South Korean Relief Team Arrives in Nepal to Provide Medical Aid and Search for Missing Workers
A second South Korean disaster-relief team has reached Nepal's flood-hit Nuwakot area to conduct health checks, deliver supplies and coordinate with authorities.
South Korea's second disaster-relief contingent has begun operations in Nepal following the devastating flash floods of August 26. Led by minister-counselor Yoon Ju-seok, the team is expected to land in the Nuwakot region on Monday, where they will perform medical examinations at two emergency shelters and deliver essential supplies to a nearby hospital. They will also meet with local officials to gauge current health-care demands.
In parallel, Korea South-East Power Company and Doosan Enerbility are conducting searches for nine of their staff members who were missing after the floods hit the Upper Trishuli-1 hydropower site in Rasuwa District. The coordinated effort aims to address immediate health needs while supporting the ongoing rescue of the missing workers.
Why it matters
The mission provides urgent medical support to flood victims and aids the search for missing foreign workers, highlighting international disaster cooperation.
How this story developed
- Aug 28 Nepalese army pulls survivors from flooded hydropower tunnel in Rasuwa
- Aug 31 Drilling and air‑pumping operations at the Trishuli‑3A tunnel have begun to free trapped workers.
- Sep 1 Death toll rose to at least 950 and missing counts climbed to over 4,400, including about 80 Americans and up to 43 Australians.
- Sep 1 A rapid hazard assessment found satellite images showed glacier changes days before the deadly avalanche and flash flood that trapped hundreds of construction workers in Nepal.
- Sep 1 An Australian survivor was located, reducing the number of missing Australians to 42.
- Sep 2 A scientific review released new findings on pre‑event signals in the glacier collapse.
- Sep 3 Families held symbolic funerals for missing victims.
- Sep 3 The storm made landfall on Fujian’s coast after earlier strikes on Zhejiang, leading to the suspension of dozens of ferry services and the closure of schools in Fuzhou and Quanzhou. Tourist sites such as theme parks in Fuzhou were also temporarily closed. The provincial emergency management authority warned of heavy rain, flash floods and landslides, while nearly a quarter-million residents in high-risk zones had been evacuated the previous week.
- Sep 3 Death toll rose above 1,270 and bodies recovered reached 1,252.
- Sep 5 A Canadian citizen missing after the floods was located safe.
- Sep 5 Authorities suspended 24 passenger ferry routes and closed Fuzhou theme parks.
- Sep 6 Flash floods ripped a three‑storey building in Xianyou County and drones delivered supplies to a flooded school in Wenzhou.
- Sep 6 Officials are pursuing higher‑ground reconstruction of the school with Indian aid.
- Sep 14 UN assistant secretary‑general Kanni Wignaraja warned of expanding flood risk across the Himalayas.
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