South Korea’s KBS reported that Korea has officially joined the war against the Ebola Virus. Korea’s Ministry of Defense had announced on the 29th that they will be dispatching military medical personnel to either Liberia or Sierra Leon. For the next 2 weeks the government will be recruiting troops and officers to be sent to West Africa to help with Ebola patients and other international medical personnel who were already working there.
All the soldiers who will be sent to West Africa will be volunteers, and 2 military doctors and 2 medical officers and 3 nursing officers will accompany them. In addition, the Korean government announced plans to also recruit workers and medical experts from the Korean Department of Health. All these men and women will be working alongside other people from international organizations from nations all over the world.
The Korean Ebola team will be dispatched within the upcoming month, and are scheduled to work there for 2 months.
There have been some hopeful signs regarding the war on the epidemic in the last few weeks. The U.S. has seen 2 of its Ebola patients fully recover from the epidemic, and the World Health Organization (WHO) told the world that a vaccine will be ready for testing and mass production by the end of the year 2014.
Ever since its participation in the Vietnam War from 1965 to 1973, South Korea has been working to provide humanitarian and military aid to countries and its allies all over the world. During the Korean War, 16 countries sent soldiers to fight to defend Democracy and liberty in the Korean peninsula. Thousands of American, European, Turkish, Latin American, and even African lives were lost in the Korean War. Since the 60s, Korea has worked to repay their debts from the war.
Korea had dispatched military during the Gulf War, and even during the Iraq War in 2003. Right now, Korea has troops in Sudan, and in Somalia battling pirates. Korea also have sent military and medical personnel around the world in many major disasters including the Fukushima tsunami in Japan, and the tornado in the Philippines.
