The United States has reaffirmed its commitment to strengthening U.S.– South Korea i nvestment ties while clarifying rules on short-term worker visas.

The move follows a major immigration raid at a South Korean-run battery facility in Georgia last month.

But U.S. officials at a working group meeting offered no new answers to South Korea’s argument for wider access to U.S. visas for specialty workers, despite reaffirming a commitment to advance the trade and investment partnership, the ministry said.

The working group was set up in the aftermath of a massive immigration raid at a Hyundai Motor (005380.KS), car battery facility under construction in the U.S. state of Georgia in September, where hundreds of South Korean workers were arrested.

The arrests, which stunned the South Korea

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