Chapter 480 - Business Tour in India (2) – Part 1
Gun-Ho was sitting in his office at Dyeon Korea, and he called for the interpreter— Mr. Lee.
“Please have a seat and have a cup of tea with me.”
“Of course, sir.”
Secretary Seon-Hye Yee brought tea to the president’s office. Ms. Seon-Hyeo Yee was the sister-in-law of a government official in Asan City. She could speak English. At the beginning of her employment, she was inept at work and sometimes made mistakes. But, she was handling her work very well now.
“How do you like your work so far, Mr. Interpreter Lee?”
“It’s good. I like it.”
“I understand that you have extensive work experience with a large company’s branch office abroad. Which countries had you worked at previously?”
“Usually, I had worked in the U.S. Also, I had been to Malaysia and Europe. Mostly, I had stayed in countries where English is an official language.”
“You retired when you were 53 years old which is such a young age to retire. You probably didn’t intend to end your career that early, right?”
“No I didn’t, but I didn’t really have a choice. If I miss the chance to promote at that time, I would have to quit anyway, and I had to compete with someone who was the company chairman’s good friend’s brother.”
“His friend’s brother? That could affect the promotion decision?”
“Even though the chairman didn’t directly indicate that he wanted to promote that person specifically, the CEO at that time gave me pressure and unreasonable hardship so I could quit voluntarily.”
“How did he do that?”
“He relocated me to the countryside, and he also placed me to a position where I had to work under the supervision of a person who was junior to me. When I made even a small mistake, he treated me like I was an incompetent total loser and made sure that everyone knew it. It was extremely hard to stand all those unfairness. All other executive officers sided with the CEO, and no one tried to speak up for me. Eventually, I quit with a severance package of 10-month worth pay.”
“Hmm, I see. I’m sure you are a competent and capable worker. It’s a shame that you had to quit your last job like that.”
“After quitting the job, I spent some time taking a rest before taking the position with a publishing company. I started as a translator of business management books. The publishing company liked the fact that I had work experience with business. I worked for President Jeong-Sook Shin in translating two books.”
Gun-Ho called for Director Kim and Mr. Adam Castler. This time, he asked Secretary Seon-Hye Yee to interpret for him.
“As you are well aware, I went on a trip to India, arranged by GH Mobile. I’ve decided to let Dyeon Korea get into the Indian market before GH Mobile. This is the right timing for us. We will start with a sales company there since having a manufacturing facility there would cost a substantial amount of investment funds.”
Director Kim and Mr. Adam Castler nodded their heads.
“As a start, I want to get a storage and an office space in either Delhi or Chennai, India, just like Dingding’s sales company in China. In China, we purchased its storage space, but this time, we want to lease a premises in India for storage. It will cost us less than 100 million won.”
As Gun-Ho continued to talk, Director Kim and Mr. Adam Castler were busy making a note of what he said.
“So, I’m thinking of sending Mr. Interpreter Lee to our future office in India after hiring him as our full-time employee.”
Director Kim and Mr. Adam Castler lifted their heads and looked at Gun-Ho’s face.