Doosan Chairman Jungwon Park Heads to Nepal to Assist at Site of Missing Employees

Six Doosan Enerbility Employees Remain Out of Contact

As an employee of Doosan Enerbility has gone missing due to severe flooding in Nepal, Jungwon Park, Chairman of Doosan Group, will depart for Nepal on August 29.

Chairman Park is scheduled to arrive in Nepal on a direct Korean Air flight to Kathmandu in the afternoon of the same day. Vice Chairman Jiwan Park will also accompany him. Chairman Park plans to personally assist with search and rescue operations at the accident site in Kathmandu.

Jungwon Park, Chairman of Doosan

The accident site is located approximately 70km from Kathmandu. Six Doosan Enerbility employees remain missing after being caught in the massive flooding that occurred at the hydropower plant construction site.

On the day after the flood occurred, August 27, Chairman Park posted on the company’s internal bulletin board, stating, "Confirming the safety and safe return of our employees is our top priority. We are cooperating closely with local authorities and relevant agencies, checking the local situation through every possible channel," and, "We are focusing all of our organizational resources to ensure that search, rescue, and recovery measures are implemented swiftly and systematically."

To manage the current crisis, Doosan Enerbility has established an emergency response headquarters of about 40 staff at its headquarters in Bundang, Gyeonggi Province as of the previous day. In Nepal, an on-site response team including Vice Chairman and CEO Yeon-in Chung is actively working.

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Doosan Group has also provided $5 million (approximately KRW 6.9 billion) in emergency support to the Rasuwa region of Nepal to assist with search, rescue, and recovery activities in the flood-affected area. Of the 16 Korean employees present at the Doosan Enerbility hydropower construction site, 10 who were not among the six missing workers had been isolated in a remote area but moved to Kathmandu the previous day.

Meanwhile, the number of Koreans currently missing in Nepal due to the floods stands at nine: six Doosan Enerbility employees and three employees of Korea South-East Power Co., Ltd.

On this day, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs dispatched an additional nine members to Nepal as part of a government joint rapid response team to support search and rescue operations for the missing Korean nationals. Previously, on August 27, the government had sent an 11-person rapid response team to Nepal, led by Sang-woo Lim, the government representative for consular affairs and overseas Koreans' protection at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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