SEOUL — A South Korean trade agency official has been kidnapped in Libya, a country still mired in instability following the ouster and death of Moammar Gadhafi in October 2011, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Seoul said.

Han Seok-woo, the head of the Libya unit of the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency, was kidnapped by four unidentified men late Sunday in Tripoli as he returned home after work, a ministry spokesman said Monday.

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