IIRC there was a thread about this at the FDP a year or two back. As I recall Asian Squier production is liscensed out to a few manufacturers, one of whom is Samick. So it's a Squier made at the Samick plant, rather than an actual Samick.

E.g. a ProTone Squier IS a Squier, not a Cort, although all were manufactured at the Korean Cort plant.

I suppose it's a semantical difference more than anything else.