South Korea arranged for workers detained in an immigration raid in Georgia to be released and flown home. Foreign Minister Cho Hyun is flying in the opposite direction to deal with the political and economic fallout.
Careful or they’ll round you up too. Unless your net worth is at least 7 digits.
I was thinking about this a bit and I think this specific sort of thing could be a positive. The law needs to apply to everyone, when you make a stupid law you shouldn’t be able to say “actually this doesn’t apply to our political allies or white people”. The federal government should have to experience the consequences of their choices. If we get local governments etc to take the new policy literally and be deporting people from Britain and Isreal and whatever allies we still have that we actually care about, then something’s going to have to change - we’ll either have to say the quiet part out loud, that these laws actually only apply people we’re racist against, or we’ll have to stop randomly deporting people without warning. Or that’s my random thought at least.
I can’t wait for Trump to call this guy Cho Hyundai.
And it sounds like Korea is looking for something like an apology from Trump. lol not sure what they are expecting.
I don’t think they’re after an apology. I think they’re signaling that it is a good idea to repatriate. South Korea has a huge and growing lack of young people so it is not a lot of effort to be showy about protecting their people
Well let’s hope they don’t expect the apology. But the article mentions how they feel betrayed after promising to invest so much in the US. And that this is not how an ally should act.
Exactly. South Korea doesn’t realize that this is Trump’s way of signaling that he needs a kick-back.
He needs money in his pocket in order for the workers to be released. Once they have them back, South Korea should pull out their investments in the US.
All countries should pull out their investments in the US. Hell, I wish I knew how to pull mine out
I actually did this a few months ago. I switched out my 401k domestic mutual funds for international funds. I did a check on my investments and they are doing great.
I also divested from any federal bonds and only invested in local/state bonds.
It’s not much but it’s the right thing to do.
I did a partial switch shortly after Trump was elected and also cashed out at fairly high points and left a chunk in money market.
They would rather have those people back in Korea than in Uganda or wherever the Trump regime wants to send them.
Ayy leave Uganda out of this
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/26/nx-s1-5515524/abrego-garcia-uganda-deportation
Not my fault Uganda decided to get involved in this.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/28/africa/uganda-trump-us-migrant-deal-intl
South Korea’s quality of life is way better than the US.
I really hope they are able to do something meaningful that helps build trust with there poeple.
Cho Hy-Un-Dai or Cho Hundo?
There is a nearing 0% chance Trump could actually pronounce Hyundai.
e-honda.
Very, very few westerners can. They almost always pronounce it with three syllables.
I’ve never heard anybody pronounce it with more than two.
Hay-un-dee
One of their latest advertising campaigns on british television is about pronouncing it as 2 syllables. In North America it’s already pronounced like “hun day” which is pretty damn close, I think.
Yeah “hun day” isn’t too bad. I’m not Korean myself, but I think I prefer that pronunciation to “hi-oon-day” which is what I usually hear.
“Hun day” kind reminds me of “win” as a pronunciation of Vietnamese “Nguyen”. It’s obviously wrong, but it works pretty well as a pronunciation that uses phonemes and phonotactics common to English.
I pronounce it “high n’ die.”
Because I like saying high n’ die lol.
Sort of, or “hun die”. The actual name in Korean is 현대, which is romanized as Hyundai and pronounced almost like it’s spelled. I think “hyon dey” is closer, but Korean pronunciation is a bit nuanced.
it drives me nuts that it rhymes with Day but the Americans just randomly pick a new vowel
Happens with Japanese companies too, like Nikon. Also words that end in eh sound become ee, like karate and karaoke and sake.
It’s definitely not unique to Americans.
And tbh I don’t really blame them too much. It’s spelt with an older form of romanisation which is, in my opinion, really, really awful. I don’t really love more modern romanisation schemes, but at least “dae” would be unlikely to be pronounced as “die” in the way “dai” is.
Yeah, this. I’m probably more aware of and familiar with world languages than the average American, but I have flipflopped between die and day pronunciations of Hyundai. I tried to figure out why that might be and I think it’s probably related to the romanization differences among several east Asian languages. This seems most problematic with older romanization methods. Newer ones feel more intuitive.
For example I’m meant to pronounce the ‘ai’ in Taipei, Saipan and zaibatsu as rhyming with “die”, but the ‘ai’ in Hyundai and waifu as "rhyming with “day”. So it’s memorization and context. Which feels very appropriate as an English speaker when all of our shit is irregularities and exceptions!
Yeah Modern Revised Romanisation transcribes ㅐ as “ae”, which works a lot better.
Though it introduces its own problems. For example, it transcribes ㅓ as “eo”, which causes English speakers to pronounce it as “ee-oh”. Take Jecheon (제천). Most English speakers would pronounce that as “jeh-chee-on”. A better pronunciation would be jae-chun (with “u” being the vowel in “gut”, or maybe jae-chon" (the vowel in “chop”).
I pronounce it like they do in Kim’s Convenience. No idea if that is accurate, but I was hopeful that a show whose main characters are Korean would pronounce it accurately.
I did have to go and check but yeah, that’s it.
“We thought you were only going to deport the Mexicans, when we contributed to your campaign!”
Hyundai has donated 25% to republicans according to goods unite us.
I will scratch Hyundai and KIA of my list when purchasing my next automobile.
I don’t know if it’s possible to find a megacorp that doesn’t give to Republicans
25% of what?
Of their political contributions.
And 75% to other countries or to democrats?
They’ll probably get snatched by ICE
I would love to see them try to snatch a foreign government official.
It could unite the north with the south again.
The Trump administration shouldn’t be changing the rules, detaining people that previously had valid status
“Mein Fuhrer can’t do that! It’s illegal!”
Who’s gonna stop him, with what army?
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Oh hey hey, I found the inbred xenophobic redneck who’s never left the county let alone country.
I’d tell you to go to Seoul, spend a week there and report back just how bad it is, but this knucklefuck would cry that only 80% can speak fluent English, and English words aren’t the largest text on signs, only 2nd largest.
Go back to farming crawdads and asking for FEMA assistance you twat.
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Watch them get tortured by ICE.
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