A chartered Korean Air Co. plane departed for the United States on Wednesday to bring home hundreds of South Koreans detained in a recent immigration crackdown in Georgia, USA.

Axar.az informs, citing Yonhap, the aircraft, with a seating capacity of 368, has been deployed to bring back some 300 Korean nationals detained during an immigration crackdown by U.S. authorities on a battery plant construction site run by a joint venture of Hyundai Motor Group and LG Energy Solution Ltd. in Bryan County last week.

The plane is expected to arrive back in Korea on Thursday afternoon.

Seoul and Washington have been in final coordination over the departure of detained Koreans, according to the consul general at the Korean Embassy in Washington, with most of them expected to return home in the form of "voluntary departure" rather than deportation.