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Korea - Economic and Business Development Contacts

Bruce Donnelly   bruce@gdi-solutions.com    (Biography)

Cityscape Asia - Singapore April 14-16, 2009

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We specialize in personal, independent introductions to relevant professional service providers such as business location strategy consultants and our many economic development contacts according to the project interests of the executives we serve. www.ontheshortlist.com

Please contact us to discuss such services or introductory referrals.

Partners4Technology

The International Business Introduction Service

for Technology-Led Business Cluster Development

www.partners4technology.com

Contact us to seek advice, research, and referrals for business investment in Korea .

We are independent advisors - not a government agency, investment promotion agency, association, commercial real estate firm, property developer, or site selection consultant.

Similar regional directories list economic development contacts for Japan, China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, Australia and New Zealand, and Southeast Asia and Pacific 

Maps for Korea , Japan and China and Taiwan are available for convenient reference.

Suggestions are welcome for useful information sources for executives planning investment in Korea.

We welcome reciprocal links from relevant organizations.

Bruce Donnelly

www.investkorea.org

www.ikjournal.com

www.kisc.org

http://www.kt-i.org/ 

Invest Korea - North American offices for investment promotion

maps

GIS tools (NA) - see other maps on their website for reference

The KOTRA field offices also have other staff for Korean trade promotion work.

Jang Hee Lee

Los Angeles

(323)954-9500

email: Jang Hee Lee

Area Profile

promotional materials - yes

Introductions and our other services are driven by investor interests.

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Data Pointers

major real estate

see other contacts below

Recent Projects in South Korea

Companies in South Korea

Free Economic Zone in Korea (FEZ)

www.english.metro.seoul.kr

www.sipro.seoul.kr

map

www.kg21.net/et/index.html

http://english.busan.go.kr

•  Organizations are generally sorted in postal code order so that locations which are geographically close to each other will usually (not always) be grouped together.  This is a selective directory, even though the state directory is more comprehensive than the very selective one we will maintain at the regional level to highlight the organizations which support our work or are found to be of frequent interest for the convenience of the executives and business advisors we serve.
•  Scope : is the area served by the organization, and postal code.  We may include thumbnail maps which expand to show information about participating areas, or link directly to good maps or GIS research tools on the organization's website.
•  Contacts : relationship leader at GDI Solutions for maintaining information about contacts in this area.  If there is a working relationship through our various GUIDE services, we also list the key organization contact, phone, and optional e-mail.
•  Website and other resources : Aside from the main website link, we may include other direct links to highlight special features of expected interest to executives, especially if they might not be readily noticed by just visiting the website.  A good example of this is when relevant content is actually maintained somewhere else, such as a regional website rather than the local one, so that one would otherwise need to know to follow the available links between the websites.

•  SICR : organizations which participate in our marketing and corporate relationship development work to find and refer relevant projects as an independent professional service, whether as a shared service or according to their specific targeting priorities.
•  Survey : areas which have responded to our GUIDE Network Survey, with a link to their response for convenience if published (optional) and highlighted at the top.  This is often useful as an executive summary at the "long list" stage of location selection.
•  Profile : participates in our GUIDE Area Profile service (also highlighted at the top of the page).  This involves a closer working relationship to maintain more timely and detailed knowledge of the area throughout the year, and also involves a more detailed executive summary on the website, with many relevant links.  If there are significant incentives in the area, we may also link to a GUIDE Incentives Profile.
•  Report : this is used to highlight independent research about the area, such as directories of available sites and buildings, or consultant reports about the area such as labor market studies, cost comparisons, local market analysis, etc.
•  Experience : this highlights information related to investor experiences in the area, which may include consulting reports, detailed testimonials, lists of companies in the area (and surrounding areas), and examples of recent project announcements.  If there are significant industry clusters or special initiatives which investors in the area may find to be beneficial, these can be highlighted here to differentiate the area.

Executives are also encouraged to respond to our free Executive Survey (download Adobe PDF copy) which helps us to continuously improve.

The selections are simply intended to be helpful to executives who may be unaware of such contacts, or how to reach their websites quickly.  Please contact us directly for relevant introductions or any additional contacts, market knowledge, and research which we don't publish.

The following additional sources of information are included here for ease of reference.  Refer also to the list of US Government or related information sources for this or other countries.  Have you found other good sources, or local contacts for economic development and investment support?  Please let us know so that we may share them with others.

www.BuyUSA.gov/korea

www.cskorea-doc.gov

Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)

and BizAPEC online business support

http://www.apecsec.org.sg/

http://www.bizapec.com/main.htm

http://www.business-in-asia.com/about_ra.html

www.eiu.com

Those who describe Guantanamo as a gulag do not know their history - old or recent.  Various organizations are trying to expose this Holocaust and the gulags of our time, including perhaps 200,000 political prisoners by some official estimates.  Others offer foreign aid to the perpetrators and whatever humanitarian relief can be provided to the victims.  This group is trying to expose the human rights atrocities in North Korea which much of the world has largely chosen to ignore, as if the containment of such abuses within their borders and the successful deterrence of war so far has made this acceptable.

Of course, US news media and politicians at the time called Hitler's moves against Austria and Czechoslovakia and the ruthless invasion of Poland a "phony war", and still rationalized political and military inaction long after the fall of France and the Battle of Britain, and the enormous casualties of the war in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.  Stalin may have been ruthless, but he was largely abandoned to confront the rise of Hitler too, so at least he was trying to deal with a very real threat to the security of his country, unlike the subsequent Cold War era context of containment of an expansionist Soviet Union.

www.koreatimes.co.kr

www.korealink.co.kr/times

Korea Herald - English newspaper

The Herald Business

www.koreaherald.co.kr

www.heraldbiz.com

The American Chamber of Commerce in Korea

Published a recent book about the history of US business investment in Korea

The European Union Chamber of Commerce in Korea, TEL +82-2-725-9880 Seoul

Publishes success stories of European companies in Korea

Asia Society, their Asia Business Today events,

and their Asia Source service for country comparisons

www.asiasociety.org     www.asiabusinesstoday.org

www.asiasource.org

This section will be used  for convenience to highlight major corporate real estate firms with operations in the region.

See also the global CRE list, which can be used to find local offices of firms which may not be highlighted below.

We may also provide selective major property listings for the region, with links to the real estate firms and agents involved.

Note that the Korean government maintains a "Korea Real Estate Information Center" reference website at www.kreic.com

This section will be used to selectively highlight major firms with operations in Korea, as well as global firms with significant capabilities and experience in Korea.

See also the selective global lists of location consultants and project management services.

This section will be used to highlight major firms within the region, as well as global firms with significant experience in the region.

See also the selective global lists of tax advisors and international legal advisors.

The legal profession in Korea is a very closed market, so foreign legal consultants generally work with local attorneys rather than through branches or subsidiaries.

www.mckinneyconsulting.com   

Steven B. McKinney, President   TEL 822 725-3830, 3903 (direct)