Until 2002, the vast majority of G-400s were built in Korea by the Samick Corporation.
In an attempt to expand their business, in 1992 they sold half of Valley Arts to the Korean guitar manufacturer Samick.
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Cort took over the production of the AS series, but did not have the production capacity that Samick had.
S = Samick, E = Young Chang, E letter serial numbers were used on Young Chang's Fenix brand guitars.