Detained Hyundai employees fly to South Korea

被拘留的现代员工飞往韩国

World Business Report

2025-09-12

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More than 300 South Koreans who were arrested in the raid in the Hyundai plant in Georgia have now been released from detention and flown to their country. And how can this affect the economic relations between both countries? London's underground rail system – the Tube – has been closed for five days by a strike over pay and conditions for train drivers, and this has been very stressful for commuters, but more than that, it has been very damaging for businesses. And Roger Hearing hears about the use of artificial intelligence to write speeches for politics and business, and how you can detect if it's written by AI or a human.
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  • Hello and welcome to World Business Report from the BBC World Service.

  • I'm Roger Hearing and on this edition,

  • hundreds of Korean workers flying home after arrest by American immigration officials in Georgia.

  • What will be the effect now on plans for new battery factories in the US?

  • Also, London counts the cost of business from a strike on the capital's underground trains.

  • Where are AI bots now writing the speeches of business leaders and politicians?

  • You will find somebody who leaves school at 16 or 18, who's a smart sort of tradesman,

  • will be able to write a better speech than an Oxford PPE graduate.

  • And we're in Nigeria to see how a community is recovering from a disaster from a collapsed mine.

  • Last week, a raid by U.S. ICE,

  • immigration control and enforcement on a Hyundai and LG battery plant in Georgia resulted in the arrest of over 400 Korean workers.

  • The officials claimed that they were working there illegally.

  • The raid caused something of a diplomatic row between Seoul and Washington,

  • and it means the plant is now facing a minimum start-up delay of two to three months.

  • That's according to the Hyundai CEO Jose Munoz.

  • The plant, part of a $7.6 billion factory complex to make battery-powered models,

  • was due to come online later this year.

  • The fallout of the raid has been widespread.

  • Workers at other LG plants, including those co-owned by GM were asked to return home.