JANUARY 21, 2024

Once EDI built, B/S market can expanded indefinitely

BY BEAUTYTIMES

ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋งˆ์Šค ์ดํ‹€ ์•ž๋‘” ํ† ์š”์ผ ์•„์นจ 8์‹œ, ๋‰ด์ €์ง€ Hackensack์— ์œ„์น˜ํ•œ BSW ๊ทธ๋ฃน์‚ฌ ์‚ฌ๋ฌด์‹ค์„ ์ฐพ์•˜๋‹ค. ์ฃผ๋ง์ด๋ผ ์ง์›๋“ค์€ ์ถœ๊ทผํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค. ๊ณ ์š”ํ•œ ์•„์นจ์˜ ์ ‘๊ฒฌ์‹ค, ์ตœ ์ง€์—ฐ (61, Eric Choi) ํšŒ์žฅ๊ณผ ๊ธฐ์ž๋Š” ์•„์ฃผ ์—ฌ์œ ๋กœ์šด ๊ณต๊ฐ„&์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๊ฐ–๊ณ  ์ž๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋งˆ์ฃผํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ํ™˜๊ฐ‘์˜ ๋‚˜์ด์ง€๋งŒ ์šด๋™๋ณต ์ฐจ๋ฆผ์˜ ์ตœ ํšŒ์žฅ์€ ์•„์ง๋„ ์ฒญ๋…„์˜ ๋ชจ์Šต์ด๋‹ค.

โ€œ30๋…„์„ B/S (Beauty Supply)์‚ฌ์—…์„ ํ–ˆ๋‹คโ€๊ณ  ์ตœ ํšŒ์žฅ์€ ์ž…์„ ์—ด์—ˆ๋‹ค. 30๋…„ ์ „์ด๋ฉด B/S ์—…๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ๋ณธ๊ฒฉ์ ์œผ๋กœ ํƒœ๋™ํ•˜๋˜ ์ดˆ์ฐฝ๊ธฐ์— ํ•ด๋‹นํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ตœ ํšŒ์žฅ์€ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ์ถœ๋ฐœ์„ ์—์„œ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋›ฐ์—ˆ๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ์—…๊ฐ€๋“ค์— ๋น„ํ•ด ์—„์ฒญ๋‚œ ์„ฑ๊ณต์„ ์ด๋ฃจ์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๋…ํŠนํ•œ ๋น„๊ฒฐ์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ๊ธฐ์ž๋Š” ๊ทธ ๋น„๋ฐ€์„ ํ•˜๋‚˜์”ฉ ์บ๋ณด๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

On a Saturday morning, two days before Christmas, at 8 oโ€™clock, I found myself at the BSW/PPF Group office in Hackensack, New Jersey. As it was the weekend, the employees were absent. In the tranquil morning meeting room, I had the privilege of engaging with Eric Choi(61), the Chairman of BSW/PPF Group. Despite being in his sixties, Choi, dressed in workout attire, appeared remarkably youthful.

Choi began, โ€œIโ€™ve been involved in the Beauty Supply business for three decades.โ€ This timeline takes us back to the nascent days of the Beauty Supply industry. Despite commencing at the same starting point as fellow entrepreneurs, Choi achieved remarkable success. There had to be a unique secret to his accomplishments. I resolved to uncover these secrets one by one.

Q. ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋œ ๊ณ„๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•˜๋‹ค.

A. ๋‚œ ๊ณ ๋“ฑํ•™๊ต ๋•Œ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์— ์™€ ๋‰ด์š•์ฃผ๋ฆฝ๋Œ€(SUNY Buffalo)์—์„œ ์ปดํ“จํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ์ „๊ณตํ–ˆ๋‹ค. 1987๋…„ ๋Œ€ํ•™์กธ์—…๊ณผ ๋™์‹œ์— ๋‚ด ์ „๊ณต์ธ Solid-State Electronics ๊ด€๋ จ ๋ถ„์•ผ์˜ ํšŒ์‚ฌ์— ์ž…์‚ฌํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ์—”์ง€๋‹ˆ์–ด๋ง์ชฝ์€ ์žฌ๋ฏธ๊ฐ€ ์—†๋”๋ผ. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์—”์ง€๋‹ˆ์–ด๋ง ๋ฐฑ๊ทธ๋ผ์šด๋“œ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ , ํšŒ์‚ฌ์—์„œ ๋‚จ๋‰ด์ €์ง€, ํ•„๋ผ, ๋ธ๋ผ์›จ์–ด ์ง€์—ญ๋‹ด๋‹น ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ๋งค๋‹ˆ์ €๋กœ ํ™œ์•ฝํ–ˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋˜ ์ค‘ ์‹ฌ๊ฒฝ์˜ ๋ณ€ํ™”๊ฐ€ ์ƒ๊ธด ์‚ฌ๊ฑด๋“ค์„ ๋งˆ์ฃผ ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.

Q. โ€œIโ€™m curious about what motivated you to start your own business.โ€

A. When I arrived in the United States for high school, I pursued computer science at SUNY Buffalo. Graduating in 1987, I initially embarked on a career in Solid-State Electronics, utilizing my engineering background. However, I found engineering uninspiring. So, with an engineering background, I transitioned into a marketing management role, overseeing the southern New Jersey, Philadelphia, and Delaware regions. During this period, events unfolded that shifted my perspective. At my church, I befriended a senior Korean colleague with whom I regularly enjoyed coffee and shared life stories. He was a Ph.D. holder, and one day, he had been laid off due to the companyโ€™s bankruptcy, and when he became vague about his livelihood, he bought a franchise of Seven Eleven and ran a business. He said, โ€œI only know how to study, but I joined the franchise business because I felt lost about how to make a living.โ€ Another incident involved a close colleague from Texas who worked in the marketing department. Following a disagreement with the CEO, he was dismissed. That incident severed my connections within the company. Observing these two incidents made me realize that, regardless of my dedication as an employee, my livelihood hinged on someone elseโ€™s decisions.

Q. ์™œ ํ•˜ํ•„ B/S ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ๋‚˜ ?

A. Mid-K Beauty๋ฅผ ์ฐฝ์—…ํ•˜์…จ๋˜ ์ง‘์•ˆ์˜ ์–ด๋ฅธ๋“ค๊ณผ ์ €ํฌ ๋ถ€์นœ์ด ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šด ์นœ๊ตฌ์‚ฌ์ด์…จ๋‹ค. ์ž๋…€๋“ค๋„ ์—ญ์‹œ ์„œ๋กœ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋กœ ์ง€๋ƒˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ๋Š” ์œ ์น˜์› ์นœ๊ตฌ(Tony Kim)๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ๊ทธ๋Š” ์•„์ฃผ ์Šค๋งˆํŠธํ–ˆ๊ณ , ์–ด๋ ธ์„ ์  ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์— ์™€ ํ•™๊ต๋ฅผ ๋‹ค๋‹Œํ›„ ์ข‹์€ ์ง์žฅ์— ์ทจ์ง๋„ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๋ฐ ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๊ทธ๋งŒ๋‘๊ณ  ์˜ค๋งˆํ•˜์—์„œ B/S ์†Œ๋งค์ ์„ ์šด์˜ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์†Œ์‹์„ ๋“ค์—ˆ๋‹ค. ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ๊ณ ๋ ค์ค‘์— ์žˆ์—ˆ๋˜ ๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ทธ ์นœ๊ตฌ ์‚ฌ์—…์ฒ˜๋ฅผ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๊ฐ€๋ณด์•˜๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ด๋ฏธ ๋ฒค์ธ  ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ํƒˆ ์ •๋„๋กœ ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ์„ฑ๊ณต์ ์œผ๋กœ ์šด์˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๋ฐ ๋งค์žฅ์—์„œ ๊ทธ ์นœ๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐ”๋‹ฅ์— ๋ฌด๋ฆ…์„ ๊ฟ‡๊ณ  ์•‰์•„ ๋•€์„ ํ˜๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ ์ธ๋ฒคํ† ๋ฆฌ ์ž‘์—…์„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํ‘์ธ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ๋Š” ๋ฌผ๊ฑด์„ ํŒ”๋ฉฐ โ€˜๋•กํโ€™ ๋ฅผ ์—ฐ๋ฐœํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚˜๋Š” ์ •๋ง ์‡ผํฌ๋ฅผ ๋จน์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ทธ ์ž๋ฆฌ์—์„œ ๊ทธ์—๊ฒŒ โ€œ์ด๊ฒŒ ๋ญ๋ƒ, 99์ „์งœ๋ฆฌ ํŒ”๋ฉด์„œ, ๋ฒค์ธ  ํƒ€๋Š”๊ฒŒ ๋ญ๊ฐ€ ์ข‹๋ƒ?โ€๊ณ  ๋นˆ์ •๋Œ”๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๋ฐ, ๊ทธ๋‚  ์ €๋… ์นœ๊ตฌ ํ† ๋‹ˆ๋Š” ๋‚˜๋ฅผ ์Šคํ…Œ์ดํฌ์ง‘์— ๋ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ฐ€๋”๋‹ˆ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์–˜๊ธฐํ•˜๋”๋ผ. โ€œ์ง€์—ฐ์•„, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ๋Š” ํ™”์žฅ์‹ค์— ๊ฐ€์„œ ์ฒญ์†Œ๋ฅผ ํ•˜๋”๋ผ๋„ ๋ˆ ๋งŽ์ด ๋ฒŒ๋ฉด ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฑฐ์•ผ. ๊ทธ๊ฒŒ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ด์•ผ, ๋„๋‘‘์งˆ๋งŒ ์•ˆ ํ•˜๋ฉด ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์•„,โ€ ๋‚˜๋Š” ์นœ๊ตฌ์˜ ์–˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋“ฃ๊ณ  ๋” ํฐ ์ถฉ๊ฒฉ์„ ๋ฐ›์•˜๊ณ , ๊ทธ๊ฒŒ ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ํ•˜๊ธฐ๋กœ ๋งˆ์Œ์„ ๋ฐ”๊พผ ๊ณ„๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค. ํ† ๋‹ˆ ํ˜•์ œ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ์„œ B/S ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์Œ์€ ๋ฌผ๋ก ์ด๊ณ , ์ง์žฅ์ƒํ™œ ๋™์•ˆ ๋ชจ์€ ๋ˆ 3๋งŒ๋ถˆ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  B/S ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.

Q. Out of various options, why did you opt for the Beauty Supply (B/S) business ?

A. My father maintained a close friendship with the family who founded the Mid-K Beauty Company in Chicago, IL. Both familiesโ€™ children were also friends, including a kindergarten friend of mine, Tony Kim. Tony, exceptionally bright, arrived in the United States at a young age for studies and eventually secured a decent job. Nevertheless, he was laid off and started running a B/S retail store in Omaha Considering venturing into business myself, I decided to visit his store. To my astonishment, Tony was running his business so successfully that he could afford a Mercedes. However, when I entered the store, I witnessed Tony on the floor, sweating profusely, conducting inventory work. He sold products to customers and thanked them one by one. I was genuinely taken aback. At that moment, I couldnโ€™t help but confront him, spontaneously remarking, โ€œHow on earth can you afford a Mercedes while selling $99 items?โ€ However, that evening, Tony took me to a steakhouse and said, โ€œEric, in the United States, you can make a good living even if you have to clean toilets. Thatโ€™s how it works in America, as long as youโ€™re not involved in wrongdoing.โ€ Hearing these words from my friend further astonished me and served as a turning point in my perspective towards business. I not only learned about the B/S business from the Tony and his brothers but also embarked on my B/S venture with the $30,000 I had saved throughout my career.

Q. ๋‹น์‹œ 3๋งŒ๋ถˆ ์ž๊ธˆ์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ์–ด๋ฆผ๋„ ์—†์—ˆ์„ํ…๋ฐ ?

A. ๊ทธ๋ ‡๋‹ค. ์ด ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์„ ๋‹น์‹œ ์กฐ๊ฑด ์—†์ด ๋„์›€์„ ์ฃผ์…จ๋˜ ๋ถ„๋“ค์ด ๊ณ„์…จ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ Mid-K, Jinny, ์ฌ๊ทธ๋ฃน, Nina International, ์ฅฌ๋‹ˆ wig, Shake-N-Goโ€ฆ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๋„๋งค์—…์ฒด ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„์˜ ๋„์›€์„ ๋‚œ ํ‰์ƒ ์žŠ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ๋„์›€์ด ์žˆ์–ด ์˜ค๋Š˜์˜ BSW ๊ทธ๋ฃน์ด ํƒ„์ƒํ•œ ๊ฑฐ๋‹ค. Mid-K๊ฐ€ 8๋งŒ๋ถˆ์–ด์น˜ ์ƒํ’ˆ์„ ์™ธ์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐ€์–ด์ฃผ์‹  ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ •๋ง ๊ฒฐ์ •์ ์ธ ์‚ฌ์—… ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์ด ๋˜์—ˆ๊ณ , ์•ž์—์„œ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•œ ํ—ค์–ด์—…์ฒด๋“ค ์—ญ์‹œ ๋‚˜์˜ ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค ํ”Œ๋žœ๋งŒ ๋ฏฟ๊ณ  ์ˆ˜๋งŒ๋ถˆ์–ด์น˜ ์ƒํ’ˆ๋“ค์„ 6๊ฐœ์›”-1๋…„๊ฐ„ ์™ธ์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐ€์–ด์ฃผ์…จ๋‹ค. ์ •๋ง ๊ธฐ์ ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ์ผ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๋ฏผ์กฑ์ด ์–ด๋””์— ์žˆ์„๊นŒ. ํฌ๋ ˆ๋”ง๋„ ์—†๋Š” ์‚ฌ์—…๊ฐ€๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฌด์ž‘์ • ์™ธ์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐ€์–ด์ค€๋‹ค? ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์‚ฌํšŒ์—์„œ ์ƒ์ƒ์ด๋‚˜ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ผ์ธ๊ฐ€? ์ •๋ง ๋ง๋„ ์•ˆ๋˜๋Š” ์ผ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ฏผ์กฑ์€ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์„œ ์˜ค๋Š˜๋‚ ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ฑฐ๋Œ€ํ•œ B/S ์—…๊ณ„๋ฅผ ์ด๋ฃฉํ•ด ๋†“์•˜๋‹ค. ์ •๋ง ์„ ๋ฐฐ๋‹˜๋“ค๊ป˜ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ชจ๋‘ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค.

ใ€ˆ์ตœ ํšŒ์žฅ์€ 5๋…„์—ฌ ์ง์žฅ์ƒํ™œ์„ ๊ทธ๋งŒ ๋‘๊ณ  1993๋…„ ์‹œ๋ผํ์Šค์— ์ฒซ B/S ๋งค์žฅ์„ ์˜คํ”ˆํ–ˆ๋‹ค. โ€œ์‹œ๋ผํ์Šค๊ฐ€ ์บ๋‚˜๋‚˜ ํ† ๋ก ํ† , ํฌ๋ฆฌ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ์˜คํ•˜์ด์˜ค, ๋ณด์Šคํ†ค, ๋‰ด์š•์‹œํ‹ฐโ€ฆ๋ชจ๋‘ 4์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ์— ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฑ ์ค‘๊ฐ„์ด๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์‹œ๋ผํ์Šค๋ฅผ ์„ ํƒํ–ˆ๋‹คโ€๊ณ  ํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ฒ˜์Œ์—๋Š” SC, NC ๋ž„๋ฆฌ,๋“œ๋Ÿผ, ์ƒค๋กฏ ์‚ผ๊ฐ์ง€๋Œ€๋ฅผ ๊ณ ๋ คํ–ˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๋ฐ ๊ทธ๋•Œ๋Š” ์ด๊ณณ์€ ์ด๋ฏธ 3๋งŒ๋ถˆ๋กœ๋Š” ๋งค์žฅ์„ ์˜คํ”ˆํ•˜๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ํŒ๋‹จํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ. 10๋…„์ „์—๋Š” NJ๋กœ ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค๋ฅผ ํ™•์žฅํ•ด ๋‚ด๋ ค์™”๋‹ค. ์ด์œ ๋Š” ๋„๋งค์ƒ๋“ค์ด ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„ ์ด๊ณณ์— ์œ„์น˜ํ•ด ์žˆ๊ณ , ๊ตํ†ต์ƒ HQ(๋ณธ๋ถ€)๊ฐ€ ์ด๊ณณ์— ์žˆ์–ด์•ผ ํ–ˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด๋‹ค. ํ˜„์žฌ BSW (Beauty Supply Warehouse) ๊ทธ๋ฃน ์‚ฐํ•˜ B/S ๋งค์žฅ์€ ์บ๋‚˜๋‹ค๋ฅผ ํฌํ•จํ•ด ๋ฏธ ๋™๋ถ๋ถ€ ์ง€์—ญ์— 30์—ฌ๊ฐœ๊ฐ€ ๋„˜์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋‚˜์ดํ‚ค, ํŒ€๋ฒŒ๋žœ๋“œ, ์•„๋””๋‹ค์Šค, New Balance ๋“ฑ์˜ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ๋ฅผ ์ทจ๊ธ‰ํ•˜๋Š” ์‹ ๋ฐœ ๋งค์žฅ(Street Game) 8๊ฐœ, PCS Pantheon Cloud Solution (RMS)์‚ฌ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  YTT Investment Compnany ๋“ฑ์˜ 4๊ฐœ ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์šด์˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ณ , ์ง์›์€ 450์—ฌ๋ช…์— ์ด๋ฅธ๋‹ค.

์ตœ ํšŒ์žฅ์€ ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๋„์›€์„ ๋ฐ›์•˜๋˜ ์–˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์•„์ฃผ ์ž์„ธํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ „ํ•ด์ฃผ์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ž์‹ ์ด ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค๋ฅผ ํ•˜๋Š” ์ด์œ ๋ฅผ ๋˜ํ•œ ๋ง๋ถ™์˜€๋‹ค. โ€œ๋‚˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๋‹ค์งํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์ด๋ฃฉํ•œ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋Œ๋ ค์ฃผ๊ธฐ๋กœ ๋ง์ด๋‹ค. ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋„์›€์„ ๋ฐ›์•„ ์–ป์€ ๊ฒŒ ๋งŽ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๋Œ๋ ค์ฃผ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ๊ฒƒ๋„ ๋งŽ๋‹ค. ๋‚ด ์ฒ˜๊ฐ€ 11๋…„ ์ „ 50์„ธ์˜ ๋‚˜์ด์— ์œ„์•”์œผ๋กœ ์„ธ์ƒ์„ ๋– ๋‚˜๋ฉด์„œ ๋‚˜์—๊ฒŒ ์–˜๊ธฐ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. โ€˜โ€™์ฃฝ์œผ๋ฉด ๋‹ค์†Œ์šฉ์—†๋‹ค. ์ฃฝ๊ธฐ์ „์— ๋‹ค ์ฃผ๊ณ  ์˜ค๋ผโ€™ ๊ณ  ํ•˜๋”๋ผ.โ€ ์ตœ ํšŒ์žฅ์€ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์–˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋“ค๋ ค์ฃผ๋ฉฐ ๋ˆˆ์‹œ์šธ์„ ๋ถ‰ํžˆ๊ธฐ๋„ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Q. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋ฉด ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฌด์—‡์„ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋Œ๋ ค์ฃผ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€๊ฐ€ ?

A. ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋Š˜ โ€˜์š•์‹ฌ ๋‚ด์ง€ ๋ง์ž, ์•„๋ฌด๋ฆฌ ๋˜‘๋˜‘ํ•ด๋„ ๋‚จ์˜ ๋„์›€์—†์ด ์•ˆ๋œ๋‹ค.โ€™๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•œ๋‹ค. ๋‚˜์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฌผ์–ด๋ณผ ๊ฒƒ์€ ์—†๋‹ค. ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋Š˜ ๋ถ€์กฑํ•˜๋‹ค. ๋‹ค๋งŒ, ๊ทธ๋™์•ˆ ๋‚จ์˜ ๋„์›€์„ ๋ฐ›์•„์„œ ์ด๋งŒํผ ์ด๋ฃจ์—ˆ์œผ๋‹ˆ, ๋ฐ›์€ ๋งŒํผ ๋Œ๋ ค์ฃผ์ž๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ํ™•์žฅํ•ด ๊ฐ€๋Š” ์ด์œ ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๊ฒŒ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์˜ ๋„๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹Œ๊ฐ€. ๋‹ค๋งŒ, ๋ˆ์€ ์‚ฌํƒ•๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ฒƒ์ด์–ด์„œ ๋‹ฌ์ฝคํ•˜๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๋นจ์•„ ๋จน๊ฒŒ ๋œ๋‹ค. ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ์ ์  ์ค„์–ด๋“ค๊ฒŒ ๋งˆ๋ จ์ด๋‹ค. ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์ฃผ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ๊ฒƒ์€ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ์‚ฌํƒ• ๊ฐ™์€ ๋ˆ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ˆ์„ ๋ฒ„๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์„ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๋ˆ์„ ๋ฒŒ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋˜ ๋‚˜์˜ ๋…ธํ•˜์šฐ๋ฅผ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์—…๊ณ„ ํ•œ์ธ๋™ํฌ๋“ค๊ณผ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„๊ณ  ์‹ถ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.

ใ€ˆ์ตœ ํšŒ์žฅ์€ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์–˜๊ธฐ ๋์— BSW๊ฐ€ 30๋…„ ๋™์•ˆ ์ˆ˜๋ฐฑ๋งŒ๋ถˆ์˜ ๋ˆ์„ ๋Š์ž„์—†์ด ํˆฌ์žํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœํ•œ โ€œPCS (Pantheon Cloud Solution) RMS ํ”„๋žซํผโ€ ์–˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊บผ๋ƒˆ๋‹ค.โ€ใ€‰

โ€œ๋‚˜๋Š” ์ปดํ“จํ„ฐ ๊ณตํ•™์„ ์ „๊ณตํ•œ ๊ณตํ•™๋„๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋Š˜์˜ BSW ๊ทธ๋ฃน์€ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜์ง‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ถ„์„ํ•˜๊ณ , ๊ทธ ๋ถ„์„์„ ํ† ๋Œ€๋กœ ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ์šด์˜ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋‚จ์€ ์ด์ต์„ ํˆฌ์žํ•ด์„œ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ์—…์— ํˆฌ์žํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๊ณตํ•™๋„์˜€๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ–ˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ์—…์—์„œ ์ œ์ผ ์ค‘์š”ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด ๋ฐ์ดํƒ€๋‹ค. ์–ด๋–ค ์ƒํ’ˆ์ด ์ž˜ ํŒ”๋ฆฐ๋‹ค๋Š” ์–˜๊ธฐ๋“ค์€ ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ช‡๊ฐœ๊ฐ€ ํŒ”๋ฆฌ๊ณ , ์ด์ต์€ ์–ด๋Š ์ •๋„ ๋‚จ๊ณ , ๋˜ ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํŒ๋งค๋  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋‹ตํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ๋ณด์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์žฅ์‚ฌ๊พผ์€ ์…ˆ์— ๋ฐ์•„์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ˆ˜๋งŒ๊ฐœ์˜ ์ œํ’ˆ๊ตฐ์„ ํŒ๋งคํ•˜๋Š” B/S ๋งค์žฅ์—์„œ ๊ทธ๊ฑธ ๋จธ๋ฆฟ์†์œผ๋กœ๋งŒ ๊ธฐ์–ตํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ถ„์„ํ•œ๋‹ค? ๋ง๋„ ์•ˆ๋˜๋Š” ์–˜๊ธฐ๋‹ค. ์ปดํ“จํ„ฐ(AI)์˜ ๋„์›€ ์—†์ด๋Š” ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋‹ค.โ€

ใ€ˆ์ตœ ํšŒ์žฅ์€ ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์„ ๋‹น์‹œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ปดํ“จํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ์ด์šฉํ•œ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ๋ถ„์„์— ์น˜์ค‘ํ–ˆ๊ณ , ์ง€๋‚œ 30๋…„๊ฐ„ ๋Š์ž„์—†์ด ์—„์ฒญ๋‚œ ๋ˆ์„ ํˆฌ์žํ•ด PCS RMS ํ”Œ๋žซํผ(POS)๋ฅผ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœํ•ด ๋ƒˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•œ๋‹ค. BSW๊ฐ€ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœํ•œ PCS RMS ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์ด ์‹œ์ค‘์—์„œ ํŒ๋งค๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” POS์™€๋Š” ์•„์ฃผ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ฐจ์ด์ ์ด ์žˆ์Œ์ด ๋ถ„๋ช…ํ•˜๋‹ค. ์ง€๋‚œ 30๋…„ ๋™์•ˆ B/S ์†Œ๋งค์  ๋งค์žฅ์„ ์ˆ˜์‹ญ๊ฐœ์”ฉ ์šด์˜ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์ตœ ํšŒ์žฅ ์ž์‹ ์ด ์ง์ ‘ POS๋ฅผ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœํ•ด ์ˆ˜์ •ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋˜ ์ฒจ๊ฐ€ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ B/S ๋งค์žฅ ์šด์˜์šฉ์œผ๋กœ ์ตœ์ ํ™”ํ•œ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์ด ๋ฐ”๋กœ PCS RMS ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์ด๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด๋‹ค. ์‹œ์ค‘์—์„œ ํŒ๋งค๋˜๋Š” ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ POS๋Š” ์‹๋‹น์šฉ, ์˜ท๊ฐ€๊ฒŒ์šฉ, ์„œ๋น„์Šค์šฉ, ์‹ํ’ˆ๋งˆ์ผ“์šฉโ€ฆ๋“ฑ ์ผ๋ฐ˜์šฉ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก  ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์ œํ’ˆ๋“ค๋„ B/S ๊ฒฝ์˜์ž๋“ค์˜ ๋ถˆํŽธ์„ ํ•ด์†Œํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ ๋Š์ž„์—†์ด ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธ ์‹œ๊ฒผ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ตœ ํšŒ์žฅ์€ ์ž์‹ ์ด BSW ๋งค์žฅ๋“ค์„ 30๋…„๊ฐ„ ์šด์˜ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ํ„ฐ๋“ํ•œ ๋…ธํ•˜์šฐ๋ฅผ ์ง์ ‘ ์ ์šฉํ•ด, ๋ฐœ์ „์‹œ์ผฐ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์ด ๋‹ค๋ฅด๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ B/S์—…๊ณ„์˜ ๋„๋งค์—…์ฒด์™€ ์†Œ๋งค์—…์ฒด๊ฐ„ ์ปดํ“จํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ์ด์šฉํ•œ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜(EDI)๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋„๋ก ํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ ์ด›์ ์„ ๋งž์ถ”์—ˆ๋‹ค. B/S ๋งค์žฅ์—์„œ ํŒ๋งค๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” 7๋งŒ5์ฒœ์—ฌ๊ฐœ์˜ ์ œํ’ˆ์„ ๋˜ํ•œ ๋ชจ๋‘ ์ฝ”๋“œํ™” ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก  ์•„์ง์€ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์›”๋งˆํŠธ๋‚˜ ์›”๊ทธ๋ฆฐ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋ฉ”์Šค์ฒด์ธ์—…๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ–์ถ”๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” EDI(Eletronic Data Interchange) ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์— ์ด๋ฅด๊ธฐ ๊นŒ์ง€๋Š” ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค. ์ตœ ํšŒ์žฅ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด 30% ์ •๋„๋Š” ์ด๋ฃจ์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•œ๋‹ค. EDI๋ž€ ์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ๋งํ•ด ๋„๋งค์—…์ฒด์™€ ์†Œ๋งค์—…์ฒด๊ฐ„ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๊ฐ€ ๋ชจ๋‘ ์ปดํ“จํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด์„œ ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์ง€๋Š” ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์„ ๋งํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ด ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์„ ๊ฐ–์ถ”๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋ฉด ์†ก์žฅ, ์ธ๋ณด์ด์Šค, ์ธ๋ฒคํ† ๋ฆฌ ์ฝ˜ํŠธ๋กค์„ ์ง์›์ด ์†์œผ๋กœ ํ•  ํ•„์š”๊ฐ€ ์—†๋‹ค. ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜ ๋‹น์‚ฌ์ž๊ฐ„ ์žฌ๊ณ  ํ˜„ํ™ฉ์„ ์ƒํ˜ธ ํŒŒ์•…ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ณ , ๊ณ„์ ˆ๋ณ„/์ฃผ๊ธฐ๋ณ„ ์ ์ •๋Ÿ‰์˜ Re-Order๊ฐ€ POS๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ž๋™์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ด๋ฃจ์ง„๋‹ค. ์ตœ ํšŒ์žฅ์€ ์•„์ง ๊ฐˆ ๊ธธ์ด ๋ฉ€์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ทธ๋ž˜๋„ ์ž์‹ ์ด ๊ฐœ๋ฐœํ•œ PCS RMS ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์ด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ B/S ๋งค์žฅ ์šด์˜์„ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ ์ง€๊ธˆ๊ป ์ถœ์‹œ๋œ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ๋“ค ์ค‘์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋งŽ์€ ๋„์›€์ด ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ํ™•์‹ ํ•œ๋‹ค. ๊ธˆ๋…„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ด ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์„ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ B/S ๊ฒฝ์˜์ž๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฌด๋ฃŒ(๊ณต์งœ)๋กœ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„๊ฒ ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๊ทธ์˜ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋‹ค.ใ€‰

Q. But $30,000 at the time wouldnโ€™t have been nearly enough, would it ?

A. Indeed, it wouldnโ€™t have sufficed. However, it became possible due to the generosity of individuals who assisted me unconditionally during my business initiation. Among them, I can never forget the support from wholesale companies like Mid-K, Jinny, Sun Group, Nina International, Juni Hair, Shake-N-Go, and others. Mid-K provided $80,000 worth of credit for products, a pivotal foundation for my business. The  forementioned hair companies exhibited faith in my business plan, extending credit for thousands of dollars worth of products over a period of six months to a year. This constituted a truly miraculous occurrence. Where else could one find individuals extending credit to entrepreneurs devoid of credit history? Is such an act conceivable within American society? This occurrence was truly remarkable. Our Korean community, through such acts, laid the foundation for the massive B/S industry we witness today. We owe immense gratitude to our seasoned businessmen for this accomplishment.

ใ€ˆEric Choi, Chairman of BSW/PPF Group, embarked on his entrepreneurial journey in 1993 when he opened his first Beauty Supply(B/S) store in Syracuse. After dedicating over five years to his job, Choi decided to venture into the B/S industry. His choice of Syracuse was strategic; he explained, โ€œSyracuse is equidistant from places like Toronto, Canada, Cleveland, Ohio, Boston, and New York City, all within a four-hour drive. So, itโ€™s right in the middle. Thatโ€™s why I chose Syracuse.โ€ Initially, he considered other locations like Raleigh, Durham, and Charlotte in the Tri-State areas of South and North Carolina. However, at that time, he deemed them impossible for opening a store with just $30,000.

Ten years later, in 2003, Choi expanded his business to New Jersey. The primary reason for this expansion was the proximity of most wholesalers in that area, making it a logistical necessity to establish the headquarters there. Under the BSW (Beauty Supply Warehouse) Group, there are now over 30 B/S stores in the Northeastern United States, including Canada. Additionally, the BSW Group operates eight shoe stores known as โ€˜Street Game,โ€™ offering renowned brands like Nike, Timberland, New Balance, and Adidas. The group also encompasses PCS (Pantium Cloud Solution) RMS and YTT Investment Company, employing more than 450 workers.ใ€‰

Choi shared the heartfelt story of the support he received when starting his business, highlighting his motivation for doing business: โ€œI made a commitment while doing business. Itโ€™s to give back everything that Iโ€™ve achieved. I want to give back a lot because Iโ€™ve received a lot of help.โ€ Choiโ€™s commitment to giving back stems from a personal experience of loss; his wife passed away from stomach cancer eleven years ago at the age of 50. She left him with a profound message, saying, โ€˜You canโ€™t take anything with you when you die. Give it all away before you go.โ€™ As he shared this story, tears welled up in Choiโ€™s eyes.

Q. What specifically do you want to give back, and how do you plan to do it ?

A. I always think, โ€˜Donโ€™t be greedy, no matter how smart you are, you canโ€™t succeed without help from others.โ€™ Thereโ€™s nothing to ask me for. I always feel lacking. However, Iโ€™ve received help from others and have come this far. So, the reason Iโ€™m expanding my business is to give back as much as Iโ€™ve received. Isnโ€™t that the right thing to do as a human being? However, money is like candy, so itโ€™s sweet and gets sucked away. It tends to decrease over time. Therefore, what I want to give is not money, which is like candy. I want to share the ways to make money. I want to share my know-how, which allowed me to make money, with our fellow Korean businessmen in this industry.

ใ€ˆTowards the end of our discussion, Choi brought up the PCS (Pantium Cloud Solution) RMS POS Platform that BSW has continuously invested millions of dollars in for the last 30 years.ใ€‰

Choi, who majored in computer engineering, emphasized the pivotal role of data in the success of the BSW Group: โ€œTodayโ€™s BSW Group has been built on data collection and analysis. Then, we reinvested the profit into other businesses. It was possible for me because I was an engineer. If thereโ€™s one thing I consider most important in business, itโ€™s data. People talk about which products sell well, but they never provide specific numbers: how many were sold?, how much profit was made?, and how they will be sold in the future? Business people should be good at counting. How can you remember and analyze all this in your head in a B/S store selling thousands of different product lines? Itโ€™s impossible without the help of computers (AI).โ€

ใ€ˆChoi has been a steadfast advocate of data analysis using computers since the inception of his business. Over the past 30 years, he has made continuous substantial investments in developing the PCS POS platform. What sets the PCS POS platform, developed by BSW, apart from the marketโ€™s standard POS systems is its distinctiveness. Choi personally undertook the development, modifications, and optimization of the platform to cater specifically to B/S store operations while simultaneously managing dozens of B/S stores for three decades. Unlike most POS systems in the market originally designed for general use in restaurants, clothing stores, services, and food markets, Choiโ€™s system stands out. He integrated the knowledge and insights gained from operating BSW stores for 30 years into the platform. One of the focal points was facilitating computer-based transactions (Electronic Data Interchange, or EDI) between wholesale and retail B/S businesses. Choi painstakingly coded approximately 75,000 products typically found in B/S stores. While the B/S industry has yet to fully embrace an EDI system akin to major retail chains like Walmart or Walgreens, Choiโ€™s efforts have achieved approximately 30% progress in this direction. In essence, EDI streamlines transactions between wholesale and retail businesses through computer automation. This eliminates the need for manual handling of invoices, inventory control, and receipts. With EDI in place, trading parties can effortlessly assess inventory status, and the appropriate reorder quantities can be automatically determined via the POS system based on seasonal and cyclical factors. Choi acknowledges that thereโ€™s still a long journey ahead, but he firmly believes that the PCS POS platform he developed will prove to be the most invaluable tool for B/S store operations among all platforms released thus far. His mission is to share this platform with fellow B/S business owners, starting this year.ใ€‰

์ตœ ํšŒ์žฅ์€ โ€œ๋‚˜๋Š” ์ปดํ“จํ„ฐ๊ฐ€ ์žฌ๋ฏธ์žˆ๋‹ค.โ€๋ฉด์„œ โ€œ๋‹ค์‹œ ํƒœ์–ด๋‚˜๋ฉด ์ปดํ“จํ„ฐ ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ๋ณธ๊ฒฉ์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ๋‹คโ€๊ณ  ๋งํ•œ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  โ€œ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ž˜ ์•Œ๊ณ , ์ž˜ํ•ด ์™”๊ณ , ์ด ๋…ธํ•˜์šฐ๋กœ ๋ˆ์„ ๋ฒŒ์—ˆ์œผ๋‹ˆ, ์ด์ œ๋Š” ์ด ๋…ธํ•˜์šฐ๋ฅผ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์—…๊ณ„ ๊ฒฝ์˜์ธ๋“ค๊ณผ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„๊ณ  ์‹ถ๋‹คโ€๋Š” ๊ฑฐ๋‹ค. โ€œ๋‚˜์˜ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์„ ๊ณต์œ ํ•ด์„œ B/S ์—…๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ๋”์šฑ ๋ฐœ์ „ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ํฐ ๊ธฐ์จ์ธ๊ฐ€. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ์ผ์„ ํ˜„์žฌ ๋‚˜์˜ ์ž„๋ฌด๋กœ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹คโ€๊ณ  ํž˜์ฃผ์–ด ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

๋‚˜๋ˆ”์€ ๋ฐ”์ด๋Ÿฌ์Šค์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ํผ์ ธ๊ฐ„๋‹ค. ๋‚˜๋ˆ”์„ ํ–‰๋™์œผ๋กœ ์˜ฎ๊ธธ ๋•Œ ์ธ๊ฐ„์€ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ธ๊ฐ„๋‹ค์šด ๋ชจ์Šต์„ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚ธ๋‹ค. ๋‚˜๋ˆ”์˜ ๊ธฐ์จ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด์„œ ๋Š๋ผ๋Š” ํ–‰๋ณต๊ฐ์ด์•ผ๋ง๋กœ ์‚ถ์˜ ์›๋™๋ ฅ์ด๋‹ค. ์ตœ ํšŒ์žฅ์€ ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค ์ž์ฒด๋ฅผ ๋‚˜๋ˆ”์˜ ๋„๊ตฌ๋กœ ์ด์šฉํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด ๋ณด์˜€๋‹ค.

Q. ๋‹น์‹ ์€ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ํ†ตํ•ด์„œ ์–ป์€ ์ง€์‹์œผ๋กœ B/S ์‚ฌ์—…์˜ ๋…ธํ•˜์šฐ๋„ ๊ณ„์† ์ถ•์ ํ•ด ์™”๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ถ•์ ๋œ ๋…ธํ•˜์šฐ๋กœ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด์ง„ PCS RMS ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์„ ๋ฌด๋ฃŒ๋กœ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„๊ณ , ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์ˆซ์ž์˜ ๋งค์žฅ์ด ์ด๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋ฉด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์—…๊ณ„ ์ „์ฒด๊ฐ€ ์›”๋งˆํŠธ, ์›”๊ทธ๋ฆฐ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋งค์Šค ์ฒด์ธ๋“ค์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ EDI ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์„ ๊ฐ–์ถ”๋Š” ์‹œ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์•ž๋‹น๊ธธ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ฃผ์žฅํ•œ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๊ฒŒ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ๊ฐ€ ?

A. ์ด์ œ ๋ณธ๊ฒฉ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ถ”์ง„ํ•ด์•ผํ•  ์‹ฏ์ ์— ์™€ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์ƒˆํ•ด์—๋Š” ๋ณธ๊ฒฉ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ด๋ฅผ ์ถ”์ง„ํ•ด ๋ณผ ์ƒ๊ฐ์ด๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์—…๊ณ„ ๋ชจ๋“  ์†Œ๋งค์—…์ฒด๋“ค์ด ํž˜์„ ํ•ฉ์น˜๋ฉด ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์–ด๋ ค์šด ์ผ๋„ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚˜์˜ ๋งค์žฅ ํ•œ ๊ณณ์— ์™€์„œ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ ์šด์˜ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•๋งŒ ์ง์ ‘ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ๊ณ , 7๋งŒ5์ฒœ์—ฌ๊ฐœ์˜ B/S ์ƒํ’ˆ ๋ฐ”์ฝ”๋“œ๊ฐ€ ๋“ค์–ด์žˆ๋Š” PCS RMS ํ”Œ๋žซํผ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์„ ๋ฐ›์œผ๋ฉด ๋œ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ด๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ๋ถ„๋“ค์ด ๋งŽ์•„์ง€๋ฉด ๋งŽ์•„์งˆ์ˆ˜๋ก ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์ด ๋†’์•„์งˆ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์€ ๋ฌด๋ฃŒ๋กœ ๋“œ๋ฆด ์ž‘์ •์ด๋‹ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก  ๊ฐ•์‚ฌ์—๊ฒŒ ์ง€๋ถˆํ•ด์•ผํ•  ๋น„์šฉ์ด ์žˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๊ฐ•์‚ฌ๋น„๋งŒ ์‹ค๋น„๋กœ ๋ฐ›์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ๋‹จ, ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ์กฐ๊ฑด์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด ์‹ ์ œํ’ˆ์ด ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ๋ ๋•Œ๋งˆ๋‹ค ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋งŒ๋“  ๋ฐ”์ฝ”๋“œ๋ฅผ ๊ณ„์† ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธ๋ฅผ ์‹œ์ผœ์•ผ๊ฐ€์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์•ผ PCS POS ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ์—…์ฒด๋“ค์ด ์–ธ์  ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ณต๋™์˜ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ์ถ”์ถœํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ณ , ๊ทธ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์—…๊ณ„์˜ ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์„ฑ์„ ์•Œ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ด๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด๋‹ค.

Choi passionately expressed his fascination with computers, stating, โ€œI find computers fascinating. If I were born again, I would want to pursue a career in computer technology wholeheartedly. I know it the best, and Iโ€™ve done well with it, so now, I want to share this knowledge with the businessmen in our industry. If sharing my expertise can help the B/S industry prosper even further, how great would that be? I consider it my current mission.โ€

Choi believes that sharing is contagious and that when people put sharing into action, they reveal their most humane side. For him, the joy of sharing has become the driving force of his life, and he seems to be using business as a tool for sharing.

Q. You have accumulated knowledge through various businesses and are now offering the PCS POS platform, developed with that accumulated expertise, for free, with the hope that more stores will use it and accelerate the adoption of EDI systems across the entire B/S industry, similar to mass chains like Walmart and Walgreens. How is this possible ?

A. Iโ€™ve reached a point where Iโ€™m committed to launching this endeavor earnestly. In the new year, I plan to do so wholeheartedly. If all the retail businesses in our industry unite, it wonโ€™t be such a daunting task. The more individuals come to my store to learn the program operation method and receive the PCS POS platform program complete with barcodes for approximately 75,000 B/S products, the higher the chances of success. I am providing the program for free, but there will be costs associated with instructors, which participants will need to cover. The only requirement is that we continually update the barcodes weโ€™ve created whenever new products are added. This way, companies using the PCS POS platform can eventually extract shared data, enabling us to gain insights into the industryโ€™s direction.

ํ•œํŽธ, ์ €ํฌ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ๋งค์žฅ์˜ ์ˆซ์ž๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์•„์งˆ์ˆ˜๋ก EDI๋ฅผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ํ•˜๊ฒ ๋‹ค๋Š” ๋„๋งค์—…์ฒด๋“ค์˜ ์ˆซ์ž๊ฐ€ ๋Š˜์–ด๋‚  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฐ€๊ฒŒ ์ˆซ์ž๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์•„์ง€๋ฉด, ํ™€์„ธ์ผ๋Ÿฌ๋“ค ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ ์ž‘์€ ๊ทœ๋ชจ์˜ ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋“ค๋„ EDI ์ค‘์š”์„ฑ์„ ์ธ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ , ํˆฌ์ž ๋Œ€๋น„ ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ์ด ์ปค์ง„๋‹ค๊ณ  ํŒ๋‹จํ•˜๋ฉด, ํฐ ๋ˆ์„ ํˆฌ์žํ•ด์„œ๋ผ๋„ ์—…๊ณ„ EDI ํ†ต์ผํ™”์— ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ์ง€๊ธˆ์€ BSW ํ˜ผ์ž ํ•˜๋‹ˆ ์ฝง๋ฐฉ๊ท€๋„ ์•ˆ๋€Œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ, PCS RMS ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ์ˆซ์ž๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์•„์ง€๋ฉด ๋„๋งค์ƒ ์Šค์Šค๋กœ EDI๋ฅผ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ๋ฐ–์— ์—†๋‹ค๋Š” ๋ง์ด๋‹ค. ํ˜„์žฌ๋Š” ํฐ ๋„๋งค์—…์ฒด ๋ช‡๋ช‡์ด ์ €์—๊ฒŒ ํ˜‘์กฐํ•ด ์ฃผ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, BSW๋‚˜ ๋˜๋‹ˆ๊นŒ ํŠน๋ณ„ํžˆ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ๋„์›€์„ ์ฃผ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ฑธ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ํ•˜์ž๋ฉด ๋ฒค๋”์™€ ๋งค์žฅ ์–‘์ชฝ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ž๋“ค์ด ๋งŒ๋‚˜ ์กฐ์œจ์„ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹œ๊ฐ„๊ณผ ๋ˆ์ด ์—„์ฒญ ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ์‰ฝ์ง€ ์•Š์€ ์ผ์ด๋‹ค. ๋‚˜์˜ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธ์— ๋„์›€์„ ์ค€ ์—…์ฒด ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ Shan-N-Go์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, SNG 001๋ž€ ์ƒํ’ˆ์ด ์ €ํฌ BSW์— ์ƒํ’ˆ์ด ์ž…๊ณ ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ BSW 001๋กœ ์ฆ‰์‹œ ์ฝ”๋“œ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐ”๋€Œ์–ด ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๊ฐ€ ์ €์žฅ ๋œ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์ผ์„ ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ๋ฒค๋”๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ์ ์–ด๋„ ์ž๊ธฐ ์‹œ๊ฐ„๊ณผ ๋ˆ์„ ๊ธฐ๊บผ์ด ํ• ์• ํ•  ๋•Œ๋งŒ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ๋„ ํฐ ๋ˆ์ด ๋“ค์–ด ๊ฐ„๋‹ค. ์•„์ง์€ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์ ์ด ํฐ ๋ฌธ์ œ์ง€๋งŒ, ์•ž์„œ ๋ง์”€ ๋“œ๋ฆฐ๋Œ€๋กœ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ์†Œ๋งค์—…์ฒด๋“ค์˜ ์ˆซ์ž๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์•„์งˆ์ˆ˜๋ก ๋ฒค๋”์ชฝ์—์„œ๋Š” ์ž๊ธฐ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋Œ์•„์˜ค๋Š” ์ด๋“์„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•˜์—ฌ EDI์— ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.

ํ•œํŽธ, ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์— ๋“ค์–ด์˜ค๋Š” ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ฐ์ดํƒ€๋Š” ๊ฐ์ž ์ž๊ธฐ ํด๋ผ์šฐ๋“œ ๋ฐ์ดํƒ€์— ์ €์žฅ๋˜๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ์ €ํฌ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ๊ณผ๋Š” ์•„๋ฌด ์ƒ๊ด€์ด ์—†์ด ์ž๊ธฐ ๋น„๋ฐ€์ด ๋ณด์žฅ๋œ๋‹ค. ๊ฑฑ์ •ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด ์—†๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ POS๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์ž…ํ•˜๋ฉด ํฌ๋ ˆ๋”ง์นด๋“œ๊ฐ€ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ๋˜์–ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ ๋ณดํ†ต POS ํŒ๋งค์ž๋Š” ์ž๊ธฐ๋„ค๋“ค ๊ฒƒ์„ ์“ฐ๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ์ €ํฌ ๊ฒƒ์€ ํ„ฐ๋ฏธ๋‚  ์ž์ฒด๋ฅผ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจํ•ด ์ฃผ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ์–ด๋Š ํฌ๋ ˆ๋”ง์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•ด๋„ ์ƒ๊ด€์—†๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ๊ฐ์ž ์›ํ•˜๋Š” e-commerce์™€ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์„œ, ์›ํ•˜๋Š” web site์—์„œ online business๋„ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์ž‡๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ๋˜ํ•œ cloud์— ์ €์žฅ๋œ ํ•œ data๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  on offline business๋ฅผ ๋™์‹œ์— ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์žฅ์ ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค.

As the number of stores adopting our platform continues to increase, the willingness of wholesale companies to engage in Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) will also experience substantial growth. With a larger user base for our platform, even small-scale companies among the wholesalers will come to appreciate the significance of EDI and perceive it as a more profitable investment. This, in turn, will drive their active participation in the standardization of EDI practices within the industry. Presently, BSW is pioneering this effort independently, but as the user base of the PCS POS platform expands, wholesale businesses will find themselves compelled to implement EDI solutions. Some major wholesale companies are already collaborating with me, and their support is particularly noteworthy because itโ€™s associated with BSW. Implementing EDI requires vendors and store technicians to engage in extensive meetings and coordination, entailing significant time and financial investments. However, as I mentioned earlier, the increasing adoption of our platform by retail businesses will motivate vendors to embrace EDI for their own benefit. Furthermore, all the data entered into the platform is securely stored in the cloud, independent of our platform, ensuring the confidentiality of your sensitive information. You can rest assured about the security of your data. Moreover, when you purchase a Point of Sale (POS) system, it usually necessitates integration with a specific credit card service, often bundled with the POS sellerโ€™s services. However, our system programs the terminal itself, affording you the flexibility to choose any credit card service provider you prefer. Additionally, each user can seamlessly connect to e-commerce, enabling them to conduct online business through the website. It also offers the advantage of simultaneously managing both online and offline operations with all data stored in the cloud.

ใ€ˆChoi concludes by saying, โ€œAround April, the development of the PCS POS platform V2 vendor portal will be completed. Leveraging the data supplied by vendors and our sales data, the system, though not quite at the level of artificial intelligence (AI), will independently analyze logic and provide insights into the appropriate reorder quantities on a seasonal or periodic basis. For instance, if ten units of a product have been received, the Lead Time is set at two units, and four units have been sold, leaving six in stock, the system will precisely calculate when to reorder another ten units. Once you program such logic into the vendor portal, the platform itself, through its logical capabilities, will make these determinations. This eliminates the need for store managers to manually configure min-max settings on the POS. In practice, managing a store successfully requires numerous manual tasks that are often impractical to execute due to their complexity. There are no individuals who can manage these tasks single-handedly. The PCS POS platform, which automates these processes, represents the evolution of our system, known as V2,โ€ he added.ใ€‰

Q. ์—…๊ณ„ ์ „์ฒด๊ฐ€ EDIํ™” ํ•œ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ B/S ์—…๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ๋ฌดํ•œ์ • ํ™•์žฅ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๋ง์€ ๋˜ ๋ฌด์Šจ ๋ง์ธ๊ฐ€ ?

A. ํ˜„์žฌ ์ €ํฌ PCS RMS ํ”Œ๋žซํผ๋งŒ ๊ฐ–๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด๋„, 20-30๊ฐœ ์Šคํ† ์•„๋Š” ์–ผ๋งˆ๋“ ์ง€ ์šด์˜ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๋ฐ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์— EDI๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€์„ธํ•œ๋‹ค๋ฉด 100๊ฐœ๋„ ๋ฌธ์ œ์—†๋‹ค. ๋ณต์žกํ•œ ์ผ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ปดํ“จํ„ฐ๊ฐ€ ๋Œ€์‹ ํ•ด ์ฃผ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด๋‹ค. ์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค๋ฉด ํ˜„์žฌ ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ ์Šคํ† ์•„๋Š” ์ œํ’ˆ์„ ์˜ค๋”ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์œผ๋กœ ์šด์˜ํ•œ๋‹ค๋ฉด ์ง์›๋“ค์€ ์•„์นจ์— ๋ฌธ์—ด๊ณ , ์บ์‰ฌ์ •๋ฆฌํ•ด์ฃผ๊ณ , ๋ฌผ๊ฑด ์ง„์—ดํ•˜๊ณ , ๋„๋‘‘์ง€ํ‚ค๊ณ , ๋ฌธ๋‹ซ๋Š” ์ผ๋งŒํ•˜๋ฉด ๋œ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋”๋Š” ํ”Œ๋žซํผ ๋‚ด์—์„œ ์ž๋™์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ•ด๊ฒฐ์ด ๋œ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์ธ๊ฑด๋น„๋ฅผ ์ ˆ์•ฝํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๋ง์ด์ง€๋งŒ, ์ •ํ™•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งค์žฅ์„ ์šด์˜ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋งํ•œ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋ฉด ํ•˜๋‚˜๋ฅผ ์šด์˜ํ•˜๋‚˜ 100๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ์šด์˜ํ•˜๋‚˜ ์šด์˜์˜ ์ฐจ์ด๋Š” ํฌ๊ฒŒ ์—†๋‹ค.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๋ฐ ํ˜„์žฌ์˜ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋Š” ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์™„๋ฒฝํ•˜๊ฒŒ๋Š” ํ•  ์ˆ˜๋Š” ์—†๋‹ค๋Š” ๋ฐ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๋ˆ๊ณผ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์—„์ฒญ๋‚˜๊ฒŒ ์†Œ์š”๋˜๋Š” EDI๋ฅผ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ํšŒ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์—…๊ณ„์— ๋ช‡๊ฐœ๋ฐ–์— ์—†๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด๋‹ค. EDI๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ๋„๋งค์—…์ฒด๋“ค์˜ ์ˆซ์ž๋ฅผ ๋Š˜๋ฆฌ๋ ค๋ฉด, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์†Œ๋งค์—…์ฒด๋“ค์ด ๋จผ์ € ํ•˜๋‚˜๊ฐ€ ๋˜์–ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค. ๋‹ฌ๊ฑ€์ด ๋จผ์ €๋ƒ ๋‹ญ์ด ๋จผ์ €๋ƒ๋ฅผ ๋”ฐ์งˆ ๊ฒŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์†Œ๋งค์ ์ด ๋จผ์ € ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ๊ทธ๋ผ์šด๋“œ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด ์ฃผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋” ์šฉ์˜ํ•œ ๋ฐฉ์•ˆ์ด๊ณ  ์ˆœ์„œ๋ผ๊ณ  ๋‚˜๋Š” ์ƒ๊ฐํ•œ๋‹ค. ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ์ผ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก  ๋„๋งค์—…์ฒด๋“ค ์ž์ฒด๋„ ์ด์ œ ์ž๊ธฐ ์˜์—ญ์„ ํ‚ค์šฐ๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ ์‚ฌ์ „์— ํˆฌ์ž๋ฅผ ํ•  ํ•„์š”๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์ง€๊ธˆ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋‚˜ ํ˜ผ์ž์„œ 30% ์ •๋„๋Š” ํ•ด๋ƒˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚˜๋จธ์ง€ 70%๋ฅผ ์™„์„ฑ์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ์ผ์€ ์—…๊ณ„ ๋ชจ๋‘๊ฐ€ ์ง€๊ธˆ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๊ฐ™์ด ํ•˜์ž๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ์‚ฌ์‹ค์ƒ ๋งค์žฅ์˜ ์•„์ดํ…œ์˜ 30%๊ฐ€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋งค์žฅ์˜ 70-80 ํผ์„ผํŠธ์˜ ๋งค์ถœ ์˜ฌ๋ ค์ค€๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ 30%๋งŒ POS๋กœ ์ฝ˜์ธ ๋กคํ•ด๋„ ์„ฑ๊ณต์ด๊ณ  ๊ทธ๊ฑด ๋‚˜ ํ˜ผ์ž์„œ๋„ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์—…๊ณ„ ์†Œ๋งค ๋งค์žฅ 100%๊ฐ€ ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ POS๋ฅผ ๊ฐ–์ถ”๊ณ , ๋„๋งค์—…์ฒด๊ฐ€ EDI๋กœ ๊ฐ€์„ธํ•˜๋ฉด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์‚ฌ์—…์˜ ์˜์—ญ์€ ์ง€๊ธˆ๋ณด๋‹ค๋„ ์ˆ˜์‹ญ~์ˆ˜๋ฐฑ๋ฐฐ๋„ ์ปค์งˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋‚˜์˜ ๊ด€์ธก์ด๋‹ค. ๋‚˜๋Š” ์ด๋ฅผ ์ž์‹  ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋งํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์ปดํ“จํ„ฐ๊ฐ€ ์ •ํ™•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊ฒฝ์˜์„ ๋Œ€์‹ ํ•ด ์ฃผ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด๋‹ค. 100๊ฐœ ๋งค์žฅ์„ ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ๋งค์žฅ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์šด์˜ํ•˜๋Š” ์ผ์ด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•ด์ง€๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด๋‹ค.

๋˜ ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด๋ณด์ž, ์ฃผ์›”๋ฆฌ ํšŒ์‚ฌ์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ๋งค๋ฒˆ ์„ธ์ผ์ฆˆ๋งจ์ด ์™€์„œ ํŒ๋งค๋œ ๋ฌผ๊ฑด ์ฒดํฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์ œํ’ˆ์„ ์ฑ„์›Œ์ฃผ๊ณ  ๊ฐ„๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๋ฐ ๋งŒ์•ฝ EDI๊ฐ€ ๋œ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ์„ธ์ผ์ฆˆ๋งจ์ด ๊ทธ ๋งค์žฅ์— ๊ฐˆ ํ•„์š”๊ฐ€ ์—†๊ณ , ๋ฒค๋” ์ž์ฒด์—์„œ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜์ฒ˜ ์žฌ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ์ปดํ“จํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์‚ฌ์ „ ์ฒดํฌํ•œ ํ›„, ์ƒํ’ˆ์„ ๋ณด๋‚ผ ์ค„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋œ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋ฉด ๋ฒค๋”๋„ ๋ˆ์„ ๋ฒŒ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์†Œ๋งค์ ๋„ ์ž˜ ํŒ”๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋ฌผ๊ฑด ๋–จ์–ด๋œจ๋ฆฌ์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ์žฅ์‚ฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๋” ํฐ ๋ˆ์„ ๋ฒŒ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๋ฐ ์ง€๊ธˆ์€ ๋ฒค๋”๋“ค์ด BSW๋งŒ ๋ณด๊ณ  ํ•˜๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ๋ˆ์ด ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋งŽ์ด ๋“ค๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์„ ๋ฟ์ด๋‹ค.

Q. What does it mean when you say the entire industry will expand infinitely with EDI ?

A. Currently, with just our PCS POS platform, you can operate 20-30 stores without any problems. However, with the incorporation of EDI into the platform, even managing 100 stores would become a feasible task. This is primarily because the computer takes charge of handling intricate tasks. For instance, in most stores today, someone must place orders for products manually. Yet, when you operate through our platform, your employees only need to focus on opening the store in the morning, handling cash transactions, ensuring security against theft, and closing the store at night. The platform seamlessly manages all order processing automatically. This translates into substantial savings on labor costs while maintaining efficient store operations. In this scenario, whether you operate just one store or a hundred, the difference in day-to-day operations becomes negligible.

However, the challenge we face currently is that attaining this level of operational excellence remains challenging because only a few companies in our industry can afford the significant time and financial investments required for EDI implementation. To increase the number of wholesale companies capable of implementing EDI, our retail businesses must collaborate first. In this context, itโ€™s not a matter of deciding whether the chicken or the egg comes first. I firmly believe itโ€™s more practical and logical for our retail stores to establish the groundwork initially. This is indeed an achievable goal. Of course, wholesale companies themselves must also invest to expand their market presence. Thus far, Iโ€™ve managed to achieve approximately 30% progress independently. Completing the remaining 70% is a collective endeavor we must embark upon from this point onward. In fact, top 30% of the storeโ€™s items contribute to 70-80% of the total sales. Therefore, effectively controlling this 30% through a POS system is not only possible but can lead to significant success, and I can attest to this from personal experience.

However, if we envision a future where 100% of retail stores within the industry have a POS system, and wholesale companies incorporate EDI capabilities, I believe the scope of our business could expand by several tens to hundreds of times compared to the present. I say this with confidence because computers possess the precision to efficiently manage operations on behalf of us, enabling the operation of 100 stores as if they were one.

Letโ€™s consider another example: in the case of a company like Jewely Company, salespersons typically visit stores to assess sold items, replenish products, and perform similar tasks. However, with the introduction of EDI, there would be no need for salespersons to visit the stores physically. Instead, the vendor could seamlessly access via EDI inventory information with their trading partners and dispatch products accordingly. In such a scenario, both the vendor and the retail store can significantly enhance their profitability. Unfortunately, this practice is not widespread at the moment, because it costs too much for vendors invest EDI to trade just BSW.

Q. ๋‹ค๋ฅธ POS ํ”Œ๋žซํผ ํŒ๋งค์—…์ฒด๋“ค์€ BSW๊ฐ€ ์ž๊ธฐ POS ์žฅ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์ผ์„ ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์„๊นŒ ?

A. ๊ทธ๋Ÿด์ง€๋„ ๋ชจ๋ฅธ๋‹ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก  ๊ผญ PCS RMS POS๋กœ๋งŒ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋‹ค๋Š” ๋ง์€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์–ด๋–ค POS๋„ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์•ž์„œ ๋ง์”€ ๋“œ๋ ธ๋“ฏ์ด 40์—ฌ๊ฐœ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šด ๋งค์žฅ์„ 30๋…„๊ฐ„ ๊ฒฝ์˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žฅ์‚ฌํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๊ฒฝ์˜์ž์ธ ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์ปดํ“จํ„ฐ ์ „๊ณต์ž๋กœ์„œ ์ง์ ‘ ํ˜„์žฅ์—์„œ B/S ๋งค์žฅ์šด์˜์— ์ตœ์ ํ™”ํ•œ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด ํƒ„์ƒ์‹œํ‚จ ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋ฐ”๋กœ PCS RMS ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์ด๋‹ค. ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„์ด๋ผ๋ฉด ์—…๊ณ„ EDI๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด ํ•˜๋‚˜๋ฅผ ์„ ํƒํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๋ฉด ์–ด๋–ค ๊ฒƒ์„ ์„ ํƒํ•˜๊ฒ ๋Š”๊ฐ€? ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋‹ค๋ฅธ POS ํŒ๋งคํšŒ์‚ฌ๋“ค๊ณผ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿํ•ด์„œ POS ํŒ๋งค์žฅ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ํ•˜๊ฒ ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์ˆ˜์‹ญ๋…„๊ฐ„ ๊ณต๋“ค์—ฌ ๋งŒ๋“  ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์„ ๋ฌด๋ฃŒ๋กœ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„์–ด ์“ฐ๊ฒ ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ, ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ์˜ค๋กœ์ง€ ์—…์ฒด ์ „์ฒด EDI๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋ฉด ์—…๊ณ„ ๋ชจ๋“  ์ข…์‚ฌ์ž๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ํฌ๊ฒŒ ์ด๋“์ด ๋œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฑฐ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์ค€๋น„๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด์„œ ์‹œ์žฅ์„ ๋” ํ™•๋Œ€ํ•˜์—ฌ ๋” ํฐ ๋ˆ์„ ๋ฒŒ๋ฉด ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ฒ ๋Š”๊ฐ€? ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ํ•œ์ธ ์‚ฌ์—…๊ฐ€๋“ค์˜ ์•ฝ์ ์ด์ง€๋งŒ, ์ด์ œ ์ง„์ •์œผ๋กœ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ํž˜์„ ํ•ฉํ•ด ๋ณผ ๋•Œ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.

Q. Wouldnโ€™t other POS platform vendors say that BSW dose this to do its own POS business ?

A. Itโ€™s a possibility. Certainly, itโ€™s not exclusive to PCS POS; any POS system could potentially offer this capability. Nevertheless, as I mentioned earlier, the PCS POS platform was born out of my firsthand experience managing and optimizing B/S store operations as a computer expert for nearly 30 years. This unique perspective makes it especially well-suited for this purpose. If you had to select one POS system for industry-wide EDI, which would you choose? Iโ€™m not here to compete with other POS vendors; my intention is for you to perceive the sincerity behind my actions. Offering the program Iโ€™ve diligently developed over decades for free is solely aimed at facilitating industry-wide EDI. By preparing in this manner and expanding the market, we can collectively realize more substantial profits. It may have been a weakness among Korean businesses in the past, but now, letโ€™s unite and make a difference together.

Q. BSW ๊ฐ™์€ ๋Œ€ํ˜• ์†Œ๋งค์  ๊ฒฝ์˜์ฃผ๋“ค์ด ๋จผ์ € ํž˜์„ ํ•ฉํ•ด์•ผ ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์„๊นŒ ?

A. ๊ทธ๋ถ„๋“ค์ด ํž˜์„ ๋ณดํƒœ๋ฉด ์—„์ฒญ๋‚œ ์‹œ๋„ˆ์ง€ ํšจ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ์ƒ๊ธธ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ์†Œ๋งค์—…๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ๋ญ”๊ฐ€ ์—…๊ณ„์˜ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜๋ฅผ ์ผ์„ ๋„๋ชจํ•  ๋•Œ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๋’ค๋ฅผ ๋Œ์•„ ๋ณด์ž, ๋„๋งค์—…๊ณ„์—์„œ๋Š” ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ์ผ์„ ํ–ˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค. SNG๊ฐ€ ์ถœํ˜„, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ํ—ค์–ด์—…๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๋ ˆ๋ฒจ์—… ์‹œํ‚ค๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•œ ์ผ์„ ๊ธฐ์–ตํ•˜๋Š”๊ฐ€. ์‹ ์„ธํ‹ฑ ์›์‚ฌ๋กœ ๋งŒ๋“  ํ—ค์–ด์ œํ’ˆ์˜ ํŒจ์…˜ํ™”๋ฅผ SNG๊ฐ€ ์„ ๋„ํ•˜์ž, ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์„ ๋‘ ํ—ค์–ด์—…์ฒด๋“ค๋„ ์ž๊ทน์„ ๋ฐ›์•„ ์ด๋ฅผ ์ซ“์•„๊ฐ€๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ํ—ค์–ด์—…๊ณ„๋Š” ์—„์ฒญ๋‚˜๊ฒŒ ํ™•์žฅ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๋ฐ, ์†Œ๋งค์—…๊ณ„๋Š” ์–ด๋–ค๊ฐ€? ๋ฌผ๋ก  ๊ทœ๋ชจ๋‚˜ ์™ธ์–‘์˜ ๋ฉด์—์„œ ๋ชจ๋ฒ”์„ ๋ณด์ธ ์—…์ฒด๋“ค์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์—…๊ณ„ ์ „์ฒด์˜ ์งˆ์ ์ธ ๊ฒฝ์˜๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์˜ ํ–ฅ์ƒ, ๋งค์žฅ๊ฒฝ์˜์˜ ํ…Œํฌํ™”, ์‹œ์žฅํ™•๋Œ€โ€ฆ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์ผ์— ๊ณตํ—Œํ•œ ์—…์ฒด๊ฐ€ ๋ˆ„๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š”๊ฐ€? ํ•˜๋‚˜๋„ ์—†๋‹ค๊ณ  ๊ฐํžˆ ๋งํ• ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ€๊ฒŒ ์ˆซ์ž ๋Š˜๋ ค ์„ฑ๊ณตํ•œ ๊ฒฝ์˜์ธ๋“ค์€ ๋งŽ์•„ ๋ณด์ธ๋‹ค. ๋งŽ์€ ๋ถ„๋“ค์€ ๋งŒ๋‚˜ ๋ชปํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋งŒ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋ถ„๋“ค์€ ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„ ์ž๊ธฐ ์„ฑ๊ณต ์–˜๊ธฐ๋ฟ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.

Q. Shouldnโ€™t larger retail store owners like BSW come together first ?

A. If they come together, there will be tremendous synergy. Itโ€™s high time for the retail industry to collectively shape its future. Consider the wholesale industry; recall when SNG emerged and began revolutionizing the hair industry. As SNG led the charge in modernizing hair products using synthetic fibers, other prominent hair companies took inspiration and followed suit. Consequently, our hair industry experienced tremendous growth. Now, letโ€™s reflect on the retail industry. While there are undoubtedly successful retailers that have set examples in terms of scale and appearance, thereโ€™s a noticeable absence of someone I can confidently say has significantly contributed to enhancing the overall qualitative management capabilities of our entire industry, advancing store management technology, and expanding the market. It seems that many successful entrepreneurs who have increased the number of their stores primarily focus on their own achievements.

์ตœ ํšŒ์žฅ์€ ๊ฐ€์Šด์— ๋‹ด์€ ์–˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ชจ๋‘ ํ„ธ์–ด๋†“์„ ํƒœ์„ธ๋กœ ์—ด๋ณ€์„ ํ† ํ•ด๋ƒˆ๋‹ค.
โ€œ๊ธฐ์™•์— ๋‚˜์™”์œผ๋‹ˆ, ๋ทฐํ‹ฐ์—…๊ณ„ ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์–˜๊ธฐ๋ณด๋‹ค ํ•œ์ธ ์ด๋ฏผ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์–˜๊ธฐํ•ด ๋ณด๊ณ  ์‹ถ๋‹ค.โ€๋ฉฐ ํ™”์ œ๋ฅผ ๋Œ๋ ธ๋‹ค. โ€ ์ง€๋‚œ ์ฃผ ๋ณด์Šคํ†ค์— ๊ฐ”์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๊ณณ์—๋Š” ์ฃผ๋ง ๋Œ€๋ชฉ์ด์–ด์„œ, ์ง์›๋“ค๊ณผ ์•„์นจ ๋ฏธํŒ…์„ ํ•˜๊ณ , ์ ์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ์„ผ๋“œ์œ„์น˜ 2๊ฐœ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด ๋จน์œผ๋ฉด์„œ ์‹ ๋ฐœ๊ฐ€๊ฒŒ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š” ์•Œ๋ฐ”๋‹ˆ๊นŒ์ง€ ๊ฐ”์—ˆ๋‹ค. ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ๋ฐ”์˜๊ฒŒ ๋›ฐ์—ˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๋ชจ๋ฅธ๋‹ค. ์˜คํ›„ 5์‹œ๊ฐ€ ๋„˜์–ด ์†์ž๋“ค์„ ๋ณด๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด NJ ๋กœ ์„œ๋‘˜๋Ÿฌ ๋– ๋‚ฌ๋‹ค.๋„์ค‘์— โ€œ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์™œ ์ด์ง“์„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‚˜?โ€ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ณด๋‹ˆ โ€œ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ์€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์†์ž ์†๋…€๋“ค ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ๊ฒƒ ๋ง˜๋†“๊ณ  ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด ์•„๋‹Œ๊ฐ€.โ€ ํ•˜๋Š” ์ƒ๊ฐ์ด ๋“ค์—ˆ๋‹ค. ์•„๋งˆ๋„ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ํ•œ์ธ๋ถ„๋“ค๋„ ๋‚˜์™€ ๋น„์Šทํ•œ ์ƒ๊ฐ์„ ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ณด์ž. โ€œ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ํ›„์†๋“ค์ด ๋ˆ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ๊ฒƒ ๋ชปํ•  ๋•Œ ์ด๋ฅผ ์ง€์›ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๋ฉด, ํ˜„์žฌ์— ๋งŒ์กฑํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ์•ˆ๋œ๋‹ค. ์ง€๊ธˆ๋ณด๋‹ค ์ˆ˜์‹ญ๋ฐฐ ์ˆ˜๋ฐฑ๋ฐฐ์˜ ๋ˆ์„ ๋ฒŒ์–ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์ผ์€ ํ˜ผ์ž์„œ๋Š” ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋‹ค. ๊ฐ™์€ ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๋ผ๋ฆฌ ๋„์™€์ฃผ๊ณ  ๋„์›€๋ฐ›๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์‹œ์žฅ์„ ํ‚ค์šฐ๊ณ , ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋‹ค ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋” ์ปค์ ธ์•ผ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋‹ค. ์œ ํƒœ์ธ๋“ค์ด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๋ชจ๋ธ์ด๋‹ค. ์œ ๋Œ€์ธ๋“ค๊ณผ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ฐจ์ด์ ์€ ํ•œ๊ตญ์ธ๋“ค์€ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์ด๊ธฐ์ ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ๋‚˜์™€ ๋‚ด ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋ฐ–์— ๋ชจ๋ฅธ๋‹ค. ๋‚˜๋ผ์—์„œ ์–ด๋–ค ์ •์ฑ…์„ ์‹œํ–‰ํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋‚˜๋ผ ์ „์ฒด๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ ์ข‹์€๊ฐ€? ๋‚˜์œ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๋”ฐ์ง€๋Š”๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ๋‚˜์—๊ฒŒ ์ด์ต์ด ์žˆ๋Š”๊ฐ€ ์—†๋Š”๊ฐ€์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ํ–‰๋™ํ•œ๋‹ค. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ณต๋™์„ (ๅ…ฑๅŒๅ–„)์ด ๋จผ์ €๋‹ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก  ๋จน๊ณ  ์‚ด๊ธธ์ด ์—†๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ์ดํ•ดํ•œ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ข€ ์—ฌ์œ ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„์–ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•œ๋‹ค. ๋ˆ์„ ๋งŽ์ด ๋ฒŒ์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉด ๋ˆ์œผ๋กœ, ์ง€์—ญ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์„ฑ๊ณตํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉด ์ง€์—ญ์„ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„๊ณ , ๋‚˜์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ๋กœ ์„ฑ๊ณตํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์„ ๋‚˜๋ˆ”์œผ๋กœ์จ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ์ผ์ด๋‹ค.โ€

ใ€ˆ์ตœ ํšŒ์žฅ์€ ์—ด๋ณ€์„ ํ† ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์–˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์–ด๋–ค ํ›„๋ฐฐ์—๊ฒŒ ๊บผ๋ƒˆ๋”๋‹ˆ ๊ทธ ํ›„๋ฐฐ๊ฐ€ โ€œํ˜•๋‹˜์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์€ ์•Œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ ์„ฑ๊ณต ๋ชปํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์™œ? ๋‹ค๋“ค ํ•œ๊ตญ์ธ๋“ค์€ ์˜์‹ฌ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ํ•˜๋‹ˆ๊นŒ์š”. ํ˜•๋‹˜์˜ ๋œป์€ ์ข‹์ง€๋งŒ ๊ทธ ๋œป์„ ๋ฐ›์•„์ค„ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์€ ๋ช‡๋ช‡ ํ˜•๋‹˜์„ ์•„๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ ์™ธ์—๋Š” ์—†์„ ๊ฒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.โ€๊ณ  ํ•˜๋”๋ผ. โ€œ๊ทธ๋ž˜๋„ ๋‚˜๋Š” ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ๋ฐ›์ง€ ์•Š์œผ๋ฉด ๊ทธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹Œ๊ฐ€. ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋‹จ์ง€ ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๋ฐ›์€ ๊ฒƒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ณด๋‹ต์œผ๋กœ ํ•˜๋ ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๋ฟ์ด๋‹ค.โ€๋ผ๊ณ  ํ›„๋ฐฐ์—๊ฒŒ ๋‹ตํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•œ๋‹ค.ใ€‰

Q. PCS RMS ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์„ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„๋Š” ์ผ ์™ธ์— ์‚ฌ์—…์ ์ธ ์ƒˆํ•ด์˜ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋Š” ๋ฌด์—‡์ธ๊ฐ€ ?

A. ๊ณ„์† ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ํ™•์žฅ์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ B/S ์—…๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ํฌํ™”์ƒํƒœ๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•œ๋‹ค. ๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋ณด์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค. ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋กœ ์žฅ์‚ฌํ•˜๋ฉด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์‚ฌ์—… ์˜์—ญ์€ ๋ฌดํ•œํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ํฐ ๋‚˜๋ผ์ธ๊ฐ€ . ์„ธ์ƒ์€ ๋„“๊ณ , ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค๋Š” ๋ฌดํ•œํ•˜๋‹ค.

Q. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€๋Š” ์–ด๋””์—์„œ ๋‚˜์˜ค๋‚˜?

A. ์—ฌํ–‰๊ณผ ์ทจ๋ฏธํ™œ๋™์—์„œ ๋‚˜์˜จ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚˜๋Š” ์ง€๋‚œ 1๋…„ ๋‚ด๋‚ด ์ง€๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ๋‘๋ฐ”ํ€ด ๋Œ๋ฉฐ ์—ฌํ–‰๋งŒ์„ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ณด๊ณ , ๋“ฃ๊ณ , ์ฝ์œผ๋ฉด์„œ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์‚ฌ์—… ๊ตฌ์ƒ๋„ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Q. ์—ฌํ–‰์—์„œ ๋Œ์•„์™€ ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์ง„ ๊ฒŒ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‚˜?

A. ๊ทธ๋™์•ˆ ์ผ์—๋งŒ ํŒŒ๋ฌปํ˜€ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋ฐ”์˜๊ฒŒ๋งŒ ์ƒํ™œํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๊นจ๋‹ฌ์•˜๋‹ค. ๊ฑด๋ฐฉ์ง„ ์–˜๊ธฐ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋Œ์•„์™€์„œ ๋ณด๋‹ˆ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ๋ณด์ด๋”๋ผ. ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ๋ฌด์Šจ ์ƒ๊ฐ์„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๋ณด์ด๋”๋ผ. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์˜ˆ์ „์— ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋‚ด ์–˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ „๋‹ฌํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ๋งŒ ์ค‘์ ์„ ๋‘์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ์ง€๊ธˆ์€ ๋“ฃ๊ฒŒ ๋˜๊ณ , ๋“ฃ๊ณ  ๋‚˜์„œ ํ‰๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋”๋ผ. ์ด ์นœ๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ์˜ˆ์ „์— ์™œ ๊ทธ๋žฌ์—ˆ๊ตฌ๋‚˜ ์ดํ•ด๋„ ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋”๋ผ. ๋‚ด ์ž์‹ ์ด ์—…๊ทธ๋ ˆ์ด๋“œ ๋œ ๊ธฐ๋ถ„์ด์–ด์„œ ์ •๋ง ์ข‹์•˜๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ๋Š” ๋“ค์œผ๋ ค๊ณ  ๋…ธ๋ ฅํ•œ๋‹ค.

ใ€ˆ์ตœ ํšŒ์žฅ์€ ์—ฌํ–‰์„ ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๊ณ , ์—ฌํ–‰์ค‘ ์ฑ…์ฝ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ข‹์•„ํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ฃผ๋กœ ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค ๋ฐ ์ฒ ํ•™ ๊ด€๋ จ ์ฑ…์„ ์ฝ๋Š”๋‹ค. ์ง€๋‚œ ์—ฌํ–‰์ค‘์—๋Š” ์‹œ๋ผํ† ๋ฆฌ ํ•˜๋ฃจํžˆ์ฝ”๊ฐ€ ์“ด ๋‹ˆ์ฒด์˜ ์‚ฌ์ƒ์„ ์ฝ์—ˆ๊ณ , ์—ฌํ–‰ ์ค‘ ์•ž์œผ๋กœ 5-10-20๋…„์„ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ค€๋น„ํ•ด์•ผํ• ๊นŒ ๊ตฌ์ƒ๋„ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•œ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ์˜ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ๊ตฌ์ƒ์˜ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์—๋Š” ๋Š˜ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ์—๊ฒŒ๋Š” โ€œ๊ฐ€ํ™”๋งŒ์‚ฌ์„ฑ(ๅฎถๅ’Œ่ฌไบ‹ๆˆ)โ€์ด ์‚ฌ์—…๊ณผ ์‚ถ์˜ ์ฒ ํ•™์˜ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์ด๋‹ค. ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์„œ ๊ฐ€์กฑ์€ ๋‚˜์˜ ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ํšŒ์‚ฌ ๋ชจ๋“  ์ง์›๋„ ํฌํ•จ ๋œ๋‹ค. ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ์ข…์ข… โ€œBSW ๋งค๋‹ˆ์ €๋“ค์€ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ž๊ธฐ์ผ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ํšŒ์‚ฌ์ผ์„ ํ•˜๋‚˜?โ€ ๋ฌป๋Š”๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•œ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ์˜ ๋‹ต์€ โ€œ๋‚ด ๊ฐ€์กฑ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋Œ€ํ•˜๋ฉด ๋œ๋‹คโ€๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.ใ€‰

Choi expressed passionately as he unveiled his inner thoughts. Shifting the focus of the discussion, he added, โ€œSince Iโ€™m already here, Iโ€™d like to talk about the Korean immigrant society rather than the beauty industry. Last week, I went to Boston, and it was a busy year-end week for me. I had breakfast meetings with staff, prepared two sandwiches for lunch, and then rushed to Albany, where I have a shoe store. Reflecting on how hectic my schedule was, I wondered, โ€˜Why am I doing all this?โ€™ But then, I realized that itโ€™s not just for my sake; itโ€™s to empower our grandchildren to pursue their aspirations without financial worries. If our goal is to support our descendants in doing whatever they want without financial constraints, we should not be content with our current achievements. We need to earn tens or hundreds of times more than we do now. Achieving this alone is not possible. We must support each other within our Korean community, nurture the market collectively, and grow together. The Jewish people serve as our role models. The key difference between Koreans and Jews is that Koreans often display a degree of selfishness. They tend to prioritize their personal interests over the greater good. When policies are implemented in a country, they donโ€™t assess whether those policies are beneficial or detrimental to the country as a whole; their judgment is based on whether it benefits them individually. In contrast, Americans, in general, prioritize the common good. While those who struggle to make ends meet understandably focus on their immediate needs, those with more resources believe in sharing. If youโ€™ve amassed wealth, you should share it with those in need; if youโ€™ve achieved success regionally, you should share that region, and if youโ€™ve excelled in technology, like myself, you should share your technological know-how. Only then can we achieve what the Jewish community has accomplished.โ€

Q. Apart from sharing the PCS POS platform, what are your business goals for the new year ?

A. Itโ€™s about continuing to expand the business. Some may argue that our B/S industry has reached saturation, but I donโ€™t see it that way. When we conduct business with a foundation in data, we can confidently claim that the scope of our business is boundless. Consider the vastness of this country and the world; there are infinite business opportunities waiting to be explored.

Q. Where does this energy come from ?

A. My energy stems from my travels and hobbies. For the last entire year, I have traveled the world twice around the earth, seeing, listening, reading, and brainstorming new business ideas.

Q. What changes did you notice in yourself after returning from your trip ?

A. I realized that I had been too engrossed in my work, with little time for anything else. While it might sound self-assured, upon returning, I saw people differently. I gained insight into what people were thinking, and I no longer solely focused on conveying my thoughts to others; I began listening and evaluating. I developed a deeper understanding of why certain friends acted as they did in the past. I felt as though I had undergone a personal upgrade, and it felt truly rewarding. Nowadays, I make a conscious effort to listen.

โ€œ๋ญ๋“  ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ํ•œ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์„ ์ค‘ํžˆ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ๋ฉด ์ผ์ด ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์ง„๋‹ค. ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ํ‚ค์šฐ๋ ค๋ฉด ์ง์›์„ ํ‚ค์šฐ๋ฉด ๋œ๋‹ค. ํšŒ์‚ฌ์˜ ์›์น™์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์ž˜ ๊ต์œก์‹œ์ผœ ์ ์–ด๋„ ๋‚˜๋งŒํผ์€ ์—ด์ •์„ ๊ฐ–๊ณ  ์ผ์„ ์ž˜ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ์ง์›๋“ค์˜ ์—ด์ •์„ ํ‚ค์šฐ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋‚˜์˜ ๊ฒฝ์˜์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ์ด๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ๋‹ค์Œ์—๋Š” ๋‚˜๋ณด๋‹ค ์ผ์„ ๋” ์ž˜ํ•˜๋„๋ก ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ์Šค์Šค๋กœ ํ„ฐ๋“ํ•ด ์ผํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋‚˜์˜ ์ผ์ด๋‹ค. ์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค๋ฉด ์ƒํ’ˆ ์žฌ๊ณ ๊ฐ€ ๋–จ์–ด์กŒ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ด๊ฒƒ ์ €๊ฒƒ ์ง€์ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋‚˜์˜ ์ผ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ๊ฑด ๋ฏฟ๊ณ  ๋งก๊ธฐ๋ฉด ๋œ๋‹ค. ๋‚˜๋Š” ์—˜๋ฆฌํŠธ์ฃผ์˜์ž๋‹ค. ์Šค๋งˆํŠธํ•œ ์žฅ๊ตฐ๋“ค์„ ๊ฑฐ๋Š๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ง€ํœ˜ํ•˜๋Š” ์œ ๋Šฅํ•œ ์ฐธ๋ชจ์ด์žฅ์ด ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฑฐ๋‹ค.โ€ ์ตœ ํšŒ์žฅ์˜ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์–˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์œผ๋ฉด์„œ ๊ธฐ์ž๋Š” ์ตœ ํšŒ์žฅ์˜ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์˜ ๊ฒฝ์˜์ฒ ํ•™์ด ์˜ค๋Š˜์˜ BSW์˜ ์„ฑ๊ณต์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ์ด์—ˆ๊ตฌ๋‚˜ ์ƒ๊ฐํ–ˆ๋‹ค. BSW ๊ทธ๋ฃน์‚ฌ์—๋Š” ํ˜„์žฌ 6๋ช…์˜ ์ด์‚ฌ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  2๋ช…์˜ ์ด์‚ฌ๋Œ€์šฐ ๋งค๋‹ˆ์ €๋“ค์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์ตœ ํšŒ์žฅ์˜ ์ด์‚ฌ๋“ค์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋Œ€์šฐ๋‚˜ ๋ฐฐ๋ ค๋Š” โ€œ์ƒ์ƒํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†์„ ์ •๋„โ€ ๋ผ๊ณ  ์•Œ๋ ค์ ธ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

Q. (๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜์—๊ฒŒ ์ฐฝ๊ณ ์—์„œ 2๋Œ€์˜ ์ตœ๊ณ ๊ธ‰ ์Šคํฌ์ธ ์นด๋ฅผ ๋ณด์—ฌ ์ฃผ์—ˆ๋‹ค) ์—ฌํ–‰๋ง๊ณ  ์ฆ๊ธฐ๋Š” ์ทจ๋ฏธ๋„ ๋…ํŠนํ•˜๋‹ค?

A. ๋‚˜๋Š” ์นด ๋ ˆ์ด์‹ฑ์„ ์ฆ๊ธด๋‹ค. ์•„์ฃผ ๊ณ ๊ธ‰ ์ทจ๋ฏธ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋‚˜๋Š” ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์ทจ๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด์„œ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์ธ๋งฅ์„ ์Œ“๊ณ , ํˆฌ์ž์˜ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ์—ฟ๋ณธ๋‹ค. ์ตœ๊ทผ ๋…์ผ๊ณผ ๋ฒจ์ง€์›€์„ ํ•œ๋‹ฌ๋™์•ˆ ์นด๋ ˆ์ด์‹ฑ ํ•˜๋Ÿฌ ๋‹ค๋…€์™”๋‹ค. ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ง€์—ญ์—์„œ ์˜จ 11์ปคํ”Œ์ด ํ•จ๊ป˜ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๋™์–‘์ธ์€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ถ€๋ถ€๋ฟ์ด์—ˆ๊ณ , ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„ ๋นŒ๋ฆฌ์–ธ์—์–ด๋“ค์ธ๋ฐ, ์–ด์ฉŒ๋‹ค ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ถ€๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ๋‚€ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ์„ฑ์„ ํ•˜๋‚˜ ๋นŒ๋ฆฌ๊ณ , ๊ทธ ์ง€์—ญ์˜ ๋ฏธ์„ธ๋ฆฐ์‰˜ํ”„๊ฐ€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ทธ๋ฃน์„ ์„œ๋ธŒ๋ฅผ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋ถ€๋ถ€๋Š” ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ์„œ๋น™์„ ๋ฐ›์œผ๋ฉด์„œ, ์™œ ํ•œ์ธ๋“ค์€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋งŒ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์— ์žˆ๋Š”๊ฐ€ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๋งˆ์Œ์ด ํŽธ์น˜ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค. ํ˜ธํ™”๋กญ๊ณ  ๋น„์‹ผ ์—ฌํ–‰์ด์ง€๋งŒ, ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์„ ๋งŒ๋‚˜๋ฉด์„œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋งŽ์€ ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ๊ฒŒ ๋œ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ํฌ๋ž˜์Šค๊ฐ€ ํ™•์‹คํžˆ ๋‹ค๋ฅด๋‹ค. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ๋“ค์ด ํ‰๋“ฑํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์‚ฌ์‹ค์€ ์ „ํ˜€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์—ฌํ–‰์„ ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ํŠธ๋ ‰์„ ์ฆ๊ธฐ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์˜ ๋ ˆ๋ฒจ์€ ํ‰๊ท ์ ์ธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ์ƒ์ƒ๋„ ๋ชปํ•˜๋Š” ๋ ˆ๋ฐธ์ด๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์—…๊ณ„๋„ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๊ทธ๋ฃน์— ๋‚„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์—ฌ๊ฑด์„ ๊ฐ€์ง„ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค.

ใ€ˆ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์–˜๊ธฐ ๋์— โ€œ์ด์ œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์—…๊ณ„ ๊ฒฝ์˜์ธ๋“ค๋„ ์ข€ ๋” ํฐ ํŒ์„ ๋ณผ ๋•Œ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.โ€๋ฉด์„œ โ€œ๋ˆ์€ ๋ฌผ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™๋‹ค. ํ‹ˆ๋งŒ ๋‚˜๋ฉด ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€๊ฒŒ ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ํ‹ˆ์„ ๋“ค์—ฌ๋‹ค ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ํ†ต๋กœ๋Š” ์—ญ์‹œ ์ธ๋งฅ์ด๋‹ค.โ€๊ณ  ์ตœ ํšŒ์žฅ์€ ์–˜๊ธฐํ•œ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” โ€œ์ž๋™์ฐจ๋ฅผ ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ž๋™์ฐจ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด์„œ ์ธ๋งฅ์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค์—ˆ๋‹คโ€๋ฉด์„œ โ€œ8๋…„ ํ›„์— ์บ๋‚˜๋‹ค์— ํŠธ๋ ‰์ด ์ƒ๊ธฐ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ์ด์— ํˆฌ์žํ•  ์ค€๋น„๋ฅผ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.โ€๊ณ  ๋งํ•œ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  โ€œ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค๋Š” ๋ฌดํ•œํ•˜๋‹คโ€๋ฉฐ โ€œB/S ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ด์„œ ๊ผญ ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ๋งŒ ๊ณ ์ง‘ํ•  ์ด์œ ๋„ ์—†๋‹คโ€๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ํ˜„์žฌ B/S ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค๋Š” BSW ๊ทธ๋ฃน ์ „์ฒด์—์„œ ์ฐจ์ง€ํ•˜๋Š” ๋น„์ค‘์ด ์ ˆ๋ฐ˜๋„ ์•ˆ๋œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•œ๋‹ค. ใ€‰

Q. 30๋…„ ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ํ›„ํšŒ์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด ์ ์€ ์—†์—ˆ๋‚˜ ?

A. ๋งŽ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ์„œ๋„ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์ฐฉํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ํ–ˆ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™๋‹ค. ๋‚˜์œ ๋งˆ์Œ๋จน๊ณ , ๋‚จ ๋ชป๋˜๊ฒŒ ๊ตด๋ฉฐ ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ํ–ˆ๋”๋ผ๋ฉด ์ง€๊ธˆ ๋ณด๋‹ค 3๋ฐฐ๋Š” ๋” ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ํ‚ค์› ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ๊ฑฐ์ง“๋ง ๊ฐ™์ง€๋งŒ ์šฐ์„  ๋‚จ์„ ๋ฐฐ๋ คํ•˜๋ ค๊ณ  ๋…ธ๋ ฅํ–ˆ๊ณ , ๋‚จ์˜ ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ์ฃฝ์ด๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๋ฐŸ๊ณ  ์˜ฌ๋ผ๊ฐˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋ฉด ํ”ผํ•ด๋‹ค๋…”๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๋ฏธ๋ จ์€ ์—†๋‹ค.

Q. ๋ถ€๋ชจ ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ์ด์–ด ๋ฐ›์•„ B/S ์—…๊ณ„์— ์ข…์‚ฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์ฐจ์„ธ๋Œ€ ์ Š์€์ด๋“ค์ด ๋งŽ์•„์กŒ๋‹ค. ์ด๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋„์›€์ด ๋˜๋Š” ์–˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํŠน๋ณ„ํžˆ ํ•ด๋‹ฌ๋ผ.

A. ์–ด๋–ค ์ผ์„ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ๊ฒŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์ž๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์—”์กฐ์ดํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ผ์„ ์ฐพ์•„ ๋‚˜์„œ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ค‘์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋‚˜๋Š” ์ƒ๊ฐํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ž์‹ ๋“ค์ด ์›ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ฆ๊ธธ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ผ์„ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค. B/S ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ์—”์กฐ์ดํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋‹ค๋ฉด ์ง€๊ธˆ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ๋ผ๋„ ์—”์กฐ์ดํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ผ์„ ์ฐพ์•„ ๋‚˜์„œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž€๋‹ค. ํ•˜๊ณ ์‹ถ์ง€ ์•Š์€๋ฐ ๋ถ€๋ชจ๋‹˜ ๋ฐ‘์—์„œ ์ผํ•˜๋Š” ์ Š์€์ด๋“ค์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„ ๊ฒŒ์œผ๋ฅด๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด ์•„๋‹Œ๊ฐ€ ํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ผ์„ ์ œ๋Œ€๋กœ ์•ˆํ•ด๋„ ๋ฐด์Šค์ฐจ ํƒ€๊ณ  ๋‹ค๋‹ˆ๊ณ , ๋จน๊ณ  ์‚ฌ๋Š”๋ฐ ์ง€์žฅ์ด ์—†๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด๋ผ๋ฉด ํ‹€๋ ธ๋‹ค. ์ ๋‹นํžˆ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ผ์€ ์—†๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์‚ฌ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋ฌด์Šจ ์˜๋ฏธ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š”๊ฐ€? ๋ฌด์Šจ ์ผ์ด๋“  ์—ด์‹ฌํžˆ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•˜๊ณ , ์ž๊ธฐ๊ฒƒ์„ ํ•˜๋ ค๋ฉด ํž˜์ด ๋“ ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์•Œ์•„์•ผ ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ๊ฒŒ์œผ๋ฅด๋ฉด ์ ˆ๋Œ€ ๋ชปํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ž๊ธฐ๊ฒƒ์„ ํ•˜๋ ค๋ฉด ๊ทธ๋งŒํผ ์šฉ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค. ๋ฌด์Šจ ์ผ์ด๋“  ์—ด์‹ฌํžˆ ํ•˜๋ฉด ์„ฑ์ทจ๊ฐ์„ ๋Š๋ผ๊ฒŒ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ํ–‰๋ณต์ด๋‹ค.

Q. ์ž‘๋…„ ํ•œ ํ•ด ์‰ฝ์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค. ๊ธˆ๋…„ ์ƒˆํ•ด๋„ ๋ฐ์•„ ๋ณด์ด์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค. ๋ฒ„ํ‹ธ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋น„๊ฒฐ์„ ์ข€ ์–˜๊ธฐํ•ด ๋‹ฌ๋ผ.

A. ๋‚˜๋Š” ์–ด๋‘์›Œ ๋ณด์ผ๋•Œ ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์ƒ๊ธด๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฏฟ๋Š”๋‹ค. ๊ฐ„๋‹จํžˆ ๋งํ•˜๋ฉด ๊ฒฝ์ œ์ƒํ™ฉ์ด ์ข‹์ง€ ์•Š์„ ๋•Œ๋Š” ์ธ๋ฒคํ† ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ค„์ด๊ณ , ๋ฐ”์ž‰์„ ์ž˜ํ•ด์„œ ๋งˆ์ง„์„ ๋†’์ด๋ฉด ๋œ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๊ฑธ ๋ชฐ๋ผ์„œ ๋ชปํ•˜๋ƒ๊ณ  ํ•˜๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ ์‰ฌ์šด ์ผ์€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์“ธ๋ฐ ์—†๋Š” ์žฌ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ์ตœ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ค„์ด๊ณ , ๊ผญ ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ์ •ํ™•ํ•œ ์ธ๋ฒคํ† ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žฅ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๊ฑด ์ผ๋‹จ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๊ฐ€ ์—†์œผ๋ฉด ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ์ผ์ด๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ BSW๋Š” ์ง€๋‚œ ํ•œ ํ•ด ์–ด๋ ค์› ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋งค์ถœ๋„ ์ค„์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๊ณ , ๋ˆ๋„ ๋” ๋งŽ์ด ๋ฒŒ์—ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ์˜ˆ๋ฅผ๋“ค์–ด ๋ณด๊ฒ ๋‹ค. ํ—ค์–ด ์ œํ’ˆ์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ๋ถ„์„ํ•ด ์ธ๋ฒคํ† ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋‚ฎ๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ€๋‹ˆ๊นŒ, ๋ฉ”์ด์ € ํšŒ์‚ฌ์—์„œ ๋”œ์ด ๋“ค์–ด์˜ค๋”๋ผ. ์‹ธ๊ฒŒ ๊ตฌ์ž…ํ•˜๋‹ˆ, ๋งˆ์ง„์œจ์„ ๋†’์ด๊ณ  ์†๋‹˜ ์ˆซ์ž๊ฐ€ ์ค„์–ด๋„ ์ˆ˜์ต์—๋Š” ๋ณ€ํ•จ์ด ์—†๊ณ , ์ด๋งค์ถœ์ด ์กฐ๊ธˆ ์ค€๋‹คํ•ด๋„ ๋ˆ์€ ๋” ๋งŽ์ด ๋ฒŒ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋œ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋งํ•˜๋ฉด, ์‹ธ๊ฒŒ ์‚ฌ์„œ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์ด์ต์„ ์ฑ™๊ธฐ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ ๋งค์ถœ์ด ์ค„์–ด๋„ ์‹ค์ œ ๋ˆ์„ ๋” ๋งŽ์ด ๋ฒŒ ์ˆ˜์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ์‹ผ ๋”œ์ด ๋“ค์–ด์™€๋„ ๊ทธ ๋ฌผ๊ฑด์„ ๊ตฌ์ž…ํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๋Š” ์ด์œ ๋Š” ์žฌ๊ณ ๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด ์•„๋‹Œ๊ฐ€. ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ํ•ญ์ƒ ์ •ํ™•ํ•œ ๋ฐ์ดํƒ€๋ฅผ ๋ฒ ์ด์Šค๋กœ ์žฅ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ํ•˜๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ถŒ์œ ํ•˜๋Š” ์ด์œ ๋Š” ์ด ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด๋‹ค. ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ ๊ฒฝ์˜์ฃผ๋Š” ์ž๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์ƒํ’ˆ์„ ๋ช‡๊ฐœ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€๋„ ์ž˜ ๋ชจ๋ฅธ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋งŽ์€ ์†Œ๋งค์  ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ๋ถ„์„ํ•ด ๋ณด๋ฉด ์žฌ๊ณ  ์•„์ดํ…œ์˜ ๋ฐ˜์€ ํ•œ ๋‹ฌ์— 1๊ฐœ ์ดํ•˜๋กœ ํŒ๋งค๋œ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋งค์žฅ์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๋งค์žฅ ์ „์ฒด ์ธ๋ฒคํ† ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ œํ’ˆ๋“ค ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ 1/2์ด ํ•œ ๊ฐœ ์ดํ•˜๋กœ ํŒ๋งค๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ์žฌ๊ณ ์˜ 1/2์€ ํ•„์š”์—†๋Š” ์ƒํ’ˆ์ด ์•„๋‹Œ๊ฐ€. ์ •ํ™•ํ•œ ์ธ๋ฒ ํ† ๋ฆฌ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ–๊ณ  ์žˆ์ง€ ์•Š์œผ๋ฉด ์•„๋ฌด๋ฆฌ ์žฅ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์˜ค๋ž˜ ํ•ด๋„, ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋Š” ํ•ญ์ƒ ๋˜‘ ๊ฐ™๋‹ค. ๋ฌผ๊ฑด์ด ์ž˜ ํŒ”๋ฆฐ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋Š๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ ์‹ค์ œ ํ•˜๋ฃจ์— ๋ช‡๊ฐœ ํŒ๋งค๋œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ˆซ์ž๋กœ ํŒŒ์•…ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์—„์ฒญ๋‚œ ๊ฒฝ์˜์˜ ์ฐจ์ด๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ ธ๋‹ค ์ค€๋‹ค. ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ•˜๋ฃจ์— ๋ช‡๊ฐœ๊ฐ€ ํŒ๋งค๋˜๋Š”๊ฐ€ ๋ฌผ์–ด๋ณด๋ฉด ๋‹ตํ•˜๋Š” ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ โ€œ์ž˜ ํŒ”๋ฆฐ๋‹คโ€๊ณ ๋งŒ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๊ฐ€ ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„ ์ด๋”๋ผ. ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•œ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ์žฅ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ํ•˜๋ผ. ์žฅ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ์•ˆ ๋  ๋•Œ ์ธ๋ฒคํ† ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋‚ฎ๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ€์ ธ๊ฐ€๋ฉด์„œ, ๋”œ ์ƒํ’ˆ์„ ๊ตฌ์ž…ํ•ด ํŒ๋งคํ•˜๋ผ.

Q. Your hobbies other than traveling are unique. (He showed me 2 top-notch sports cars in the warehouse)

A. I enjoy car racing. Itโ€™s a very luxurious hobby, but through this hobby, I build new connections and spot investment opportunities. Recently, I went car racing in Germany and Belgium for a month. Eleven couples from various regions participated. We were the only Asian couple, and most of them were billionaires. It happened that we joined this group. We rented an island, and the Michelin-starred chefs in that region served our group. While receiving such service, my wife and I couldnโ€™t help but feel uncomfortable thinking, โ€œWhy are we the only Koreans here?โ€ These trips are lavish and expensive, but when we meet such people, we learn a lot from them. Their class is undoubtedly different. Americans claim to be equal, but thatโ€™s far from the truth. People who enjoy racing at this level are beyond what average people can imagine. In our industry, there are businessmen who have the financial conditions to join such groups. At the end of this conversation, Choi says, โ€œNow, itโ€™s time for our industryโ€™s executives to aim for bigger things.โ€ He adds, โ€œMoney is like water. It always finds a way in. The keyhole to peek into that opening is a network.โ€ He says, โ€œI like cars, and Iโ€™ve built networks through cars.โ€ He also mentions, โ€œThere will be a track opening in Canada in 8 years, and Iโ€™m preparing to invest in it.โ€ He concludes by saying, โ€œBusiness is limitless,โ€ and โ€œThereโ€™s no reason to insist on just B/S business.โ€ Currently, B/S business is only a fraction of the entire BSW Groupโ€™s operations, he says.

Q. Youโ€™ve been in business for 30 years. Are there any regrets?โ€

A. Many. Among them, it seems like I conducted business too kindly. If I had a more ruthless attitude and conducted business by outsmarting others or being cutthroat, I could have grown the business three times more than it is now. It might sound like a lie, but I first tried to consider others and avoid harming othersโ€™ businesses or stepping on them when I could have. However, I have no regrets.

Q. There has been an increase in the younger generation continuing their parentsโ€™ businesses and working in the B/S industry. Can you share some advice for them ?

A. I believe that itโ€™s not about what you do but finding something you can enjoy doing. You should pursue a career that you desire and find fulfilling. If you canโ€™t enjoy the B/S business, I hope you start looking for something else that you can enjoy right now. If there are young people who donโ€™t want to, but work for their parents, I think itโ€™s mostly because theyโ€™re lazy. If you think you can get in a luxurious Mercedes and make enough living without working hard, youโ€™re wrong. Thereโ€™s nothing you can do in moderation. Also, whatโ€™s the point of living like that? No matter what job you do, you need to do it diligently, and you need to understand that pursuing your own goals requires effort. Laziness wonโ€™t get you there. To achieve your own goals, you need courage. If you work hard at anything, you will eventually feel a sense of accomplishment, and thatโ€™s happiness.

๋˜ ํ•˜๋‚˜๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด ํ‹ฐ์ผ“ ์ˆซ์ž๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ํ‰๊ท  ๊ตฌ๋งค์•ก์„ ๋Š˜๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ์ž‘๋…„์— ํ‘์ธ ์†Œ๋น„์ž๋“ค์ด ๋ˆ๋“ค์ด ์—†์–ด ํ‹ฐ์ผ“ ํ”„๋ผ์ด์Šค๊ฐ€ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋–จ์–ด์กŒ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํ‹ฐ์ผ“ ์ˆซ์ž๋ฅผ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๋˜ํ•œ ๊ณ ๊ฐ 1์ธ๋‹น ํ‰๊ท  ๊ตฌ๋งค์•ก์„ ๋Š˜๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํ™๋ณด ์ „๋žต์— ์ง‘์ค‘ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์–ด๋–ค ์‹์œผ๋กœ๋“  ์Šคํ† ์•„์— ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์„ ๋ถˆ๋Ÿฌ ๋“ค์ด๋„๋ก ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค๋ฉด 1 ํ‹ฐ์ผ“ ํ”„๋ผ์ด์Šค๊ฐ€ 10๋ถˆ์ด๋ผ๋ฉด 100๊ฐœ ํŒ๋งค ์ด์•ก์ด $1,000์ด๋‹ค. ํ•œ ํ‹ฐ์ผ“์ด 10๋ถˆ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๊ณ  9๋ถˆ๋กœ ๋–จ์–ด์กŒ๋‹ค๋ฉด ํŒ๋งค ์ด์•ก์ด $900๋กœ ๋–จ์–ด์ง€๊ฒŒ ๋œ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ํ‹ฐ์ผ“ ์ˆซ์ž๋ฅผ ๋Š˜๋ ค์„œ 111๊ฐœ๋กœ ๋Š˜๋ฆฌ๋ฉด $1,000 ๋ˆ์ด ๋œ๋‹ค. ๋งค์ถœ ๊ฐ์†Œ๋ฅผ ๋ฉ”๊พธ๋ ค๋ฉด ์†๋‹˜ 1์ธ๋‹น ๊ตฌ๋งค์•ก์„ ๋Š˜๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ๋ฐ–์— ์—†๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ํ™๋ณด ๋ฐ ํŒ๋งค์ „๋žต์— ๋‹ฌ๋ ธ๋‹ค.

ใ€ˆ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์œผ๋กœ ๋ฌผ์—ˆ๋‹ค. โ€œ๋‚˜์ด๊ฐ€ ๋“ค๋ฉด์„œ, ์—ฐ๋ฅœ์œผ๋กœ ์ƒˆ๋กญ๊ฒŒ ๊นจ๋‹ซ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด ๋ญ”๊ฐ€?โ€ ์ตœ ํšŒ์žฅ์€ ์—ญ์‹œ โ€œ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์„ ์ค‘ํžˆ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ๋Š” ๊ฒƒโ€์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋‹ตํ•œ๋‹ค. โ€œ์ธ์ƒ์˜ ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ๊ณจ์€ ๋˜ ๋ฌด์—‡์ธ๊ฐ€โ€ ๋ฌป์ž, โ€œ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์ง์›๋“ค๊ณผ ๋‚ด ๊ฐ€์กฑ ๋ชจ๋‘๊ฐ€ ์žฌ์ •์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋งˆ์Œ์œผ๋กœ ํ–‰๋ณตํ•˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”๋ž€๋‹ค.โ€๋ฉด์„œ, โ€œ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋‚˜๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ๋งŒ ์ผํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค. ์–ธ์ œ๋‚˜ ๋‚ด ํšŒ์‚ฌ ์ง์›๋“ค์„ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ ๋˜ํ•œ ์ผํ•œ๋‹ค.โ€๊ณ  ๋‹ตํ•œ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” โ€œ์‚ถ์˜ ๋˜ ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ๊ณจ์€ ๊ณ„์† ๋„์ „ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒโ€์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•œ๋‹ค. โ€œ์„ธ์ƒ์—์„œ ํ•ด๊ฒฐํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•  ์ผ์€ ์—†๋‹ค. ํ•ด๊ฒฐ์„ ๋ชปํ•˜๋Š” ์ด์œ ๋Š” ํ•ด๊ฒฐ์„ ํ•˜๋ ค๋Š” ์˜์ง€๊ฐ€ ๋ถ€์กฑํ•˜๊ณ  ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์„ ์•ˆํ•ด์„œ๋‹ค. ์ธ๊ฐ„์—๊ฒŒ๋Š” ๋ฌดํ•œํ•œ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„ ์ž๊ธฐ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์„ ๊ณผ์†Œํ‰๊ฐ€ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝํ–ฅ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค.โ€๊ณ  ๋ง๋ถ™์˜€๋‹ค.ใ€‰

์Šฌํ•˜์— ๋”ธ ์…‹์„ ๋‘์—ˆ๋‹ค. ํฐ๋”ธ(34)์€ ๊ฒฐํ˜ผํ•ด, ์•„์ด ์…‹(์†์ž2, ์†๋…€1)์„ ๋‚ณ์•˜์œผ๋ฉฐ ๊ฐ€์ • ์ฃผ๋ถ€๋‹ค. ๋‘˜์งธ๋”ธ(30)์€ ๋ณ€ํ˜ธ์‚ฌ๊ณ , ๋ง‰๋‚ด๋”ธ(24)์€ IT ๋ถ„์•ผ ํšŒ์‚ฌ์—์„œ ์ผํ•œ๋‹ค.

Q. Last year was not easy to do business, and the new year doesnโ€™t look promising either. Can you share the secret to enduring such times ?

A. I believe that opportunities arise when things look dark. In simple terms, when the economic situation isnโ€™t good, you can reduce inventory, make smart buying decisions to increase margins. Some might say that itโ€™s easier said than done, but itโ€™s not an easy task. You must minimize unnecessary inventory and have precisely the right inventory for your business. This can only be achieved with proper data. Although BSW had a tough year last year, our sales did not decrease, and we made more money. Let me give you an example. For hair products, BSW kept inventory low recently, and then major hair companies offer us discount deals. By purchasing these products at lower prices, even if the number of customers decreased, there was no change in our profits, and we could still earn more money. In other words, you will be able to make more money even if your sales decrease because you earn more profit by buying it at a discount price. The reason why you canโ€™t buy the product even if you get such a cheap deal is that you have more inventory than you need. Thatโ€™s why I always emphasize doing business with accurate data. Most business owners donโ€™t even know exactly how many items they have in stock. Usually, when starting a business, if you analyze the data, you will find that more than half of the inventory items sell less than one per month. If more than half of the products in our entire store inventory are selling less than one per month, it means that you do wrong inventory management. Having accurate inventory data is essential; otherwise, no matter how long you do business, the result will always be a disaster. It makes a significant difference in management if you know the specific number of items sold each day. When I ask specific questions about how many items are sold per day, most business owners simply reply, โ€œThey sell well.โ€ I emphasize once again, doing business with data. When business is tough, lower your inventory and buy and sell deal items while maintaining your average ticket count. Another point is to maintain ticket numbers while increasing the average purchase amount per customer. Last year, African American consumers didnโ€™t have much money, so ticket prices dropped significantly. We focused on a promotion strategy that would maintain ticket numbers while increasing the average purchase amount per customer. We tried to attract more customers to the store in any way possible. For example, if one ticket price is $10, the total sales amount is $1,000 for 100 tickets sold. If one ticket falls from $10 to $9, the total sales amount drops to $900. However, if you increase the number of tickets to 111, it will be $1,000. To make up for the decline in sales, we have to increase the amount of purchases per customer. It depends on publicity and sales strategies.

ใ€ˆFinally, I asked, โ€œAs you grow older, is there something youโ€™ve come to realize through your experience?โ€ Choi responded, โ€œValuing people is what Iโ€™ve come to realize.โ€ When I asked, โ€œWhat is the ultimate goal in life?โ€ he replied, โ€œI hope all of my employees and my family can be happy both financially and emotionally. I donโ€™t work for myself. I always work for the sake of my companyโ€™s employees. Another goal in life is to continue taking on challenges.โ€ He added, โ€œThereโ€™s nothing in the world that canโ€™t be solved. The reason some things remain unsolved is due to a lack of willingness and effort to solve them. Humans have infinite potential. Most people tend to underestimate their abilities.โ€ใ€‰

He has three daughters. His eldest daughter (34) is married, a homemaker, and has three children (two boys and one girl). His second daughter (30) is a lawyer, and his youngest daughter (24) works in an IT company.

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