Seven South Koreans, seized by armed men in Iraq while doing missionary work, have been freed unharmed, Seoul's foreign ministry said on Friday.
The church group members were taken hostage near Baghdad on Thursday.
YTN TV quoted the seven as telling South Korean journalists at a Baghdad hotel the Iraqi group had given them a ride back to the city after confirming their nationality.
U.S.-ally South Korea has 600 military engineers and medics in Iraq and plans to send 3,000 more for reconstruction.
The kidnapping took place soon after two South Korean civilians were briefly detained by Shi'ite militia in the southern area of Nassiriya before being released on Tuesday.
There are about 130 South Korean civilians in Iraq, more than half of them commercial contractors or non-governmental organization members.