The ROK Navy sure has been active in the fight against the Somali pirates in the past few months:

South Korean naval forces deployed off the coast of Somalia rescued a Bahaman commercial ship from pirates Wednesday, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) in Seoul said.

In the seventh operation of its kind, a group of 30 UDT/SEAL forces aboard rigid inflatable speedboats, backed by a Lynx attack helicopter, seized seven pirates trying to hijack the cargo ship in the Gulf of Aden. They conducted the operation at the request of the Combined Task Force (CTF) 151, a multinational naval task force to combat piracy in the Somalia littorals.

It was the first time that South Korean forces of the Cheonghae unit have captured pirates on a ship. Previous operations aimed at driving away suspected pirate boats from commercial ships used warning shots fired by the unit’s Lynx helicopter.

The pirates were released after being given warnings, JCS officials said.

The South Korean unit, consisting of a 4,500-ton destroyer, began operations in Somali waters in April to escort the country’s commercial vessels.

About 500 South Korean cargo ships sail through the piracy-stricken Gulf of Aden every year, and some 150 of them are believed to be vulnerable to hijacking due to their size and speed.  [Korea Times]

What I am wondering is what will the South Korean government do with the captured pirates?  Oh and one more question I wonder if they asked the pirates if they like kimchi or not?