The WilCo Economic Development Partnership, a group of elected officials and business leaders from Williamson County, announced that they’ve opened an office 7,000 miles away in Seoul, South Korea.
The goal of the office is to identify South Korean companies looking to expand to the United States, and convince them to choose Williamson County.Construction on the semiconductor factory in Taylor is set to be done in 2025, with the $17 billion plant expected to bring around 2,000 jobs.This comes on the heels of the construction of the new Samsung plant that is currently being built in Taylor in Williamson County.
The WilCo office in Korea is essentially a counterpart to a Korean office that opened in Austin in April. South Korea’s state-funded trade organization, KOTRA, moved into a WeWork space on West 12th Street, in order to help foreign computer chip companies navigate relocating to Central Texas.City of Taylor is looking forward to growth with the Samsung plant and new Taylor ISD buildings.
Fittingly, the new WilCo office will be co-located with KOTRA’s headquarters in Seoul, so representatives for interested companies can simply walk down the hall.
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