Plane carrying South Korean workers detained in US lands at Incheon airport | Latest Travel News
INCHEON, South Korea (GWN) – A chartered airplane carrying some 300 South Koreans, who have been detained in a large-scale U.S. immigration raid at a battery project website, landed at Incheon airport on Friday, TV footage confirmed.
Their return capped a week of intense negotiations by Seoul to win their release and deliver them home after they have been taken into custody in handcuffs and shackles – stunning many in South Korea, a key U.S. ally.
South Korean companies have long struggled with getting correct visas for specialist workers needed at project websites for months at a time, which has led to some workers relying on gray areas in U.S. visa enforcement.
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The two nations are trying at establishing a working group to think about a new kind of visa for Koreans, according to South Korea’s international minister who visited Washington this week.
The airplane also carried 10 workers from China, three from Japan and an Indonesian national.
(Reporting by Jack Kim; Editing by Ed Davies and Edwina Gibbs)
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