South Korea says it has reached deal with U.S. to release Georgia Hyundai plant workers

Heavy machinery at the site of the Hyundai EV plant in Ellabell, Georgia, where hundreds of workers were detained on Friday. The immigration raid stunned South Korea, a key U.S. ally.

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.

Kang Hoon-sik, chief of staff for President Lee Jae Myung, 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.

U.S. immigration authorities said Friday they detained 475 people , most of them South Korean nationals, when hundreds of federal agents rai