Seoul: A chartered Korean Air Co. plane is set to depart for the United States this week to repatriate hundreds of South Korean workers detained during a large-scale immigration raid at a Hyundai Motor Group-LG Energy Solution Ltd. battery plant construction site in Georgia, industry sources revealed.

According to Yonhap News Agency, Korean Air is preparing to deploy a Boeing 747-8i aircraft as early as Wednesday from Incheon International Airport to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. The aircraft, which has a seating capacity of 368, will be able to accommodate more than 300 South Koreans who were taken into custody.

The charter plane will travel empty to the U.S. and is anticipated to depart Atlanta late Wednesday (local time) at the earliest, transporting the released workers back to Incheon. The South Koreans will be transported from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in Folkston, Georgia, approximately 428 kilometers from Atlanta.

The immigration raid occurred Thursday at the construction site of an electric vehicle battery plant being built by a Hyundai Motor Group-LG Energy Solution Ltd. joint venture in Bryan County, near Savannah, Georgia.