ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is touring to South Korea in his 6th in another country travel as governor.
The Republican left past due Monday for a kind of 10-day travel to the Asian country, arriving on Wednesday in South Korea. He plans to go back in the midst of subsequent week.
Kemp is visiting with South Korean companies that these days do trade in Georgia, in addition to those that would possibly open places there, state officers stated. The kind of 15-person delegation, which contains lawmakers and state financial recruiters, will host a reception along with Hyundai Motor Workforce however doesn’t plan to satisfy with political or cultural leaders.
Jessica Atwell, a spokesperson for the Georgia Division of Financial Building, stated the reception will likely be “a possibility to carry many companions in combination in a single position to honor the partnerships now we have cultivated over just about 4 many years.”
Kemp can even grasp conferences with LG Workforce, SK Workforce, Hanwha Qcells and CJ Foodville.
LG Workforce is development an electrical automobile battery plant on the $7.6 billion car meeting advanced that Hyundai is setting up close to Savannah. SK Workforce owns a battery plant in Trade and is development a plant to make semiconductor fabrics in Covington. Hanwha Qcells owns sun panel vegetation in Dalton and Cartersville. CJ Foodville is development a bakery in Gainesville.
The fee to taxpayers for the travel isn’t in an instant to be had.
When in South Korea in 2019, Kemp met with then-High Minister Lee Nak-yon and Hyundai Motor Workforce officers earlier than the conglomerate introduced its Ellabell facility. Kemp went to Germany in 2020, visited Israel in Might 2023 and the country of Georgia and France in June 2023. He additionally attended the Global Financial Discussion board in Davos, Switzerland, in January 2023 and 2024.
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