South Korea says it has reached a deal with the US for the release of workers in a Georgia plant

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Presidential chief of staff Kang Hoon-sik 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. ICE arrests at a Georgia Hyundai plant create new tension with South Korea South Korea’s foreign minister is considering a trip to the U.S. to meet with the Trump administration after hundreds of South Koreans were arrested in Georgia at an electric vehicle battery plant. South Korea’s Foreign Minister Cho Hyun later said that more than 300 South Koreans were among the detained. The South Korean government, a close U.S. ally, expressed “concern and regret” over the raid targeting its citizens and sent diplomats to the site.