Doosan chairman vows 'all-out effort' to find 6 missing employees in Nepal floods

Doosan Group Chairman Park Jung-won said Thursday that the company is marshaling its full resources to find six employees who went missing after severe flooding struck Nepal.

"We are treating the safety and safe return of our employees as our top priority, working closely with local authorities and relevant agencies, and checking on the situation on the ground through every available channel," Park wrote in a post on the company's internal message board Thursday. "We are concentrating all of our capabilities to ensure that the necessary measures for search, rescue and recovery are carried out swiftly and systematically."

Park said the company recognizes the gravity of the situation and is acutely aware of the anguish felt by families waiting anxiously for news, as well as the concern of their colleagues.

"I sincerely hope our colleagues will return safely to their families and coworkers," he added, urging all employees to keep the missing workers in their thoughts.

The six Doosan Enerbility employees lost contact Wednesday after massive flooding hit Nepal, where they had been carrying out engineering, procurement and construction work at the Upper Trishuli-1 hydropower plant construction site.

Doosan Group announced Thursday it would provide $5 million in emergency support to the Rasuwa region of Nepal to aid search, rescue and recovery efforts in the flood-affected areas. Doosan Enerbility set up a 40-member emergency response headquarters at its offices in Bundang, Gyeonggi Province on Wednesday to manage the crisis, headed by Executive Vice President Lee Dong-su, head of the EHS division. A field response team led by Vice Chairman and CEO Jeong Yeon-in was also dispatched to Nepal that day.