(9 Sep 2025)
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Seoul, South Korea – 9 September 2025
1. Various of protester wearing a mask depicting US President Donald Trump holding signs that read (Korean): "Stop making investment in the US" ,"Tariff bomb" and "Detainment of workers"
2. Various of protest
3. Wide of main entrance gate of US embassy
4. Close of US flag
5. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Lee Ju An, head of the Plant Construction Workers’ Union:
"I believe that the Trump administration is trying to visualize this isolationism they are currently practicing, and they are oppressing workers as a means to maintain their national interests or political power. Therefore, I think this is clearly wrong, and as an ally, we must exercise our rights."
6. Various of protesters shouting (Korean) "We don’t need the South Korea-US alliance"
7. Wide of South Korean Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lee Jaewoong arriving for briefing
8. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Lee Jaewoong, South Korean Foreign Ministry Spokesperson:
"Our government is currently conducting detailed discussions with the US to repatriate all our citizens who are currently detained in the form of voluntary departure."
9. Wide of briefing
10. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Lee Jaewoong, South Korean Foreign Ministry Spokesperson:
"Along with relevant companies and the airline, our government, including the Foreign Ministry, is making every effort to prepare for (bringing detained workers home on) our chartered flight so that the plane can depart on Wednesday, September 10 in local time. Once all preparations are complete and the departure time is confirmed, we will announce the detailed plan accordingly."
11. Wide of briefing
STORYLINE:
The South Korean Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday it is making efforts to bring home more than 300 South Korean workers detained following a massive immigration raid at a Hyundai plant in Georgia, US last week.
The ministry’s spokesperson Lee Jaewoong said in a briefing that the government is working with the US and other parties so that the workers can depart for home as early as Wednesday in local time.
Earlier on Tuesday South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun arrived in Washington DC to meet with US authorities to finalize negotiations for the repatriation of the workers.
Also on Tuesday, about a dozen protesters gathered outside the US embassy in Seoul to denounce the US detainment of the South Korean workers and called on the suspension of South Korea’s investment in the US.
During the demonstration, the participants shouted "We don’t need the South Korea-US alliance."
US immigration authorities said Friday they detained 475 people, most of them South Korean nationals, when hundreds of federal agents raided Hyundai’s sprawling manufacturing site in Georgia where the Korean automaker makes electric vehicles.
Agents focused on a plant that is still under construction at which Hyundai has partnered with LG Energy Solution to produce batteries that power EVs.
The operation was the latest in a long line of workplace raids conducted as part of the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda. But the one Thursday is especially distinct because of its large size and because the targeted site has been touted as Georgia’s largest economic development project.
The raid stunned many in South Korea because the country is a key US ally.
AP video shot by Yong Ho Kim
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