Seoul, South Korea – The South Korean government announced more than 300 South Korean workers who are arrested and brought home in a Hyundai plant in Georgia after a massive attack in a Hyundai plant in Georgia.
Kang Hoon-Sik, chief of staff of President Lee Jae Myung, said that South Korea and the United States had negotiated the release of the workers. He said South Korea plans to send a charter plane to bring the workers home as soon as the remaining administrative steps are carried out.
Foreign Minister Cho Hyun will go to the United States for talks in connection with the publications of employees in the United States on Monday, reported South Korean media.
The US immigration authorities said on Friday that they had arrested 475 people, most of them South Korean citizens, as hundreds of federal agents Hyundais, attacked extensive production facilities in Georgia, where the Korean car manufacturer produces electric vehicles. Agents who focus on a work that is still under construction where Hyundai worked with LG Energy Solution to produce batteries that supply EVS with electricity.
Cho said that more than 300 South Koreans were among the detainees.
The operation was the youngest in a long series of raids in the workplace, which was carried out as part of the trump government's mass design agenda. However, the one on Thursday is particularly different, since the state officials have long described Georgia's largest economic development project.
The attack fascinated many in South Korea because the country is an important US ally. In July it agreed to acquire $ 100 billion in US energy and to invest an investment of 350 billion US dollars in the United States in return for US reduction interest. About two weeks ago, US President Donald Trump and Lee stopped their first meeting in Washington.
Lee said that the rights of South Korean citizens and economic activities of South Korean companies should not be wrongly violated in the US criminal proceedings. The South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs made a statement separately to express the “concern and regret” case and sent diplomats to the location.
Video, which was published by US immigration and customs authorities on Saturday, showed that a caravan drove to the location with vehicles and then federal agents who instruct the workers to stand outside the hiring. Some prisoners were ordered to put their hands against a bus when they were cracked and then tied up around their hands, ankles and waist.
Most people were brought to an immigration center in Folkston, Georgia, near the Florida State Line. Nobody has yet been charged with crimes, said Steven Schrank, the senior Georgia agent for Homeland Security investigation, during a press conference on Friday and added that the examination was not yet completed.
He said that some of the imprisoned workers had illegally exceeded the US border, while others had legally entered the country, but had expired visas or had had a waiver of visa who forbidden them.
Kang, the South Korean Presidency chief of the employees, said that South Korea examine and improve the visa systems for those who travel to the USA for business trips for investment projects.
The video in the above player comes from an earlier report.
Copyright © 2025 by the Associated Press. All rights reserved.
