Chapter 576
It was Wednesday . Gun-Ho headed to Incheon International Airport to take the flight for China after briefly stopping by his office at GH Building in Sinsa Town . On the way to the airport in his car, Gun-Ho sent a text message to Young-Eun .
[I'm going on a trip to Antang City, Guizhou Province, China right now . I need to attend a contract signing ceremony to establish a joint venture company there tomorrow which is Thursday . I will be back on Friday, and I will see you then . Please take good care of yourself while I'm gone . ]
Young-Eun replied right away .
[Have a safe trip . ]
Gun-Ho stopped by a supermarket and bought basic pantry items which were the key ingredients to cook Korean food, such as dried seaweed, pickled Pollack roe, red pepper paste, etc . Gun-Ho knew from his personal experience that the best gifts for Jae-Sik Moon right now, who was staying in a foreign country, are genuine Korean foods . When Gun-Ho had started his life in China several years ago as he acquired a Korean restaurant in a hotel in Hangzhou City, he desperately missed Korean foods .
When he arrived at the airport in Guiyang City, Jae-Sik Moon was waiting for him .
"Huh? President Moon, how come you are here to pick me up? Picking me up from an airport is a tedious job for a president . "
"President Goo, it's really good to see you . I feel so happy these days whenever I see any Korean, I mean literally any Korean . "
"I totally understand that, especially for you because it's hard to find Korean people in the area where you are staying . "
"Maybe it is so . It's really nice to talk in Korean . "
"So, all I have to do tomorrow is to sign the contract?"
"It's kind of funny to sign the contract after having already established the joint venture company . Our Chinese partner seems to want to have the signed contract for a record . Since they are receiving investment funds from Korea, they probably need a document to prove the purpose of those funds, which was to build the terminal . "
"Of course . What they concern the most is the terminal construction, not the intercity bus service business . "
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"That's true . "
"So, you have your own office now, huh?"
"Yeah, my office is in the old terminal building . They redid the wallpaper and installed lighting . The thing is the lighting in my office looks like something that you can easily see in a bar . "
Jae-Sik Moon chuckled .
"It's going to be a temporary office though since it will be demolished once the new terminal is completed . "
"It surely will be, but I will have to stay there at least for the next two years since it takes that much time to completely build the terminal . "
"So, are we heading to the terminal now?"
"Once we arrive at the terminal, the vice president— Mr . Chun Chang— will be there . He is there all the time . You just need to show yourself to him briefly to let him know that you are here now . "
"After a brief meeting with him, he's going to report it to their head office and the transportation department, huh?"
"I suppose so . The contract signing ceremony is scheduled at 10 am tomorrow morning, so we just need to be there by then . They gave me a copy of the contract that you will sign tomorrow . Ms . Eun-Hwa Jo is translating it into the Korean language right now . She will finish it by the time when we get there . You can review it tonight . "
"Sounds good . "
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Gun-Ho looked outside the window . Enormous open fields came into his view . Many of them were vacant, and no one seemed to be using them . When Jae-Sik Moon noticed that Gun-Ho was looking at the open fields outside the window, he said, "I am so jealous of this country about their seemingly endless lands . Look at that . They are vastly large . "
Gun-Ho turned his head to look at Jae-Sik and smiled .
"That was exactly what I thought four years ago when I first came to China . I envied the Chinese people for having this vast land, and I wish we had this large land in Korea . By the way, you already made a room reservation in a hotel for me, right?"
"Yeah . You will be staying in Shangri-La Hotel downtown . "
"I thought that I would be staying at the same hotel where you are staying right now . "
"Shangri-La is a four-star hotel while the hotel where I stay is a three-star hotel . This setting is good for you, President Goo . It shows to our Chinese partner that you are a very important person . This kind of arrangement works with Chinese people . "
"This vehicle is Audi, right? It's not yours, is it?"
"No, I haven't received my car yet . This is the chairman's car . "
"You are still staying in a hotel, right?"
"After the actual contract is signed, I will move to a new place right away . They said that any place would be okay as long as it's less than 120 ㎡"
"It's 36 pyung large then . Are they going to lease it for you or buy it?"
"They said they will purchase it . "
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"Well, get a good condo, okay? A condo that's not far from the company and also located in a very good area . You have to be mindful of your safety after all and also your family's who will join you soon . "
"I've actually seen a very good condo the other day . I haven't looked at the inside of it yet though . "
"Even though it's a small city in the west area, its downtown's population is high . Therefore, a condo in a safe and popular area must be expensive . Even a 30 pyung large condo must be worth more than 150 million won . "
"That makes sense . Even though the land price is low, we have to consider the construction cost of the condo . "
"The next time when I have to send the investment funds, the amount will be 3 million dollars because they will need to start building the terminal with the fund . With 3 million dollars, you will need to buy a few express buses and finish the civil engineering work at the construction site for the terminal . "
"Hmm, you must be highly knowledgeable about construction as well . You were there when GH Mobile's factory and Dyeon Korea's factory were being built, right?"
"I just have an overall picture in my head; that's it . I don't know any details about construction . It's not like I majored in construction in college or something . You and I have never been in the construction field, but we had lived in a 17 pyung large old townhome and spent most of our time reading comic books, right?"
"Hahaha . "
They hadn't arrived at Antang City yet . It took three hours to get there from Guiyang City . Gun-Ho was looking outside the window . There was a farmer standing with a water buffalo .
"Look at the water buffalo . "
"I heard that water buffalos don't taste good . Korean beef is the best . "
"Of course . I love Korean beef . I already miss Korea grilled beef sirloin with a glass of soju . "
"Haha . Let's have it when we can . "
After spending some time without saying a word, Gun-Ho broke the silence .
"So, they haven't done anything yet about the terminal construction, have they?"
"No, nothing yet . The land is still vacant as before . Oh, I heard that they were doing soil tests on the construction site . "
"Soil tests? Yeah, they have to do it . "
"Is it necessary?"
"Of course . So they can figure out how deep they could drill . "
"Hmm, is that so?"
"Through the soil tests, they will test for density and quality of the soil for building construction . For a large building like a terminal, they will have to drill piles deeply, so they could have a strong foundation that could allow the stresses coming from the structure . They will also need to design the building to withstand earthquakes . So, soil tests are a very important first step to be able to build a strong terminal . That way, the government will give them a permit to start building the terminal . "
"I see . "
"I guess that this is a good opportunity for you to become familiar with building construction . The knowledge will come in handy someday in your life . We don't work in the construction or civil engineering field, but if we know about the relevant procedure and stuff, it will be very helpful in some way later . "
"I think I will have to start writing a daily log for the terminal construction . "