Chapter 227 (1/2)

Chapter 227: Chapter 221

“How come?”

“Well, the tax rate of importing red peppers is not necessarily 270%. You can enjoy a 50% rate with a recommendation. In fact, 50% is big, but because the price of red peppers importers pay in China is only 3 to 4 dollars per one kilogram, they only pay less than 2,000 won in import taxes. So, if he talked about huge profits with that tax rate, he just bragged.”

Hyunwoo was quite surprised.

Hearing Hwasik's explanation, Hyunwoo realized that they could import red peppers from China with the tax rate of less than 50%. The target of such tax benefits was frozen red pepper.

Hyunwoo let out a sigh. He thought Hyongsun had changed from what he was like in high school, but he wasn't at all.

Hope he is not conspiring against me.

“I don't have any reason to see you.”

Yonggu told the other party over the phone in a chilly voice. Hyunwoo was watching him quietly from nearby.

Given Yonggu's harsh reaction, Hyunwoo immediately realized it was a call from Minhye.

After Yonggu quit abruptly, she called him almost every day to earnestly entreat him to come back.

In fact, she had no other choice. Hyunwoo, who played a crucial role in helping s.p.a.ce Design establish itself in the initial days, left some time ago, and now Yonggu, regarded as the core of its sales department, also quit. s.p.a.ce Design was in a messy situation because of Yonggu's sudden resignation.

Yonggu's resignation was not simply the issue of s.p.a.ce Design. Daebong Park, Minhye's father and CEO of Aurum, made an aggressive investment in s.p.a.ce Design because of its great potential growth. If s.p.a.ce Design collapses, there is a high possibility that Aurum would also collapse.

Besides, Minhye and Yonggu were on a much more intimate relations.h.i.+p than thought.

But Yonggu suddenly gave her up because of her openly dating Hyongsun.

But Yonggu was not moved at all. He knew this was a golden opportunity to end his relations.h.i.+p with her, but Minhye more aggressively tried to win over his mind.

“I'm in Ansan right now. Let's have dinner together. I really want to say something to you,” she said.

“Why don't you tell me over the phone?”

“Actually, it's about our wedding.”

Momentarily Yonggu's eyes opened wide. That's what he had been waiting to hear from her lips.

“Okay. Let me come to your place right now.”

After the call, he stood up abruptly.

Hyunwoo thumbed up to cheer him up.

Yonggu headed for her place, and Hyunwoo went to the office of Ani & Funny.

When Hyunwoo entered the office, Kyungsu briefed him about his daily work anxiously.

“There are too many animated story suggestions coming in. It is hard to review them all.”

Hearing his explanation, the Tuti & Angelina corner of Story Mecca was receiving more than 50 stories per day, but there were more than 300 stories in backlog as it took too much time to review them.

Thanks to the overflowing stories from outside, the students were turning out one production per week. As there were a total of 21 teams, they were churning out 21 productions every week.

Hyunwoo chose only the top four out of the group and had the managers revise them before sending them to the Vietnamese branch of Ani & Funny.

Anyway, the stories sent from outside were like the treasure of Ani & Funny. He couldn't ask the readers of Tuti & Angelica to reduce their story contributions just because they were sending too many of them.

After he thought about the matter momentarily, Hyunwoo came up with a solution.

“Let's divide the forms into two. Limit the summary of the story to one-page of A4 paper, and the main story to 5-10 papers. That will save a lot of reviewing time.”

Kyongsu thought it was a good idea.

“Great. Let me post it on the bulletin right away.”

Several days later, some students visited the Ani & Funny office. Given their gloomy expression and glaring eyes, it looked as if they came to pick a fight with Ani & Funny.

In fact, these were the same students who kept coming every week despite the fact that the office of Ani & Funny was packed with the existing students.

Usually, they came in groups of two or three or five at most, but today over 30 students came in droves.