The government said on Sunday that South Korea would send a charter plane to the United States to retrieve hundreds of workers detained in an immigration raid.

The South Korean government said Friday it had expressed "regret" to the U.S. Embassy over the raid at a battery plant under construction at one of the state's largest…

Nearly 500 workers were apprehended at a construction site for a South Korean battery maker in Georgia, officials said. The episode prompted diplomatic concern in Seoul.