Contrary to an earlier report, South Korea's Foreign Ministry said Monday it has no plans to evacuate its diplomats from Iraq.

A ministry official seeking to remain anonymous said that South Korean embassy staff in Iraq have no plans to evacuate to a third country.

Earlier, sources in Baghdad said that Ambassador Sohn Se-joo and four other officials at the South Korean embassy were planning to leave the mission to seek shelter in a safe area, amid rumors of possible terrorist attacks.

The sources also said that the director of the Korea Trade Investment Promotion Agency's (KOTRA) Baghdad office, Kim Yu-shik, and another KOTRA official were to leave for Amman, the capital of nearby Jordan, on Monday.

The ministry official, however, declined to say that the KOTRA officials' impending trip was an evacuation, instead describing it as a personal vacation trip to visit family members who had been staying in Jordan.

A 12-member South Korean parliamentary delegation in Baghdad was forced to take shelter at a U.S. military facility Friday after their hotel was the target of a rocket strike. None of the delegation was injured in the attack.