Overview

• President Lee Jae Myung directed ministries at a Cabinet meeting to use all available resources to find victims of Cambodia-based job scams and repatriate them swiftly.
• The foreign ministry elevated Phnom Penh to a special travel advisory and urged citizens to cancel or postpone non‑essential travel to high‑risk southern areas, including Sihanoukville and Bokor Mountain.
• Seoul is consulting Phnom Penh to increase police staffing at the South Korean Embassy and to create a Korean Desk within the Cambodian national police dedicated to Korean cases.
• Cambodian prosecutors charged three Chinese nationals over the torture death of 22-year-old Park Min-ho, whose remains remain in Cambodia as South Korea seeks a joint autopsy.
• Official figures show reported crimes against South Koreans in Cambodia rising sharply, from 81 cases in 2022 to 134 in 2023, 348 in 2024, and 303 in the first half of 2025.