South Korea’s incheon (AP) – Airplane carrying over 300 Korean workers release He landed in South Korea on Friday after being detained several days in Georgia.
TV footage showed a Boeing 747-8i chartered plane from Korea Airlines landing at Incheon International Airport, just west of Seoul on Friday. The footage also showed workers later wearing masks and passing the arrival hall.
South Korea’s Foreign Ministry asked the media to blur the workers’ faces with videos and photos at the airport, citing requests from workers worried about privacy.
They were about 475 people detained on September 4th. Immigrant attack At a battery factory under construction on the campus of Hyundai’s vast car factory west of the Savannah.
The release of a video showing some Korean workers tied with chains around their hands, ankles and hips sparked a sense of rage and betrayal of the masses in Korea.
South Korea later said it had reached an agreement with the US to free South Korean workers.
They were in custody at the Immigration Detention Center in Folkestone, 285 miles (460 km) southeast of Atlanta. After the release from the detention center, they were bused to Atlanta to board the charter plane.
The South Korean government previously pushed them to take them home on Thursday, but said the plan was shelved due to reasons that involve the US. South Korean Foreign Ministry later said President Donald Trump was allowed to continue his work from South Korea and stopped the departure process to ask whether he should help train American workers or be sent back to South Korea.
“President Trump had instructed that (detainees) should be allowed to go home freely, and that those who don’t want to go don’t need to do that,” South Koreans said. President Lee Jae Myung He spoke at a press conference on Thursday. “We were told that the process was suspended due to that direction and that the administrative procedures were changed accordingly.”
Lee said one of the Korean citizens who have relatives to the US had ultimately chosen to stay in the US.
Battery Plant, a joint venture between Hyundai and LG Energy Solutions, is one of more than 20 major industrial sites that Korean companies are currently building in the US. It includes other battery factories in Georgia and several other states. Semiconductor factory in Texas And a shipbuilding Projects in Philadelphia, Trump in the sector has been frequently highlighted in relation to South Korea.
US authorities said some of the detained Korean workers illegally crossed the US border, while others legally entered the country, but they either expired their visas or entered the visa exemption that barred them from working. However, South Korean officials and experts accused the US of failing to act on a long-term demand to improve its visa system to accommodate skilled Korean workers, as they hope South Korea will expand its industrial investment in the US.
In fact, Korean companies have relied primarily on short-term visitor visas or electronic systems for travel permits to dispatch workers needed to launch manufacturing sites and handle other setup tasks.
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Hyung-Jin Kim reported from Seoul.
