qian's korean client

a-na-ha-se-yo! i audited a huge korean enterprise's singapore office recently n quite saa-raang it wor~ haha~

decent view frm e room tat client arranged for us in their office, suntec tower 3. my VT (aka intern) can see her sch (SMU) frm e audit room lorz.

realised alotta pwc ppl's are in suntec at e same time, alotta clients there. when my team logged into colligo, we can see another pwc team who's one floor above us lorz. cool~

tis korean enterprise has a veri interesting organisational structure:

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- every head of dept is a korean staff sent frm korea HQ. finance, sales, MD~

- all korean staff sent to overseas offices muz be married n family will follow

- kor expats will go back to kor HQ at e end of their 4th yr at overseas office

- they'r usually promoted once they go back to HQ at e end of their term

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which basically means there are lotsa koreans in tat office, but no cute ones. hmm~

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woohoo!~ e team of beautiful auditoresses (me excluded)!

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anticlockwise: me looking like shit tat day, my gorgeous n tall senior, much sought-after A1 (heard alotta mgrs like her) n my v happy intern ('happilly' is part of her name).

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most imptly, our korean client kept feeding us with food throughout e engagement!

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e 1st mon we were there, client brot us to lunch at ichiban boshi. overdose of sashimi.

e same wk on wed, client treated us to a ribeye steak set lunch each at olio dome. forgot to take photo of e yummy steak, oni rem e cake. hehe~

they gave us a set of korean rice cakes as chinese new year gift e following mon. looks veri exquisite n appetising but none of us like it, actually.

n when e partner n mgr came down for review e day b4 cny eve, e whole lot of us went soup restaurant for a 8-course lunch. client paid for e $248+++. hoho~

mgr is quite okay, kept telling us gossips. n partner is veri charming, even my client (e snr finance exec) agrees. haha~

huat ah! we beat many ppl in lo hei b4 cny. haha~ sorry bad picture quality, sucky camera phone.

my korean client (e finance mgr) is so wonderful, funny, easy-going, always accede to our requests. it's juz too bad im not booked for nx yr's audit.

nite view frm e audit room....

we were ensuring everything's in order e nite b4 e partner arrives at client's place to review our work.

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but e partner threw us a bomb e day b4 cny eve lorz, made us do more work n cant take full day off on cny eve. oh well~

but overall e job's veri fine. learnt alotta things abt korean culture when lunching with e client:

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1) it is disrespectful to face husbands w/o makeup, so wives oni remove their makeup after their husbands slept (likewise in e morn)

2) korean wives gotta wake up v early in e morn to prepare bfast (rice) for their husbands

3) husbands' salary are credited into their wives accounts directly, e wives will then issue daily 'pocketmoney' to em

4) korean men smokes alot, it's like they HAVE to smoke

5) they entertain alot, n drinking is part of e entertaining ritual, like china lorz (heng tis client nv bring us drinking)

6) employees in korea do not take MC (ie. bring flu virus to work)

7) 5 days of annual leave is all they get in korea, n usually employees do not utilise all 5 days

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so it's not veri welfare to work in korea, but if u'r an employee of their sg office u'll still get 14 days of annual leave lahz.

tats all abt my korean client, come-sa-ha-mi-da!