Thursday, April 26, 2007
Shirley Frankin = Shinjuku Girl?
Cause she's in Tokyo.
Mayor Franklin is on a Japan - South Korea - Taiwan junket to drum up business between us and them.
Sez the official statement her goals are:
Leveraging Atlanta Sister City connections for economic development
Visiting with Asian companies that already have a presence in metro Atlanta
Meeting with prospects in Asia that could possibly expand to metro Atlanta
Promoting metro Atlanta as a global business center
Accompanying / sending / promoting her are the usual suspects including the Chamber of Commerce, GDEcD, Coca-Cola and all the big Atlanta companies.
"I expect this to be one of many trips mayors that follow me will make to Korea," Franklin is quoted in the AJC.
Why she singled out Korea is unclear since I can't see the context, but the AJC implies its because there are 100,000 Korean-Americans in the Metro, 4,000 of whom operate small businesses.
Anyway, the delegation returns April 30.
Mayor Franklin is on a Japan - South Korea - Taiwan junket to drum up business between us and them.
Sez the official statement her goals are:
Leveraging Atlanta Sister City connections for economic development
Visiting with Asian companies that already have a presence in metro Atlanta
Meeting with prospects in Asia that could possibly expand to metro Atlanta
Promoting metro Atlanta as a global business center
Accompanying / sending / promoting her are the usual suspects including the Chamber of Commerce, GDEcD, Coca-Cola and all the big Atlanta companies.
"I expect this to be one of many trips mayors that follow me will make to Korea," Franklin is quoted in the AJC.
Why she singled out Korea is unclear since I can't see the context, but the AJC implies its because there are 100,000 Korean-Americans in the Metro, 4,000 of whom operate small businesses.
Anyway, the delegation returns April 30.
A pic from Atlanta CoC showing Franklin and her delegation
at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport in Tokyo Apr 26.
¶ 9:25 PM
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Why does a politician do anything? The AJC likely got it half-right. The business leadership of the rapidly growing Atlanta Koreatown over in Gwinnett has likely facilitated significant campaign contributions her way -- moreso than any other unified bloc of immigrant contributors. Kimchi like anything else probably tastes better with a liberal sprinkling of quid-pro-quo.
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