South Korea says it has reached deal with US to release 300 workers at Georgia plant

Some 475 people, most of them South Korean nationals, were detained at the site on Friday, immigration authorities said (Corey Bullard/US Immigration and Customs Enforcement via AP)

More than 300 South Korean workers detained following a massive immigration raid at a Hyundai plant in Georgia will be released and brought home, the South Korean government has announced.

Presidential chief of staff Kang Hoon-sik said that South Korea and the US had finalised negotiations on the workers’ release.