A southern China court has sentenced two Republic of Korea nationals to 10 years in prison for robbing a Chinese man in Guangdong Province.

Kim Yu Dong and Soung Jong Yul, both 31, were convicted of robbing a man surnamed Tan in a residential building in Guangzhou last Oct. 26 after offering to exchange foreign currencies for him, according to the Guangzhou Intermediate People's Court.

A third ROK citizen involved in the robbery has yet to be arrested.

The court heard that the three Koreans beat and slightly injured Tan in the elevator and robbed him of 430,000 yuan, 22,000 U.S. dollars, 60,000 Japanese yen and 840 Hong Kong dollars.

Kim and Soung were immediately captured by security guards in the building, but their partner fled.

The three ROK men arrived in Guangzhou on Oct. 24 last year from Seoul planning to buy wholesale clothes but the 10,000 U.S. dollars that Kim brought with him was stolen soon after they arrived in Guangzhou, according to the court. Kim then proposed the trio make up the loss by robbing someone else, it said.

Kim and Soung were also each fined 10,000 yuan (1,298 U.S. dollars). They will be departed after they complete their prison sentence.

Source: Xinhua