(a good HHI employee: grey, anonymous, and scooter-riding.)
HHI employs 48,000 hard working Koreans at it's Ulsan shipyard, all of them wearing the exact same color jump suits. Because HHI is no different than everything else in Korea, the yard tries to be economical with space. The result? No HHI employees are allowed to drive cars to work. Everybody must ride through the gates on a two-wheeled vehicle, most of those being zippy little scooters.
Now like any good company, HHI does not let its workers zoom on into work whenever they please. They report to work at 6 am on the dot, and roll out at 6:30 every evening Monday through Friday. It's all very efficient. That is, until you gorge the streets of Dong gu with upwards of 30,000 scooters at one time. Observing the mayhem that occurs every weekday at 6:30pm has been one of the great joys of my time here, not to mention of my life.
Furthermore, like most good blue collar workers, HHI men love getting blacked out asap after work. I'm proud to say at this point I can no longer count on two hands the number of times I've witnessed these dudes vomit on the sidewalk. To some that's repulsive, but not to me. No, if there was any justice in this world I would be man enough to work hung over, and thus would be vomiting right next to them.
(many of these men are on their way to get dangerously, dangerously drunk.)
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