{"id":33086,"date":"2025-10-13T18:52:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T13:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=33086"},"modified":"2025-10-13T18:52:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T13:07:53","slug":"minister-ghising-requests-for-south-korean-support-in-hydropower-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/minister-ghising-requests-for-south-korean-support-in-hydropower-production\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister Ghising requests for South Korean support in hydropower production"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, Oct 13: Minister for Energy, Hydropower and Irrigation, Kulman Ghising, has requested with the South Korean government for its support in the production of reservoir-based hydropower.<\/p>\n<p>Nepal needs reservoir-based mega projects of over 500 MW for energy balance and export, for which South Korea can extend support, Minister Ghising said during a courtesy call the South Korean Ambassador to Nepal had on him on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Ambassador Park Taeyoung paid a courtesy call on Minister Ghising at the latter office. He congratulated the Minister and wished him a successful tenure.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Ghising also reminded that Nepal and Korea have been enjoying smooth economic cooperation. He further shared that another area of assistance is the production of green hydrogen, which has a huge potential in Nepal. The green hydrogen could be used for production of fertilizer and operation of public transport.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the Ambassador was requested to increase the quota for Nepali workers under EPS in Korea and help in creating entrepreneurship among the youths returned from Korean jobs.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister informed the Korean Ambassador that the preparation was on for the breakthrough of the Upper Trishuli-1 (216MW) coming December, as it has recorded over 70 percent progress so far. The project is being constructed with the investment of a government company of Korea.<\/p>\n<p>On the occasion, the envoy informed that discussion was underway with the Finance Ministry to support Nepal in construction of transmission line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, Oct 13: Minister for Energy, Hydropower and Irrigation, Kulman Ghising, has requested with the South Korean government for its support in the production of reservoir-based hydropower. Nepal needs reservoir-based mega projects of over 500 MW for energy balance and export, for which South Korea can extend support, Minister Ghising said during a courtesy call [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,16,12,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-economy","category-foreign-affairs","category-national","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33086"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33088,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33086\/revisions\/33088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}