Chapter 336 - Book Café (1) – Part 1
Chapter 336: Book Café (1) – Part 1
Gun-Ho went to work at GH Mobile in Jiksan Town, Cheonan City. It has been a few days since the last time he went there. When he arrived there, he encountered several workers who greeted Gun-Ho respectfully. Once he entered his office, the executives came into the office to give him a report. Gun-Ho usually reviewed the report from the executives while all the reports from the mid-level managers were exclusively handled by President Song.
“Why don’t we all have a cup of tea?”
Gun-Ho asked his secretary—Ms. Hee-Jeong Park to bring them some warm teas. The secretary soon brought six cups of tea to his office. President Song started his report.
“The five products which were newly ordered by S Group have been successfully developed and we already started supplying them to S Group. S Group’s factories in Changwon City and Ulsan City are the two biggest buyers among the five factories, and they issued the approval that we can use Dyeon Korea’s raw materials in manufacturing our products for them.”
“How much raw materials of Dyeon Korea are we using?”
“We are using about 35 tons per month.”
“I believe that Dyeon Korea’s price per ton is 4.8 million won. So, Dyeon Korea is providing their raw materials worth around 168 million won on a monthly basis.”
“That… that’s correct.”
No one seemed to do the math more quickly than Gun-Ho. Gun-Ho used to work as an accountant before, but that wouldn’t fully explain why Gun-Ho was so good with numbers. Gun-Ho seemed to be gifted naturally in the field. He was not an outstanding student with high grades in high school and he wasn’t admitted to a top university either, but he was highly talented with computation. In hindsight, that seemed to play a decisive role in his life in helping him to become a substantially rich man now.
After President Song’s report, the internal auditor’s report on the current status of debts ensued. The general affairs director then suggested hiring ten more workers for the production field.
“Director Jong-Suk Park, do we need ten more people in the production site?”
“Yes, we do. We are currently experiencing an acute shortage of labor in the production department. The workers in the production field have been working till late at night to fulfill our current production demand.”
The research center’s chief officer announced that he would do a presentation in Korea Institute for Industrial Economics & Trade.
“Is the presentation about the products we applied for a patent earlier?”
“That’s correct. It will be an excellent opportunity for us to hear professional opinions from the experts in various fields. Also, Gyoda Company from Japan sent us a product design drawing. They are asking if we could develop a product for them, which will be used as a part of their motorcycles. We are reviewing the request right now.”
“We have hired two workers in the production field and one for the maintenance team. They already started working. Do you want to meet them, sir?”
“That wouldn’t be necessary. If you—Director Yoon with Director Kim approved the hire, it’s good enough with me.”
“And, we will need to purchase a freight truck.”
“A freight truck?”
“Yes. As we sell more and more products, it’s not efficient to use delivery service in sending our products to our client companies.”
“We will need a truck driver as well, right?”
“That’s right. We will need to form a distribution team anyway. We start with one freight truck for now, and buy the second and the third freight truck if we see necessary.”
“I don’t see Director Kim today. Where is he?”
“He went to Mandong Company. He seemed to have a meeting set up with Mandong Company’s executives of their purchasing department. He took our product samples and testing results. I guess he went there for his usual sales work.”
“Hmm. I see.”
Director Kim came back to Dyeon Korea when it was almost time to go home.
“Sir, I didn’t know you would be here today.”
“How did it go with Mandong Company?”
“Yes, I went there because I was told that they have a new protector product order to request.”
“It’s not about raw materials then. They will need custom-molded products then.”
“Right. So I had them in contact with GH Mobile’s President Song.”
“Did President Song want to take their product order?”
“He wants to outsource the work since the producing process is complex and the product quantity of their order is not much anyway. But he wants to sell to them under GH Mobile’s name.”
“How much did they order?”
“It’s about 20 million won per month. GH Mobile will ask YS Tech for the work.”
“YS Tech?”
“Yes, and YS Tech will use our raw materials in manufacturing those products.”
“I see. Do we have a company website now?”
“We are currently developing it. GH Media’s design team leader—Ms. Min-Sook Oh visited our factory the other day and took a full tour. She took a lot of pictures of our factory. She already sent the initial draft of the website design, and we are modifying it right now to add something missing.”
“Hmm. I see.”