South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun travelled to Nepal on Saturday for a three-day visit to hold talks with his Nepali counterpart, Shisir Khanal, and coordinate search efforts for nine South Korean workers who went missing on 26 August after floods and landslides struck the Rasuwa District (a mountainous area near the Nepal-Tibet border) while they were working at a hydropower plant construction site. Cho is expected to urge Nepali authorities to intensify the search and to discuss South Korea's potential role in reconstruction, with a government disaster relief team already on the ground using helicopters, drones, and search dogs. The floods have been catastrophic in scale, killing more than 1,200 people and leaving nearly 6,000 others missing across Nepal as of this week.