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South Korean workers return home after days of detention in Georgia following immigration raid
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More than 300 South Korean workers detained in an immigration raid last week were brought back home on a charter plane.
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South Koreans detained in U.S. immigration raid arrive back home to applause and protests
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South Korean workers return home after days of detention in Georgia following immigration raid
South Korean workers detained during a massive immigration raid on a Hyundai facility in Georgia will be returned to South Korea on a chartered flight, President Lee Jae-myung's office said Sunday
CNN By Hanna Park, Yoonjung Seo, CNN (CNN) — South Korean workers detained during a massive immigration raid in Georgia Thursday will be returned to South Korea on a chartered flight following negotiations, an official announced Sunday.
Over 300 South Korean workers detained in a massive immigration raid at a Hyundai plant in Georgia will be released and brought home, the Asian nation said.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean media reports a charter plane left for the U.S. on Wednesday to bring back Korean workers detained in an immigration
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean charter plane left for the U.S. on Wednesday to bring back Korean workers detained in an immigration raid in Georgia last week, though officials said the retur
South Korea has dispatched a chartered plane to the United States to bring home hundreds of its citizens detained during a large immigration raid at Hyundai's electric vehicle battery plant in
By Karina Tsui, Mike Valerio, Yoonjung Seo, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — Hundreds of South Korean workers detained by US immigration authorities in Georgia last week could soon be on their way home, but the impact the sweeping detentions have on US-South Korean relations – notably the countries’ d…
A total of 475 workers, more than 300 of them South Koreans, were rounded up in the Sept. 4 raid at the battery factory under construction at Hyundai’s sprawling auto plant.
A chartered plane left Seoul for the United States Wednesday to repatriate hundreds of South Korean workers detained in an immigration raid, flag carrier
A South Korean charter plane arrived in Atlanta on Wednesday to take home Korean workers detained in an immigration raid in Georgia last week, but even after a high-level meeting between U.S. and South Korean officials there was no immediate word on when the workers would be able to leave.
A plane carrying more than 300 workers from South Korea who were detained during an immigration raid on a battery factory in Georgia last week has left Atlanta bound for South Korea. The workers had been held at an immigration detention center in southeast Georgia and were bused to Atlanta on Thursd…
South Korean experts and officials said Washington has yet to act on Seoul’s yearslong demand to ensure a visa system to accommodate skilled Korean workers needed to build facilities.
Workers from South Korea who were detained last week in an immigration raid at a battery factory in Georgia were headed to Atlanta on Thursday, where a charter plane was
U.S. immigration authorities are preparing to send more than 300 South Korean workers home on a chartered flight from Atlanta, a week after detaining them for allegedly working illegally.
South Korea's Foreign Ministry said the detainees released by U.S. authorities included 316 Koreans, 10 Chinese nationals, three Japanese nationals and one Indonesian.
U.S. immigration authorities are preparing to send more than 300 South Korean workers home on a chartered flight from Atlanta, a week after detaining them for allegedly working illegally.
While more than 300 South Korean nationals were finally on the way home Thursday, these images had already left a searing impression in this key U.S. ally.
Their roundup and the U.S. release of video showing some Korean workers shackled with chains around their hands, ankles and waists have caused public outrage and a sense of betrayal in South Korea, a key U.S. ally.
More than 300 South Koreans landed in Seoul a week after being arrested in a raid on a Hyundai facility in Georgia that has strained relations with the U.S....
More than 300 South Korean workers detained in an immigration raid in the United States last week were brought back home on a charter plane and reunited with their loved ones on Friday.
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