I am in Europe and I bought in 2017 and 2018 2 SEs (245 and 22 semi-hollow) and they where marked as built in Korea by WMI.
Very nice instruments and great pleasure to learn and play with them.
I also own 2 Cort guitars, an old G290 (kind of better low cost strato offered by my children when I was in the black hole) and a Cort Manson M-Jet recently acquired on its specs.
I would say that the body wood part of the Corts are not same level of work as the SEs, no unplugged vibrations
But the necks are quite perfect (especially the M-Jet with its compound radius) and the EMG and Manson pickups are very respectable when plugged and rising level, and they have locking tuners, but no bags.
I prefer my Korean SEs...
But I am not surprised that PRS goes for Cort for its SEs, the strange thing is that Cort (Kor-Tech) is producing in Indonesia ??? May be due to the large conflict they created with their employees in Korea 10 years ago ???
Recently I bought my first S2, a Studio model, no more on PRS catalog 2019 (??), and it is a very fantastic guitar.
Pickups very special, fretboard rosewood layer quite double thickness than on SEs and Corts, very classy look.
I would be interested to compare a S2 singlecut with my SE 245 from 2017 ?
Paul and its team are marketing gurus playing with our money and 'désirs'