South Korea's Ministry of Agriculture has imposed a ban on pork imports from Germany following a foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreak in the Brandenburg state.

The South Korean Ministry of Agriculture has banned all pork imports from Germany after a recent outbreak of the foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in a herd of buffalo in the eastern German state of Brandenburg.

Germany has not found any further cases of foot-and-mouth disease, agriculture minister Cem Oezdemir said on Wednesday, adding that experts were working day and night to establish the source of the country's first outbreak in decades.