More than the final decade, the South Korean organization 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 effectively as Houston naming Ulsan, South Korea its 19th sister city.

Jackson Walker companion Sang M. Shin spoke with KHOU 11 about the expanding South Korean organization neighborhood and his part in assisting firms navigate the U.S. legal program and offering guidance on the ideal strategies to succeed.

“So, a lot of these firms, even even though they’re enormous, 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 extremely unique right here and how people today do organization is not just primarily based on handshakes but primarily based on some thing contractual in nature,” Sang noted.

For the complete story, see “Houston’s Organization With South Korean Corporations Almost Quadrupled More than the Final Decade” by KHOU 11.

Meet Sang

Sang M. Shin is a organization 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 delivers sophisticated and strategic suggestions to clientele on a wide variety of immigrant visas and labor certification (PERM). He handles household-primarily based circumstances and U.S. citizenship matters, and routinely 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.