Colonel Miguel Navarrete, head of the Territorial Police Directorate in Cusco, said that the specialists are already in Cusco and will they will soon go to the area where the helicopter is believed to be located.
The helicopter left the city of Mazuco in the southeastern region of Madre de Dios late on Wednesday and set off across the Andes for the tourist hub of Cusco — but never showed up at its destination.
A police patrol helicopter flew Thursday over the area where the aircraft went missing but did not spot it, although the weather conditions again were very poor.
In Seoul, the foreign ministry said Thursday that the South Koreans were engineers and officials from four South Korean companies on their way back to Cusco after conducting aerial surveillance on a possible site for a hydroelectric project near Puno in southern Peru.
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