A shopping bag master artisan

It’s time that our Chinese boss wants our factory workers to come back to work as soon as possible and fold shopping bags, but the employees miss the last few holiday periods. 

I can see lots of shopping bag companies in South Korea when I search them on Naver. Some of them are better or bigger than us, and others are just similar. 

But, one obvious thing is that we all do our best on producing ‘a shopping bag.’ There are only a few factories that produce shopping bags with automatic machines in China. One of them started their business from a boss’s fatherhood. 

After then, they had a really hard time folding shopping bags with their hands, so they put in huge sums of money to purchase some automatic machines. The boss produces shopping bags for a lot of global or best brands in China. 

Whenever some companies in South Korea or other foreign countries sometimes asked us to engage in an open competition, I always did so. However, we all failed. This was because our shopping bags were pretty expensive compared with others. Some companies frankly asked why our company would sell shopping bags at a higher price. Indeed, our shopping bags are pretty expensive. 

However, it’s not too much. There are very various ways of making shopping bags at a cheap price. So, we can’t catch up with Chinese companies. We appropriately offer enough money to produce a nice shopping bag. That’s why ours is expensive. Other factories are also expensive, but we can’t compete with some of them that give employees small salaries and select cheap materials. 

We are just even laughed at and derided. When we had a meeting with one company in Shanghai, they asked us how our business was going well because we were selling expensive goods. 

One thing that we really want is that we can have a fair competition with others. We really would like to produce shopping bags being different from others, not cheaper things. We should develop our competitiveness by ourselves. 

No one would be the world’s top company if only competing in price. However, if we have a better thing…. I think we can be a master. We all think so. I hope you are going to be so.