PRIME TIME NEWS 22:00 President Park wraps up four-nation trip to South America
ARIRANG NEWS 22:00 This is Arirang News. I′m Daniel Choy. Major aftershock rattles Nepal as relief efforts get underway The earthquake that′s shattered Nepal has taken more than 22-hundred lives... with nearly 5-thousand others injured. These numbers are expected to rise. And just as relief efforts got underway, the country was hit by a powerful aftershock that triggered avalanches and increased the scale of destruction. Shin Se-min has the latest. A powerful earthquake aftershock hit Nepal just a day after it was hit by its worst quake in more than 80 years. Though the six-point-seven magnitude aftershock was weaker than the seven-point-eight magnitude quake that had hit the day before, it was still enough to surprise the already traumatized area residents, who were struggling to cope with the trail of destruction left by the first quake. The disaster struck central Nepal less than 80 kilometers northwest of the capital Kathmandu... just before noon on Saturday. The tremors also reached India, killing at least 51,... Tibet and Bangladesh. The quake also triggered an avalanche on Mount Everest, where the climbing season had just kicked off, leaving at least 17 hikers dead. The scale of devastation in the Himalayan nation is immense... and the desperate search for survivors is ongoing. Sections of the capital Kathmandu have been flattened. Historic temples and landmarks have been destroyed... and hospitals are overwhelmed. Rescuers are having to dig for survivors, buried under the rubble, as families search for loved ones. Scores of people camped outside on Saturday night,... either because they had no place to sleep or because they were afraid that aftershocks would destroy their homes. World leaders and international charities have been quick to offer aid. Korea′s foreign ministry said Sunday that it is sending one-million U.S. dollars in humanitarian aid,... and the Korean Red Cross has promised relief funds and emergency kits... as it prepares to dispatch a number of emergency medical workers to the country. Pledges of aid have also come from India, China, Pakistan, the U.S., Britain and European Union countries. Shin Se-min, Arirang News. President Park wraps up four-nation trip to South America President Park Geun-hye wrapped up her 11-day, four-nation trip to South America on Saturday. Before her departure, she met with members of the Korean community and attended a fashion show in Sao Paulo. With more here′s our Kwon Soa. On the last day of her South America trip, President Park Geun-hye met with around 2-hundred Korean emigrants in Sao Paulo,... an economic hub in Brazil,... the seventh largest economy in the world. More than 50-thousand Koreans call the city home,... making it the largest Korean community in Brazil. "I′ve heard that the Korean community here is the most successful one in Brazil, and that the next generation of Korean residents has begun to enter leading sectors such as the economy,
