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Following a large immigration raid on a Hyundai facility in Georgia that detained numerous South Korean workers, South Korea has secured their release and will repatriate them via a chartered flight. The incident, affecting employees of LG Energy Solution and partner companies, strained relations between the U.S. and South Korea, a key ally. Seoul plans to review visa and residency procedures for personnel traveling to the U.S. The raid, part of a Trump administration crackdown, occurred shortly after South Korean firms pledged billions in U.S. investments aimed at averting threatened tariffs.
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South Korean workers detained during a massive immigration raid on a Hyundai facility in Georgia will be returned to South Korea on a chartered flight, President Lee Jae-myung’s office said Sunday.
“Negotiations for the release of the detained workers have been concluded,” a presidential spokesperson announced Sunday. “Once the procedures are complete, the chartered plane will depart to bring our citizens.”
The spokesperson added that South Korea will “push forward measures to review and improve the residency status and visa system for personnel travelling to the United States.”
The incident had strained ties with South Korea, the world’s 10th-largest economy and the key U.S. ally.
U.S. officials were not immediately available for comment.
The U.S. raid, part of the Trump administration’s escalating crackdown on immigrants, was the largest single-site enforcement operation in the history of the Department of Homeland Security.
LG Energy Solution said Saturday that 47 of its employees were detained, 46 of them Korean. Another 250 personnel from “equipment partner companies,” most of them Korean, were also being held, it added.
The raid came just 11 days after a summit between Trump and Lee at the White House, where South Korean firms pledged $150 billion in U.S. investments. In July, Seoul pledged another $350 billion in U.S. projects in an effort to reduce Trump’s threatened tariffs, which he later set at 15%.
