Plant
contract campus
South Korea (location known to country level only)no source. Built for 1 brand on record.
Korean Samick factory stopped making Epiphones in 2002. Location null (country level only); country-centroid point removed 2026-10-15. guitarinsite (S057) places Samick's Korean factory in Incheon; not yet geocoded from a cited address.
More: every plant in South Korea, the Epiphone lineage.
No location is on record for this plant (South Korea), so it is not mapped.
Every headstock this plant has built for, on record. A contract plant can sit behind several brands at once.
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| Years | Operator | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 1984–2002 | Samick Musical Instruments | community[1] |
The plant stays the same across these rows; the company behind the name does not.
| Years | Line | Owner | Parent |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984–1986[2, 3, 4, 1] | Epiphone Korea | Norlin Corporation (ECL) | — |
| 1986–2002[2, 5, 6, 3, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 1] | Epiphone Korea | Gibson Guitar Corp. / Gibson Brands, Inc. (2013) / Gibson, Inc. (2024) | — |
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