SEOUL: Nineteen South Koreans who were held captive in Myanmar have been rescued, Seoul's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, with a source from Myanmar's main airport confirming that the victims were flying home.

South Korea has been working on its citizens' release since being notified in early October that they had been detained by an unknown "illegal company" in Tachileik, in Myanmar's eastern Shan state, near the border with Thailand.

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