The South Koreans detained at the ice raid at the Hyundai Ev factory in Georgia to be released
The South Korean workers who are detained in the immigration and enforcement of customs enforcement (ICE) at the Hyundai factory in Georgia will be released, according to the South Korean government.
South Korean Chief of Staff, Kang Hun Sick, said on Sunday that the governments of South Korea and the United States have finished finishing a deal to release more than 300 South Korea workers who were detained on Friday during a ice raid on the Korean cars manufacturing site Korean Hyundai (EV) in Georgia.
The site was praised as the largest project for economic development in the state.
Kang said that there are still “administrative procedures” that remain to put the finishing touches on the deal, but a rented plane will be sent soon to recover the Koreans in the reservation.
The Ministry of Internal Security said that the raid on Friday detained 475 people, most of them Korean citizens. RAID was the result of a month’s investigation into illegal employment on the site, where Hyundai cooperates with LG Energy Solution to manufacture batteries to EVS Power.
“The raid was” the largest operation to enforce individual sites “in the history of the agency for two decades.
The Associated Press contributed.