A pair of giant pandas being loaned by China to the Republic of Korea for 15 years arrived in Seoul on Thursday.

Yuan Xin, a male, three and a half, and Hua Ni, female, two and a half, are being loaned following a meeting between President Xi Jinping and his ROK counterpart Park Geun-hye in 2014.

The pandas arrived at Incheon International Airport in Seoul in the afternoon after a flight of 4 hours 40 minutes from Shuangliu International Airport in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province.