Chapter 265 - Job Appointment (2) – PART 2
Gun-Ho was a bit concerned.
‘I am sending three of our workers to the U.S. for training. One of them is our lead researcher at our research center and he is 38 years old. Another one is the senior researcher who is 32 years old. Jong-Suk is going with them for training and he is 33 years old. Jong-Suk is our production director. The two researchers are in a lower-ranked position than Jong-Suk. The thing is that the two researchers are highly educated, on the other hand, Jong-Suk didn’t even finish his college education. I am concerned that they might be jealous of Jong-Suk or feel unfair that Jong-Suk is in a higher position than them, given the fact that he is young and doesn’t have a high education degree.’
However, it turned out that Gun-Ho was worrying unnecessarily. The two researchers viewed this trip as an opportunity to get close with Jong-Suk who was very close to their company’s president.
‘The rumor says that Director Jong-Suk Park is like a brother to our president, he is even closer to the president than his own siblings by blood. Maybe I can get close to Director Jong-Suk Park during this training period. I will have to take every opportunity to stay close to him and do things together with him.’
The workers in the company talked down on Jong-Suk behind his back even though he was a director in the company because he was young in age. However, the same workers acted very friendly with Jong-Suk when they were with him. People tend to act by self-serving when it came to money or power.
Sales Director Kim came into Gun-Ho’s office.
“The president of Seongil Polymer is here. He is hoping that he could talk with you, sir.”
“Seongil Polymer? The one who filed a lawsuit against us?”
“That’s right. He said he wants to withdraw the suit.”
“So I guess he changed his mind, huh? Please let him in.”
Seongil Polymer’s president entered the office.
“Sir, I am so sorry. I made a huge mistake with you.”
The president of Seongil Polymer quickly kneeled down on the floor in front of Gun-Ho. Gun-Ho was surprised. The president was in his 50s while Gun-Ho was in his mid-30s.
“Don’t do this. Please get up. If you have something you want to talk to me about, please have a seat.”
After Director Kim helped the Seongil Polymer’s president stand up, Gun-Ho smiled and said,
“Seongil Polymer is a creditor company of GH Mobile. You don’t do this to your debtor.”
“That’s right. My family and I moved here three days ago. We just finished unpacking.”
“You must have a lot of stuff since it took three days to unpack.”
“We threw out a lot of things during the moving, but there seem to be still tons of stuff once we unpacked our boxes. This apartment that we just moved in is 60 pyung large and it looked really big when we first saw it. But now it doesn’t look that large at all with all our furniture and stuff in it.”
“I believe it takes only 30 minutes if you take a highway from Suji, Yongin City to be here in Jiksan Town. Since you finished moving, what do you say if I ask you to have lunch with me? What about tomorrow? I’ve found a really nice restaurant in this area. Many people come by that restaurant after playing golf.”
“Tomorrow… I’m good, but you must be busy, President Goo.”
“I’m good too. Why don’t you come to the area and have lunch with me? I want to show you our new factory in Jiksan Town too.”
“Sure. Sounds good. I will get there by noon tomorrow.”
“Haha. I will be waiting for you, sir.”
Gun-Ho went to a bar after work to have some beer. The bar was located next to the KTX Station of Asan City, Cheonan. It was close to his home. He received a call from Jong-Suk while he was having a beer there.
“Bro? It’s me. We just arrived at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.”
“Did you already meet with the interpreter who Dyeon sent?”
“Yes. We are on our way to the downtown altogether.”
“I hope you have a valuable time there. You will learn some advanced technology of Dyeon there.”
“I can’t believe I am in the U.S. Because of you, I could come this far, bro. I guess I can consider myself as a successful man.”
“Enjoy while you can, and teach yourself well while you can.”