Chapter 591 - Bus Line Permit (1) – Part 2
Gun-Ho asked Jae-Sik Moon, “When you go on a trip to visit Guilin Daewoo Bus, are you taking your interpreter—Ms. Eun-Hwa Jo—with you?”
“I initially requested them that I would need her for the trip, but they said that it wouldn’t be necessary because Guilin Daewoo Bus has their interpreter who is a Korean Chinese, and also, they have several Korean people working there. So, they said that I don’t have to worry about communicating with them.”
“That’s nice. Well, have a safe trip.”
“Oh, and I told them that I picked a place where I want to live. When I told them that it is a condo in Huaxi Huayuan, the Chinese partners didn’t look very happy.”
“How come? Is that because it’s an expensive condo?”
“That’s all I can think of. But, they said they would accept my choice since the condo is less than 120 ㎡.”
“Hahaha. That’s good then.”
Gun-Ho made a call to his sister.
“Sister, it’s me. You still have the bank book with the sales proceeds from GH Logistics’ previous location, right?”
“Yeah. Is it time to transfer money to China?”
“I need you to send 3 million dollars to the same account in China that we previously sent 450,000 dollars to. It’s the account for Antang City’s transportation company.”
“Wow, 3 million dollars? That’s huge.”
“Don’t forget to keep the remittance receipt, and make sure that you file a report with the foreign exchange authority about the transfer. You have done this before. You still remember how to do this, right?”
“Yeah. Don’t worry about it. I will give you a call right after I make the remittance.”
“Sounds good. How’s business going there?”
“Two of our freight trucks are working for GH Mobile currently, and they gave us more work, and it would take an additional truck.”
“Haha, I see. Well, I’d better go now. Call me once you make the fund transfer, okay?”
“Okay.”
After getting off the phone with his sister, Gun-Ho was reading a newspaper in his office when President Shin from downstairs visited Gun-Ho.
“Ms. President Shin, you look nice today. Am I going to hear good news?”
“I just signed the contract to publish an essay book with a writer. I’ve already received her manuscript.”
“Is it good?”
“Well, you might not like it, I mean, you might think that you wouldn’t see anything to learn from reading that book. But, this kind of book is selling very well these days. The reading population is young readers like Ms. Secretary Yeon-Soo Oh who just brought us this cup of tea.”
“Hmm.”
Gun-Ho thought that it kind of made sense.
“I came to see you to let you know about the essay book, and also about the exhibition at our art gallery.”
“What about it? I believe that we are hosting an art exhibition with the artworks of six young artists.”
“Right. Once that art exhibition ends, I’m planning to host another art exhibition with three Japanese contemporary artists.”
“Japanese artists?”
“Yes, sir. These three artists, who I’ve been contacting, are young artists. They received a lot of attention during the recent exhibition in Tokyo. Mr. Yoshitake Matsuda introduced them to me.”
President Shin pulled out a pamphlet that was written in Japanese, and she unfolded it on the table so Gun-Ho could see the photos of art pieces. Most of them were paintings with intensely vibrant colors. They were those three Japanese young artists’ paintings.
President Shin added some explanation, “Japan’s contemporary arts have a wider spectrum than we expect.”
“I don’t know even after I looked at all of these photos of paintings.”
“One of the five Japanese national newspapers—Yomiuri Shimbun—once described these paintings as artworks that had distinctive characteristics in which we can take a peek of Japanese young people’s worry and their thought process. Mr. Yoshitake Matsuda is now working on the press release about our next art exhibition with these three young artists’ paintings.”
“Did we already sign the contract with them?”
“Of course, sir. Mr. Yoshitake Matsuda went to Japan and made a contract with the three artists. Since Yomiuri Shimbun made an issue of these young artists’ art exhibition earlier, our three major newspapers—Chosun, Joongang, and Donga Ilbo—will surely talk about them as well.”
“Hmm, you think so?”
Gun-Ho closely looked at the art pamphlet once again, which was written in Japanese and that President Shin brought for him.