암스텔담과 로텔담을 잇는 고속도로변 헤이그의 외각에 위치한 농촌의 푸른 목초지 한가운데 빌라를 얻어 사업을 시작한 HMH. 정확하게 주소는 Leidschendam, Middenweg 7 이다.
네델란드에서 철수한 후 순수 Leidschendam Warrior 들의 모임은 이번이 처음인셈.
식사하면서 두시간 넘게 30년전의 추억을 되새기면서 세월이 참 빠르다는 것을 새삼스럽게 느꼈다. 20대 후반, 30대 중반이였던 우리가 이제 60대 후반을 지나고 있으니 .....
Hyundai Motor Company opened its subsidiary company in the Netherlands in 1978 for the first time in its history. The name of the company was Hyundai Motor Holland (HMH) at Middenweg 7, Leidschendam, the Nethrlands actually it was located in between stock farms. There were guys dispatched from the HQs in Seoul as TFT members and worked there for some months or years. All the members at that time except the executives of HMH in their twenties or mid thirties of age and they gathered today for the first time since withdrew from HMH in 1980. All of the guys are now in sixties.
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After the dinner with some drinks, we moved to a fountain in a department store to take some snap shots. The photo below is on a moving walk forwarding to a fountain.
The guys from left to right: Willy Lee who was in charge of products now a president of Tara TPS Co., a printing company. Y.Y. Hwang who was a rep of Hyundai Corporation in Holland now a president of a trading company he is also translating books (Eglish to Korean), J.T. Oh was service manager now retired from a HMC parts manufacturing company. S.H. Kang was a marketing staff now a vice pesident of Halla Climate Control Corp.
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단, 심쎌리빔... 책을 써도 장편소설 한권은 잘 나올 분량이다.
So many episodes recalled during the dinner. The Dutch local staff at that time we still remember are Messrs. Hatdog (service), Seigors(account), Mol (marketing), Jongejan(workshop), Komain(service), the secretary Petra. Ed vanDallen(parts), Van de Weer(P.R.). I'm not sure whether or not I am spelling the names correctly. anyway..
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The two guys above were the youngest staff of HMH in their age of twenties but now to be grandfather soon.
오늘 모임에 정연국대리가 사업때문에, 오인균(이코)는 연락이 안돼서 자리를 같이 못했는데 아쉽네요. 앞으로 종종 만나게 되기를 바랍니다.
There were some other guys who absented from todays gathering Y.G. Chung and Iko due to their prior appointments.
It is regret to hear a sad news that Mr. T.P. Hong who also used to work at HMH' on an early stage as a corporate palnning manager and later retired from HMC in late 1990's died in an accident while he was scuba diving at palau island in the south pacific ocean. I wish him rest in peace.
회장님. 안녕하시지요? 특히 제일 위의 사진이 아주 멋집니다! 이번주도 행복한 한 주 되십시오!
답글삭제This is a comment from Mr. Willy Lee who organized this meeting out of his busy schedule. He complained that he could not post his comment on this blog and asked me to post this for him/
답글삭제............................................................................................................
세월을 이기는 노익장의 정열, 아직도 디카를 둘러메고 현역시절 못지않는 취재열로 역사를 써내려가는 우리의 마초, 그 이름 마크.
A passion of an old veteran who beats the time, still hooking up the digital camera on his shoulder, catching the moments of the history with energy not fall short of the time at his best. Mark the man, macho of the Leidschendam warriors and fearless leader.
이 원순 배, 어찌좀 해주시라우요.
아래 글은 HMH설립 당시 홍보를 맡아 일했던 van de Veer씨가 보낸 글이다. 옛추억을 더듬을 수 있는 좋은 자료가 더 있을 것 같아 기대가 된다.
답글삭제Greetings from old HMH staff
보낸 사람: W. van der Veer(wvdveprg@wxs.nl)
보낸 날짜: 2008년 4월 24일 목요일 오후 5:00:16
받는 사람: Mark Juhn (mjuhn@hotmail.com)
참조: B. Kreber (b.kreber@orange.nl); Jonet Sabee (jsabee@autodata.nl)
Dear Mr Juhn,
Bert Kreber passed on a message of 6 april to Jonet Sabee to me. You ask her details about the Hyundai Motor Holland B.V. personnel, in which I also figure.
As Bert Kreber may have told you I realised some years ago that nobody in the Hyundai distributorship in Holland knows how it all started in 1978. I carried on doing public relations for Greenib Car B.V., successor of Hyundai Motor Holland B.V. until 1991, when Jonet took over. Because of lack of space I handed over a sizable case of documents of the period 1978 to 1991 to her. Whatever happened to that documentation I do not know but the present PR manager Mike Belinfante who joined Greenib Car about 2005 doen not have any historic material.
I started writing down everything I remembered and documentation left, also after I left the PR for Hyundai, under the heading that Hyundai really started their export activity in a sophisticated market with Hyundai Motor Holland B.V. as their first overseas subsidiary. I was contacted by Brian Llewellyn, former Rover PR on the British Motor Show in 1978, whether I would assume PR responsiblity for HMH who would soon start in Leidschendam, about 6 km from where I lived then.
This is a first introduction to what I hope to be a useful co-operation in realising a book on the history of Hyundai in Europe, for which there is interest in an English version as well.
I shall come back to you with more details about the documentation I have here - hundreds of b/w photographs (also of Lee Soo-Chun), color pictures (the whole HMH staff at the end of HMH), slides of that period, and the unique press visits arranged by Bert Kreber in the Eighties.
With best regards,
Pim van der Veer
Public Relations Adviesbureau
W. van der Veer
Slauerhoffstraat 28
3319 BT Dordrecht - NL
Tel. 31(0)78 616 01 87
Fax 31(0)78 616 02 31
E-mail wvdveprg@wxs.nl