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Wide shot South Korean diplomats' car entering South Korea Embassy2. Close shot embassy sign 3. Wide shot South Korean security guard stopping camera from filming4. Mid shot South Korean flagFILE:...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eKabul, Afghanistan - 29 August 2007\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide shot South Korean diplomats' car entering South Korea Embassy\u003cbr/\u003e2. Close shot embassy sign \u003cbr/\u003e3. Wide shot South Korean security guard stopping camera from filming\u003cbr/\u003e4. Mid shot South Korean flag\u003cbr/\u003eFILE: Ghazni, Afghanistan - 11 August 2007\u003cbr/\u003e5. STILL: of Mullah Basheer, Taliban negotiator with AUDIO overlaid as follows:\u003cbr/\u003eUnknown location - 30 August 2007\u003cbr/\u003eAUDIO (Pashto) Mullah Basheer, Taliban negotiator.\u003cbr/\u003e\"The exact time is not clear. We are a bit busy now and we have not made the final decision yet, God willing it will happen today. We are trying to do it soon, maybe this afternoon.\"\u003cbr/\u003eKabul, Afghanistan - 29 August 2007\u003cbr/\u003e6. Close of South Korean symbol on embassy gate\u003cbr/\u003e7. Wide of security guard in front of the embassy talking on radio \u003cbr/\u003eSeoul, South Korea - August 30, 2007\u003cbr/\u003e8. Presidential spokesman Cheon Ho-sun entering the briefing room\u003cbr/\u003e9. Wide shot of the briefing room\u003cbr/\u003e10. Cutaway of journalists\u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE: (Korean) Cheon Ho-sun, South Korean Presidential Spokesman:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We expect that the remaining seven hostages will be released this afternoon. They will be moved to Kabul, then come back to Incheon via Dubai as soon as possible. I can't predict the time frame, but expect that they'll be back as early as this weekend.\"\u003cbr/\u003e12. Mid of Cheon\u003cbr/\u003e13. Briefing room\u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE: (Korean) Cheon Ho-sun, South Korean Presidential Spokesman:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The Afghan government has cooperated with us well from the beginning until now. It's just that the government expressed the difficulty of meeting the conditions requested by the captors, and we also understood the difficulty. The Afghan government was not excluded from this. Throughout the whole process (of getting hostages released), we've cooperated with the Afghan government and the Afghan government has helped us until the last stage.\"\u003cbr/\u003e15. Various of briefing room\u003cbr/\u003e16. SOUNDBITE: (Korean) Cheon Ho-sun, South Korean Presidential Spokesman:\u003cbr/\u003e\"During the process of releasing the hostages, we've received much support from the Afghan government and the US. This kind of support was possible because we dispatched our troops there. Afghans have thanked us for our activities there, and it is an obvious fact that this (dispatching troops) has contributed to Afghan society and helped to release the hostages.\"\u003cbr/\u003e17. Cutaway of journalists\u003cbr/\u003e18. Cheon with journalists\u003cbr/\u003eSeongnam, South Korea - 30 August 2007 \u003cbr/\u003e19. Wide shot of press briefing \u003cbr/\u003e20. Cutaway to reporters \u003cbr/\u003e21. SOUNDBITE: (Korean) Kwon Hyuk-Soo, Saemmul church offical\u003cbr/\u003e\"Saemmul Church has decided it will shoulder the cost of the transfer of the deceased and the cost of the flight and medical fees of the released hostages, instead of the families.\" \u003cbr/\u003e22. Mid shot of news conference \u003cbr/\u003e23. SOUNDBITE: (Korean) Kwon Hyuk-Soo, Saemmul church offical \u003cbr/\u003e\"We have not been notified of the government's plan (to ask the church to repay the government for its own expenses incurred).\" \u003cbr/\u003e24. Wide shot of relatives coming out of room \u003cbr/\u003e25. SOUNDBITE: (Korean) Uncle of hostage Park Hye-young (no name given)\u003cbr/\u003e\"I feel bad, actually.\"\u003cbr/\u003e(Reporter: Why?) \u003cbr/\u003e\"Because they went there to volunteer.\" \u003cbr/\u003e26. Wide shot of uncle leaving \u003cbr/\u003eTaliban militants are expected to release the remaining seven South Korean hostages on Thursday, a South Korean official said, bringing to an end a six-week long drama during which two captives were killed,  \u003cbr/\u003eTaliban negotiator Mullah Basheer told AP Television by telephone: \"The exact time is not clear. We are a bit busy now and we have not made the final decision yet, God willing it will happen today. We are trying to do it soon, maybe this afternoon.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSouth Korean presidential spokesman Cheon Ho-sun said on Thursday that once the captive were freed, they would be heading to Kabul before returning home via Dubai. \u003cbr/\u003eOn Wednesday, the Taliban released 12 of the 19 South Koreans held hostage after Seoul struck a deal with their captors - a deal that one Afghan minister warned would embolden the insurgents.\u003cbr/\u003eThe hostages were released into the care of officials from the International Committee of the Red Cross at three separate locations in central Afghanistan. None of the 12 spoke to reporters. \u003cbr/\u003eThe Taliban originally kidnapped 23 South Koreans as they travelled by bus from Kabul to the former Taliban stronghold of Kandahar on July 19. \u003cbr/\u003eIn late July, the militants killed two male hostages, and they released two women earlier this month as gesture of goodwill. \u003cbr/\u003eCheon said the Afghan government had contributed a lot to the effort to release the hostages, and said the fact that South Korea had dispatched a contingent of South Korean troops to Afghanistan had helped in the issue. \u003cbr/\u003eMeanwhile, there was a press briefing in Seongnam by the Saemmul church, which the hostages belong to.\u003cbr/\u003eChurch official Kwon Hyuk-Soo said the church would foot the bill for the costs of repatriating the hostages, and the bodies of those killed, but said he had not been notified of the government's plan to ask the church to repay the government for its own expenses incurred. \u003cbr/\u003eSouth Korea's government could consider seeking reimbursement of expenses incurred in dealing with the hostage crisis in Afghanistan, an official said Thursday, amidst public criticism that the hostages ignored official warnings not to go there. \u003cbr/\u003eThe Foreign Ministry had already asked a local church, which sent the 23 volunteer workers to Afghanistan, to repay airfare and medical fees spent on transporting and treating two released hostages and also airlifting the bodies of two dead hostages back to South Korea, said Kwon Hyuk-soo, a church official. \u003cbr/\u003eSouth Korea's Yonhap news agency reported that the government was now conducting a legal review over whether to seek reimbursement other expenses from the church as well, such as travel expenses for government officials involved in the negotiations with the Taliban. \u003cbr/\u003eUnder the terms of Tuesday's deal, South Korea reaffirmed a pledge it made before the hostage crisis began to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan by the end of this year. \u003cbr/\u003eSeoul also said it would prevent South Korean Christian missionaries from working in the staunchly Muslim country, something it had already promised to do. \u003cbr/\u003eThe Taliban apparently backed down on earlier demands for a prisoner exchange. 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