South Korea

Trump scores golden gifts as United States and Seoul advance trade talks

By Chris Megerian, Associated Press

Although a deal is not yet signed, the two sides are addressing details of $350 billion that would be invested in the American economy.

Will Trump meet with Kim? Speculation flares ahead of U.S. president's visit to South Korea

By Hyung-Jin Kim, Kim Tong-Hyung, Associated Press

If realized, it would mark the two’s first summit since their last meeting at the Korean border village of Panmunjom in June 2019, and fourth overall.

Trump will promote big investments in Japan and South Korea, but details are fuzzy

By Josh Boak, Hyung-Jin Kim, Associated Press

President Donald Trump is going to Japan and South Korea next week to promote an epic financial windfall — at least $900 billion in investments for U.S. factories, a natural gas pipeline and other projects.

U.S. will allow South Koreans with short-term visas and waivers to work at industrial sites, Seoul says

By Kim Tong-Hyung, Associated Press

The announcement came weeks after South Korea flew home more than 300 of its nationals who had been detained in a massive immigration raid at a battery factory being built on Hyundai's sprawling auto plant campus near Savannah, Georgia.

Trump says he and Xi will meet in South Korea next month and he'll later go to China

By Didi Tang, Associated Press

In a Truth Social post afterward, Trump said Xi would come to the United states and noted the leaders made progress on "the approval of the TikTok Deal.

South Korean workers return home after days in detention following US immigration raid

By Kim Tong-Hyung, Hyung-Jin Kim, Associated Press

Their roundup and the U.S. release of video showing some Korean workers shackled with chains around their hands, ankles and waists have caused public outrage and a sense of betrayal in South Korea, a key U.S. ally.

South Korean workers who were detained in a Hyundai factory raid are now headed home. Here's what else to know

By Kate Brumback, Russ Bynum, Associated Press

The workers went by bus from southeast Georgia to Atlanta earlier in the day and are expected to land in South Korea on Friday afternoon.

More than 300 South Korean workers detained in immigration raid leave Atlanta and head home

By Kate Brumback, Kim Tong-Hyung, Associated Press

South Korea's Foreign Ministry said the detainees released by U.S. authorities included 316 Koreans, 10 Chinese nationals, three Japanese nationals and one Indonesian.

South Korea sends plane to U.S. to bring back workers detained in immigration raid

By Hyung-Jin Kim, Kim Tong-Hyung, Associated Press

A total of 475 workers, more than 300 of them South Koreans, were rounded up in the Sept. 4 raid at the battery factory under construction at Hyundai's sprawling auto plant west of Savannah.

Attorney says detained Korean Hyundai workers had special skills for short-term jobs

By Russ Bynum, Kate Brumback, Hyung-Jin Kim, Associated Press

An immigration attorney says many South Korean workers detained in a U.S. immigration raid at a Hyundai plant in Georgia were brought in for highly specialized work that Americans aren't trained to perform.