South Korea’s leading clothing export company, Sae-A Trading, recently began operations of a new factory in the Central American state of the Dominican Republic. The factory is equipped with the latest equipment, 26 production lines, and able to produce US$ 36 million worth of export goods annually. The motto of this new production subsidiary is ‘localization’, meaning that all senior positions, from the factory manager to each departmental managerial positions, are hired locally, in order to localize the branch and create jobs in the region.
