Abducted South Korean trade official freed in Libya - government


  • World
  • Thursday, 23 Jan 2014

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - A South Korean trade official kidnapped earlier this week in Tripoli has been freed by Libyan security forces, the Libyan government said on Wednesday.

The Yonhap News Agency had reported that four men abducted Han Seok-woo, the head of trade relations at the Korean Trade Investment Promotion Agency, as he was leaving work in the Libyan capital at the weekend.

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