Raid on Georgia Battery Factory Forces Koreans Into ‘Vacation’

A massive immigration raid on a battery plant in Georgia earlier this month continues to reverberate across the region with workers staying home and delays mounting.

Ken Shim, president of Woowon Technology Inc., says he’s had to provide paid time off to ease the stress of South Korean engineers installing equipment at a cell plant being built by Hyundai Motor Co. and Korea’s SK On Co. near Cartersville, Georgia.

Shim, an American citizen who has lived in the US for more than a decade, stresses that his employees are all working legally — they have visas that allow for limited ...