Chapter 643 - High School Friend— Suk-Ho Lee (5) – Part 2
Jong-Suk Park went to see the accounting director while having Suk-Ho wait for him outside.
“I have a guest here, and I will need the company’s business credit card please.”
The accounting director handed the credit card to Jong-Suk Park and said, “Don’t forget to bring me the receipt.”
Jong-Suk pulled Suk-Ho’s arm and said, “Bro, I have the business credit card with me. Tell me what you want to eat. The lunch is on me.”
Jong-Suk Park and Suk-Ho Lee went to a nice Korean restaurant that specialized in Galbi (Korean grilled beef ribs) for lunch.
Gun-Ho had lunch with Chan-Ho Eom that day. On the way to Dyeon Korea in Asan City, they stopped by a restaurant in front of a reservoir in Eumbong Town. They had a pork cutlet. After finishing their lunch and a cup of coffee, they took a brief walk around the reservoir before heading to Dyeon Korea.
When Gun-Ho arrived at his office in Dyeon Korea, the internal auditor walked into the office. Director Kim was not in the office as usual since he had a meeting with a client or potential client most of the time.
“According to Director Kim, we can apply for the certificate to be recognized as a start-up company with technology and also for our research center, after we receive the external audit for this year.”
“Right, that’s what I heard from him too. I think that’s what we should do, right?”
“We will be even more prepared after receiving the external audit and also filing our corporate tax.”
“It has been a year and a half since Dyeon Korea was established. We will have our financial statements for this year and also the half of the previous year by then.”
“That’s correct, sir.”
“Okay. Let’s not rush. If we try something when we are not fully prepared for it, we will encounter various unexpected obstacles that will make us waste our time.”
“In the worst-case scenario, we will have to pay the full corporate tax at 22%. As a matter of fact, 22% is not that bad. We will generate more income later on. So, maybe it’s not so bad to pay 22% of our profits now, and we prepare for the later time when we would generate more profits, by figuring out how to save the tax.”
“Sounds good.”
“Yes, sir.”
The old man— the chief research officer— was looking into something through a microscope when Gun-Ho walked into his office.
“Are you researching something?”
“Oh! Sir. You are here.”
The chief research officer stood up from his seat rapidly.
“Please stay there. I just stopped by to see how things are going here.”
“I feel like I’m holding a permanent position as a chief research officer here like the old days, with my own office and all these lab equipment. Haha.”
“I’m so glad that you are healthy and doing well here.”
“Manager Yoo is doing an excellent job managing the research center, which enables me to focus on research only.”
“What are you researching by the way?”
“I was observing the chemical reactions when some chemicals were compounded.”
“Haha, I see. Well, I’d better leave you going back to your research.”
When Gun-Ho went back to his office on the second floor, Director Kim, who just came back from a client site, entered Gun-Ho’s office.
“You must feel tired about making a trip to a client site all the time.”
“It’s okay, sir. It’s my job, and I’ve been doing this for a long time.”
“It’s November now. It looks like we don’t have anyone who would get promoted in Dyeon Korea this year, right?”
“That’s right, sir. We have many people who are transferred from GH Mobile, and they were already promoted to one level up in position when they joined us, so we won’t need to promote anyone this year. We will probably have to promote a few people considering their work performance next year though.”
“Our plant manager— Mr. Yoo— is in a manager position. He’s not going to make one level up this year, right?”
“Manager Yoo received his promotion to the manager position last year. He works hard, and I recognize his competency, but it’s too early to promote him again this year.”
“Hmm.”
“We can give him a bonus at the end of this year though. It’s not like we are distributing the bonus to everyone at Dyeon Korea, but we will give it selectively to only those who did remarkable work this year. That way, the workers at GH Mobile won’t make any complaints.”
“Hmm, sounds good. Let’s give a bonus to those who did a good job this year then.”