A team of South Korean engineers will be dispatched to Libya where there is a shortage of drinking water following the end of its civil war.

At a meeting on Tuesday with construction companies working in Libya, the Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs Ministry said it would send a second group of technical experts this year, following the dispatch of four engineers to the northern African nation in September.

The ministry also plans to help Libya's efforts to reconstruct war-torn houses in locations near South Korean companies' construction sites for three months.

The ministry also plans to send a delegation of government and company officials to Libya in November to discuss the issue of compensating losses sustained by South Korean companies and to facilitate the resumption of construction.