South Korea is working with US authorities to bring home hundreds of Korean workers detained in an immigration raid in the state of Georgia, Seoul’s foreign ministry said.

South Korean TV footage on Wednesday showed a charter plane, a Boeing 747-8i from Korean Air, taking off from Incheon International Airport, just west of Seoul.

The ministry said it was talking with US officials about letting the plane return home with the released workers as soon as possible. But it said the plane cannot depart from the US on Wednesday, as South Korea had hoped, due to an unspecified reason involving the United States authorities.

Before meeting US Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the White House on Wednesday, South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun said that he aimed to bring the workers home as q

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