President Lee Jae Myung (L) speaks during a Cabinet meeting held at the presidential office in Seoul on Sept. 9, 2025. (Image courtesy of Yonhap)
SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — 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 U.S. immigration authorities, offering his deep sympathy.
Lee made the remarks at a Cabinet meeting as more than 300 South Koreans have been taken into custody at a detention center in Georgia following a recent raid by U.S. immigration authorities on the electric battery plant construction site by Hyundai Motor Group and LG Energy Solution.
Lee told the meeting that he felt a “heavy sense of responsibility” as the president who is tasked with ensuring the safety of the people.
“Our citizens who were detained by U.S. immigration authorities are expected to return home soon,” Lee said. “I offer my deepest sympathy for the shock and distress they must have felt from this sudden incident.”
“I hope that no unfair infringements on the activities of our people and businesses — which contribute to the shared development of both Korea and the United States — will ever happen again,” he said.
(Yonhap)
