SEOUL, South Korea — More than 300 South Korean workers detained following a massive immigration raid at a Hyundai plant in Georgia will be released and brought home, the South Korean government announced Sunday.

Presidential chief of staff Kang Hoon-sik said that South Korea and the U.S. had finalized negotiations on the workers’ release.

He said South Korea plans to send a charter plane to bring the workers home as soon as remaining administrative steps are completed.

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U.S. immigration authorities said Friday they detained 475 people, most of them South Korean nationals, when hundreds of federal agents raided Hyundai’s sprawling manufacturing site in Georgia where the Korean automaker Hyundai makes electric vehicles.

South Korea’s Foreign Minister Cho Hyun later said that more t

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