A joint government task force departed for Phnom Penh on Wednesday as South Korea intensifies efforts to secure the return of dozens of its citizens caught up in Cambodia’s expanding job-scam and trafficking networks. The delegation, led by Second Vice Foreign Minister Kim Ji-na and including officials from the foreign ministry, National Intelligence Service and National Police Agency, will press for cooperation on investigations and repatriations following the torture and death of a South Korean student in Cambodia’s Kampot Province.

Roughly 80 South Koreans remain unaccounted for, according to the foreign ministry, while 63 others are detained under Phnom Penh’s