All posts tagged "nepal"

  • Miss Korea 2015, Lee Min-ji, poses with a local child during the opening ceremony of the Nepal Gunji Korea Franchise Association and Um Hong Gil Human School in Bardiya, Nepal on Feb. 23. (Courtesy of the Um Hong Gil Human Foundation)
    Miss Korea helps deliver aid to Nepal

    By Kim Hyo-jin Miss Korea 2015, Lee Min-ji, participated in voluntary activities in Nepal last month, according to a philanthropic foundation. Lee, 25, reportedly volunteered to help bring medical aid for locals and engaged in charity work...

    • Posted March 2, 2016
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  • Yoon Mi-rae, right, and her husband Drinken Tiger. (NEWSis)
    Tiger JK, Yoon Mi-rae donate 50 million won to Nepal

    The rapper couple Tiger JK and Yoon Mi-rae donated 50 million won (About $42,000) to quake-stricken areas in Nepal, international relief organization Oxfam said Tuesday. “My father wished very much to go to the Himalayas in Nepal...

    • Posted September 8, 2015
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  • Damaged buildings lean to their sides in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, April 27, 2015. A strong magnitude 7.8 earthquake shook Nepal's capital and the densely populated Kathmandu Valley on Saturday, causing extensive damage with toppled walls and collapsed buildings. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)
    Korean Red Cross to offer $4 million for quake-hit Nepal

    SEOUL, June 2 (Yonhap) — The Korean Red Cross said Tuesday it has decided to increase its assistance to quake-hit Nepal to US$4 million in a bid to help Nepalese people better cope with the disaster. In...

    • Posted June 2, 2015
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  • Damaged buildings lean to their sides in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, April 27, 2015. A strong magnitude 7.8 earthquake shook Nepal's capital and the densely populated Kathmandu Valley on Saturday, causing extensive damage with toppled walls and collapsed buildings. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)
    S. Korea to send disaster response officials to Nepal

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korea will dispatch a “rapid response team” Wednesday to Nepal reeling from a new earthquake and aftershocks, officials said. The three-member group will gather information on damages there to help determine whether South...

    • Posted May 13, 2015
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  • A Nepalese family works to rebuild their damaged house in Lalitpur, Nepal, Friday, May 8, 2015. The April 25 earthquake killed thousands and injured many more as it flattened mountain villages and destroyed buildings and archaeological sites in Kathmandu. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
    S. Korea to help Nepal reconstruction

    SEOUL, May 8 (Yonhap) — South Korea said Friday it is seeking ways to assist in Nepal’s reconstruction efforts. Two weeks after the country was devastated by a powerful earthquake, Nepal has shifted its focus from rescue...

    • Posted May 8, 2015
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  • Damaged buildings lean to their sides in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, April 27, 2015. A strong magnitude 7.8 earthquake shook Nepal's capital and the densely populated Kathmandu Valley on Saturday, causing extensive damage with toppled walls and collapsed buildings. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)
    The Latest on Nepal: Quake death toll climbs past 6,600

    (AP) — A week after a massive earthquake hit Nepal, police say the death toll from the disaster has climbed past 6,600. The deputy inspector general of Kathmandu police, Kamal Singhbam, said Saturday that 6,624 people died...

    • Posted May 1, 2015
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  • Members of South Korea's Disaster Response Team raise their fists in a show of solidarity at Incheon airport, west of Seoul, on May 1, 2015, before heading to Nepal to conduct relief and search and rescue operations in the earthquake-stricken country. (Yonhap)
    S. Korea sends 32 more aid workers to quake-hit Nepal

    SEOUL, May 1 (Yonhap) — A group of South Korean aid workers departed for Nepal Friday to help ongoing rescue and aid efforts following last week’s deadly earthquake, the Foreign Ministry said. The team, comprised of 15...

    • Posted May 1, 2015
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