South Korea chooses to bring ‘exhausted and in-shock’ workers home after plant raid

It has now emerged that Trump asked his officials to “encourage” the detained South Korean workers to extend their stay in the country and train American employees, foreign ministry officials in Seoul said at a briefing.

The president “emphasised that the detained Korean nationals were skilled workers and suggested they either remain in the U.S. to contribute to training the American workforce or be returned to South Korea, depending on Seoul’s stance”, a South Korean official said, according to the Financial Times.

Many of the arrested workers were exhausted and in shock and foreign minister Cho Hyun suggested that they instead return immediately to their home country. They could be allowed to go back to the U.S. for work later if necessary, the officials said.

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    19 hours ago

    South Korean workers, so “exhausted and in shock” that they desperately want to go back to South Korean work culture.

    LMAO you’ve truly outdone yourselves.

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      17 hours ago

      I mean, we’ve seen what ICE does to non-white people with no actual evidence. Christ, I’d want to go back to the evil I know, rather than the evil I don’t. I wouldn’t want to end up in some random prison in some random country for the crime of having the wrong skin color or ethnicity.