U.S.–Korea Workforce Strategy Summit

The inaugural U.S.–Korea Workforce Strategy Summit is a full Midtown day for the people staffing Korean manufacturing growth in Georgia and the Southeast. It runs Thursday, September 10, 2026, from 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM at the Georgia Tech Research Institute Conference Center, 250 14th Street NW. Co-hosts are the Southeast U.S. Korean Chamber of Commerce and The Korea Society, with support from the Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in Atlanta. The program moves from talent-pipeline and staffing panels into a counsel’s briefing on visas and I-9 compliance, a networking lunch with an executive fireside chat, and a closing block on cross-cultural leadership. Registration opens around 7:30 AM.

SEUSKCC is the regional Korean chamber for the Southeast manufacturing corridor. The Korea Society is a national U.S.–Korea institution. Together they are aiming the room at HR, operations, and executives inside Korean manufacturers, suppliers, and partners in battery, EV, solar, automotive, logistics, and professional services. Named voices on the public page include Hyundai Motor Group’s Steven Jahng, Dentons Global Advisors partner and Korea Society board member Tami Overby, and Georgia Tech Scheller professor Dr. Eugene Kim. GaMEP, a Georgia Tech program, is listed as venue partner. The host frames attendance around roughly 150 curated seats rather than a trade-show floor.

This is right if you hire, staff, or lead Korean or supplier plants in Georgia and the Southeast, or if you advise those companies on workforce, immigration, or community integration. Korean American and U.S. partners who need the compliance-and-culture layer after the capital announcements are the clearest fit. Skip it if you want a short mixer, a general Ascend career night, or a consumer-startup pitch room. Bring one staffing or compliance question so the counsel’s briefing and lunch table have somewhere to land.

Member tickets are listed at $35 with a SEUSKCC registration code emailed by the chamber; non-member tickets are $150. Registration includes sessions, lunch, and morning refreshments. Confirm parking and final room instructions in the confirmation email; GTRI sits on the Georgia Tech Midtown campus, not Perimeter. Contact on the page is Peter Kim at peter@seuskcc.org. Screenshot confirmation. If you are choosing between this summit and Ascend Atlanta’s Midtown EY meet-and-greet earlier in the season, pick by goal: SEUSKCC is the manufacturing-workforce room; Ascend is the broader Pan-Asian career graph.