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> The value is not in the literal buildings, the value is in the people The people are physically in Europe, too. (Adding limits on remote management for natio
by JumpCrisscross 5mo ago
> The value is not in the literal buildings, the value is in the people
The people are physically in Europe, too. (Adding limits on remote management for national-security reasons might make sense.)
If Korea and Europe get in a war, or, more likely, China pressures them to straight up ditch that capital investment, that lets the EU hold those folks until knowledge transfer can be conducted. Again, this is a strategically different place of leverage from those assets being overseas.
- alxhill 5mo agoHow will they ensure they continue working or train replacements if their parent company no longer employs or pays them? What's to stop them leaving the country?
- klooney 5mo agoThe thing people are worried about is "Seoul is a pile of rubble and so are all the factories". The people in Europe are probably going to stay for a little bit.
- samrus 5mo agoThe EU can pay them. Whos to say all these people are koreans. There might be alot of native europeans who would stay