Cambodia will deport on Friday 59 South Koreans who worked in cyberscam schemes, police said, after Seoul sent a team to investigate the fate of dozens of its nationals.

South Korea banned its citizens on Wednesday from travelling to parts of Cambodia and sent officials to Phnom Penh to discuss cases of fake jobs and online scam centres that Seoul says have ensnared dozens of its nationals.

The multibillion-dollar illicit industry has ballooned in Southeast Asia in recent years, with thousands of people perpetrating online scams, some willingly and others forced by the organised criminal groups running the fraud networks, experts say.

Seoul's mission followed a public outcry in South Korea over the torture and killing of a Korean college student in Cambodia this year, reportedly by a cr

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