US issues apology for Hyundai immigration raid
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🗓️ 19 November 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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From the BBC World Service: The chief executive of the South Korean firm Hyundai said that the White House phoned him personally to apologize for an immigration raid at a massive battery factory in Georgia in September. More than 300 South Korean workers were detained and later sent back to South Korea, stoking tensions between the two nations. Plus, China has imposed a ban on all imports of Japanese seafood amid a growing dispute between Asia's two biggest economies
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| 0:30.9 | The head of Hyundai says the White House has apologized for that mass immigration raid at a Georgia factory. |
| 0:37.2 | Live from the UK, this is the |
| 0:38.6 | Marketplace Morning Report from the BBC World Service. I'm William Lee Adams. Good morning. |
| 0:44.1 | The chief executive of Hyundai says that the White House phoned him to apologize for an immigration |
| 0:48.9 | raid at its battery factory in the U.S. state of Georgia in September. More than 300 South Korean workers were detained |
| 0:55.5 | and later sent back to South Korea, stoking tensions between Washington and Seoul. Chief |
| 1:00.3 | Executive Jose Munoz was speaking at a conference of business leaders in Singapore, |
| 1:05.0 | and the BBC's Nick Marsh was there, Nick High. |
| 1:08.2 | Hello, William. So tell us exactly what Hyundai's boss said. |
| 1:12.5 | Well, he was speaking at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum. |
| 1:16.2 | I was listening to him speak about trade and tariffs and AI and that sort of thing. |
| 1:21.2 | And he was asked about this raid in a plant in Georgia that Hyundai runs. |
| 1:27.1 | I don't know if you remember, the images were quite |
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