Chapter 377 - Joint Venture’s Board Meeting (5) – Part 2
Chapter 377: Joint Venture’s Board Meeting (5) – Part 2
It was the day that Gun-Ho was supposed to go to work in Jiksan Town.
When Gun-Ho got into the car, he said to Chan-Ho, “Hey, Chan-Ho, let’s go to Seonghwan Town.”
“To see… land?”
“Yeah.”
Gun-Ho stopped by several realtor’s offices in Seonghwan Town. It was not hard to find a realtor’s office that was selling land. The huge sign saying “Land” was found everywhere they went. Chan-Ho said,
“Land, land, land… It’s everywhere.”
“I know. I wonder if all these realtors make enough money for a living.”
When Gun-Ho saw a sign of a realtor’s office that said that they specialized in land for a factory, he decided to give them a call. The number was written on the sign. It was not a cell phone number but it was a landline—an office’s phone number. Gun-Ho wrote down the number.
“Before we enter into a realtor’s office, let’s make a call to them first. Why don’t you park the car over there so I can make a call?”
Gun-Ho dialed the number. A man with a deep voice answered the phone.
“Hello?”
“Is this a realtor’s office?”
“Yes, it is.”
“I’m looking for land to build a factory.”
“We do have a lot of those for sale. Why don’t you come and visit our office?”
The realtor stood up from his desk when he saw Gun-Ho coming into his office. The realtor looked like he was in his 50s.
“Hello. I called the office earlier.”
“Ummm, what call…?”
“I was told that there is land for a factory for sale.”
“Oh, oh, you are the one who was looking for land for an auto repair shop. Please have a seat. Would you like to have some tea?”
“I’ve had one already. Thank you.”
The realtor pointed at an area on the map with a stick and said, “This is the one I was talking about. The auto repair shop is located about 300 meters from this crossroad. It’s not on the main road but it’s on a two-lane road. So, there is no problem for an eighteen-wheeler to pass on it. It was a first-class auto repair shop. All the inspections were done there too. As I mentioned before, 980 pyung is not small at all for an auto shop.”
“Did they close the business?”
“Auto shops are not doing well these days. Auto manufacturing companies are doing their job too well. Cars these days don’t easily break down. Only the cars involved in a car accident used to be sent to that shop.”
“Hmm.”
“How much is it?”
“It’s 2 million won per pyung in this area.”
“Hmm. Then it would make the land almost 2 billion won.”
“That area is expected to be developed, so we anticipate the land value there to go up significantly in the near future. Once Samsung Electronics’ Godeok industrial complex is completed, the price of that land could go up too.”
“Come on. Godeok industrial complex is far from here. How can it possibly affect the price of the land in this location?”
“Sir, it’s not that far. This distance is considered close enough. I will show you the shop. It’s not far from here.”
The realtor picked up his car key and went outside the office. He then called for the person who was playing Korean chess at the restaurant next to the realtor’s office,
“Chan-Ho, I will be out of office. Can you keep an eye on it while I’m away?”
“Sure.”
The man who was playing Korean chess said without even taking his eyes off the chess.
Chan-Ho Eum looked at Gun-Ho and laughed.
“Haha. He has the same name as me.”
The realtor pulled out his car from a parking stall and said, “Please follow me. Whoa, you have a very nice car, sir.”
The realtor seemed to be frightened when he saw Gun-Ho’s Bentley.
The auto repair shop was not very distant from the realtor’s office.
On the left side of the shop, there were some buildings that looked like factories. On its right side, there was a farm. There was some trash like plastic containers and oily stuff on the farm. The auto shop was locked with a padlock. It was a combination padlock and the realtor was trying to unlock it.
“Do you have the code?”
“Yes, I do.”
However, the realtor kept failing to unlock it even though he tried the code he had for multiple times.
“F*ck, what’s wrong with it? Who would enter the old auto repair shop to steal something? They didn’t have to lock the door like this. Sons of bi*ches!”
The relator kept trying while grumbling.
Chan-Ho eventually stepped in. He said, “Let me try it.”
The padlock was finally and easily opened once Chan-Ho tried it with the exact same code that the realtor had been trying with.
“Huh? How come it didn’t work when I tried it?”
Gun-Ho and Chan-Ho followed the realtor inside the auto repair shop.