South Korea’s foreign minister is considering a trip to the U.S. to meet with the Trump administration after hundreds of South Korean nationals were arrested in Georgia this week at an electric vehicle battery plant.

“We are deeply concerned and feel a heavy sense of responsibility over the arrests of our nationals,” Foreign Minister Cho Hyun said at an emergency meeting in Seoul, according to the national Yonhap News Agency .

Hundreds of South Koreans are among 475 detained in a Georgia immigration raid

“The business activities of our investors and the rights of our nationals must not be unjustly infringed,” a foreign ministry spokesman said after about 300 South Koreans were detained.

He said South Korean President Lee Jae Myung called for all-out efforts to swiftly resolve the

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