With six Doosan Enerbility employees missing after severe flooding in Nepal, Doosan Group Chairman Park Jeong-won will head to Nepal on the 29th to support local search and rescue efforts.
Park is expected to arrive in Nepal this afternoon on a Korean Air Lines direct flight to Kathmandu. After arriving, he plans to personally check on the progress of the search for the missing employees and the rescue efforts in Kathmandu and move to provide needed support.
The hydropower plant construction site where the accident occurred is about 70 kilometers from Kathmandu. At the time of the accident, there were 16 Korean employees at Doosan Enerbility's hydropower plant construction site. Of these, six remain missing, and the other 10 were briefly isolated by the flood before moving to Kathmandu the previous day.
On the 27th, Park said on the company bulletin board that the company is responding with top priority on confirming the safety of employees and ensuring their safe return, noting, "We are concentrating our companywide capabilities so that the necessary measures for search, rescue, and recovery can be carried out swiftly and systematically."
To respond to the situation, Doosan Enerbility has activated an emergency response headquarters of about 40 people at its headquarters in Bundang, Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province. Vice President Lee Dong-su, head of EHS, is serving as the head of the headquarters.
In Nepal, an on-site response team led by Vice Chairman and CEO Jeong Yeon-in is also supporting the search for the missing and the accident response.
Doosan Group also provided an emergency $5 million to the Rasuwa region of Nepal to help with search, rescue, and recovery efforts in the flood-affected area.