[Anchor]

While our government's emergency relief team has brought miraculous news of the rescue of a Chinese survivor, word has yet to be heard regarding our missing South Korean citizens. China, which has faced criticism for limited information disclosure, has opened up disaster sites in the Tibet region to foreign media and stated it will strengthen information sharing with Nepal.

Min Gyeongho reports.

[Reporter]

The Korea Disaster Relief Team deployed helicopters three times yesterday morning, local time (the 7th).

They dispatched 10 members and high-resolution drones to the dam tunnel in the Dhunche area, which was being built by a South Korean company, to focus their search.

Since survivors were successively found inside the dam tunnels under construction in the flash flood disaster areas on the 4th and 5th, our relief team is intensively deploying personnel and equipment to tunnels with a high probability of finding survivors.

However, news of additional survivors has not been reported.

Temporary shelters for displaced persons have also been set up in Batare, where the relief team's base camp is located.

Families of those who went missing while working at the hydroelectric power plant construction site being built by a South Korean company were also there.

[Tilok Tamang / Husband of Missing Person at Main Camp: I pay my respects to the South Korean relief team for doing their utmost in the search regardless of nationality. I sincerely hope my wife comes back alive.]

China has opened up disaster sites in the Tibet Autonomous Region, another affected area, to foreign media.

In addition, to prevent similar disasters, it stated that it is developing an intelligent meteorological early warning system to share information with Nepal, and will strengthen the provision of status information on glaciers and barrier lakes.

[Su Fengcheng / Researcher, Chengdu Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences: We must utilize international cooperation platforms to promote data sharing and joint risk assessments across river basins with Himalayan countries, and seek to establish a cross-border early warning information system.]

This appears to be conscious of criticisms following the disaster, such as restrictions on access to affected areas, a lack of information disclosure, and claims that the Chinese government was not properly sharing information with Nepal.

To date, the death toll from this major flood in Nepal has been tallied at 1,398, with 5,515 people missing.

(Video Editing: Kim Hojin)