Hyundai Group Chairwoman Hyun Jeong-eun will stay in North Korea for one more day.

Hyundai Group said Hyun and her delegation have decided to extend their stay in the communist state until Saturday. This is Hyun’s third extension of her stay in the North. She arrived in the North on Monday and had planned to return home on Friday.

Hyundai Asan President Cho Gun-shik confirmed the extension plans on Friday morning when he arrived at the customs, immigration and quarantine office at Dorasan Station in Paju.

Cho added that Hyun met with Kim Yang-gon, director of the United Front Department of the North's ruling Workers' Party, on Thursday but has yet to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il.

Hyun’s trip to North Korea is significant in that it won the release of a South Korean worker who had been detained in the communist state for more than four months for allegedly denouncing the North Korean system.

Attention, now, is being drawn to whether Hyun discussed other contentious issues with North Korean officials during her stay, including issues related to the inter-Korean Gaeseong Industrial Complex and the resumption of tours to the North’s Mount Geumgang resort.