( CNN ) -- Gunmen abducted a South Korean trade official in the Libyan capital , Tripoli , South Korea 's semiofficial Yonhap News Agency reported Monday , in the latest violent incident highlighting the turmoil in the North African country . Quoting South Korean officials , Yonhap said four unidentified , armed men abducted Han Seok-woo , 39 , when he was heading home from work in the coastal city on Sunday . Han is the head of the Libya unit of the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency . The gunmen stopped Han 's car , took him and drove westward , Yonhap quoted a South Korean foreign ministry official as saying . It said there had been no word from the kidnappers yet . Their identities and the reason for the abduction were unknown . Han is understood to be unharmed so far , Yonhap reported Tuesday , citing an unidentified South Korean government official . South Korea 's foreign ministry , which has launched an emergency task force to deal with the abduction , issued a warning against traveling to Libya . It asked the 551 South Korean nationals living in the North African country to leave . Libya 's government and fragile state security forces are struggling to impose law and order in a country awash with weapons left over from the 2011 war that ousted dictator Moammar Gadhafi . Militias , former rebel fighters and militants have refused to lay down their arms and often resort to force to impose their demands on the weak central authorities . This month , gunmen shot dead Libya 's deputy industry minister in the first assassination of a transitional government official since Gadhafi 's ouster in October 2011 .
South Korean taken from his car in Tripoli , Yonhap News Agency reports . The North Koreans have been holding him for more than a year and are demanding that he's be released immediately or face execution. Seoul tells South Koreans in Libya to leave the North African country . Libya government struggling to impose law and order .