South Korea Reels From Shocking ICE Expulsions of Battery Engineers
Kim Dong-Myung, chief executive officer of LG Energy Solution Ltd., center, is surrounded by members of media as he leaves the Incheon International Airport on Friday, Sept. 12, 2025. Hundreds of South Korean workers detained in the US sweep earlier this month have returned home on a chartered plane, ending a weeklong ordeal in an episode that has raised doubts about Korean investment and strained ties between the two allies.
Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/BloombergWelcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Yoolim Lee reports on the reverberations after a large group of Korean engineers were detained by ICE.
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