The other day, the US and South Korea agreed on the details of how the 300 workers would be flown home to South Korea.
And on Thursday, the Korean Air plane took off from the international airport in Atlanta, Hartsfield-Jackson, and is expected to land in South Korea on Friday.
The workers were driven to the airport by bus from a detention unit.
It was on Thursday that hundreds of federal agents struck against Hyundai's multi-billion facility in Georgia, where the South Korean car giant manufactures electric cars and also builds a battery factory together with the South Korean LG Energy Solution. 475 people were arrested, of which 300 were South Koreans according to an estimate from Seoul.
The raid was the largest workplace raid since Donald Trump took office as president in January. Some of those arrested are said to have worked at the battery factory, while others are reported to have been employed by subcontractors.
Trump said that those arrested were "illegal immigrants", but now it is said from the American side that they worked without correct visas.
South Korea's president Lee Jae-Myung says that the US visa system must be improved so that similar situations do not arise in the future.
This may have a decisive impact on investment decisions in the future, especially when evaluating the possibilities of having operations on site in the US, he says.
