SweetWater Brewing Co.’s annual 420 Fest is a decidedly local affair, a celebration of good music and easy living in the heart of the local craft brewer’s hometown. But this weekend, cruising Centennial Olympic Park and listening to headliner Widespread Panic will be a bevy of foreign faces seeking to understand the culture behind some of their favorite […]
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Hits Keep on Coming: Korean Brake Manufacturer Chooses Georgia for $20M Plant
A day after he traveled to Jackson County for the groundbreaking of Georgia’s largest-ever foreign investment, Gov. Brian Kemp was in downtown Atlanta meeting with yet another Korean manufacturer setting up shop here. Sangsin Technology America is building a $20 million factory in McDonough that will create some 200 jobs when it opens in May, the […]
Ambassadors Hail ‘Progress’ From Trump’s North Korea Summit
President Donald Trump’s much-hyped summit last month with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi may have ended without any concrete agreements, but it still represents progress on the painstaking path toward denuclearization, U.S. and South Korean diplomats said in Atlanta this week. “Both sides now understand better each other’s position; also both sides want to […]
Secretary Ross Focuses on Tariff-Threatened Auto Sector at Korean Groundbreaking in Georgia
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross joined company officials, legislators and diplomats for a groundbreaking ceremony on the Korean investment that is set to become the largest ever foreign deal for the state. SK Innovation announced earlier this year that it would put a $1.67 billion electric vehicle battery factory in […]
MLK’s Daughter Finds Korea ‘More Peaceful and Calm Than U.S.’ as President Moon Describes Steps to Unification
The Rev. Dr. Bernice King , the CEO of Atlanta’s King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, was among the 10,000 guests who witnessed South Korea’s president Moon Jae-in’s impassioned March 1 speech reaffirming his country’s 1919 Declaration of Independence and setting his agenda for the reunification of the Korean peninsula. Delivered in honor of the […]
First Exported Kia Telluride SUVs Head From Georgia to the Middle East
The first Georgia-made Kia Tellurides to be exported started their journey overseas Tuesday as the eight-seater SUVs were loaded at the Port of Brunswick en route to buyers in the Middle East. The first shipment, handled by auto shipper Hyundai Glovis (part of Kia’s sister company Hyundai’s group of companies) included about 250 Tellurides headed […]
American Korean Friendship Society Awards Honor Patriotism and Service
As the U.S. prepares for denuclearization negotiations with North Korea‘s supreme leader next month, the American Korean Friendship Society honored at its annual dinner Jan. 25 Major General Daniel D. Yoo and Jay K. Eun with its “New American Hero” and “Lifetime Achievement” awards. In August 2018, Major Gen. Yoo assumed command of the Marine’s […]
Korean General Cautious But Hopeful About Upcoming Summit
By the time that he had returned to South Korea early this week, Lt. Gen. In-Bum Chun‘s predictions of an upcoming summit between President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un, North Korea‘s supreme leader, appeared to be taking shape. The lieutenant general, who retired in 2016 after a 35-year career in the South Korean army, had […]
Chamber Dinner Highlights U.S.-Korean Blood Ties Among Veterans
Gen. Raymond G. Davis, who received the Medal of Honor for leading a storied rescue of fellow Marines besieged by Chinese troops at the Chosin Reservoir during the Korean War, is probably the best known Georgian who fought in that devastating battle. General Davis, a combat veteran of three wars and the assistant commandant of […]
SK Innovation Donation to Net $120K for Jackson County Schools
SK Innovation, a South Korean battery manufacturer, committed to donating $60,000 to improve career preparedness in Jackson County schools, the first act of engagement in a community where it will invest an estimated $1.67 billion. The donation is to go to the Empower College and Career Center, a charter high school focused on vocational skills, […]
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