Seoul — The large-scale immigration raid on a Hyundai-LG battery factory in Georgia has sent shock waves across South Korea, a U.S. security ally that has this year pledged to invest hundreds of billions of dollars in the United States and is now balking at what many here view as the Trump administration’s bad-faith actions.

Opposition lawmakers, former government officials and newspapers across the ideological spectrum are expressing outrage at the raid in which more than 300 South Korean nationals were arrested, calling the administration “unusual,” “impulsive” and “contradictory.”

“I’m really speechless and furious,” said Choi Jong-gun, former vice foreign minister. “We spend a lot of money in the United States and we get slapped in the face.”

The arrest of 475 workers last week at

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