Doosan Group Chairman Park Jeong-won Leaves for Nepal..."Will Direct Search Efforts for Missing Employees" (Roundup)

[Financial News] As six Doosan Enerbility employees remain out of contact at a hydropower plant construction site hit by Nepal's devastating floods, Doosan Group Chairman Park Jeong-won will head to the country in person.
Park is scheduled to arrive in Nepal on the 29th aboard a direct Korean Air flight to Kathmandu. From there, he plans to personally oversee the search and rescue efforts at the accident site. The site is about 70 kilometers from Kathmandu, and six Doosan Enerbility employees are missing after the massive floods in Nepal.
In a post on the company bulletin board on the 27th, Park said, "We are making employee safety checks and safe returns our top priority, and we are closely cooperating with local authorities and related organizations while confirming the situation on the ground through every possible channel." He added, "We are concentrating the group's full capabilities so that the necessary measures for search, rescue and recovery can be carried out quickly and systematically."
Doosan Enerbility is operating an emergency response headquarters of about 40 people at its headquarters in Bundang, Gyeonggi Province, led by Vice President Lee Dong-soo, head of the EHS division, to handle the aftermath. In Nepal, a field response team that includes Vice Chairman and CEO Jeong Yeon-in is also working on site. Separately, Doosan Group has provided $5 million in emergency aid to support recovery efforts, including search and rescue operations in the flood-hit Rasuwa region of Nepal.
Meanwhile, of the 16 Korean employees at the Doosan Enerbility hydropower plant construction site, the remaining 10, excluding the six who are missing, moved to Kathmandu the previous day after being stranded in the area.

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