051: Why are you here
‘Does Chansu know? I mean, sales exceeded 3 million dollars only with military uniforms and boots, and sales of 8 million dollars when other military supplies, construction and transportation costs are added.’
Only sales that have been confirmed so far have been calculated, and considering future construction costs, transport and unloading costs, surplus materials that have been sold, and the value of accumulated logs, it seemed to exceed 20 million dollars.
It felt like money was pouring from the sky.
Dae-se’s reputation grew day by day, to the extent that when Dae-se employees visited Industrial Bank, the bank manager would come out and serve coffee.
Honestly, with 5 large factories and 27 sewing lines within them, Daesae Chemical produces yarn, so it could be said that it is the best textile company in Korea.
If we say that we achieved all of this in the first year of our founding, they will say, “What kind of bluffing is that?”
Isn’t even Sambok, the founding member, dreaming sometimes? I even heard the feeling.
“Director, please pay. The boss wants to send cement urgently via telex again.”
“When was it not an emergency? How many sacks?”
“As much as I can put on the LST. We need at least 3,000 sacks.”
“At least 3,000 sacks? What else did you start with?”
“You say that the telex is cleaning the runway? Can I contact Hyunsan Cement?”
“airstrip? You really do everything. Call Hyeonsan right away and secure the stock. They said they’d pay for the cement right away.”
“Yes, manager, no, director.”
Sambok quickly stamped the payment documents.
Everything Chansu did was great.
“It would be nice if there was a lot of work… but, is this friend thinking about coming back?”
Sambok gulped down the cold water and picked up the papers again. There were a lot of items that must be stocked today.
I don’t know about Chuseok, but I wanted to spend New Year’s Eve in Korea.
After losing both of his parents, he always invited Tteokguk to his hometown to eat together.
‘Well, the promised year hasn’t passed yet.’
I said I would only go for a year, so now I had about 6 months left.
“Director, I got a call from the exhibition room.”
“why? Is the buyer here?”
“Yes, an American buyer wants a consultation.”
“okay. Please tell me to go soon.”
The exhibition hall opened at the Bando Hotel was also taking its place. Sambok put on a suit and left the office.
***
Peninsula Hotel.
“Where are you going today? Republic? starlight? CBS? Nimko? Nimko is the saltiest, after all.”
Before entering the exhibition room, Sambok straightened his clothes in the bathroom and retightened his tie.
Originally, it started with the low-cost Southeast Asian market, but gradually American buyers began to show interest.
This is because tricots and polytechs hit the jackpot successively in the Southeast Asian market, and as they penetrated the US military supply market, they gained confidence in their quality.
Of course, it was not possible to secure a large export contract with a US buyer.
This was because the US market was still tightly controlled by Japanese apparel companies, and the sewing quality of Japanese companies was superior to that of the general industry.
The quality of the fabric was similar, and the polytech fabric overwhelmed the Japanese-made one, but the sewing was strangely different in the fit.
When I was sewing clothes, I had no idea what that something called detail was.
‘Nimko… No, I just need to penetrate New York.’
No matter how much I think about it, that detail seemed to be the ability to reflect the subtle requirements of customers into the product.
After working with New York Merchandise Co (NYMCO) for several samples, the finishing quality of Daedae Unemployment’s clothing has been dramatically improved.
Even though exports to the US went smoothly, they always went wrong right before signing.
Nimko didn’t have to place an order with Daesei, as Japanese companies slammed the price of clothes with similar designs.
In a way, it could be seen that they were attracting large-scale unemployment in order to buy Japanese products cheaply.
However, since we cannot simply refuse to make samples, the answer was to respond to customers comfortably with the mindset of learning.
daughter and daughter.
As I entered the exhibition room, the bell rang.
The floor of the exhibition hall was tiled, so even the sound of the bell sounded clear and clean.
“Miss Li, where is the buyer?”
“Go into the counseling room. Is it ground coffee?”
“Yeah, two sugars each.”
“I know.”
Sambok smiled at Miss Lee.
“Hello, I am Lee Sam-bok, director of Daesae Corporation.”
“Nice to meet you. My name is Phil Knights of Blue Ribbon Sports (BRS).”
“Ah, yes. Blue Ribbon Sports!”
Sambok pretended to know.
Actually, it was the first company I had heard of.
“Are you unfamiliar? BRS is a company that imports shoes from Asics and sells them to athletes.”
“You sell shoes to runners?”
You only sell to players?
Do you make money with that?
Anyway, we only wear military boots… Chansu is not particularly interested in shoes other than military boots… what should we do?
“Yes, my business partner is my athletics coach in college. Our company aims to develop and sell high-performance running shoes.”
“Ah, that’s right. You are amazing.”
“Well, nothing great. It’s a company that has only been making $8,000 in sales so far.”
“No, you are great. We know very well how our customers feel as we have only been in business for less than a year.”
Sambok was sincere.
He was also really scared when he first went to the bank to borrow money or to develop a subcontractor.
It was very amazing to hand over a business card and introduce yourself like this.
“The trend of unemployment has been less than a year?”
“sure. We are also in the midst of growing. Just like you.”
“Your skills are amazing. I thought that any company that made boots like this was at least a few decades old.”
President Phil Knights put the jungle boots, the pride of the general unemployment, on the table.
No matter how carefully I looked here and there, my hands were stained black.
“Uh, this is our military supply, how did you get it?”
“Because our customer is Asics of Japan. These days, Japanese shoe companies are busy analyzing the jungle boots of the big business. Neither do I.”
“Didn’t you just say you were selling sneakers? Our product is military boots.”
“Military boots are also shoes. It was a really good design, especially here at the neck where we used tough synthetic fabric instead of leather.”
“It is a fiber called Polytec. It wicks away sweat well and dries well even when wet, so it’s perfect for jungle boots.”
“… Yes. The reason I came all the way to Korea is because of Polytechnic. I felt like I was walking on clouds when I saw this.”
“What are you talking about…”
“If we use this material for sports shoes and athletic wear, we are sure it will be a great success. Invest in us.”
Sambok couldn’t help but follow the words of this nobleman named Phil Knights.
It wasn’t because he didn’t speak English, but rather that he couldn’t understand the picture he was drawing.
Polytech is already being used in clothing.
It sells very well in Southeast Asia.
However, there has been no reaction from American buyers yet. No… There was enough reaction, but it would be correct to say that it was replaced with Japanese clothing.
Besides, it was now late fall, so it was not even seasonally attractive in America.
Rather, a blended tricot with a lot of cotton could have been a better choice.
“Athlete clothes? And investing…”
“To be honest, we cannot launch a unique model with our company’s sales. Whether it’s sneakers or players’ uniforms, I want to collaborate with the mainstream industry.”
Ugh, I met a person who spoke openly about ideas as absurd as Chansu.
I can’t even place an official order because I don’t have money, and honestly, I don’t know how much the product will sell, and that doesn’t mean I don’t have the technology to make a unique model.
I came here just with the idea of making a product for athletes.
Are you great? Are you dumb?
“If you say collaboration…”
“We don’t have manufacturing technology, but based on our experience in the track and field, we know better than anyone what function we need, whether it’s sneakers or sportswear. Trust us in marketing.”
‘It’s just, he’s crazy…’
I’ll provide product ideas, so if business doesn’t work, I’ll take the loss, and if business goes well, I’ll take the profit as it’s a joint venture, doesn’t it?
No matter how much he is an American, can he treat Koreans like idiots? I thought.
“right now!”Read at noblemtl
Just as he was about to shout to get out, something went through Sambok’s mind.
These were the words Chansu said before going to Vietnam.
＜If a foreigner asks about marketing, business items, or joint ventures, send them to me.＞
I wondered if there were any foreigners who wanted to collaborate with a Korean company, but as Chansu said, a madman appeared.
“right now? Just do it?”
“No, no. I think you’d better go to Vietnam ‘right now’. Our company owner is there. Collaboration should be discussed with him.”
“Vietnam?”
“You are in a place called Kwi Nyeon. There’s a boat that leaves the day after tomorrow, and I can arrange a boarding if you’d like. If you take a boat ride for about a week…”
Could it be that Americans are going through that hardship?
It is also useful to come to Korea from Japan.
“Of course I have to go. thank you.”
… Oh, this nobleman is as unstoppable as Chansu.
There was not even a second of hesitation when he answered that he was going.
Sambok was dumbfounded.
There seems to be something that crazy people can relate to.
***
“Slowly, because plastering is to be done slowly.”
“Yes, sorry.”
“We are clearing runways, not regular roads. You have to paint it thinking that you are making a smooth mirror surface.”
“Yes, I understand.”
The runway should be able to glide.
Due to the nature of cement pavement, you have to think that it is made smooth like a mirror, and you have to plaster it to have an appropriate level of friction.
If the surface of the runway is too rough, it is difficult for the plane to take off because it does not speed up, and if it is too smooth, the brakes do not work well, which is a problem.
Air density is low, especially in the tropics, so take-offs require long runways and good road surfaces.
“No, what if I shave it off? The center should be slightly higher than the edges! I was deliberately holding each other.”
“Oops, sorry.”
“Get out!”
“Ugh! president.”
“You are unqualified. Get out!”
Once taught, you have to remember and work properly. Anyone who ruins the work of others, even my own employees, is out of the work.
It should be easy and easy to do for less money.
“Head of hairdressing team! You don’t manage people properly!”
“sorry. Education was lacking.”
Plastering literally means beautifying the surface of concrete. Just as makeup is the completion of fashion, makeup is something that veterans of veterans should do.
“There are no more hairdressers. Got it!”
“Yes, I will keep that in mind.”
Existing hairdressers are awesome! , and a sense of disappointment passed through the rest of the staff.
It was because I raised the wages of plasterers by 10%. However, I couldn’t tolerate more trial and error than this to train the staff. This place is the scene.
I moved right away.
It was to check the joint construction.
The joint construction is a space filled with painful noises that are difficult to describe in words.
My head rang at the sound of ‘Ki-i-i-ing’.
It was a process of cutting the cured cement pavement with a cutter like tofu.
In this way, the concrete should be cut at intervals of lane width and approximately 60m apart in the longitudinal direction so that the concrete does not break easily even if the weather and temperature change.
If the temperature difference between day and night is repeated without being divided into pieces like this, the road will eventually crack and break.
The joint construction was a very important task because a broken runway could lead to an accident.
“I have a question. president.”
“don’t do it.”
He was an employee of Go Young-gil.
He was the one who ran away while giving me medicine, saying that it was worthwhile.
In the end, I caught it and ran it around the playground a few times, but now it doesn’t run away.
Still, the question remained.
“It’s just one thing.”
“Don’t be nabal with one thing. Because I don’t know.”
“Oh, why are you like that? Your favorite Coke here!”
He didn’t care what I said and handed out a Coke. Wherever I got it, I chilled it in an ice bucket. I’m not a blind guy.
“Aren’t you noisy here? Do I really need to ask a question here?”
I couldn’t even chase it away.
Unlike other college students, veterans were also helping with the construction by choosing work sites that were suffering. Like the bamboo mat work and the joint work.
Besides, Mark was pecking at the repair base at the same time.
At least he wasn’t a guy with only a living mouth.
“It makes sense to slice the whole concrete out of fear of thermal expansion damage.”
“Okay, I hope you understand. End of question.”
“That’s not the case, there is a joint for slicing the whole thing, so why are you carving a joint for cutting and then finishing? What’s the use of digging a groove just 4 cm?”
“When the plane lands, they tell it not to slide. Isn’t that obvious?”
“Ah, that can’t be. For that reason, you would have told me to scrape with a pitchfork when curing concrete. He is not the kind of person who would do such a difficult job.”
“……”
It was the reason why I had no choice but to answer even if it bothered me.
It definitely seems like a dog to me, but it’s really smart.
No, smart wasn’t the right word. What can I say, I see the phenomenon from multiple angles?
“Tell me what you think. Why are some joints dug and finished unnecessarily? If possible, I will dig them all up.”
“Isn’t it because concrete doesn’t stand the test of time?”
“Are you not answering correctly? Shall I go?”
“No, no. I think so. Even concrete roads will crack and break someday, so if you can, break it on the side of the joint that was drawn in advance. If it breaks as intended, it can be repaired somehow.”
“!!!!”
what? is it correct?
Stand… no way… maybe… you…
“Are you really Mr. Go?”
“Yes? Suddenly, why is my last name?”
“Say it. Are you really Mr. Go? Aren’t you lying?”
When I first heard the name Go Young-gil, I was thrilled.
“… sorry. He said he would send me back… I will never ask any more questions. please don’t bring me home Help me. please.”
He grabbed me by the crotch of my pants and stretched out.
My head was spinning.
“Inflate your cheeks.”
“Yes?”
“hurry!”
As he inflated his cheeks, I sprinkled cement powder from the street on his head.
I deliberately squinted my eyes and looked at it from a distance.
“this…”
“I beg you like this, please don’t let me go home. I have four younger siblings. I must succeed, boss.”
It was Professor Joo Young-gil who made his hair gray and put on weight on his face.
Professor of Materials Department, so famous that I, who was in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, listened to the lecture.
The first Korean NASA researcher to be proud of at K University.
He was selected as one of the top 100 scientists in the world in the 1980s for his contribution to the development of a super alloy for jet engines.
Even though he was promoted to the president of another university, he passed away famously after collapsing while playing baseball with students like an outlier.
He likes to play with students and has a 4D personality, so each person evaluates him differently, but everyone agrees on only two things.
That his handwriting was really bad and that he was really a genius.
‘Why is the professor here?’
I swallowed the words that rose to my throat.
