Seoul, Sep 11 (AP) South Korea's Foreign Ministry says US authorities have released 330 workers, mostly Koreans, who were detained at a battery factory under construction in Georgia last week, ahead of their flight back to South Korea.

The workers were being transported by buses to Atlanta, where they will board a charter flight scheduled to arrive in South Korea on Friday afternoon, the ministry confirmed on Thursday.

The September 4 immigration raid at the construction site, which is part of Hyundai's sprawling auto plant in Georgia, sparked widespread anger in South Korea, coming shortly after Seoul pledged hundreds of billions of dollars in US investments while negotiating to avoid the Trump administration's highest tariffs. (AP) SKS SKS SKS