The South Korean government is dispatching an overseas emergency relief team (KDRT) to Nepal, which has been affected by severe flooding. The KDRT is a team composed of personnel from government agencies and related organizations, deployed to assist countries in need during large-scale disasters through disaster relief, rescue operations, and medical aid.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced this decision on September 1 after a meeting of the public-private joint overseas emergency relief council. This deployment comes at the request of the Nepalese government for an emergency relief team to assist in search and rescue operations in the affected areas.
Lee Gyu-ho, Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Development Cooperation Bureau, will lead the KDRT, which consists of 44 members from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), and the National Fire Agency. The team is scheduled to depart for Nepal via military transport aircraft on the evening of September 1.
They will conduct search and rescue operations in coordination with the Nepalese government for approximately ten days.
* This article has been translated by AI.
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