South Korea responds to raid of Hyundai plant that resulted in hundreds of arrests as new images show workers in chains

Daily Mail UK ^ | September 6, 2025 | Stephen M. Lepore

[jimtorr]

If you don’t want your people arrested, South Korea, don’t let them enter and work in a foreign country illegally.

[BradyLS]

Western Europe, South Korea… Wonder if the chip plant Taiwan is building in Arizona was supposed to be another shop closed to American workers?

[BradyLS]

America protects Western Europe and Western Pacific, pays for the upkeep, and our “allies” shiv us anyway.

[madison10]

Were the being put in chains or were they already chained?

[FlingWingFlyer]

To be far, ICE needs to start raiding America’s military bases. Foreigners have no business wearing the same uniforms my mother, father, uncles, aunts, grandfathers and other family members wore fighting America’s enemies, many of whom are now being recruited to “fight” for America when they are not get drunk. That’s not a good thing.

[BobL]

I suspect that the Korean management at the plant wasn’t too hot on the American-’educated’ locals that they were stuck with so they invited a bunch of Koreans to come on visitor visas to get some actual work done.

[alternatives?]

That still leaves them 175 to explain why they hired.

[Nextrush]

Underlying this the current Left government in South Korea is prosecuting the former right president for “Insurrection”.

President Trump compares that to a ‘purge’ has said so in the face of President Lee and on social media.

[dfwgator]

Gung Ho, the sequel.

[packagingguy]

This might be the issue:

I’ve known four managers who won’t hire American blacks or won’t hire Americans in general.

All were foreign born.

[In_Iowa_not_from]

That still leaves them 175 to explain why they hired.

I would guess other Asians (Filipinos, Malaysians, Vietnamese) who had worked at their other construction sites in Asia. I would guess that these foreigners were temporary construction workers who were working on the expansion. That's why they snuck in on a tourist visa-- they're here only to do a construction job then planned to go back to Asia to work on the next Korean contruction job.

[Dr. Sivana]

I suspect that the Korean management at the plant wasn’t too hot on the American-’educated’ locals that they were stuck with so they invited a bunch of Koreans to come on visitor visas to get some actual work done.

I lived in Columbus, GA for four years. I knew about the Hyundai plant in, AL, and the Kia plant in GA. I had heard (from a Linux guy who had contracted out to the Hyundai plant in AL) not that the education wasn't liked, but more the demeanor. They preferred working with Koreans.

[Bikkuri]

"I’ve known four managers who won’t hire ~ Americans in general."

Red-dots are notorious for this...

[faithhopecharity]

oops

[Don W]

WTH are they doing in the USA working without valid papers?

[FLT-bird]

What were HUNDREDS doing working illegally in the US?

[9YearLurker]

Demeanor probably quite different from the usual Far Eastern standard.

[Hot Tabasco]

A Chinese company is trying to get approval for a EV battery plant in Green Charter Township, Michigan.

Just like this Hundai plant, I suspect the battery plant will be staffing it with Chinese nationals. Just like they did with the textile plants in Plato, Italy.

[Hot Tabasco]

As a side note, back around 2005, my parent company had a satellite company in I think Missouri. ICE had scheduled a raid on the plant for a Friday morning but someone leaked the info and that morning, 100 employees never showed up for work.

We had to send a couple people from our corporate HR here in Michigan, to help with hiring replacements.