Police and labor authorities are seeking detention warrants for officials at SPC Samlip’s Sihwa plant in Siheung, Gyeonggi, over a worker’s death last year.
A Vietnamese international student in Korea was detained on suspicion of abandoning her newborn baby, leading to the infant’s death, authorities said. A court on Wednesday approved a detention warrant on charges of child abuse resulting in death.
Concerns are growing in the Korean American community in Los Angeles after it was revealed that a Korean immigrant married to a U.S. citizen has been detained for over 40 days following his green card interview.
Seoul and Washington formally launched a dedicated support channel inside the U.S. Embassy in Seoul on Friday to assist Korean companies investing in the United States and prevent visa-related disruptions.
Hyundai Motor CEO José Muñoz said he received a phone call from the White House and was personally apologized to regarding the massive detention of Korean workers in a Georgia plant in early September.
The Daejeon District Prosecutors’ Office indicted 53 members of a large-scale international voice phishing ring based in Southeast Asia on charges including fraud under the Act on the Aggravated Punishment of Specific Economic Crimes.
Kim Keon Hee, the wife of former President Yoon Suk Yeol, who is being held at the Seoul Southern Detention Center, was spotted visiting a hospital for medical treatment.
Industry Minister Kim Jung-kwan said U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick pledged to "fix" the visa issue that resulted in the detention of Koreans in Georgia, while stressing that the current U.S. administration is breaking trade conventions.
Korea's head of foreign affairs made a rare public outcry against the United States in light of the recent confinement of Korean nationals in Georgia, effectively calling the country unreliable as a diplomatic partner.
From strict lengths on trips to wholesale suspensions on travel to the United States, the raid at the Georgia plant has spooked Korean businesses into caution at the risk of delaying the progress of U.S. investments.
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