{"id":2614,"date":"2025-09-07T23:38:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T23:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/09\/07\/what-is-happening-to-us-and-south-koreas-relations\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T23:38:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T23:38:27","slug":"what-is-happening-to-us-and-south-koreas-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/09\/07\/what-is-happening-to-us-and-south-koreas-relations\/","title":{"rendered":"What is happening to US and South Korea\u2019s relations?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US immigration sweep on South Korean workers at Hyundai-LG electric vehicle battery plant sparks shock in Seoul.<\/p>\n<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p>The once rock-solid relationship between Washington and Seoul is being rocked by the detention of South Korean workers in a United States immigration swoop.<\/p>\n<p>The controversy is the latest jolt in the alliance. There has been turbulence over tariffs and military spending as well.<\/p>\n<p>Is the raid a one-off, or a sign of deeper trouble between the two nations?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Adrian Finighan<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Se-Woong Koo \u2013 founder of Korea Expose, an online magazine based in Seoul, specialising in Korean news<\/p>\n<p>Jenny Town \u2013 senior fellow at the Stimson Center in Washington, DC, and director of its Korea programme and 38 North<\/p>\n<p>Youngshik Bong \u2013 visiting professor at Yonsei University, Seoul<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US immigration sweep on South Korean workers at Hyundai-LG electric vehicle battery plant sparks shock in Seoul. The once rock-solid relationship between Washington and Seoul is being rocked by the detention of South Korean workers in a United States immigration swoop. The controversy is the latest jolt in the alliance. There has been turbulence over &#8230; <a title=\"What is happening to US and South Korea\u2019s relations?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/09\/07\/what-is-happening-to-us-and-south-koreas-relations\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about What is happening to US and South Korea\u2019s relations?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}