This Is How I Became a Chaebol

119 : Let’s go, to Ulsan!

“Please notify me as it is.”

I handed over the final approved documents to Bill Bain.

The approval documents contained promotion personnel as well as plans to reorganize affiliates, including the secretary’s office.

“You finally signed. It’s not easy from the first job.”

“It is natural to set up the organizational structure of the group. good work.”

It took quite a bit of time to narrow down each other’s disagreements about the organization. It was a good experience for me too.

Bane’s view of the organization was clearly more professional.

Of course, I planned to set up affiliates by industry, but I was very opposed to Bain’s separation of Daesei Construction and Daesae Unemployment.

Daesei Unemployment and Daesei Construction should be combined together to create a company called Daesei International.

He said that Daesei unemployment, which has the highest capital turnover rate among the entire group, should be used like a financial company to provide financial support for Daesei construction.

Then, in order to win overseas construction orders, it is possible to reduce the trouble of raising funds and increase the rate of return.

When I heard it, I was right.

The most difficult part of any construction project is financing. There were numerous investors who would readily fill their pockets as long as they raised the groundbreaking cost with their own hands, without the need to bring in this person and share my pie.

“By the way, how did you come up with the idea of creating Daesae International?”

“Recently, it is a trend of the times for large construction companies to merge with general trading companies. The boss wins the international order, gives the project to the internal construction division, and takes charge of everything from financing to guarantee. The customer who entrusts the construction is also relieved, which helps in the smooth progress of the work.”

Of course, customers will love it too.

The constructor even takes care of the financing, so if the construction stops, the constructor will go bankrupt, and you will believe that you will risk your life to complete the project.

“Furthermore, saving on labor costs in the indirect sector?”

“Yes that’s right. It’s because the employees of the trading company are better at managing money than the employees of the construction company.”

As a former consulting company, there was also a purpose to increase the efficiency of the organization by integrating the indirect divisions of the two companies.

It was a good idea in many ways, as it would be free from various problems such as internal transactions, work management, and expedient fund management that could occur when a corporation was set up separately.

“Please execute the organization reorganization plan and promotion announcement on January 4th, and complete the redeployment by March.”

“Yes, boss.”

“I will focus on the construction of the shipyard from now on, so please coordinate the schedule for the groundbreaking ceremony with the Blue House.”

“All right.”

After Sambok went to Jordan, there were a lot of things to take care of, but being able to share the work like this made my shoulders feel much lighter.

Daesei Group consists of Daesei Chemical, Daesei Timber, Daesei Shipping, Incheon Steel, Daesei Shipbuilding, and Daesei General Technology Institute, with Daesei International as the holding company, which combines Daesei Unemployment and Daesei Construction.

And we decided to operate a total of six overseas branches in Portland, Quy Nhon, Singapore, Australia, Jordan, and the UK.

Daesae Institute of Advanced Technology is a group research institute, and Hwang Young-gap accepted the position of director. In the meantime, he has been saying that it is enough for his son to do well, and he has refused regardless of title or battle, but it seems that he had a will to nurture younger students.

‘Your name is Hwang’s date, it was sudden.’

I finally found out Hwang Il-gap’s name.

Now, I should call you Director Hwang, not Old Man Hwang.

He knows better than anyone how desperate it is when there is no way to learn even if you want to learn, and he has an open mind that even younger people have things to learn, so he will do well for you. He is someone who will cherish juniors like Shim Jae-hong more than anyone else and lead them well.

“And with the Olympics coming up this year, arrange your legal contract with Nike to cover all sporting goods. Create a legal team and place it directly under the secretary’s office.”

“thank you. I was trying to ask for reinforcements.”

I was already thinking about expanding the secretariat.

Bain is an expert at identifying organizations and evaluating each member, so you won’t have to worry about personnel in the secretariat.

It was to the extent that he brought up the idea of specializing Manager Kim Bok-soon as the deputy general manager of the group before I did.

“I will go to Busan. If you have any business, please contact Daesae Chosun.”

“Yes, I understand. president.”

With only 2 years and 6 months left to deliver the ship, I was in a hurry. While changing the blueprint for rivets received from the Kingston shipyard to the blueprint for welding, at the same time, in Ulsan, a shipyard dock had to be dug.

I hurriedly headed to Joseon, a major city in Yeongdo, Busan.

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next day,

“Welcome, boss.”

When I arrived at Yeongdo, the staff were there to meet me.

In front of him, several people, including general manager Byun Young-sik and deputy general manager Dan Choong-gi, stood with excited faces.

He must have heard the news of the promotion, so it was natural.

“Director Byun, Deputy Director Dan. Congratulations on your promotion.”

“thank you. I’ll do my best.”

I entered the office after shaking hands with the two executives and the promoted managers and managers.

On one side of the office, a signboard called Design Room was attached and a double door was made to manage information security.

“Is the blueprint revision going well?”

“We are correcting as the boss said.”

The drawing you show is pretty cool.

The drawing of the rivet method was being converted to the welding method.

Although it is a non-powered bulk carrier, the experience of attaching blocks using the welding method would have been helpful.

Those who were specially promoted yesterday were the best veterans of the trending Joseon, and their work was broken.

There was a time when I was anxious because there were only a few people left who could be called veterans after cutting off all those involved in corruption and bribery during the Korea Shipbuilding Corporation.

However, the people who remained as pearls in the mud were miraculously even excellent in their work performance.

Among them, the people who stood out in particular were Byeon Young-sik and Deputy General Manager Dan Chung-gi. As expected, leadership was dormant in the hearts of people with the right mind, whether it was a company or a society.

If you pick up such people, the company culture as well as the company starts to run properly.

“I think this should be enough for the production design I was talking about.”

Originally, shipyard design is based on basic design by accepting the requirements of the ship owner and classification class, detailed design considering all kinds of equipment arrangements, and production design that can check processing information at the yard.

However, the oil tanker we have to build now is a ship with no special specifications from the beginning, and even the ship owner and even the classification class think that our mainstream shipbuilders will have a hard time even realizing the Kingston design as it is.

In other words, we can separate blocks and design production in our own way.

“Yes, as you said, we have separated each block to weigh less than 250 tons. We set the maximum width to within 4.5m in consideration of Incheon Steel’s thick plate standards.”

Building a large ship is like putting together Lego blocks.

The hull is cut into pieces and welded to gradually increase in size.

In the 21st century, mega blocks weighing close to 3,000 tons are assembled while matching them, but in the 1960s, shipyards can barely move even 250-ton blocks, let alone mega blocks.

Of course, even that is not easy in Korea, which is a newbie trend.

In order to properly design production, the center of gravity must be considered when mounting blocks, transport efficiency between processes, safety, deformation prevention, pre-fitting (piping equipment), and the need to reduce the number of turnovers (overturning) must be considered.

It’s really a hair-splitting repetition.

“You cut the player block wrong here. If you hold it like this and fall, you will be in big trouble. Please change it to the shape of a Giyeokja (a).”

“Oh, that would be safer.”

“Make a model and build it up. Building safely is our top priority.”

“Yes, I will run right away. By the way, I need to make a 250-ton block here and move it to Ulsan. May I ask how?”

“Let’s put it on top of a barge and drag it, just like we dragged a bulk carrier to Australia. It can be lifted and moved by an offshore crane.”

“With an offshore crane?”

“I ordered from West Germany, so don’t worry. I’ll draw up a process flow chart, so let’s discuss the details then.”

To be honest, I could make a marine crane myself, but I didn’t have time.

In the future, it will be possible only when the trend of Joseon expands into the trend of heavy industry.

“There are ways to do all of this, but I was worried by myself. It’s just a shame to learn this while receiving a salary.”

Byun Young-shik, who is in charge of the design, seems to have been concerned about that issue. His expression brightened at my answer. This was the advantage of the nobleman.

If there was something I didn’t know, I immediately asked and took notes. An organization dominated by people who do not know anything but take a posture will not last long.

Because in order to pretend to know, you have to somehow press down on someone you really know.

In my company, I have to be vigilant to prevent that from happening.

“Rather than that, have you decided who will be sent to Denmark for training?”

I decided to send our technicians to Denmark for six months training.

In the beginning, it will be inevitable to recruit technical personnel from abroad, but after completing the technical training, they will be used as key working-level staff.

“Yes. As you said, a total of 60 people were selected by dividing them into design, hull design, design, construction, quality control, and material procurement.”

Director Byun said that and pointed at the people lined up in the office hallway.

I wondered why people were standing in the hallway, but now I know why.

“Haha, why are you all here? We have to put our heads together and discuss what technology to steal from foreign countries. Anything you know is what you see. I go to the field and do research on what would be good to learn. Come on.”

“Yes, I understand.”

At my words, the staff standing in the hallway ran to the yard in no time.

Even if you go to the site, you may not immediately know what to investigate, but there is a huge difference between going to the training after thinking about it or just going.

“Director Byun, we check our work performance every week, and immediately replace those whose training notes are insincere.”

“I will keep that in mind. By the way, I wonder why the employees received the blueprints from the Kingston Shipyard and received training from the Danish Shipyard. So do I.”

“Because Denmark makes ships in the same way as us. The UK is not docked.”

“Oh, I see. I see now.”

I said it briefly, but in fact, I was worried that British soldiers would move from Kingston.

The big mistake Hyunsan made in the original history was that it sent staff training to the Kingston Shipyard in England.

It was also a problem that the British shipyard insisted on the sliding way method rather than the dock method, but the fact that the work was carried out mainly by highly skilled veterans was a bigger problem.

The final quality of the ship built like the ‘old man who sharpened a bat’ in an essay may have been good, but the shipyard’s competitiveness is inevitably lowered as the ship delivery time is delayed and even technology development depends only on the individual skills of veterans.

Other advanced shipyards are trying to subdivide, simplify, and standardize shipbuilding operations by introducing the block construction method.

At this time, people only see the decline of the British economy due to productivity decline and simply call it British disease, but from my point of view, it was a systemic problem.

First of all, when I visited the Kingston Shipyard, there were not even people in uniform overalls.

Such companies have no concept of cost or productivity. You should only receive blueprints and stay away from that culture.

In the end, Hyunsan realizes belatedly that sending the training to England was a mistake, and learns production design techniques through a technical collaboration with Japan’s Kawasaki Heavy Industries.

Because I know that, I am sending my training to Denmark.

There is no reason to repeat trial and error when you know the results.

“And I’m going to ask Appledoor to send technicians, so make a craftsman’s training center in-house. I will teach you gas cutting, plumbing, sheet metal, electrical management, and line heating in a six-month course.”

The Yeongdo shipyard here in Busan is planned to be used as a shipyard dedicated to training and repairing new employees when the Ulsan shipyard starts operating properly.

If necessary, you should even think about securing surplus funds by disposing of this place during an oil shock.

“Are you trying to hire a new skilled worker?”

“sure. If you add all the skilled workers in the shipyard now, there are only about 1,000 people, right? Excluding civil engineering, there should be more than 4,000 shipbuilding technicians. Even if the manpower here in Yeongdo is gradually transferred to Ulsan, we will have to recruit quite a few new recruits. Priority is given to those with excellent grades at the training center.”

Now that the company has grown, we had to create an in-house system to replace the golden bell that was struck in Jeonpo-dong.

About 3,000 people will need to be hired over the next few years to barely fill the manpower needed at the shipyard.

“Please leave it to me. We will work even harder.”

Director Byun must have realized that the responsibility was great, and he bit his molars.

“Please continue to work hard. Director Byun is in charge here, so please focus on education and block production. I will do my best to build a shipyard in Ulsan.”

“Yes, boss.”

It’s a bit absurd, but there is no finished shipyard blueprint even though there is a shipyard to be built.

From the stevedoring quay to the assembly plant to the dock, the construction had to be carried out by drawing basic design drawings and shop drawings accordingly at the site.

Moreover, civil engineering work in the middle of winter… It was terrifying to even think about it, but considering the delivery time of the oil tanker, there is nothing special.

“Has everyone gathered to go to Ulsan?”

“Everyone is gathered in the yard waiting for the opening ceremony. Daesae Shipping gave us a boat, so we loaded all the heavy equipment.”

“let’s go.”

In the 1960s, society as a whole was military-style, so even companies had a promotion ceremony before starting work.

If you go to Rome, you have to follow the Roman law, so it was only natural to behave appropriately for this era.

“Waaa!”

When I stepped onto the podium, the staff raised their arms and cheered.

It should be cheered that a shipyard that was in ruins was saved and a bigger shipyard was built.

There were quite a few people who were promoted to the rank of section chief or manager, and the winter wind felt warm in the heat.

“Employees, the New Year of 1968 has dawned.”

“Waaa!”

“Now, at this hour! Joseon, a major trend, is newly born, and my heart is thrilled just to be standing with you at the forefront of it.”

“Waaa!”

“I promise you only one thing! We will surely become rich. Shout out! We will be rich!”

“We will be rich!!!!!”

It was always an adrenaline-pumping cry.

“let’s go. To Ulsan!”

“To Ulsan!”

I led the staff and boarded the boat docked in the yard.