More than 300 South Korean workers detained in the United States in an immigration raid at a Hyundai plant in Georgia will be released and brought home, the South Korean government has announced.

Presidential chief of staff Kang Hoon-sik said Sunday that South Korea and the US had finalised negotiations on the release of the workers whom US immigration authorities had detained on Thursday.

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

US immigration authorities said on Friday that they had 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 makes electric vehicles.

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