I thought I'd better say I made about 300 million.
"I've made three big bucks.”
"The big one, sir? Three hundred million?"
I nodded.
Suddenly, the faces of my friends hardened and I was speechless.
There was a moment of silence. Especially, the face of the Virgin Mary seemed to have hardened a lot.
It was Hwang Byung-chul, the shopkeeper, who broke the silence.
"Wow, 300 million is great. It's money to set up a big store here. Come here and get a store. There's a real estate I know, so I'll look into it for you."
said the Virgin with a queer look.
"Hey, if you made it, why don't you talk to me! What sport did you earn?”
I laughed inwardly.
[Should I tell you when I'm done?] Would you tell me if you made it? Still at the bottom of your hearts, it seems that you consider me a poor and uneducated friend. Let's not do that anymore.]
I took a sip of beer and said,
We did it when Lotte fought for the stake, and we got some strength from Chinese cosmetics stocks and political theme stocks this time.”
store owner Hwang Byung-chul said.
"Chinese cosmetics? Did you make it from Amore Pacific?”
"No. I made it from a stock called New Pride.”
"Was there such a company?"
Seong-mo gave Hwang Byung-chul a pint this time.
"If you don't know the stock, you're out. New Pride is a cosmetics wholesaler. Jun-sik's hands are on New Pride because Amore Pacific has already gone up a lot. Isn't that right?"
I nodded.
said the Virgin, arm in arm.
"I thought you started the stock later than I did, so it wasn't that. You're a wretch! Who took it out if you said you made it? Congratulations on making a big profit anyway. Take a drink.”
The Virgin Mary said congratulations, but her strange expression remained unchanged.
Hwang Byung-chul said as he brought more side dishes.
"Hey, Su-cheol! Since you work for a paper company, give some information to Jun-sik or Sung-mo."
Instead of Su-cheol, Seong-mo was told.
"These companies are not listed!"
"Is that so?"
Konjiam's paper company, where Lee Soo-chul attends, was a company with only 120 employees and could not be listed on the stock market.
When I was in school, Su-cheol's father, who brought me a condo license, looked great.
Knowing how to look at the company's financial statements, I now seemed to be the only person like Su-cheol's father.
Lee Soo-chul asked me.
"You don't invest in paper companies?”
"As long as there's no big issue, I know the chimney industry very well. By the way, Sambo Panji in Ansan was about to touch it, but I stopped."
"You know Sambo cardboard. It's a good company."
"I don't know the size of the company, but there was a time when Sambo Panji was classified as President Ban Ki-moon's theme stock.”
"Is that so?"
"I heard that Chairman Sambo Pan-ji and President Ban are alumni of Seoul National University.”
I asked Lee Soo-chul if he was curious.
"Is Chairman Sambo Panji really close to Ban?"
"Themes are just what forces create. They just watch the volume of trading move, follow the forces as they move, and when they rob them, they're on the same path."
"How do you know that?"
"You have to study a lot. You need to be able to see the charts and check the HTS in real time."
"Hmm."
Lee Soo-chul nodded.
Lee Soo-chul even handed over his proxy business card and got into the form today, but it went well with the sound that I made 300 million won.
Now, the days of bragging with condo tickets have passed like in the old days.
Kang Hyung-suk, who is studying for a labor attorney, has been drinking without saying anything.
"Why aren't you talking?”
"Huh? Everyone's telling funny stories, so I have nothing to say."
Meanwhile, Kang Hyung-suk seemed to envy me. Kang Hyung-suk was the best student among them.
said the Holy Mother.
"I heard that Jun-sik made a profit today, so I can't take the first round. We'll have to take responsibility for the second round."
"Haha, I will. Let's go to karaoke."
On this day, I took responsibility for the second round with my friends.
Later, when I came home drunk, I searched my pockets.
Receipts for the first and second round of drinks came out. I calculated the sum of the receipts.
"You spent about half a million won in the first and second rounds together.”
The New Year has come.
"It's 2016 now, the calendar says Eulmiyeon."”
2015 was my lucky year last year.
I begged Baek to keep making money this year.
Rain rubbed his hands like a rubbing of hands against a shaman who was riding a smallpox. The fruit flies rubbed their front feet.
"Grandmother, please give me the same blessings as last year in Eulmi this year."
I poured a drink and raised a glass in front of my grandmother's new liquor.
In 2016, the stock market opened on January 4.
It was held on the 4th because January 1st was Friday and I had Saturday and Sunday off.
AhnLab's stock continued to rise without cooling down.
"It's going up awfully."
Ahnlab was surpassing 80,000 won.
I was nervous about going up so high that I robbed about 10 percent.
"Now I'm gonna have to brush it off little by little.”
Thinking like this, he shook off another 10 percent on Jan. 5.
January 6th came. The stock market suddenly fluctuated.
There are a lot of blue lights in every event.
"What's going on?"
I quickly went to the portal site and saw what was going on.
An announcement was made at the top of the main screen that North Korea conducted a nuclear test.
"What? A nuclear test?"
North Korea conducted its fourth nuclear test on Thursday. It has been about three years since the North conducted its third nuclear test in February 2013.
The South Korean government made a swift move shortly after it detected an artificial earthquake in North Korea. The Ministry of National Defense convened a crisis task force at 11:10 to take emergency action.]
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs held a meeting of ministers to find out the situation, and the NIS said it is closely analyzing the earthquake. Cheong Wa Dae convened an emergency meeting of the National Security Council at noon.]
I quickly went into American Yahoo.
[North Korea climes Hbomb test sucessful]
Such a big title came up.
A video clip showing the success of a North Korean announcer was also posted on Yahoo in the U.S. The North Korean announcer was Lee Chun-hee, an elderly female announcer who spoke in a gruesome way.
Other articles also poured out on Yahoo in the U.S.
[North Korea says it has the 'Hbomb of Justice' after nuclear test]
Hbomb's H in Yahoo, the U.S., is called Hydrogen. In other words, it was a hydrogen bomb test. I came to my senses.
"It's a bad news!
I went into HTS and looked at AhnLab's stock. There was no significant change, although it slowed down.
"I'm nervous, so I'm putting it in order."
I cleaned up 50% on this day.
"Now that we've done a nuclear test, we've got a shot at defense!"
I went over the shares of the defense firm.
However, defense stocks had already risen en masse.
All the events had shriveled bars, but only Bang San-ju was drawing a red beekeeping chart.
"Sifal! Ace Tech, Poongsan, Speco, Peace Industry, EM Korea, Big Tech, etc. are all up."
I was thinking of buying some of AhnLab's stock, but I quit.
"Let's get some rest."
I felt like I was about to stop drinking water.
In the evening, I watched the news at 9 p.m. on KBS with my dad.
Top news was also the news of North Korea's fourth nuclear test.
The broadcast briefly reflected the North's Korean Central Television. North Korean female announcer Lee Chun-hee in hanbok came out.
A voice filled with emotion came out.
[Our Republic has successfully completed the hydrogen bomb test under the orders of comrade Kim Jong-un, the great leader of North Korea.]
I asked my dad while watching the news.
"Why do they pronounce it like that?"
"Well, it's a very inflammatory pronunciation. But the construction industry is going to shrink because of the nuclear test.”
"It's going to be affected because what you're doing is window construction.”
"Of course I take it. The nuclear test will affect your stock. Are you all right?"
"Yes, I have no effect."
The news kept running.
"The U.S. nuclear threat is the fundamental factor that has driven us to strengthen our nuclear deterrence, and it is only fair to have nuclear weapons, legislate them, and strengthen them according to new pathways."
I thought the South Korean government would respond to the North's nuclear test. Moreover, it is not an atomic bomb, but a hydrogen bomb, so I thought there would be a strong response card.
"What are our response cards?"
It would not be that the South Korea-U.S. drills will be further strengthened by turning on loudspeakers in the DMZ.
Then there was a frozen brush on my head.
"You told Yahoo in the U.S. last time that Japan negotiated the introduction of THAAD, right?"
Japan's defense minister and the U.S. Pacific Fleet commander negotiated the issue in Hawaii. At that time, he was well aware of the contents of Yahoo's article by groaning and translating it.
"Yes! Saddah! We will also bring in the THAAD!"
I decided to look for stocks related to THAAD when I go to the office tomorrow.
I stood up to go to my room to organize my thoughts.
Dad raised his head and asked.
"Don't you see more news?”
"Yes, you don't have to look. I just saw it on the Internet."
I entered my room and lay down in my chair, closing my eyes.
"Considering the timing of bringing in THAAD, stocks related to THAAD should be pre-empted!"
I've been thinking about what kind of stocks are related to THAAD.
I couldn't think of an idea. On the contrary, I thought that the trade balance would worsen by provoking China.
"I don't think we're going to have any more soaring cosmetics stocks like New Pride?"
Japan has no defense system to counter North Korea's Unha missiles or the Musudan mobile intermediate-range ballistic missiles. Thus, it was widely expected that the company would consider the medium-level defense system, THAAD, as its second best option.
However, Japan needs to do so in many places if it wants to deploy the THAAD system due to its long land.
In other words, it seemed expensive and being held back by friction with China.
I also remembered the image of Mrs. Baek.
Grandmother Baek had told me clearly. We said we'd bring in the THAAD if there was a justification.
Didn't my grandmother laugh at me when I talked about the cause and said that she recognized me as a level 6?
I thought that I should start buying and selling stocks related to THAAD if the defense stocks are excluded.
"In the near future, Korea will also bring in THAAD!"
Again, I thought about stocks related to THAAD.
THAAD-related stocks would not make tanks or make gunpowder like defense stocks.
THAAD is a device that fires interceptor missiles based on information received from radars and satellites when a ballistic missile is launched. That's why it's a weapon system that collides and destroys directly in the high air.
There was something that came to my mind when I thought this far.
"It's Antonana's side!"
That's how I fell asleep.
At any rate, she begged Baek to let her dream because she wanted to be confirmed, but she didn't show up that night.
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