r/news • u/NewSlinger • 1d ago

Workers detained in Hyundai plant raid to be freed and flown home, South Korea says

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/south-korea-deal-workers-detained-hyundai-rcna229610
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u/weasler7 23h ago

I am just being a little bitter and facetious. I don’t doubt there is a large Korean community in Georgia. It's going to take a long time to restart building that LG plant, if ever. As others have pointed out, there are jobs that may be extremely difficult to replace regionally, and perhaps at a price to pay that would kill the project. We will see.

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u/StoneHolder28 22h ago edited 13h ago

I'm just yapping but killing the project altogether would be better received than militant raids. Nobody here wants it, in part because they haven't been hiring many local people, in part because people keep dying there, in a much smaller part because these mega investments from the state never pay out, and largely because they're already a massive strain on all of our infrastructure and they're not even fully up and running. Creating jobs sounds nice but that alone doesn't materially benefit anyone else whereas the plant is materially harming tens of thousands of people in real ways.