A specially chartered flight carrying hundreds of South Korean workers detained in a US immigration raid last week landed at Incheon International Airport on Friday, AFP reporters saw.

South Koreans made up the majority of the 475 people arrested at a Hyundai-LG battery factory site in the state of Georgia, triggering a delicate effort to resolve the thorny situation between close allies.

The Korean Air Boeing 747-8I, with more than 310 South Koreans on board, departed from Atlanta and touched down on the runway at South Korea’s main gateway in Incheon.

“Everything at Atlanta went smoothly,” a foreign ministry official told AFP on Friday, ahead of the workers’ arrival at around 3:25 pm (0625 GMT).

“The plane departed as scheduled with the planned number of passengers.”

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