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Samick or SPG (Korea; builder disputed): guitar plant in South Korea · Guitar Story

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Samick or SPG (Korea; builder disputed)

Name: Samick or SPG (Korea; builder disputed)
Address: South Korea

South Korea (location known to country level only)^{no source}. Built for 1 brand on record.

conflict:K010 prefix KS read as Samick (Reverb) or SPG (forum). Location null (country level only); centroid removed 2026-10-15.

More: every plant in South Korea, the Gretsch lineage.

Where it is

No location is on record for this plant (South Korea), so it is not mapped.

Brands built here

Every headstock this plant has built for, on record. A contract plant can sit behind several brands at once.

Brand	Lines	Years
Gretsch	Gretsch Electromatic	2000–2021^{[1, 2]}

Production record

Years	Brand	Line	Role	Source
2000–2021	Gretsch	Gretsch Electromatic	full build	disputed^{[1, 2]}

Where its materials come from

No supply records for this plant yet.

Sources

Every numbered marker on this page points here: the document, its grade and the passages relied on. An era is computed, so it cites the facts it was derived from. A fact marked “no source” has no claim attached yet.

1
reverb: news/how to date a gretsch guitargraded secondary
- "KS = Korea - Samick"Gretsch built here
2
gretsch-talk: threads/gretsch korean plants.105525graded community
- "'KS' stands for Korea: SPG factory"Gretsch built here

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