[tzs]

> Who determined it determined it is infeasible how was it determined? It's a car assembly plant, not a semiconductor fab that requires niche advanced degrees only available in Taiwan

It's not a car assembly plant. It's a battery factory. There is a car

> Surely the required labor can be found across a country of 300 million people, or easily trained from other adjacent fields that have lost workers due to economic driven redundancies or who want to switch careers for whatever reason.

When it is operational, probably. But right now it is being built and most of the Korean workers were engineers and technicians specializing in installing, testing, and bringing up highly technical specialized battery manufacturing equipment from Korea.

> They're the ones telling their voters there'll be a factory opening where they live and then the voters rejoice and think "woo-hoo, more jobs for us" but then the bureaucrats are like "well, actually, those jobs will go towards imported foreigners, not to you". If you were them, wouldn't you be pissed too?

These were temporary workers to install and bring up the equipment, and train US workers to operate it. Once running it was indeed going to employ mostly US workers, around 3000 directly and maybe another 5000 US jobs would be created in the domestic parts of its supply chain.

There is also a car factory in the same campus. That is running and most of the workers are US citizens. Hyundai has emphasized training local workers.

[FirmwareBurner]

>When it is operational, probably. But right now it is being built and most of the Korean workers were engineers and technicians specializing in installing, testing, and bringing up highly technical specialized battery manufacturing equipment from Korea.

OK good point. But then why hasn't Hyundai US management made sure to get their imported workers legal visas or that the people they hired had their visas up to date? Surely when you're running a business visa and immigration laws is another one of the things on your checklist, similar to having to follow OHSA laws, fire safety, fire drills, first aid, diversity and sensitivity training, etc and all the other stuff companies operating in the US have to follow.

Also be aware, my original comment was target that person's comment specifically, not the issues from the article.

[favflam]

I most humbly suggest that your finger is pointed in the wrong direction.

The ASMR deportation videos from the Homeland Security department and the fetish this maga movement seems to have in brutalizing foreigners coming to the US would indicate to me that the paperwork is not the problem.

Maybe that is the underlying point. Why does the US government, this administration, and its supporters have a fetish for chaining up foreigners and putting them in deportation camps housed no better than cattle (alligator alcatraz?)? Do they not consider the consequences of this?

US sales pitch: "Please build factories here, but I reserve the right at my own discretion with no warning to parade your employees in chains and stuff them into poorly maintained detention centers. Then to kick them out of the country and blame you.".

[pritambaral]

Who says they didn't? There is only one party here who acted in bad faith, and it wasn't Hyundai.

In fact, this party has a — by now well-established — track-record of precisely this bad behaviour. They haven't even tried to hide their actions, only their individual faces. They've been public about their disdain for the law, for humanity, and their general evil plans.

And here you are accusing their victims of crimes you, like them, have no evidence of.

[FirmwareBurner]

>Who says they didn't?

Government law enforcement says.

>There is only one party here who acted in bad faith, and it wasn't Hyundai.

Oh, so you were there present witnessing the arrests, and then you managed to check their visas to confirm Hyundai was 100% squeaky clean?

Then why aren't you with Hyundai suing the US government for abuse. Lawyers will have a field day with this if what you say is true.

>In fact, this party has a — by now well-established — track-record of precisely this bad behaviour. They haven't even tried to hide their actions, only their individual faces. They've been public about their disdain for the law, for humanity, and their general evil plans.

If you're talking about the evil Chaebol Hyundai here, then you'd be right, as it indeed has a very poor track record for legal violations:

### Hyundai Motor Group Controversies (Korea & International)

  - *Korea: Embezzlement (2006–2007)*  
  Chairman Chung Mong-koo got a suspended sentence for embezzling ~$106M for bribes and family control. Exposed chaebol corruption.

  - *Korea: Labor Disputes (Ongoing, peaked 2014–2016)\*  
  Violent strikes over wages and conditions cost $2.4B in production. Unions criticize Hyundai's autocratic management.

  - *Korea: Whistleblower Retaliation (2016–2017)*  
  Engineer Kim Gwang-ho exposed safety defect cover-ups, faced retaliation, and sparked U.S. probes and recalls.

  - *Korea: Family Succession Feuds (1990s–2010s)*  
  Chung family power struggles led to splits and nepotism allegations, highlighting chaebol governance issues.

  - *International: Fuel Economy Fraud (2012–2014)*  
  Hyundai/Kia overstated MPG for 1M+ U.S. vehicles, paid $300M in fines and credits.

  - *International: Diesel Emissions Cheating (2015–2022)*  
  Accused of using defeat devices, Hyundai settled for $192M in the U.S. and recalled millions globally.

  - *International: Safety Defects (2010s–2020s)*  
  Engine fires and brake issues led to 3M+ U.S. recalls and $100M+ in fines, tied to whistleblower claims.