The Korea Disaster Relief Team (KDRT), dispatched on the 2nd to search for people missing in the Nepal megaflood, will return on the 11th. The government is preparing to dispatch a second team for search operations.

Three Korea Disaster Relief Team members board a helicopter on the 8th (local time) at a Nepal Army base in Battar, Nuwakot, Bagmati Province, Nepal, to move toward the area near the powerhouse./Courtesy of News1

An official at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on the 9th (local time) in Nepal that the KDRT is preparing to return in accordance with the resolution of the public-private joint Overseas Emergency Relief Council.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs explained that, as scheduled, the team will return home on the 11th aboard a KC-330 military transport plane.

The KC-330 heading to Nepal for the first team's return will carry relief supplies such as blankets, clothing, and tents donated by domestic corporations to civic groups.

At the same time, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is pushing to dispatch the second KDRT team. Specifics such as the schedule and size of the second team will be finalized by the public-private joint Emergency Relief Council and then announced.

The first KDRT team set up a base camp in Batar, Bagmati Province, in the north-central flood zone, and has been conducting search operations at sites including the construction site of the Upper Trishuli (UT)-1 hydropower plant, where nine missing Koreans worked.

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