Korean incheon (AP) – Over 300 Korea The worker was detained He returned to a charter plane on Friday in the US migrant attack last week.
They were about 475 people detained on September 4th. Immigrant attack At a battery factory under construction on the campus of Hyundai’s vast car factory west of the Savannah. Their roundup and release of their video showing Korean workers tied up with chains around their hands, ankles and hips sparked a sense of rage and betrayal of the masses in Korea.
TV footage showed a Boeing 747-8i chartered plane from Korea Airlines landing at Incheon International Airport just west of Seoul on Friday afternoon. The footage also showed workers, wearing masks, passing the arrival hall, which later included the presidential director of Kung Hung Sik, clapping his hands. One hugged Kang.
Hundreds of journalists gathered at the airport to cover their arrivals. One protester deployed a huge flag with photos of US President Donald Trump and messages criticizing the crackdown on US immigrants before security guards could persuade him to stop him. South Korea’s Foreign Ministry asked the media to blur the workers’ faces with videos and photos at the airport, citing requests from workers worried about privacy.
The plane carried 330 people detained in the Georgia attack. Of these, 316 are Koreans, and the remaining Chinese, Japanese and Indonesian workers. They were being held at the Immigration Detention Center in Folkestone, 285 miles (460 km) southeast of Atlanta.
South Korea said on Sunday that it had reached an agreement with the US to release Korean workers.
The South Korean government had pushed them to take them home on Thursday, but said the plan was shelved for reasons that involve the US. South Korean Foreign Ministry later said President Donald Trump was allowed to continue his work from South Korea and stopped the departure process to ask if he should help train American workers or be sent back to South Korea.
“President Trump had instructed that (detainees) should be allowed to go home freely, and that those who don’t want to go don’t need to do that,” South Koreans said. President Lee Jae Myung He spoke at a press conference on Thursday. “We were told that the process was suspended due to that direction and that the administrative procedures were changed accordingly.”
Lee said one of the Korean citizens who have relatives to the US had ultimately chosen to stay in the US.
Battery Plant, a joint venture between Hyundai and LG Energy Solutions, is one of more than 20 major industrial sites that Korean companies are currently building in the US. It includes other battery factories in Georgia and several other states. Semiconductor factory in Texas And a shipbuilding Projects in Philadelphia, Trump in the sector has been frequently highlighted in relation to South Korea.
US authorities said some of the detained Korean workers illegally crossed the US border, while others legally entered the country, but either expired their visas or entered the visa exemption that barred them from working. However, South Korean officials and experts accused the US of failing to act on a long-term demand to improve its visa system to accommodate skilled Korean workers, as they hope South Korea will expand its industrial investment in the US.
In fact, Korean companies have relied primarily on short-term visitor visas or electronic systems for travel permits to dispatch workers needed to launch manufacturing sites and handle other setup tasks.
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Hyung-Jin Kim reported from Seoul.
