How a Catastrophic Necromancer Retired

32 episodes

“ready. cue!”

When the cue sign fell, the host picked up the microphone and spoke.

“hello! Welcome to the SR Electronic Prize Draw!”

I was watching the scene from outside the camera and said to Ahn.

“Are you going out without a problem with subtitles?”

“We are monitoring in real time. Don’t worry.”

Anyway, now that I have become the owner of a fairly large company, there is no need for me to personally participate in the lottery ceremony like this.

So I hired a professional studio for this lottery broadcast.

“How many viewers?”

“The number of viewers from all over the world has exceeded 100,000, and it continues to rise even now.”

“There will be no server crash or anything like that, right?”

“It’s not a professional studio. We have already created several live rooms to disperse the audience.”

“OK.”

Considering that a significant portion of the amount exported by SR Electronics is being carried out to each country on a ship just after it has penetrated the overseas route, this number of viewers is staggering.

Then the presenter said.

“Now, no one here wants me to introduce myself and what to do, right? Let’s start with the introduction of the prizes. Show me!”

At the host’s words, a commander horse, which was covered with the highest price option in advance, approaches the host with a majestic stride.

“Can you see it? Is this dignified figure? It’s a necromancer that some of you will have with this giveaway today!”

Then, all kinds of languages are pouring madly in the Internet chat window.

Among them, there is also Korean, but the chatting speed is so fast that it is difficult to read properly.

The host said while stroking the commander’s horse.

“This is really, wow! It sounds. I guarantee you that what you see in real life is many times more beautiful and cool than what you see on video.”

The host, who caught the mood slightly, moved to the side and approached the newly purchased lottery machine.

“Now, shall we do a lottery? oh Here’s how to check your product number once again, just in case. When you open the product, there will be a sticker with the product name on it. If you look at that sticker, it says Made in Korea at the bottom, and the number just below that is the product number.”

As there were prizes hanging, the product number was only written on the sticker attached to the product.

It was said that if the wholesaler wanted to check the product number after coveting the prize, he had to break the seal.

And the moment the sealing seal is torn, of course, it cannot be sold as a new product, so it is a giveaway only for consumers.

“There is one more good news! You don’t have to be so disappointed that you lost this lottery. Why? Once you buy SR Electronics’ products, you will be given a chance to draw a total of 12 draws in a year!”

If we renewed once a month, it was clear that there would be people who would buy our product like a lottery ticket, check the lottery, throw it away, and then buy the product again.

Of course, if the product turnover rate rises like that, the immediate sales profit may be high, but in the long run, it is obvious that you will be criticized for promoting speculation and wasting goods.

In a word, it is an act that damages the brand image.

So, I set the renewal cycle to be one year at all.

If you buy a product in January of this year, it will be included in the lottery number by December.

If that happens, instead of buying a new one and throwing away the old one to increase the odds of winning, you will continue to buy new SR Electronics products and pile them up at home.

Of course, in that case, since it is not possible to accumulate them, SR electronic products will be used even semi-compulsively, and in the process, people naturally experience a good experience of using SR electronic products.

Then the host put his hand on the lottery button and said.

“Anyway, let’s go through the lottery with this explanation, shall we? ruler! First of all, we will check which product of SR Electronics will be the winner! Who will be the owner of the demon’s demon? Press!”

As soon as the host presses the lottery button, one of the balls bouncing in all directions in the lottery machine just hangs at the entrance.

The host who picked up the ball said with a surprised expression.

“This is amazing! As far as I know, this product has the lowest sales of the SR electronics lineup, doesn’t that mean that those who own this product have a significantly higher chance of winning?”

Lowest sales?

no way······.

The host showed the part of the letters written on the ball to the camera and said.

“This lottery product is a mini vacuum cleaner!”

A mini vacuum cleaner that is used to suck up dust on the desk.

Of course, there was not much demand compared to other products, so sales were quite low.

But even if I get caught, I get caught.

“It only sold about 40,000, didn’t it?”

The host, who caught the words that came out of my mouth without realizing it, shouted.

“Did you listen to CEO Han Ji-hyuk? Only 40,000 mini vacuum cleaners have been sold! 40,000 pieces! The odds of winning the lottery are about 1 in 8 million, which is a whopping 1 in 40,000!”

Ahn and the translators are bewildered by the host’s ad-lib and type the subtitles in real time.

However, thanks to their hard work, the chat window reaction was really explosive.

-Crazy, 40,000!?

-I bought all of them and didn’t just buy the mini vacuum cleaner!

-There are people who have bought several, so the probability is not very high!

The host smiled brightly and said.

“This is getting more and more interesting. So, everyone, don’t miss out on at least one year, and be sure to keep at least one of each type of SR electronic product at home. Who knows which of those products might work? Isn’t it?”

Even for winning, you should have all of the SR Electronics lineups one by one.

Good.

All products will sell equally well.

Do you like the presenter?

I need to get it fixed

Then the presenter approached the next lottery machine and said:

“Now, out of 40,000 products, who will be the lucky winner? Draw a lottery.”

The host, who was about to press the button on the lottery machine, suddenly turned around and said.

“before doing! Let’s go see an advertisement!”

As the director waved his hand at the host’s words, a pre-prepared advertisement came out on the Internet broadcast.

The target of the advertisement is a scale and table clock made using the newly purchased license.

As a matter of fact, the next lottery includes these as well, so it’s a hard sell advertisement.

When the interim advertisement is over, the screen returns to the host again.

“Did you see it? Weighing scale and table clock. Anyway, come on.”

The host pressed the lottery button and shouted.

“Continue drawing numbers!”

*

The final winner is an ordinary householder in Korea.

A mini vacuum cleaner that I bought impulsively at the Wonwon Shop, which I stopped by as an errand, was the winner.

The head of the family wearing a mask was invited to the award ceremony and said with tears in his eyes.

I went to buy only the items written on the note, but I couldn’t resist the temptation of the event and bought this and that.

Anyway, when the prizes were awarded so successfully, the aftermath was truly enormous.

In fact, the growth of all products together.

When the winner came out of the mini vacuum that had the worst sales, the sales of the mini vacuum went up exponentially.

In addition, the newly launched scales and electronic watches are sold like crazy, and the sales of all SR Electronics products are leveling upwards.

I said with a smirk.

“It is said that once it is released, it will be sold unconditionally.”

That is the absolute formula for success.

It has reached a level where it is impossible to fail if only things are usable.

Even though others think that the amount of stamina worth hundreds of millions to billions is a prize, it is like a lottery, but the actual cost is tens of millions of won and all of my magic.

How perfect it is to have such a marketing effect at an amount that even a TV ad couldn’t do properly.

“under. Money is pouring in.”

The sales volume increased like crazy, and the daily sales exceeded 1 billion won, and even that was continuously increasing in real time, so it was only a matter of time before SR Electronics grew.

If you add the explosively growing footwear business, which is insanely breaking new records for holding skeletons every month, Ceron’s estimated monthly sales are close to 200 billion won.

It was a tremendous growth rate that was hard to find as a manufacturer.

“Originally, this was my minimum goal.”

I had set my retirement goal to have trillions of won or tens of billions of dollars in my pocket every month, so the minimum goal has been achieved.

“Originally, I would have started preparing for retirement soon.”

They must have already settled in, since all they need to do is increase the number of skeletons, they will pass the management over to someone they can trust, travel with the money they put in their pocket every month, buy a villa, flex and enjoy their retirement life.

I sighed and said.

“The rotten undead legion.”

But that goal has long since been smashed by my undead legions.

Of course, the money I’m aiming for isn’t quite as good as this.

Considering the need to rebuild the undead army, the minimum target sales is more than tens of trillions.

The more money I earn, the less time needed for reconstruction, so I was in a situation where I had to grow indefinitely.

“Let’s earn more.”

When the reconstruction of the Undead Legion is completed, then you will be able to really rest.

If you mix that with a little hope, then there will be so much money that real money will rot, so it’s okay to spend money instead of flexing.

Then you have to play like crazy.

I’m playing so much that I wonder if people can spend money like that.

That’s when I regained my appetite for the sweet dream of retirement.

“CEO.”

Kim Deok-bae knocked and came in.

“I got a call from Yurim Electronics that I wanted to talk to the CEO.”

“Are you Yurim Electronics?”

“I did a search and found that it was a medium-sized electronic product company with annual sales of 500 billion won, making small air conditioners and humidifiers under its own brand and doing quite well.”

It is said that it is one of the few companies that survived a situation in which the Korean electronics market was almost wiped out.

“Ohh.”

Contact from an electronics company.

“Is this an OEM request?”

Although not as much as the textile industry, OEM was a common manufacturing method for electronic products.

“Or what, sell a discontinued product to get a license?”

I don’t know yet.

But dating doesn’t cost money, so there’s no need to say no, right?

Let’s meet again, okay.

“Please make an appointment.”

“All right. Then I’ll make an appointment right away.”

*

“Nice to meet you, Chief Han.”

Jin In-ki, CEO of Yurim Electronics with annual sales of 500 billion won.

“Nice to meet you, sir.”

Jin In-ki smiled brightly and said.

“It’s really nice to meet someone I’ve only heard of through rumors like this.”

“a. Is there anything wrong, he’s just a business man.”

“The business scale is already bigger than our Yurim Electronics, but it’s just a joke. haha.”

In fact, if you look at the size of sales alone, it is not wrong to say that Ceron has already far surpassed Yurim Electronics.

“The necromancer prize was really interesting. To increase sales by using a gift by making a proven entry-level product at an affordable price. Frankly, it was embarrassing. If I had that kind of ability, I would be able to grow the company even more. But… it doesn’t mean anything to be envious of something you don’t have. So I came.”

From now on, the point.

Jin In-ki said with a serious expression.

“I don’t know if you know, but we, Yulim Electronics, have three factories. One in Korea and two in China. In Korea, we mainly produce relatively expensive products such as window air conditioners, and our factories in China produce low-cost products.”

Unlike the three major shoe companies that completely withdrew their production plants in Korea, it operates in a moderately compromised manner.

“Why didn’t you all move to China? Even expensive products would be much cheaper if they were made in China.”

“Of course it is, because to be honest, the price of the window air conditioner we made is almost double that of imported Chinese. However, sometimes you have to bear the cost of owning your own brand.”

Then Jin In-ki said with a smile.

“100% domestic production, the sense of stability that this sentence gives cannot be ignored.”

Oh oh.

I see

In that one sentence, I feel like the product will be strong and at the same time that the after-sales service will go well.

A sales strategy that is completely different from SR that makes low-end products.

“So, for a while, I plan to continue operating the Korean plant. But the problem is the Chinese factory. Low-cost electronic products that can be made inexpensively wherever they are made. However, with the rapid economic growth of China in recent years, labor costs are also rising. In other words, the benefits from low labor costs are diminishing.”

That’s a good story.

As China loses its factory status in the world, the more it loses, the more likely Ceron will accept it.

Just like Yurim Electronics came to me.

“Of course, the size of China’s domestic market has grown together, opening up opportunities, but to be honest, it is not easy for foreign companies’ products to survive in China. It is a country where even the largest conglomerates in Korea are being pushed out. As a foreign company, we have to pay a fairly high wage, and in that state, our price competitiveness with Chinese companies growing with government subsidies and banks’ support is bound to be different.”

“understand.”

“So, I was thinking about whether to withdraw from the Chinese factory and go to Southeast Asia…”

Jin In-ki looked at me and said.

“The first thing that came to mind was Seron. Low labor cost, plus the advantage of being able to fully utilize Korea’s infrastructure as it is domestically produced, as well as a domestically produced title. To be honest, it’s pointless to compare it to Southeast Asia. So I would like to suggest. The sales from the two factories in China are about 200 billion won, and we want to relocate these factories to Korea. How about making the factory a joint venture between Ceron and Yurim?”

collaboration?

Not an OEM, but a joint venture?

“I didn’t expect a collaboration….”

“I know very well that Ceron doesn’t lend you skeletons. But wouldn’t it be possible with a joint venture? I’m going to put Yurim’s name on it, but I also have a stake in Seron.”

Wouldn’t that be a different story?

As soon as you accept that offer, a factory with 200 billion won in sales is created right away.

Besides, Yurim is a company with its own technology that survives the low-priced attack from China and has its own brand, so it will be helpful in acquiring know-how and technology.

I said with a look of interest.

“It’s a joint venture…”

In fact, SR Electronics is successfully launching products one after another under its own brand, but the limitations are clear.

There are literally thousands or tens of thousands of electronic products.

Even the parts that have to be subcontracted to extract the extreme cost performance are made by hand, so the number of parts is truly amazing.

No matter how many licenses are purchased and hybrid operation is possible with a skeleton, it is ultimately up to me and others to develop, manage, and tune those products.

From that point of view, is it really possible for SR Electronics to handle so many products and all the necessary parts for those products alone?

Is it something that even a large corporation with tens of thousands of employees can’t do?

It can’t be.

However, when a joint factory with Yurim is established, the story is different.

Because Yurim will be in charge of the development and management of low-cost products that Yurim is currently making.

In other words, it becomes like the relationship between Ceron shoes and the manufacturer.

What SR Electronics can do, SR Electronics makes the rest, and fills in the gaps through joint factories.

It is even more perfect because it replaces a Chinese factory, so there is no problem with jobs.

Of course, other companies that focus on domestic consumption may be skeptical, but there are only a few such companies, and they all have low-cost products factories like Yurim in China, so just ignore them.

But there is one catch.

‘In a joint venture, you can’t spend the money you earn as you please.’

I have to earn a lot of money to rebuild the undead army, but this is not productive at all for the company.

There’s no way I can’t sit still and watch my business partner Yurim spend its company money on rebuilding the undead corps, which doesn’t even cost much.

Of course, Yurim and I will have no choice but to collide, and this joint factory will unconditionally become the seed of conflict.

“Are you not interested in OEM?”

We make it and only label Yurim.

But again, Jin In-ki said with a determined expression.

“There is not. In-house manufacturing is the driving force that has enabled our company to survive.”

But the horse is self-made, after all, what a skeleton makes is the same thing.

I thought for a while and said.

“If you put it on your nose, it’s a nose ring, and if you put it on your ear, it’s an earring. How about just doing this? Think of the skeleton as an automated production machine.”

“Yes?”

“When Yurim builds a factory, Seron moves in and receives money in return for placing, operating, and managing an automatic production machine called Skeleton.”

The only difference from OEM is that the place where the skeleton works is different.

But instead of that, Yurim can maintain the title of self-production and Ceron can save space by placing skeletons in other companies’ factories, so it’s a win-win.

“In a nutshell, it is a one-factory, two-company system. A cooperative factory, not a joint factory. What do you think?”