India, Sept. 14 -- A South Korean worker who spent a week in ICE custody despite entering the United States legally has shed some light on the ordeal they faced. In a secretly-written 'detention diary' later shared with Yonhap News, the worker - who has not been named - wrote about the grim conditions and human rights violations experienced by more than 300 South Koreans who were arrested from an LG-Hyundai plant during an immigration raid on September 4.

On September 4 at 10 am, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents stormed a Hyundai-LG battery plant construction site in Georgia and arrested several 'undocumented' workers. Those detained included not just undocumented workers but also LG executives who were visiting the pl...