00:00South Korea may send its top diplomat to the U.S. after hundreds of its nationals were arrested
00:05during a raid at a Hyundai battery plant in Georgia. The decision was made at an emergency
00:10meeting of the country's foreign ministry on Saturday.
00:17In the course of U.S. law enforcement, the rights of our people and the economic activities of
00:23South Korean investors in the U.S. must not be unjustly infringed upon. President Lee Jae-myung
00:30also ordered our embassy in the U.S. and the consulate general in Atlanta to make all-out
00:35efforts to resolve this matter swiftly. Over 300 Korean workers at the plant have been detained
00:42by U.S. authorities, part of President Donald Trump's nationwide crackdown on immigrants.
00:48Seoul is still negotiating with Washington on a trade deal that would lower its tariff rate
00:53on auto exports. In exchange, South Korea would invest 350 billion U.S. dollars in the United
00:59States. But there are now concerns that the incident in Georgia might impact those negotiations.
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