(8 Sep 2025)
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Seoul, South Korea – 8 September 2025
1. Wide of parliamentary hearing
2. Mid of South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun
3. Various of lawmakers at parliamentary hearing
4. Wide of parliamentary hearing
5. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Cho Hyun, South Korean Foreign Minister:
"We will devote meticulous efforts to ensure that our people do not face any disadvantages."
6. Wide of parliamentary hearing
7. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Cho Hyun, South Korean Foreign Minister:
"There was a request for large-scale investment, and we responded to it. Therefore, to realize this, we emphasized to the US side that the visa issue is a priority task, and we will continue to discuss specific measures for this."
8. Wide of lawmaker speaking
9. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Cho Hyun, South Korean Foreign Minister:
"We had no choice but to adjust the level of our response to some extent because rescuing more than 300 of our citizens currently detained was a more important matter. This time, as you mentioned, we will point out the issues and clearly make a protest statement to the US."
10. Wide of parliamentary hearing
11. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Cho Hyun, South Korean Foreign Minister:
"The departure schedule (for the charter plane to bring the South Korean workers home from the U.S.) has not been set. This is simply because there are still technical and administrative procedures remaining."
12. Various of parliamentary hearing
STORYLINE:
South Korea’s Foreign Minister Cho Hyun said on Monday that the government will "devote meticulous efforts" to negotiations with the US after an agreement to release 300 South Korean workers detained following a massive immigration raid at a Hyundai plant in Georgia.
"We had no choice but to adjust the level of our response to some extent because rescuing more than 300 of our citizens currently detained was a more important matter," Hyun said during a parliamentary hearing with lawmakers in Seoul.
The South Korean government announced on Sunday that the workers would be released and brought home, following negotiations between South Korea and the US.
Hyun said South Korea plans to send a charter plane to bring the workers home as soon as remaining administrative steps are completed.
The foreign ministry said Hyun is to leave for the US on Monday afternoon for talks related to the workers’ release.
US immigration authorities said on 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.
Cho said that more than 300 South Koreans were among the detained.
South Korea’s Foreign Ministry said that Seoul and Washington are discussing details on allowing all the detained workers to return on a voluntary basis.
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