The second team of the Korea Disaster Relief Team (KDRT) departed for flood-affected Nepal on September 11. The team consists of eight members and will be deployed for seven days.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that the KDRT team left at 2:55 a.m. on a military transport aircraft (KC-330) carrying approximately four tons of relief supplies, valued at 180 million won. According to officials, the team is composed of two members each from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the National Fire Agency, the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), and a medical team.
Previously, Park Du-sun, spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, held a regular briefing in Jongno-gu, Seoul, on September 10, stating, "We will form a small search and rescue team and a reconstruction and recovery team to closely coordinate with the Nepalese authorities for relief activities and emergency response on the ground in Nepal."
Meanwhile, the first KDRT team, which was dispatched on September 2, is scheduled to return on September 11 as their mission comes to an end. This team, consisting of 44 members, was deployed for ten days and successfully rescued one Chinese survivor ten days after the flood, but they were unable to locate any of the nine missing South Koreans.
* This article has been translated by AI.
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