When the good luck comes to knock your door, you should open the door immediately to welcome it, or it is missing swiftly.
In the Chinese Lunar New Year 2009, I felt sorrow for a news: “Lucky shuttered!”
Because I knew the founder of Lucky—Mr. Chen Yung-Tien before my age at 10 year-old.
There were not too many people in development of
Many junks at Oan-Li, it’s said that removed from old ships or aircrafts.
My father always looked for some mechanical parts, one time he said hello to a man and told me that “this is Mr. Chen who is looking for electric parts for vacuum tube radio.”—This was the first time I ran into Mr. Chen.
My father was maliciously arrested by police in 1966, I returned from Kaoshiung because the KEPZ could not be found; that year, Mr. Chen’s business was already prosperous and of a nice building at
I went to ask for a purchasing order, his employees were despising and mocking me, it might be they saw a quite short boy (
Coincidently, Mr. Chen came out and saw me, he said to his employees: “Ai, his old man is in jail, he come out to make business so young, buy some of his eyelets!”
No one realized that my family could last for December 1966; and incredibly should be “I make business with an American firm--Transworld Company.”
Among 1967-1968, my hands were dirt with oils; I was too busy to clean my black hands up.
In 1969, I built a house that was the first house after my family was destroyed for 32 years;
Mr. Chen’s Plant Chief—Mr. Zhoan almost came to my factory for 3 years since that 1969.
Chief Zhoan was worry on everyday, but did his best to try developing new products with me.
Their Desk Lamps were failure; their plastic-type electric-fans were broken as exported to
Mr. Chen hoped that my father could go with him to
The result was that they brought a transistor cassette player sample back; the Jewish buyer declared that “how many can you manufacture how many I can purchase.”
Chief Zhoan held the sample to dissociate with me very carefully; one week later, I gave the switches which I made for him.
We were unity of purpose like fellow-workers to develop a transistor-type cassette player.
Mr. Chen asked my father again for going
Mr. Chen put many efforts to gain the logo—“Happiness brand”, in English it’s called “Lucky”!
Their firm name officially called “Yung-Fu Electric Corporation”—that means “Forever Happiness”.
We worked hard with Professor Yao of
Everything’s ready, one and one sets of “Lucky Cassette Player” were out of the simple assembly lines;
Mr. Chen experienced the very difficult situation since 1969, he won the destiny to be a master of the electric field, and be a leading company of exporting the cassette player into the
Mr. Chen was waiting patiently; he grasped the chance to soar on wings like eagle when the happiness came to knock his door.
A few years later, he was buying a land of thirty acres that closed to the exit of free way in
It’s pity, Chief Zhoan was died for overwork.
And soon later, Mr. Chen established the
“Lucky” represented that Taiwanese characters of loyalty, diligence and endurance, in spite of the failures, never say give up even in the depth of winter, kept finding the way out at the corner before the end.
Mr. Chen who started his business by bear-hands after the World War II as well as my father.
He had experienced a lot of disasters, such as his first born son with high fever to burn up the baby’s tympanum and became deaf and mute because short of money for doctor, his second son died in the junior high school.
Mr. Chen was stronger and stronger in disaster to achieve his career.
However, “Live in disaster, die in pleasure”—it’s real truth.
The transformed enterprise begun the corporate governance; we can see the embezzlement matters engaged in the firm by hearing the talks of basic QC section.
Mr. Chen’s relatives purchased the defective components to get the qualities of products went down.
He was annoyed, and nothing could be done.
Then, I left
Nevertheless, I can’t resist buying the Lucky’s Player always when I’ve been in the Radio Shack, because I still thought “Lucky is the glory of
Lucky earned many surpluses for
Meanwhile, driving a lot of people to participate the production of cassette players.
Tremendous labors worked on the production lines to make the economic miracles for honor the government.
To create in the difficult situation, a road was amazed to build up.
To enjoy on the day of pleasure, the ancestor’s inheritance was ruined.
Recall that Mr. Chen bent his waist to search for the electric materials in the junk yard of Oan-Li, went through the hardship to establish a big plant and till today’s consequence, it could not be stopped looking upon the sky and moaning.
Prepared by Li-Chang Kuo
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