A South Korean rescue team has begun working with Nepalese forces to search for nine Koreans who remain missing after the country's devastating floods, but poor weather is continuing to block access to the most difficult areas. Korean reporting says the search has entered its tenth day without confirmed contact with the missing group.
The Korean team tried to use helicopters supplied by the Nepalese military to reach the suspected search area on Thursday. The aircraft turned back after roughly 30 minutes because fog and low visibility made the operation unsafe. One report said visibility in parts of the area was so poor that rescuers could not reliably see even a short distance ahead.
Access remains the biggest obstacle
The weather problem matters because the terrain itself is already restricting access. Flood damage and landslides have cut routes into parts of the affected region, leaving search teams dependent on a mix of aircraft, ground crews and local support. Korean officials have also been coordinating from Seoul and Nepal to review the search and decide where limited resources can be used most effectively.
The nine missing Koreans are the central focus of the Korean response, rather than the wider Nepal disaster alone. The government has sent personnel to the area and companies linked to some of the missing workers have also deployed equipment and search support. The operation has included drones, search dogs and attempts to widen the ground-search zone.
No new confirmation about the missing Koreans had been reported by the latest updates available to KORInform. Rescue teams are expected to keep trying aerial searches when conditions improve while maintaining ground operations. The longer the search continues, the more important reliable access, local coordination and safe weather windows become.