South Korea has chartered a plane to repatriate hundreds of workers detained by US federal immigration agents after a raid on an electric-car battery factory operated by Korean conglomerates Hyundai and LG.
South Korean officials completed talks with their US counterparts over the release of the workers and the government had dispatched a plane to bring them home, a senior presidential official said in televised remarks on Sunday.
The president had “stressed that our companies’ business activities and our workers’ rights should not be unfairly infringed in the US law enforcement process,” said South Korean President Lee Jae Myung’s chief of staff Kang Hoon-sik.