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President Lee Jae-myung calls raid ‘bewildering’ after more some 475 workers detained last week at a battery factory.

The comments come after last week's immigration raid at a battery plant run by two South Korean firms in the US.

A total of 475 workers, more than 300 of them South Koreans, were rounded up in the 4 September raid at the battery factory at Hyundai’s auto plant in Georgia.

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U.S. authorities said previously that the Korean detainees were “unlawfully working” at the plant at the time of their arrest

South Korea has dispatched a chartered plane to the United States to bring home hundreds of its citizens detained during a large immigration raid at Hyundai's electric vehicle battery plant in Georgia. The operation marks one of the most serious diplomatic incidents between the two allies in recent years, touching…

South Korean media reports a charter plane has left for the U.S. to bring back Korean workers detained in an immigration raid in Georgia

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South Korea's foreign minister has traveled to the U.S. to address the detention of over 300 South Korean workers