If you're getting a new guitar, buy Cort. You can get a middle-range quality from them for about the same as a p.o.s. squire, and if you spend not too different from $600 you can get a completely professional quality guitar from them (depending on if you like the pickups, I'm the only person I know who doesn't).
Cort is in Korea. They also make guitars for Fender (and maybe jackson, since they're owned by fender), Epiphone, Ibanez, Schecter, BC Rich, Agile, Conklin, and a couple smaller ones I can never remember.
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-A.H.
-A.H.