SEOUL: The South Korean foreign ministry said on Wednesday it launched a task force at its Embassy in Cambodia as part of efforts to respond to the widening job scam crisis involving the trafficking and torture of Korean nationals.
Park Il, former ambassador to Lebanon, will work as the de facto head of the mission in Phnom Penh to oversee affairs related to the job scams, engage closely with Cambodian authorities and seek their cooperation to resolve the issue, the ministry said in a release.
The ambassador post in Cambodia has remained vacant since the launch of the Lee Jae Myung government, and the absence has been cited by critics as a reason contributing to what they call the government's lax responses, Yonhap news agency reported.