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Nine Doosan Employees Rescued in Nepal Return Home, While Site Manager Stays to Aid Search
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Nine Doosan Employees Rescued in Nepal Return Home, While Site Manager Stays to Aid Search

From Dong-A Ilbo · () Korean

Translated from Korean and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Nine rescued Doosan Enerbility employees returned to South Korea after being caught in flooding in Nepal and received medical checks on arrival.
  • The employees were reported to be physically and psychologically exhausted, and the company said it would limit outside contact while they reunited with their families.
  • The site manager stayed in Nepal to support the search for six missing Doosan employees and three missing Korea South-East Power employees.

Nine Doosan Enerbility employees rescued from a flood site in Nepal returned home on August 31 and were reunited with their families.

Doctors examined them after they arrived and found no particular health problems. The company said the employees remained physically and psychologically exhausted after experiencing the sudden disaster and isolation.

Doosan Enerbility said it would minimize outside contact in line with the employees’ wishes, allowing them to recover quietly with their families. The site manager stayed in Nepal to support the search for workers who remain out of contact.

Six Doosan Enerbility employees and three employees of Korea South-East Power are still missing. Doosan Enerbility also used a helicopter it had secured independently for the first time in the search operation.

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Originally published by Dong-A Ilbo in Korean. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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