"Egypt Air almost canceled the flight because of the worsening situation in Libya, but our embassy in Egypt and Doosan convinced them to fly," the ministry official said. "We will keep evacuating our nationals on chartered flights or ships."

   Earlier Sunday, the Ministry of National Defense in Seoul said about 30 South Korean nationals fled for Turkey on a Turkish military vessel.

   "Our military attache based in Turkey requested help from the Turkish armed forces to make the trip possible," an official with the ministry said. "We wanted to follow the government guidelines to use all means possible to pull South Koreans out of Libya."

   The Turkish vessel is expected to arrive at Port Marmara in southern Turkey around 3 p.m. Monday, Korean time, the official said.

   South Korea has also directed a 4,500-ton destroyer, Choi Young, toward Libya to help evacuate its nationals, if other means are limited. The warship, which has been operating near Somalia against piracy, is expected to reach Libyan waters around Wednesday.

   Seoul has tried to pull its people out of Libya, as anti-government demonstrators are trying to take down Moammar Gadhafi against the Libyan leader's loyalists. On Saturday, a chartered Korean Air plane brought home 235 South Koreans.

   With South Koreans on the move, the country's major builders said they will soon join the evacuation.

   Daewoo Engineering and Construction, which employs the most South Koreans in Libya with 297, planned to hold a meeting Sunday to discuss bringing home most of those workers.

   "We've decided to follow the government's guidelines," a Daewoo official said. "Our construction sites remain stable at this point, and we will respond to whatever situations arise as necessary."

   Daewoo is operating in seven sites in Libya, including a thermoelectric power plant in Benghazi, the epicenter of the ongoing anti-government revolt. The company has so far kept most of its workers in place since their sites are largely protected.

   Hyundai Engineering and Construction has pulled 19 of its 170 workers from Libya and plans to take further steps to bring the rest home.

   According to the Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs, 606 of 1,351 South Korean construction workers have fled Libya so far.