{"id":126425,"date":"2025-09-07T11:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T11:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/126425\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T11:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T11:16:07","slug":"300-south-koreans-detained-at-hyundai-plant-in-us-to-be-released-says-seoul-us-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/126425\/","title":{"rendered":"300 South Koreans detained at Hyundai plant in US to be released, says Seoul | US immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"

South Korea has said negotiations with the US to secure the release of its nationals detained in a raid by US immigration<\/a> officials on a Hyundai plant in the state of Georgia have been \u201cconcluded\u201d and that they would soon be freed and flown home.<\/p>\n

It follows the arrest of more than 300 South Korean workers at a Hyundai-LG battery site being built in the southern US on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Footage of the raid released by US authorities showed detained workers, in handcuffs and with chains around their ankles, being loaded on to an inmate transportation bus.<\/p>\n

The operation, carried out in the town of Ellabell, was the largest single site raid implemented so far under President Donald Trump\u2019s nationwide anti-migrant drive, catching Seoul officials off guard.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a result of the swift and united response \u2026 negotiations for the release of the detained workers have been concluded,\u201d Kang Hoon-sik, chief of staff to South Korea\u2019s president, Lee Jae Myung, said on Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnly administrative procedures remain. Once these are completed, a chartered flight will depart to bring our citizens home,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Scrambling to contain the fallout, a senior executive at electric vehicle battery maker LG Energy Solution flew to Georgia on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe immediate priority now is the swift release of both our LG Energy Solution employees and those of our partner firms,\u201d executive Kim Ki-soo told reporters before boarding a plane.<\/p>\n

LG Energy Solution has said 47 of its employees had been arrested \u2013 46 South Koreans and one Indonesian.<\/p>\n

The company has also said about 250 of those arrested were believed to be employed by its contractor, and most of them were South Koreans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Korea has said negotiations with the US to secure the release of its nationals detained in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-126425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}