Seoul: South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said Tuesday he feels heavy responsibility over the detention of South Korean workers at a battery plant construction site in Georgia by US immigration...

South Korea said on Monday it was in talks with the United States over allowing the reentry of hundreds of its citizens who were arrested last week during a U.S. immigration raid at a car battery project and are due to be flown home soon.

Three hundred South Korean workers detained during a massive immigration raid in the United States will be released and brought home, South Korea’s government said on Sunday.

South Korea said on Monday it was in talks with the United States over allowing the re-entry of hundreds of its citizens who were arrested last week during a U.S. immigration raid at a car battery project and are due to be flown home soon. About 300 South Koreans were among 475 people arrested on Thursday at the site of a $4.3 billion project by Hyundai Motor and LG Energy Solution to build batteries for electric cars. It was the largest single-site enforcement operation in the history of the Department of Homeland Security's investigative operations, and sent shockwaves through South Korea, a U.S. ally which has been trying to finalise a trade deal agreed in July.

The U.S. will release some 300 South Korean migrants arrested at a Hyundai factory in Georgia after reaching a deal with South Korea's government.

Footage of the raid released by US authorities showed detained workers, in handcuffs and with chains around their ankles, being loaded onto an inmate bus.

A plane will be on its way to bring back the Koreans once administrative procedures are completed, Kang Hun-sik, Presidential Chief of Staff, said in televised remarks.