SEOUL: South Korea will offer $5 million in relief aid to the typhoon-ravaged Philippines and send a team of relief workers there, the foreign ministry said Tuesday.
The government decided to provide the Philippines with assistance in cash and relief goods including food, blankets and tents, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.
As part of further relief aid, Seoul will also dispatch a team of relief workers to the country, including 20 medical workers and 14 emergency rescue workers, the ministry also said.
The Korea NGO Council for Overseas Development Cooperation, the council for local non-government groups, will separately offer $1 million in aid to the Philippines, the ministry also noted.
Adding that the decision was made during the joint government-private meeting held earlier on Tuesday to discuss ways to help the country.
Prime Minister Chung Hong-won also extended his consolation to the Philippines, vowing to muster efforts to help the country.
"In regard to emergency rescue and damage restoration, South Korean officials, led by the foreign ministry, are advised to closely cooperate with the Philippine government," the prime minister said in a Cabinet meeting earlier in the day. (QNA)
