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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Via AP news wire

South Korean workers released after days of detention in Georgia return home

APTOPIX Immigration Raid Hyundai Plant - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

A plane carrying more than 300 South Korean workers released after days of detention in Georgia has landed in South Korea.

TV footage shows the charter plane, a Boeing 747-8i from Korean Air, landing in Incheon International Airport, just west of Seoul, on Friday.

They were among about 475 people detained during the Sept. 4 immigration raid at a battery factory under construction on the campus of Hyundai’s sprawling auto plant west of Savannah.

South Korea later said it has a reached an agreement with the United States for the Korean workers’ releases.

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