Is South Korea rethinking its US ties after the Hyundai raid?

Live from the UK, this is the Marketplace Morning Report from the BBC World Service.

Hello, I'm Stuart Clarkson.

We're starting South Korea this morning where hundreds of workers have arrived home

following a raid by US immigration at the Hyundai battery plant in Georgia.

Officials said many workers had violated their visas. The BBC's Gene McKenzie was at the airport when plant in Georgia. Officials said many workers had violated their visas.

The BBC's Gene McKenzie was at the airport when their flight landed.

The workers looked happy but tired as they were brought through the airport

and shepherded onto coaches to be reunited with their families.

They'd been in the US helping to build a new car battery plant

run by two South Korean companies, Hyundai and LG. Part of a push by the US helping to build a new car battery plant run by two South Korean companies, Hyundai and LG,

part of a push by the US to get foreign companies to manufacture in America.

There was outrage here when the workers were taken away in handcuffs.

Seoul and Washington eventually struck a deal to allow the workers to leave voluntarily,

rather than be deported.

That's Gene McKenzie reporting with the BBC's Katie Silvers with us on Marketplace to look at the impact of all this.

Hi, Katie.

Hi.

What does it mean for the plant there in Georgia now? It's going to be a long delay, I guess.

Yeah, we're hearing from Hyundai saying it could take two to three months longer to build this factory. We've heard,

for example, from the chief executive Jose Munoz, who said that minimum two to three months,

because now the big question is most of these workers won't necessarily want to come back. So they're

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