
More than the final decade, the South Korean company neighborhood has grown exponentially in Houston, thanks in massive aspect to the enhance in the export worth of mineral fuel and Houston’s import of iron and steel, as properly as Houston naming Ulsan, South Korea its 19th sister city.
Jackson Walker companion Sang M. Shin spoke with KHOU 11 about the developing South Korean company neighborhood and his function in assisting firms navigate the U.S. legal program and delivering guidance on the finest approaches to succeed.
“So, a lot of these firms, even although they’re substantial, sophisticated international firms abroad, and in Korea, they’ll come and they’re like, ‘I do not know exactly where to start’. The culture is quite various right here and how persons do company is not just primarily based on handshakes but primarily based on one thing contractual in nature,” Sang noted.
For the complete story, see “Houston’s Organization With South Korean Organizations Practically Quadrupled More than the Final Decade” by KHOU 11.
Meet Sang
Sang M. Shin is a company immigration lawyer with broad encounter managing immigration matters for firms, men and women, investors, and institutions by means of the U.S. and internationally. Sang handles a wide variety of nonimmigrant visas and petitions, and also supplies sophisticated and strategic guidance to clientele on a assortment of immigrant visas and labor certification (PERM). He handles loved ones-primarily based circumstances and U.S. citizenship matters, and consistently represents firms in connection with the U.S. Division of Homeland Safety (DHS), U.S. Division of Labor (DOL), U.S. Division of State (DOS), and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Kind I-9 (Employment Eligibility Verification) audits.