[022]Secretly, bigger money 2.
“Will my father stop me from doing what I want to do if he doesn’t like it?”
“Can that be? No matter what our Dojunie does, Dad will always support and help.”
“Even if I want to be the president of a bigger company than my grandfather?”
Father suddenly burst into laughter.
“Puhaha. What about this? Do-junie’s dream is so big, it seems that dad has nothing to help him with?”
I thought he would say that he would help me with anything, even if it was just empty words.
“there is.”
“what?”
“You can help me well enough.”
In an instant, the father stopped laughing and became serious.
“how? As I said beforehand, my dad is not interested in running a company. know?”
“You know a lot of people who can help.”
“I? no. I don’t know the people of Sunyang Group. Manager Lee Hak-jae is everything. But he is not free enough to help you.”
“You said that a while ago. You studied business administration in England… Do you have any friends you studied with?”
Father again said nothing.
* * *
“Who is this? hey! Jin Yoongi! It’s been a really long time.”
“Oh, it hasn’t even been a year yet. What’s so over?”
It is a habit of a person who always pretends to be happy when meeting a customer. This is especially true when the customers you meet are big hands who manage hundreds of millions of dollars.
Oh Se-hyeon, a friend Jin Yoon-gi sometimes meets over a glass of soju, is the Korean representative of PowerShares, a global asset management company.
PowerShares was founded in 1935 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. It has more than 7,000 professional investment personnel, offices in 40 countries, and assets under management of $120 billion.
It is truly an empire of money.
Oh Se-hyun was a person with outstanding skills enough to become the youngest representative of Power Shares Asia-Pacific.
Although he was two years older than Jin Yoon-gi, when we met in England, we mainly talked in English, so it’s been a long time since we’ve been friends.
“What kind of wind blew and contacted you first? Do you have any money to entrust to me?”
“Does this child not know where I am? At this age, where is the money to be entrusted to an unemployed man who uses his father for living expenses?”
“Isn’t that living cost ten times my annual salary? Write half and leave half. I will call you.”
“Plain people like you do it because they don’t know how much money a second-generation conglomerate like me spends. No matter how much it is, it is not enough.”
A friend who doesn’t offend even if you say it sarcastically.
It was just a relationship between two people.
“Yeah, why is a guy with no money looking for me?”
“Because of my son.”
“son? You son of a bitch, if it’s a child problem, see the school teacher. What kind of advice can I, who plays money, give you?”
“It happened. My second son wants to help me become an entrepreneur like my grandfather.”
“second? Second, Do-joon? Right? Aren’t you a national student?”
“that’s right. 5th grade.”
“Yeah. Is that kid great? Did you educate the young? Aren’t you the son of an unemployed father?”
Oh Se-hyeon patted Jin Yoon-gi on the shoulder and laughed as if he were curious. But Jin Yoongi couldn’t help but smile.
“I know. the kid has grown up Sometimes, when I see him, he’s more serious than I am, so I can’t just accept it.”
“so? What can I do for you?”
“Just having a meal together and giving advice not to decide on a career path too hastily would be enough. Whether it’s management or business, it’s still a long way from now, so tell me to play and have fun for now.”
“The chairman’s grandson is different. I have to tell my son every day to study hard and go to a good university.”
“Are you envious? Hehe.”
Seeing Jin Yoon-gi’s laughter, Oh Se-hyeon raised his fist again.
***
“A guy who boasts of money is unlucky, and a kid who met his parents doesn’t taste good, but your father was different. Your father was the first to think that humans could be so pure.”
“hey! Can’t you stop cursing in front of the kids?”
“Oh sorry. It’s because I threw away all my temper while courting the nerds. Hehe.”
The one my father brought is pretty funny.
Powershares is a great place. Isn’t it a super asset management company that handles 800 trillion won a year in 30 years?
Paying off a Southeast Asian country is nothing but speculative capital. To say that he is a Korean representative of such a place, he looks a bit sloppy and doesn’t look sharp.
While eating, he constantly chatted cheerfully and showed only the appearance of an ordinary village man.
“I will wake up first.”
Sang-jun hyung quickly finished his meal and went upstairs.
It seems that the child has already reached puberty.
These days, we rarely talk at home. At that time, my parents started to notice.
Toward the end of the meal, my father began to wink at his friend.
“By the way, Do-joon. You say you want to be a businessman when you grow up?”
“yes.”
“Like Grandpa?”
“A bigger businessman than my grandfather.”
“The Sunyang Group is the biggest in Korea… but it’s a bigger company… so greedy?”
“It’s not greed, is it a dream?”
“Are you greedy like your grandfather and dreaming like your father?”
In an instant, Oh Se-hyun’s eyes shone.
“It’s Yoongi. Can I talk to Do-joon alone?”
When the father nodded, Oh Se-hyeon stood up from the table.
“Do-joon. I heard a lot of good things from you.”
said the father, laughing.
When Oh Se-hyeon entered my room, she took a quick look around and pulled a chair.
“It’s not messy and it’s neat.”
Looking at my well-organized room, I could see that I understood my personality.
“Come on, Do-joon. If you have any questions, ask. After all, this man is quite a successful man.”
If you are the Korean representative of the world’s largest asset management company, you are not quite successful, but a huge success.
At first, I pretended not to know and asked the first question.
“Are you also the boss of a big company?”
“huh. He is the president of a very large company. But it’s a little different from your grandfather. I am a person who makes rich people richer.”
“Then you must meet a lot of rich people?”
“That’s how it is.”
“Then, if you talk to those customers, you’ll hear a lot of stories about making money, right?”
“what? Oh… sharp? You say it’s not childish, but it’s true. haha.”
He let out a delightful laugh. Let’s see how long that laugh lasts.
“I have a heavy mouth. Like you said, you can’t work for a long time if you go somewhere and talk about rich people. Rumor soon. And I don’t even ask in detail.”
It is also work ethic. Rich people have many secrets. Even if you peek at some of the secrets, you must keep your mouth shut to avoid being buried in the industry.
“Then you will keep my story a secret too.”
“There are a lot of things that surprise me today about national students. you are a bit unique But you are not my customer. There is no reason to keep a secret?”
“huh? Didn’t your father tell you?”
“what?”
Oh Se-hyeon, not knowing why, blinked his eyes.
“My money. I have 14 billion in my bank account right now, and if I sell the remaining land, more than 10 billion won will come in. Wouldn’t this be enough to make you a customer?”
It is Oh Se-hyun who only blinks. Nothing in my life will surprise me more than this.
When you hear something unrealistic, at first you treat it as bullshit. However, after knowing that it is true according to the reliability of the speaker, there is no thought in the head.
That’s why I’m dumbfounded with my mouth open and I can’t say anything.
The greater the impact, the longer the silence lasts.
In my previous life, there were many underage rich people because of stock donations from chaebols, but now it is not to that extent.
In addition, most of the underage rich were gifted stocks in their previous lives, and the amount was only a few tens of billions.
If the money I have now is 30 years from now, it will be worth at least 100 billion won.
It is unrealistic to believe that a 12-year-old has it.
I waited for Oh Se-hyun to come to his senses and open his mouth.
It was almost five minutes before I heard his stammering.
“Bae bae bae… 14 billion…?”
“More than 10 billion more will come in this year.”
“Is this all the money Grandpa Ha gave you?”
“no.”
“then?”
“Your uncle told me a little while ago. They say they don’t ask customers in detail.”
“That’s right. that’s right. I guess I asked something.”
The shock didn’t go away, so I handed out my bankbook to Oh Se-hyeon, who kept fumbling around.
“This is my bankbook. You can check it.”
While Oh Se-hyeon checked the numbers on my bank account several times, I decided how to proceed to the next step.
You can’t just imitate a child forever. In order to proceed with the work, you have to accept that your true self is revealed a little.
“This is not what I came here for today…”
Oh Se-hyeon scratched his head and smiled dejectedly.
“I wanted to tell a good story to my friend’s son… but I don’t feel like doing that.”
The professional instinct of an asset manager.
There are a lot of places to invest, but the money to invest is always short. A huge amount of money flickers in front of his eyes, and his desire will wriggle.
“Your father asked for it. Please tell me so that I can grow slowly. Arts and sports such as drawing, music, and sports. It’s good if you develop your talents from a young age, but things like business management or making money come at an age… It’s normal to start when you’re an adult.”
“I saw on the news that there was a kid in the US who made $2,000 selling stamps when he was 12 years old and who made a fortune selling newspaper subscriptions when he was in high school?”
“Business and business are different. Anyway, what are you going to do with this money?”
“What would you like your uncle to do?”
One thing I learned from my grandfather, Chairman Jin!
< Be the listener, not the explainer. >
< The listener, choose, decide. >
I have already decided where to spend this money, but I also need to hear from the best asset managers.
Because the more information, the better.
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