Chapter 718 - H Group’s CEO Choi (2) – Part 1
It was mid-June.
Gun-Ho was checking his email in GH Development’s president’s office in the GH Building, Sinsa Town. He saw a new email sent by Lymondell Dyeon’s Vice President Brandon Burke. It was a two-day-old email.
“It came in two days ago, and now I see this email because I was too lazy to check my email every day.”
Gun-Ho clicked the email to open it. The email was written in English.
[There is a well-known moulding company in Seattle. They are manufacturing quality twin screws. Their office number is xxxx, and the name of the company is West Moulding Corp. Good luck to you.]
Gun-Ho replied to his email thanking him for the information. He then called for Secretary Yeon-Soo Oh.
“This is the phone number of a company in Seattle. It manufactures machine parts like screws. I want you to make a call to this number, introduce yourself as you are calling from GH Mobile in Korea, and ask them the price for their twin screws.”
“Yes, sir.”
“Also, please find out their company address as well.”
“Yes, sir.”
Ms. Yeon-Soo Oh dialed the number and spoke to them in English. She then covered the smartphone with her hand and said to Gun-Ho, “They are asking about the specification of the twin screws that we want. He is asking for some numbers that come after M, so he can recognize the specific twin-screw that we are looking for.”
“I’m not sure about the specification. Tell him that the screws will be used in a large extruding machine for compounding.”
After talking to the person over the phone, Secretary Yeon-Soo Oh came back to Gun-Ho again and said, “He said that there are many types of twin screws that go into a large compounding extruding machine. He said the price varies in the range between 10,000 and 100,000 dollars.”
“That is enough. Ask him for the name of the owner or the person who is in charge of sales. And also, tell him that we will visit the company in the near future.”
Secretary Yeon-Soo Oh spoke on the phone for a moment and wrote down something on the paper. It seemed that she was writing down the name of the salesperson and the company’s address. After getting off the phone, Ms. Yeon-Soo Oh showed a piece of paper to Gun-Ho with the information on it.
“We don’t need to take Assistant Manager Myeong-Joon Chae.”
“Who’s going to interpret for you then?”
“We have an employee in GH Mobile who speaks English fluently. We previously hired him in case we need an interpreter in dealing with Chrysler.”
“Oh, is that right?”
“He had previously lived in the U.S. for seven years. He speaks English very well.”
“Did he go to college in the states?”
“Yes, sir. Let me introduce him to you.”
President Song made a call to someone.
“Manager Seo? Is Assistant Manager Ji-Woong Kim in the office?”
“Yes, he is here, sir.”
“Please send him to President Goo’s office right now.”
“Yes, sir.”
After a moment, a man who looked like he was in his early 30s came into Gun-Ho’s office. President Song said to the man, “Please meet President Goo.”
The Ji-Woong Kim person gave a 90-degree bow to Gun-Ho. He saw Gun-Ho several times in the hall when passing by, but he hadn’t really met Gun-Ho in a close distance before. Assistant Ji-Woong Kim looked nervous in front of Gun-Ho, who was the owner president of the company that he was working for, and also, Gun-Ho was someone who was running several companies.
Gun-Ho smiled and said, “Mr. Assistant Ji-Woong Kim? I was told that you speak English very well.”
“Not fluently, sir, but I can communicate in English, sir.”
“Where did you go to college?”
“I went to college in Illinois, sir.”
“How many years have you stayed in the U.S.?”
“I’ve been there for seven years, sir.”
“Are your parents living in Cheonan City?”
“No, sir. They live in Yeongdeungpo District, Seoul. They are staying in a studio.”
“Hmm, I see. You look like a very competent worker. I hope you enjoy working with us.”
“Thank you, sir.”
Assistant Manager Ji-Woong Kim gave a deep bow to Gun-Ho again before leaving the office. Gun-Ho said to President Song, “He looks like a humble person.”
“Yes, sir. He is polite and has a very good manner.”
“Okay, then, ask Assistant Manager Kim, who was just here, to contact this manufacturing company. Once you arrange the meeting with them, make a trip to the U.S. with Director Jong-Suk Park and Assistant Manager Kim. If we could build the machines and sell them to Dyeon companies for a price that is twice more than our actual production cost, GH Mobile will make money too.”
“That’s true…”
“I believe that we have several workers in the maintenance team. I think machines can be built by the maintenance team. If they need more labor, we will provide them.”
“Understood, sir. We will give it a try.”
“And, I’ve noticed last week that we are still in the process of hiring more workers. Is it done?”
“Yes, sir. We hired 50 new workers and placed them in a pertinent department.”
“Even though we have 50 more workers here, I don’t see much difference though.”
“Since we already had a lot of workers, having 50 more people won’t make any noticeable change, especially once we send them to each department. We now have 650 workers.”
“That’s a lot. So, those new 50 workers are working in our second factory, huh?”
“Right. Most of them are placed in the departments in that location.”