Following the inter-Korean agreement to resume operations at the Gaeseong Industrial Complex, the South Korean firms based there will be able to visit the border city to check on their facilities as early as the middle of next week.

An emergency committee representing the firms met with Unification Ministry officials Friday to discuss follow-up schedules. 

The committee conveyed to the government its requests including an early visit to the North by the companies' maintenance officials to inspect facilities in Gaeseong. 

The government is known to have said it will provide support for the firms to send their own maintenance workforce to Gaeseong next week after a communications and power facilities inspection team, which will visit the complex tomorrow, completes their job.

Meanwhile, Hyundai Asan, South Korea's main developer of the Gaeseong complex, is also arranging a visit by some 20 working level officials for facility checks.

As South Korean tours to the North's Mount Geumgang resort could also possibly resume, Hyundai Asan will make related organizational changes, including expanding a task force that was set up in May aimed at resuming inter-Korean economic cooperation.