Hwansung Group of Companies is the biggest Korean investor to East Africa, present in Uganda, Kenya and South Sudan.

In 1980, Mr. Sung-Hwan Kim, the chairman of Hwansung Group tried African market by establishing a trading company in Kenya and in 1986 he added necessaries manufacturing bags and cooking ware as well as another trading company in neiboring Uganda.

He also started a business of processing 'Nile perch', a family of Latidae inhabiting in Lake Victoria after building the largest frozen warehouse in the East African region located at Kampala, the capital of Uganda.

Exporting all the processed Nile Perch products to European countries, his business had grown to lead the market and while contributing to Uganda's economy through exporting. Mr. Kim has made a solid business foundation as a Korean investor to East Africa.