Hyundai two-for-one
Monday, April 16, 2007
 
A rainy-day bus trip brought us to Ulsan, on the southeastern coast of Korea, for a two-for-one excursion.  We visited the Hyundai automobile factory as well as the Hyundai shipyard.  We got to the car factory just in time to watch lunch hour activities:  fellows playing badminton and ping-pong between the assembly lines.  Then we drove past this port location where cars are loaded onto ships for export.  Our drive through the shipyard -- the largest one in the world -- brought us past huge ships such as these in various stages of completion.  The display room that we visited prior to our tour told us that the company started in 1970 with an order for two ships.  Now they make nine ships at a time and produce 84 ships each year.