Overview

• Foreign Minister Cho Hyun told lawmakers the government is considering dispatching personnel to fly home Koreans awaiting return and is preparing extraordinary measures.
• The presidential office convenes a new interagency task force on Monday led by National Security Adviser Wi Sung-lac to coordinate a nationwide response.
• The National Police Agency will push to establish a Korean Desk in Cambodia, add 30 officers to international cooperation units, and hold high-level talks with Cambodian police next week.
• Korean investigators plan a joint autopsy with Cambodian authorities later this month in the university student’s killing, with repatriation to follow under intergovernmental procedures.
• Cambodian prosecutors have charged three Chinese nationals in the August death, Seoul upgraded its Phnom Penh travel advisory to a special warning, and official data show 330 cases reported by August after 221 in 2024.