{
  "id": 7969681,
  "title": "Korea's 2nd Nepal relief team to return; efforts to locate 9 missing Koreans to continue",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/17/koreas-2nd-nepal-relief-team-to-return-efforts-to-locate-9-missing-7969681",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-17T06:52:03.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Korea Times",
    "slug": "the-korea-times-koreatimes",
    "url": "https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/foreignaffairs/others/20260917/koreas-2nd-nepal-relief-team-to-return-efforts-to-locate-9-missing-koreans-to-continue"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Korea's second Nepal relief team is set to return home after a week-long mission to locate nine missing Korean nationals, according to the country's foreign ministry. The team, known as the Korea Disaster Relief Team (KDRT), was dispatched following massive floods and landslides that struck Rasuwa District near the Nepal-Tibet border last month, leaving nine Koreans -- six employees of Doosan Enerbility and three of Korea South-East Power -- missing. Despite the mission's conclusion, the government response team, which arrived earlier for search-and-rescue efforts, will stay in Nepal to collaborate with Nepalese authorities and continue providing support to the families of the missing.",
  "summary": "Korea will maintain a joint government response team in Nepal to continue efforts to locate nine Korean nationals who have remained missing since massive floods hit the country last month, Seoul's foreign ministry said Thursday. The move comes as the second contingent of the Korea Disaster Relief Team (KDRT) is set to wrap up its seven-day mission later in the day and return home, in line with a…",
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      {
        "outlet": "Yonhap News",
        "title": "S. Korea's 2nd Nepal relief team to return; efforts to locate 9 missing Koreans to continue",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/17/s-koreas-2nd-nepal-relief-team-to-return-efforts-to-locate-9-missing",
        "published": "2026-09-17T05:53:49.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The Korea Times",
        "title": "Korea's 2nd Nepal relief team to return; efforts to locate 9 missing Koreans to continue",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/17/koreas-2nd-nepal-relief-team-to-return-efforts-to-locate-9-missing",
        "published": "2026-09-17T06:42:04.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "KBS World Radio",
        "title": "2nd Relief Team to Wrap up Operations in Nepal; Search for 9 Missing Nationals to Continue",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/17/2nd-relief-team-to-wrap-up-operations-in-nepal-search-for-9-missing",
        "published": "2026-09-17T08:02:36.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}