SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean media reports a charter plane has left for the U.S. to bring back Korean workers detained in an immigration raid in Georgia. A total of 475 workers, more than 300 of them South Koreans, were rounded up in the Sept. 4 raid at the battery factory under construction at Hyundai’s sprawling auto plant west of Savannah. Some were shown being shackled with chains around their hands, ankles and waists in video released by U.S. authorities. South Korea’s government later said it reached an agreement with the U.S. for the release of the workers.
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