Chapter 73: The Boss’s Ho Working, Part IV
Translator: Khan
Editor: RED
I clicked the mouse a few tis. There were various numbers floating on the monitor.
15.4%, 7.5%, -3.2%...
It was the earthquake the stocks that were left behind after earning $10,000,000 yesterday. So were trying to go further, while others were trying to get off their high.
‘Then let’s sell them out here. Or... Shall we hold them a little more? This is frankly a gamble. A the stock is based on people’s psychology, so we don’t know when or how the stock price will move.’
I looked at the stock bulletin board.
[There’s no earthquake that cos and goes just one ti. An aftershock is coming. Hold your belt tight.]
[If it hits another 6.0 today, the stock price will go up to the upper limit price right away.]
[“An aftershock is coming?” You son of a bitch! There are a lot of people who have lost their hos in Wonju right now.]
[I don’t care if there’s an earthquake or not in Wonju. I live on Jeju Island.]
‘There are people like this at all tis, who want to make money. They don’t care about whether others lose their hos or lose their lives.’
I also made money from the earthquake-thed stocks, but I didn’t want an earthquake to co again.
‘I feel like I’ve beco a bad person for so reason…’
I didn’t want to hold any more shares because I thought so. I slowly pressed the sell button.
‘Sell, sell... and sell.’
Around 1 p.m., I made about $7,000,000 in the afternoon. The total was $17,000,000 this ti. It was a huge profit, but I ended up doing my ceremony with a light fist. These days, I had made this much profit two or three tis a month, and I felt a little numb.
‘Will it be a little different if it’s more than $100,000,000?’
However, I would have to go and find it out in the future. After the sell-off, I went to the portal site and searched for ‘Earthquake Damage’.
[Houses are falling apart.]
[New one-rooms are cracked.]
[The walls of the dormitory collapsed and the students were evacuated.]
There were articles like this. It was as 12 Days After had said.
‘Despite everything, it’s fortunate that the matter didn’t go any further.’
I looked around the articles without much thought. But in the anti, it stood out.
[Donation for victims of the earthquake in Wonju.]
If it had been like the old days at work, I could have said, “I am sorry, but I’m too busy making a living.” However, this ti it was sohow disturbing.
‘I made $17,000,000 this ti... Shall I donate a little to give my na to the world?’
It seed to be a good idea. If I wanted to let the world know my na, I would like to let them know in this way. I just wanted to be soone who could share my fortune with the world rather than the luckiest good-looking man. I picked up my cell phone and called Secretary Seo.
“Yes, boss, what’s going on?”
“Oh, Ji-hoon, do you know...”
“Yes?”
“There are people who donated hundreds of thousand dollars on the news...”
“Yes.”
“How much do you think will be morable?”
“Well, at least three hundred thousand dollars?”
‘Three hundred thousand dollars is too little. Yesterday’s sales commission alone is likely to exceed three hundred thousand dollars.’
“If you make it bigger than that?”
“Well, the more you donate, the more morable. Especially if you get first place, they will rember. Ordinary people only rember gold dals.”
‘That’s right. First place. People pay attention to the first place in a single-viewed list.’
“Well... yeah? I get it.”
“Do you want to donate, boss?”
“... See BKS News tomorrow at 9:00.”
I lay half down on the sofa and watched the news.
[... the President urged the National Assembly to discuss the bill, saying that the bill must be handled this year.]
When I checked the ti, it was about 9:40.
“It’s ti to be on...’
At that mont, the waiting news ca out.
[The following are the people who sent donations to our BKS News to raise money for the earthquake victims in Wonju.]
I watched it. First ca the amount of money and the nas of people who had sent the donations above the screen.
[$50,000 from the residents of Boram Apartnt, $300,000 from all employees of Kisung Electronics, $20,000 from Kim Chan-yong, $12,000 from all faculty and students of Jisung Elentary School.]
The announcer, with well-organized bobbed hair, read out the sums for the people who sent the donations in a fine voice. I watched him for a mont. When it ca to the third page, my na also appeared. I gathered my hands and waited for my na to be called.
[$3,300,000 from Invictus Investnt CEO Han Sang-hoon.]
Han Sang-hoon. I felt weird listening to my na. I couldn’t believe my na was called by the public broadcaster News at 9.
“$3,300,000.”
By the way, was it my mistake? The voice of the announcer, who had been calling out other nas without a wobble, seed to have faltered slightly when he said three million, three hundred thousand dollars.
‘Because it’s more than anyone else.’
I didn’t an to compete with the people for donations, but the $3,300,000 I had donated was the biggest sum, anyway. At this rate, soone watching this show would rember my na once.
‘And... if there’s ever been a na for a public broadcaster like this... There will be tis when it’s called again. These days, the replay service is active and video clips are uploaded on YouTube.
‘These days, it is hard to hide whether it is good deeds or bad deeds. Right now it’s all over the news, but there will be tis when the na ‘Han Sang-hoon’ cos up in the dia.
‘So this is how it’s done... Let’s increase the money again. If I want to pay $10,000,000 in monthly subscription fees and make a profit, I shouldn’t let the money rest.’
I turned on the calendar application. Four days from now, on the titable, was written ‘TRETUP.’
“Taegwangbangjik’s Real Estate Trading hits the upper limit price.”
Five days from now, Taegwangbangjik would sell its forty-year-old golden land. What was regrettable was that its market capital was only $180,000,000 in total. Now I had earned $17,000,000 from $40,000,000, I donated $3,300,000 and so had $53,700,000 left. If I invested this much money into the stock market, it would be a great disaster and a sudden declaration that I was engaging in hostile M&As.
‘I have t the most difficult section again.’
Before paying $30,000,000 to Invictus Investnt last ti, I felt it when I ran $60,000,000; my country’s market faced a glass ceiling at the $60,000,000 barrier. In this section, there was an unearned stretch of no further increase. This was the point where returns no longer increased with money moving on the KOSPI KOSDAQ.
Of course, thanks to 12 Weeks After and 12 Months After, the opportunity to make more money increased. With the $50,000,000 I had now, I could take full advantage of the news. So even if my assets were $100,000,000 or one billion dollars, I could invest only $50,000,000.
‘Well... I will have got to get into another market after all.’
I sat on the computer and moved the mouse to turn off the screen saver and found a folder located on the right top. There was a folder that plainly said “Study.” I double-clicked it all. Inside there were many categories.
[Hong Kong Hang Seng]
[China Shanghai]
[Japan Nikkei]
[U.S. Dow]
[U.S. Nasdaq]
[Gold Futures]
[Oil Futures]
[FX Trading]
‘All of them are large markets far above the KOSPI’s trading volu. The Korean stock market is no different than my playground now. If I want to raise the money I have now, I have no choice but to raise it in a larger market. It’s ti to get into the world-class stage.’
The first reason I had been reluctant to enter was that I was not familiar with these markets compared to KOSPI and KOSDAQ, and secondly, with only the world news of 12 Hours After and 12 Days After, it was not efficient for to challenge. Now that I had the news of 12 Weeks After and 12 Months After, it was worth challenging the world markets.
‘But I am afraid that this ti is a little ambiguous. Is it going to be good?
‘Every country has a different ti to open its stock market. It is usually set during the day, and it is natural. If the stock price fluctuates during the night, investors will not sleep comfortably. But the email of 12 Hours After cos only at the ti set for Korea.’
‘Wherever you go, it will be sent at Korean ti,’ Custor Service had said.
‘If you enter the US market ... the email coming at 8:55 am will be night news, and the email coming at 8:55 pm will be dayti news. I will have a little trouble with the ti difference. I have to sleep at night.
‘With this ti difference, is it going to be okay?’ Suddenly I had a thought, ‘If I am worried about the ti difference, I can do an experint now.
‘If I go abroad, I will have a ti lag in Korean stocks. If I experint with this, I may be able to adapt to overseas stocks.
‘Yes, I’ve never been abroad to make money. Let’s not go to a very far country, but one very close...’
I was thinking about it when the phone rang. It was Secretary Seo. I picked up the phone and answered.
“Congratulations on your debut on the broadcast.”
“Oh, yes, thank you.”
“$3,300,000... it was overwhelming, and the announcer seed a little surprised.”
I thought it was a mistake, but it seed real.
“Really? Well, yes, by the way.”
“Yes, boss.”
“I’ve been thinking of traveling sowhere for about two nights and three days… You want to co with ?”
“Well, I’d appreciate it if you could take .”
“So, where do you want to go? I don’t like it too far, but I love it close.”
“Isn’t it nice that Japan is well?” he said. “It’s close, clean, well-guarded, and they have good food. The yen’s been cheap lately.”
“Japan?”
‘Good. I like sushi and ran. But, just thinking about it a little, Japan is not good because we are in the sa ti zone. Korea and Japan have no ti difference at all.’
“Oh, no Japan.”
“What? Why?”
I couldn’t say there was no ti difference. I thought about it and got sothing good to excuse.
“Oh, the radiation, I don’t want to be exposed.”
“Oh, really? I’m a little bit reluctant, too.”
I chose the closest of the study lists, where there was a ti difference.
“Hong Kong, let’s go to Hong Kong.”
“Hong Kong? Good. When will you go?”
“Tomorrow, right away.”
“Tomorrow?”
“Yes, find out what flight we can be on.”
“But it’s a little expensive—”
“I’ll pay all the expenses.”
“Yes, sir!”
When I finished the call, I put down my phone and looked back at the Study folder.
‘I’m going to the global market if my assets exceed $100,000,000.’
‘I need at least $100,000,000 for the subscription fee and to increase the capital of Invictus Investnt. It will be done soon. Frankly, the KOSPI and KOSDAQ are now my personal pockets. I can get $20,000,000 to $30,000,000 at any ti from them.’
I put Taegwangbangjik on the watchlist. I would buy it in Hong Kong tomorrow.
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