US Official Offers Regrets Over Detention of South Koreans

US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau on Sunday expressed regret over the recent detention of hundreds of South Korean workers in Georgia.

Landau, in Seoul for a Korea-US vice foreign ministerial meeting, said that the 316 South Koreans who returned home Friday on a chartered jet after being detained in Georgia will face no disadvantage when re-entering the US, according to South Korea’s foreign ministry.

South Korean workers detained in the US immigration sweep arrive in Incheon, South Korea, on Sept. 12.

Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg

Earlier this month, US immigration authorities carried out a sweeping raid on a Hyundai Motor Co.-LG Energy Solution Ltd. battery plant under construction in Georgia. Images of detained workers being ...