An employee at the Gana General Trading Co. is reported to have been cut off from his fellow Koreans in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul and is asking for help.
An official at Seoul's Foreign Ministry said that 33-year-old Choi Wook is currently stranded in Mosul with overland routes to the city cut off and the airport shut down as well.
The official went on to say that the local Korean embassy is in contact with Choi and is taking urgent steps to transfer him to Baghdad at the earliest time.
Choi was working at U.S. military airfields as a dispatced worker from Gana General Trading Co. until recent aggravating security concerns rendered him essentially confined to U.S. military compounds for the past week.
The South Korean company, a supplier for the U.S. military in Iraq has lately been the center of media attention, as one of its employees, Kim Sun-il, was kidnapped and slain last week by Iraqi insurgents.