Seoul, South Korea –– U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is leading an economic delegation to South Korea to secure more international investment in Georgia.
Today, Sen. Ossoff met with the leaders of Hyundai Motor Group, Kia Corporation, and SK Group to urge further economic investments in Georgia.
Earlier this year, Sen. Ossoff negotiated a settlement to a trade dispute between LG and SK that threatened the $2.6 billion SK Innovation electric vehicle battery plant in Commerce, Georgia.
Hyundai Motor Group is a partial owner of Kia, which operates the Kia Georgia manufacturing plant in West Point, Georgia. The plant employs more than 2,700 people and manufactures roughly 40 percent of all Kia products sold in the United States.