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.
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If you don’t want your people arrested, South Korea, don’t let them enter and work in a foreign country illegally.
Western Europe, South Korea… Wonder if the chip plant Taiwan is building in Arizona was supposed to be another shop closed to American workers?
America protects Western Europe and Western Pacific, pays for the upkeep, and our “allies” shiv us anyway.
Were the being put in chains or were they already chained?
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.
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.
That still leaves them 175 to explain why they hired.
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.
Gung Ho, the sequel.
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.
"I’ve known four managers who won’t hire ~ Americans in general."
oops
WTH are they doing in the USA working without valid papers?
What were HUNDREDS doing working illegally in the US?
Demeanor probably quite different from the usual Far Eastern standard.
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.
We had to send a couple people from our corporate HR here in Michigan, to help with hiring replacements.
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