South Korea announced on Tuesday that it will provide China with an additional emergency assistance worth US$4 million to help it recover from the May 12 earthquake.

South Korean Foreign Ministry Spokesman Moon Tae-young said that the aid materials to be shipped will include medicines and tents.

The South Korean government offered funds and aid materials worth US$1 million to China last week.

A team of 41 South Korean rescue workers and four medical staff is operating in the earthquake-affected Sichuan Province.

(Xinhua News Agency May 20, 2008)