S. Korea sends 118-member rescue team to Türkiye

한국 긴급구호대 118명 출정식 후 튀르키예로 출발 단일 파견으로 최대규모

65 countries around the world have rolled up their sleeves and sent rescue workers and medical supplies to the earthquake-stricken region.
A rescue team from South Korea is also on its way to provide much-needed help there.
Our foreign affairs correspondent Bae Eun-ji reports.

With thousands of people waiting desperately to be rescued following the powerful earthquakes in Türkiye, the South Korean government has sent more than a hundred rescue workers.
A KC-330 military transport aircraft left South Korea Tuesday night, carrying a one hundred 18-member rescue team and medical supplies.
The team was comprised of 50 military personnel and more than 60 members of the Korea Disaster Relief Team.
This is the first time that South Korea has decided to send this many rescue workers at once to another country.
This comes after President Yoon Suk Yeol on Tuesday expressed his condolences, and ordered officials to send a rescue team and medical supplies quickly --describing Türkiye as a “brother nation” that sent troops to fight alongside South Korea during the Korean War from 1950 to 1953.


Following President Yoon's remarks, Seoul's foreign ministry held a meeting with related ministries on Tuesday afternoon, and said it has also decided to offer 5-million U.S. dollars in humanitarian assistance.
Other countries around the world including the U.S., China, Finland, Sweden, and Israel are also rushing to send rescue workers, equipment, and aid.

"Anything Turkey needed, that we can provide. They should pick up the phone and let us know. We stand ready as an ally should, to help our ally in a time of need."

Even countries that have strained relations with Türkiye, including Greece, offered assistance --by sending a team of emergency rescue workers and dogs to assist in rescue efforts.

"We will go there, we will see, and we will handle it. Our job at the moment is to assist as much as we can with the live victims that are trapped."

Bae Eun-ji, Arirang News.

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2023-02-08, 09:00 (KST)