During the last decade, the South Korean enterprise group has grown exponentially in Houston, thanks largely to the rise within the export worth of mineral gas and Houston’s import of iron and metal, in addition to Houston naming Ulsan, South Korea its nineteenth sister metropolis.

Jackson Walker accomplice Sang M. Shin spoke with KHOU 11 concerning the rising South Korean enterprise group and his position in serving to firms navigate the U.S. authorized system and offering steerage on the very best methods to succeed.

“So, plenty of these firms, despite the fact that they’re large, subtle worldwide firms overseas, and in Korea, they’ll come and so they’re like, ‘I don’t know the place to begin’. The tradition may be very completely different right here and the way folks do enterprise isn’t just primarily based on handshakes however primarily based on one thing contractual in nature,” Sang famous.

For the total story, see “Houston’s Enterprise With South Korean Corporations Practically Quadrupled Over the Final Decade” by KHOU 11.

Meet Sang

Sang M. Shin is a enterprise immigration legal professional with broad expertise managing immigration issues for firms, people, buyers, and establishments by the U.S. and internationally. Sang handles a variety of nonimmigrant visas and petitions, and likewise supplies superior and strategic recommendation to shoppers on quite a lot of immigrant visas and labor certification (PERM). He handles family-based circumstances and U.S. citizenship issues, and frequently represents firms in reference to 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.