Lemme use my autism and possibly PL for a bit, cause there are a couple of possibilities.
LG is joint-venturing with Hyundai to build a 300,000-battery per year plant in Georgia just outside of Savannah.
These modern plants have tons of automation that is highly dependent on the plant IT system to work, and if the theory that Airi works as a database admin is true, she was probably brought in to consult on hires for plant-level IT personnel.
Parts of Savannah can be kinda sketchy, though Bryan County is mostly rural - Mr. Slippery Holster is just as likely a lily-white good ol' boy as he is an "urban youth", cause if there's one thing I know about the rural South it's that everyone keeps a Glock in their pickup truck.
However, this is not the only possibility, since there are other Korean-owned factories in the Eastern Time Zone of the US. Samsung is also building a battery plant in Kokomo, Indiana, and one in Michigan, which are both in EST.
And this is assuming that Airi is even working on the battery manufacturing side of one of these Korean companies. Samsung has an appliance manufacturing plant in Newberry County, South Carolina, which is a fairly sketchy area as it's on the outskirts of Columbia, SC. She could also be working for Kia - they operate a plant southwest of Atlanta,
just inside Eastern Time as it's across the border from Alabama.
We just need to ask her opinion on washing machines and fridges, that'll be our clue
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