mindset of South Koreans," Schaefer quipped to Chen Yiyang, "Saudi brought out oil and money, didn't they also bring out kimchi and borderline celebrities? It's just that people prefer oil and money over kimchi and peripheral women."

Once Saudi's candidacy was confirmed, Kasim immediately invited all the voting representatives to a celebration banquet that evening, and naturally, Chen Yiyang and Schaefer were also among the invitees.

Schaefer was quite relieved that the South Koreans had burned bridges earlier; otherwise, he'd have to put on a show now to prevent them from discovering he had long been prepared to play both sides.

After Chen Yiyang and Schaefer left the voting venue, they noticed many disappointed and helpless young South Koreans gathered around the area.

They could immediately recognize these young Asians as South Koreans because they wore headbands printed with their national flag and held various supporting signs for Busan.

"These are the people I mentioned who booked venues nearby in anticipation of celebrating Busan's successful World Expo bid," Schaefer said on the side.

Chen Yiyang refrained from ridiculing these young South Koreans.

The actions of these Koreans weren't actually wrong.

When anyone hears their Great Commander explicitly state that they've secured seventy votes, at least tying with Saudi Arabia at 70 votes, hearing all the media's advance reports claiming victory.

They would come near the venue to celebrate early.

After all, their own media and the Great Commander couldn't possibly lie, right?

Moreover, they believed Busan was much more developed than Riyadh.

It's just a pity.

Some officials in South Korea think differently from normal people.

If they had genuinely promoted Busan as a city instead of various celebrities in the promotional videos.

Perhaps the gap wouldn't be so large.

But this isn't the first time the South Korean government has pulled such shenanigans.

South Korea hosted the World Scout Jamboree a few years ago.

This is a large-scale international scouting event regularly held globally, aimed at promoting exchanges among youths and the experience of scouting culture.

Though not well-known, high-ranking officials from countries influenced by European and American cultures particularly love sending their children to such international events.

Each Jamboree attracts tens of thousands of youths from over a hundred countries.

The 25th World Scout Jamboree was hosted in Jeollabuk-do, South Korea.

Before this edition, the Jamboree event had hardly ever encountered any issues.

Because even the most bureaucratic countries understand these youths often come from influential backgrounds, with very influential parents.

And children are a group that garners global attention, so they must be well taken care of.

But South Korea completely embarrassed themselves.

A tenth of the event's budget was allocated for overseas inspections.

Why spend a tenth of the budget on overseas inspections for an event held in your own country?

Then the largest portion of the budget was actually for publicity and marketing?

What kind of marketing does this event need? The spots are usually settled in advance, and ordinary families might not even know such an event exists, let alone sign up.

Lots of money was spent externally, and when the actual event took place.

The disaster began.

Over forty thousand children from more than a hundred countries, and South Korea only provided a little over a hundred medical personnel for them.

That's only a third of the medical staff provided by host countries in previous years.

For an event with 45,000 participants, there were only 13 buses for transportation; it took an entire day just to transport these children to the Jamboree site.

And the food allocation for these children during the event was kimchi and bean sprouts, totaling only 600 calories a day, equivalent to a bowl and a half of rice or two medium apples.

They really treated these Scouts like South Korean military recruits.