{"id":42262,"date":"2025-11-19T04:55:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T04:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/?p=42262"},"modified":"2025-11-19T04:55:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T04:55:31","slug":"c8ey0nl62ypoat_mediumrssat_campaignrss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/2025\/11\/19\/c8ey0nl62ypoat_mediumrssat_campaignrss\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyundai boss says White House apologised to him over Georgia raid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Hyundai chief executive Jos\u00e9 Mu\u00f1oz said on Wednesday that the White House has apologised to him over a massive immigration raid at a factory in the US state of Georgia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Speaking at a conference of business leaders in Singapore, Mr Mu\u00f1oz said the governor of Georgia had also called him and said &#8220;I don&#8217;t know what happened, this is not state jurisdiction.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">In September, more than 300 South Korean workers were detained in a raid at a battery plant operated by Hyundai and electronics giant LG, raising tensions between Washington and Seoul.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The BBC has contacted the White House and the governor of Georgia for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">During the raid, workers were forced to sit on the floor of the factory as officers shackled their legs in scenes that sparked outrage in South Korea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The workers were held in detention for more than a week before being flown home after the South Korean government held urgent talks with the US.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The company warned in September that the raid would delay the plant&#8217;s opening due to labour shortages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Mr Mu\u00f1oz said during a panel discussion at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum that he believed that someone had &#8220;made a phone call and made it look like there were illegal immigrants&#8221; at the plant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;That&#8217;s absolutely not the case,&#8221; said Mr Mu\u00f1oz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The raid was &#8220;a bad surprise&#8221; but the company remained committed to manufacturing in the US, he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">US President Donald Trump has previously said that he was &#8220;very much opposed&#8221; to the raid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Trump said at the time that the US had an &#8220;understanding&#8221; with the world on the need to bring in experts to set up specialised facilities and train local workers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Despite the raid increasing tensions between the US and South Korea, the two countries announced in October that they had reached a broad trade deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Under the agreement, the two sides reduced reciprocal tariffs from 25% to 15%, while South Korea said it would invest $350bn (\u00a3266.5bn) in the US.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n#Hyundai #boss #White #House #apologised #Georgia #raid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hyundai chief executive Jos\u00e9 Mu\u00f1oz said on Wednesday that the White House has apologised to him over a massive immigration&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mzansi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42264,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42262\/revisions\/42264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}