[JumpCrisscross]

> 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]

How 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]

The 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]

The EU can pay them. Whos to say all these people are koreans. There might be alot of native europeans who would stay