US immigration raid: Seoul dispatches plane; hundreds of Koreans to return

South Korea on Wednesday dispatched a chartered plane to United States to bring home hundreds of its citizens detained in a major immigration raid at a Hyundai-LG battery plant in Georgia.A Korean Air Boeing 747-8I, which can carry more than 350 passengers, departed Seoul’s Incheon International Airport at 10.20 am on Wednesday, the airline confirmed. […]

Inside the Hyundai raid: How a monthlong operation led US immigration to Georgia plant – & what’s next

More than 300 South Korean workers were among 475 people detained in a sweeping immigration raid at a Hyundai-LG battery plant under construction in Georgia, in what US officials called the “largest single-site enforcement operation” in two decades. The raid, carried out last week by hundreds of federal agents, has stirred diplomatic unease between Seoul […]