GWANGJU, July 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Rescuers halted a search for a missing South Korean mountaineer in the Himalayas at the request of his family, officials said Monday. Kim Hong-bin, 56, went missing on July 18 after scaling the 8,047-meter-high Broad Peak located in the Karakoram Range on the Pakistani-Chinese border. A taskforce in the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean telecom company KT Corp. said Saturday it has opened a rescue center on a famous trekking course in Nepal’s Himalayas to facilitate communication between mountaineers and rescue staff. KT said the new ICT rescue center was opened in the base camp on Machhapuchhre, a mountain 3,700 meters [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Environment Corp., an organization affiliated with the Ministry of Environment, will create a waste management framework in the Himalayas starting from Monday. The project is the very first in which the Korea Environment Corp. has won a contract directly from the World Bank. The project is expected [...]