South Koreans Seized in ICE Raid Return Home to Rousing Welcome

Hundreds of South Korean workers detained in a US immigration raid last week have returned home, ending an ordeal that has strained ties between Washington and Seoul and raised doubts about billions of dollars of planned Korean investment in the US.

A Korean Air Lines Co. jet carrying 330 people — 316 of them South Koreans — touched down at Incheon International Airport on Friday to a rousing welcome from anxious families. The arrivals hall buzzed in anticipation of the return of the workers, with camera crews packed shoulder to shoulder and lenses fixed on the exit doors.