A South Korean emergency rescue team will go to Japan on Monday to help aid the survivors of Friday’s earthquake and to assist in restoration work.

The team consists of two officials from the Foreign Ministry and 100 1-1-9 rescue officers based in Seoul and Gyeonggi Province. They will be sent to quake-battered northeastern Japan including Sendai.

The Seoul government will discuss with Tokyo the dispatch of more rescue teams and will send relief supplies.

The squad had been expected to leave for Japan on Sunday night but was delayed due to poor airport conditions in Japan.