During the last decade, the South Korean enterprise neighborhood 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 neighborhood and his position in serving to firms navigate the U.S. authorized system and offering steerage on the perfect methods to succeed.

“So, a variety of these firms, despite the fact that they’re big, refined worldwide firms overseas, and in Korea, they’ll come and so they’re like, ‘I don’t know the place to start out’. The tradition could be very totally different right here and the way individuals do enterprise isn’t just based mostly on handshakes however based mostly on one thing contractual in nature,” Sang famous.

For the complete story, see “Houston’s Enterprise With South Korean Firms Almost 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 via the U.S. and internationally. Sang handles a variety of nonimmigrant visas and petitions, and in addition supplies superior and strategic recommendation to shoppers on quite a lot of immigrant visas and labor certification (PERM). He handles family-based instances and U.S. citizenship issues, and recurrently 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) Type I-9 (Employment Eligibility Verification) audits.