South Korean President Lee Jae Myung ordered all-out efforts on Saturday (September 6, 2025) to reply to the arrests of lots of of the nation’s residents in a U.S. immigration raid on a Hyundai Motor automobile battery manufacturing unit.
Foreign Minister Cho Hyun stated the federal government has arrange a crew to reply to Thursday’s arrest of over 300 Koreans on the facility in the southern state of Georgia and that he could go to Washington to meet with officers if wanted.
“I am deeply concerned. I feel heavy responsibility for the arrests of our citizens,” Cho advised an emergency authorities assembly.
The arrest of some 475 employees on the plant close to Savannah, a part of President Donald Trump’s escalating crackdown on immigrants, was the most important single-site enforcement operation in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s historical past.
The incident may exacerbate tensions between the Trump administration and Seoul, a key Asian ally and investor in the U.S. They have been at odds over the small print of a commerce deal that features $350 billion of South Korean funding in the United States.
LG Energy Solution, which is working with Hyundai to construct the manufacturing unit, stated it had requested staff to return from U.S. enterprise journeys whereas suspending journey to the United States aside from buyer conferences.
LG Energy Solution stated 47 of its staff and about 250 employees for contractors on the three way partnership manufacturing unit have been detained.
