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CNN.comSEOUL, South Korea (CNN) -- Nineteen South Koreans who were held by the Taliban as hostages in Afghanistan for six weeks arrived early Sunday at Incheon International Airport near Seoul.
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The hostages were among 23 South Korean Christian aid workers -- most of them women -- abducted by Taliban militants on July 19 as they traveled on a bus in Ghazni province in eastern Afghanistan.
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Under the terms of an agreement reached on Tuesday, South Korea agreed to stick by its decision to withdraw its 200 non-combat troops from Afghanistan, who do mostly engineering and medical work.
In addition, Seoul promised to halt all Christian missionary work in Afghanistan.
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