The Korea Disaster Relief Team (KDRT), dispatched to Nepal to respond to the devastating floods, met with officials from Korea South-East Power and Doosan Enerbility(034020) to discuss search and rescue activities related to the missing Koreans.

According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the 14th, Yoon Ju-seok, minister-counselor at the Embassy of Korea in the United States and head of the second KDRT contingent, was briefed on corporate-level search and rescue activities by officials from Korea South-East Power and Doosan(000150) on the 12th–13th. The second KDRT contingent is striving to continue search and rescue activities within the scope permitted for safety by the Nepalese government and with the cooperation of the Nepalese Army.

On the 14th (local time), Yoon Juseok, leader of the second contingent of the Korea Disaster Relief Team (KDRT) from the Republic of Korea (center), visits Nuwakot in Bagmati Province in north-central Nepal and listens as local Red Cross staff explain the major flood disaster situation./Courtesy of Korea Disaster Relief Team (KDRT)

During the same period, Yoon met with Lila Peters Yahya, the United Nations resident coordinator in Nepal, and with officials from non-governmental organizations (NGOs), including Good Neighbors and Save the Children, to assess needs for assistance and discuss how the Korean government could contribute to Nepal's reconstruction and recovery.

He visited Batar and Bidur in the Nuwakot area, checked evacuation shelters for the displaced and the Red Cross office, and was briefed on the local situation. The Korean Red Cross delivered relief supplies, including blankets, tarpaulins, mattresses, and hygiene kits, prepositioned in a local Nepal relief warehouse for disaster preparedness. KDRT medical staff also visited Nuwakot Trishuli Hospital and evacuation shelters to assess the health conditions and medical needs of the displaced and delivered medical supplies such as surgical gowns and gloves.

The massive flooding that began on the 26th of last month in the upper Himalayan mountain region has left more than 1,400 people dead and over 5,600 missing in Nepal and China's Tibet Autonomous Region. Among the missing are nine Korean employees who were building the Upper Trishuli (UT)-1 hydropower plant in Rasuwa, Bagmati Province. They include six Doosan Enerbility employees and three Korea South-East Power employees.

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