LG Electronics to Construct R&D and Engineering Hub in WV

Earlier this year, West Virginia Governor Jim Justice announced a partnership between the state of WV and LG Electronics to grow business, add jobs and advance technologies related to “renewable energy, health care and industries of the future”. LG is used to these types of public/private partnerships and saw an opportunity in the Mountain State. Over the next five years, the South Korean-based electronics giant plans to provide 275 high-skill jobs in the state through the creation of several businesses, including “construct[ing] both a research and development and an engineering hub within the state that will hire software engineers, architects and developers”.

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