SEOUL – President Donald Trump temporarily delayed the repatriation of more than 300 South Korean workers to South Korea after the Hyundai-LG raid in Georgia to explore whether they could stay in the United States to educate and train American workers, South Korean officials said Thursday.

The 316 South Koreans were released from their detention facility Thursday and are scheduled to arrive home Friday afternoon. They were initially set to leave on a chartered Korean Air flight Wednesday, the day that South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun met with Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Washington and requested their “swift release.”

South Korean officials had attributed the delay to an issue on the American side, without elaborating.

Cho learned from Rubio that Trump had halted the release

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