[2] It was a United States subsidiary of Sejung, a South Korean corporation with a factory in Qingdao, China.
(By 2011, the privately owned company would have textile, construction, and information technology businesses with estimated revenues of $1 billion.
[4]) In 2001, Sejung Chairman Soon Ho Park decided to spend $20 million to build a 700,000-square-foot piano and guitar factory in China,[4] staffed by experienced Korean managers, to make instruments for local and export sales.
[4] America Sejung was incorporated in 2002 as a distribution arm in the United States, initially located in Walnut, California.
The company secured the Hobart M. Cable trademark that year,[6] and began offering Cable-branded pianos in two studio and two console models.