Chapter 379 - Basecamp For The Transportation Company (1) – Part 2
Chapter 379: Basecamp For The Transportation Company (1) – Part 2
Gun-Ho was reading a newspaper in his office when he decided to make a call to Jae-Sik Moon.
“Hey, tomorrow is Saturday. You are not going anywhere tomorrow, aren’t you?”
“No, I have no schedule set up for tomorrow. Why are you asking?”
“Are you going to stay in your home in Mangwon Town?”
“Yeah. I think we are going to do deep house cleaning tomorrow. My wife and I have neglected our home lately since we both have been so busy.”
“Can we meet? You can do the cleaning later, right?”
“Why?”
“There is an auto repair shop for sale. It’s located in Seonghwan Town. I want to visit it with you.”
“An auto repair shop? Why do we want to visit an auto repair shop?”
“I think maybe we can use it as our basecamp for GH Logistics.”
“Oh, I see. Sure. Where do we meet?”
“What about at the Seonghwan station?”
“Sounds good. I think I’m going to take a subway to get there. Is it okay with you?”
“Yeah. Take the subway. I will pick you up at the subway station.”
When it was about time to go home, Director Kim came back to the office.
Seol-Bing replied to Gun-Ho’s text when he almost arrived at his home.
[I have pre-engagement. I will text you later.]
Gun-Ho was thinking if he should contact Mori Aikko and he decided not to.
It was Saturday.
Gun-Ho didn’t call for Chan-Ho Eom.
“It’s Saturday. He should take some rest too. He is probably busy meeting with his friends or girls. Well, let’s drive my Land Rover today. It has been a while. The car was at the parking lot for too long. That’s not good for the car.”
Gun-Ho drove out his Land Rover from the parking lot. It was dusty. Gun-Ho drove it to a gas station in Yangjae Town and had it washed through an automatic car wash after filling up the tank of the car.
“I feel like I took a shower.”
Gun-Ho’s Land Rover was heading to an old truck terminal in front of Yangjae Citizens’ Forest. The truck terminal was close to the highway that Gun-Ho needed to take. He just had to make a U-turn in front of the truck terminal in order to enter the highway.
“Oh, this is the truck terminal. If the truck terminal was still in business, Jae-Sik would have been able to learn a lot from them for his transportation company. It’s a shame that they closed their business.”
Harim Group purchased this truck terminal in Yangjae Town for 450 billion won.
“This truck terminal was at an auction and kept failing to sell at auction until Harim Group acquired it for 450 billion won. Harim wanted to build a distribution complex there. Harim had started its business by selling a few chicks, and now it grew to a large industrial conglomerate. How long would it take for Gun-Ho to grow his companies like that? Gun-Ho is still hungry.”
There was heavy traffic on the highway, probably because it was Saturday. The cars were moving bumper-to-bumper on the highway until Gun-Ho reached Giheung District after passing Suwon City.
“Jae-Sik Moon must be waiting for me at Seonghwan station.”
Gun-Ho continued to drive while listening to IU (a Korean singer).
He finally arrived at the Seonghwan station.
Jae-Sik was already there waiting for Gun-Ho. When Gun-Ho saw Jae-Sik, he was astonished. Jae-Sik seemed to lose tons of weight.
“Hey, what happened to you? You lost a lot of weight.”
“Really? People keep telling me that.”
Gun-Ho felt sorry for Jae-Sik. Running a business must have been very hard for Jae-Sik given the fact that he had no previous experience in that field. He felt sympathetic to Jae-Sik.
“Your lips are swollen.”
“Yeah. They have been like that for several days already.”
“You must be very tired. I should have let you take a rest at home today.”
“No, no. It’s okay.”
Gun-Ho had Jae-Sik get into his Land Rover.
“There is an auto repair shop on the market. It’s currently vacant. I think we can build GH Logistics’ basecamp there. It needs some repair and touch-ups. It’s not very large either.”
“How large is it?”
“It’s 980 pyung.”
“Wow. It is big. You know the storage we are leasing in Paju City is only 230 pyung large. This one is four times larger than the one in Paju. It should be huge.”
“I wanted to get a large land considering that we will grow there. Well, let’s go see ourselves.”
Gun-Ho and Jae-Sik arrived at the auto repair shop.
“This is it.”
While Gun-Ho was not fully satisfied with the land, Jae-Sik was surprised by its size.
“Wow, it is huge.”
Jae-Sik looked excited.
“Isn’t it expensive? How much is it?”
“It’s about 2 billion won.”
“What?! 2 billion won!”
Jae-Sik was frightened by its price.