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ethagknight | 5 months ago

2022. This is the same company.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyundai_Alabama_child_labor_...

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kennywinker|5 months ago

“The raid swept up 475 people, most of them South Korean citizens, agents said.

No Hyundai employees were arrested, the carmaker said. LG Energy Solution, the battery manufacturer, said 47 of its employees were detained.”

- https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/us/politics/hyundai-plant...

South korea has made a deal to bring everybody arrested home. Because without the due process you or I would expect if arrested, their citizens could be locked up for months without legal recourse or end up “deported” to a for-profit prison in a different country (aka trafficked into slavery).