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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

Posted on 09/06/2025 7:54:38 PM PDT by Morgana

South Korea's foreign minister may visit the United States to respond to a raid on a Huyndai plant in Georgia that detained 475 people, most of them South Korean nationals.

Cho Hyun said Seoul was considering an imminent visit to discuss the arrests on behalf of President Lee Jae Myung, who was all smiles with Donald Trump at a White House meeting two weeks ago.

'We are deeply concerned and feel a heavy sense of responsibility over the arrests of our nationals,' Cho said at an emergency meeting Saturday, according to Yonhap News Agency.

Cho confirmed that approximately 300 of the 475 arrested were South Korean nationals, with photos showing some of those arrested being put in chains.

'We are deeply concerned and feel a heavy sense of responsibility over the arrests of our nationals,' he said.

'We will discuss sending a senior foreign ministry official to the site without delay, and, if necessary, I will personally travel to Washington to hold consultations with the U.S. administration,' Cho added.

The message from the president has been to ensure that rights of both those arrested and their companies not be infringed upon.

First Vice Foreign Minister Park Yoon-joo raised the issue in a telephone call with US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Allison Hooker, voicing regret over the crackdown and the release of footage showing the Korean workers' arrest.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: aliens; automotive; korea; takingamericanjobs
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1 posted on 09/06/2025 7:54:38 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

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


2 posted on 09/06/2025 7:59:29 PM PDT by jimtorr
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To: Morgana

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


3 posted on 09/06/2025 8:02:17 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: BradyLS

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


4 posted on 09/06/2025 8:04:16 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Morgana

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


5 posted on 09/06/2025 8:06:13 PM PDT by madison10 (There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.)
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To: Morgana

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.


6 posted on 09/06/2025 8:16:26 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Is this damn country so hard up for Judges that we have to hire Sparkle Sookananan from Trinidad?)
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To: Morgana

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.


7 posted on 09/06/2025 8:26:56 PM PDT by BobL
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To: Morgana

That still leaves them 175 to explain why they hired.


8 posted on 09/06/2025 8:28:06 PM PDT by alternatives?
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To: Morgana

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.


9 posted on 09/06/2025 8:31:54 PM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS, REMEMBER REV; NIEMOLLER)
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To: BobL

Gung Ho, the sequel.


10 posted on 09/06/2025 8:32:17 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: BobL

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.


11 posted on 09/06/2025 9:04:02 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: alternatives?
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.
12 posted on 09/06/2025 9:11:29 PM PDT by In_Iowa_not_from
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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.
13 posted on 09/06/2025 9:12:21 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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"I’ve known four managers who won’t hire ~ Americans in general."


Red-dots are notorious for this...
14 posted on 09/06/2025 10:04:16 PM PDT by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: Morgana

oops


15 posted on 09/06/2025 11:00:27 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Morgana

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


16 posted on 09/06/2025 11:32:29 PM PDT by Don W (When blacks riot, neighborhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn)
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To: Morgana

What were HUNDREDS doing working illegally in the US?


17 posted on 09/07/2025 2:19:28 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: Dr. Sivana

Demeanor probably quite different from the usual Far Eastern standard.


18 posted on 09/07/2025 2:23:01 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Morgana
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.

19 posted on 09/07/2025 2:28:24 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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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.

20 posted on 09/07/2025 2:33:13 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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