If I Don’t Earn 1 Trillion Won, My Regression Ends - Chapter 36

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Episode 36

 

Just do internet and I’ll become rich…!

 

People were intoxicated by this amazing magic.

 

So if a name had ‘.com’ or ‘tech’ attached to it, if a company seemed even slightly connected to the internet, they would pour money into it as if bewitched.

 

“Our company will sell bread through the internet!”

 

“Wooow! A company of the future! Please take my money!”

 

Money gathered like this, and stocks that were 1,000 won yesterday became 2,000 won the next day, then 10,000 won a few days later…

 

This was the legendary dot-com bubble.

 

It was around August 1999, summer.

 

As the 【Buy Korea】 craze intensified, almost the entire nation flocked to securities companies.

 

Especially when an interview was released where Quera Chairman Park Min-su called that chairman a fraud, calling him a ‘national traitor’ and ‘Korean scoundrel,’ it was like pouring gasoline on fire.

 

“How dare that national traitor badmouth our leader?”

 

“That traitor is jealous because Korea is doing well!”

 

“Scared? Park Min-su scared? lol”

 

People mocking and ridiculing the regressor, gathering even more.

 

Watching the patriotic ants forming crowds in front of securities company counters, I fell into deep thought.

 

This sense of déjà vu. Somehow those figures looked very…

 

‘Just like my past self!’

 

Who was the past Seosing-a?

 

This area’s peak detector.

 

The past Seosing-a who would worry and agonize when everyone else was making money and getting out, then brilliantly enter at the very peak at the last moment.

 

When you’d cry out ‘Excuse me, there’s someone on the 119th floor, please save them ㅠㅠ!!’ you’d get back sympathy like ‘Huh? There are people there too? Oh my;;’…

 

The shadow of peak signal teacher Seosing-a flickered among the ants mocking Park Min-su.

 

Back then, when friends heard I had entered, they would hurriedly pack up and rush out…

 

But.

 

‘I’ll show you the changed me!’

 

The regressor was being mocked, and the ants were intoxicated with madness.

 

Now’s the time!

 

I brushed off my bottom without regret.

 

I decided to harvest all the seeds I had planted last year in ’98, the Samsung Electronics and Hyundai Motor Company stocks.

 

Samsung Electronics, which I bought around 40,000 won, was at 180,000 won, and Hyundai Motor Company, which I bought around 8,000 won, had risen to 25,000 won.

 

It felt too wasteful to sell everything, so I sold about 2/3 in installments and secured a huge sum of about 66 million won.

 

Of course, there was a slight hint for this escape…

 

【Challenger’s Mid-term Report Card: 41/100 points – Insufficient】

 

【Overall Assessment: Are you just playing around? While everyone around you is having a money feast, how long do you plan to just drool? Amid the roaring sound of rocket engines, I applaud your obsessive honesty and caution for still holding onto just one well. If you keep waiting like this until the cold wind blows, you’ll only be drinking cold water, so at least take this.】

 

【Final Grade: [Insufficient] Grade Reward】

 

【A ‘thermos bottle’ has been added to the challenger’s wallet.】

 

「…」

 

May 25th, 1999.

 

It was a report card I received as a birthday present on my birthday…

 

After hitting the CF, I had been hiding and just holding on, so it must have looked frustrating to the examiner’s eyes.

 

Who would understand the heart of a small citizen who was a former peak detector?

 

Though there was no way to wash away my wronged feelings, holding the heavy thermos bottle, I read the hint from the overall assessment.

 

‘If you wait until the cold wind blows, you’ll only drink cold water!’

 

Summarized, doesn’t this mean?

 

= Throw away those blue-chip stocks you’re holding before it gets cold.

 

Isn’t this a rather kind signal to definitely escape during summer?!

 

‘Examiner sister. I got it. I understood.’

 

The cold system’s warm advice, regressor Park Min-su’s aggro, the patriotic ants’ frenzied march, etc.

 

With signals from the entire universe helping, I successfully exited and firmly grasped 66 million won in ammunition.

 

Carrying that money, I jumped into the furnace that was boiling at its peak, KOSDAQ.

 

‘Come, sweet bubble…!’

 

In KOSDAQ (Korea Securities Dealers Automated Quotations: venture market) that was just starting to activate, there weren’t many companies with names I knew.

 

Just then, Saerom Technology? What rom? Some unheard-of company had just gone public and was skyrocketing like crazy—

 

‘Hmm~ The name sucks~.’

 

I cleanly ignored it and turned my gaze away.

 

【Ugh… so annoying…】

 

Though I seemed to hear strange hallucinations in between, I widened my eyes and found a company familiar to modern eyes.

 

Hangeul and Computer.

 

2,000 won per share.

 

「That’s right! Princess! If you’re going to buy stocks, you should buy exactly this kind! Dad agrees without complaint this time, full agreement! Com-pu-ter! Having it written out clearly like this, how nice does it look?」

 

「Right~ Mom agrees too! Saerom Technology? Computer has more foundation than something like that~ Our daughter’s eye for things is the best!」

 

「Yes yes!」

 

【…】

 

Hangeul blessed by King Sejong.

 

The foundation of Koreans.hwp that government offices tirelessly use for official documents, earning resentment from countless people.

 

Hancom didn’t betray my expectations.

 

Making it worthwhile to burn all 60 million won in ammunition, it rode the bubble and rose 15 times in just 3 months, soaring like a rocket…

 

Early November.

 

The day Daum announced its appearance on KOSDAQ.

 

I, who had been sitting heavily and observing, jumped up and sold all of my reliable Hancom, securing 1 billion won in cash.

 

It wasn’t time to be holding onto Hancom.

 

Daum!

 

Isn’t that Daum, the predecessor of Kakao!

 

‘It’s here! The national messenger!’

 

Oh my, I have to buy this!

 

I wasn’t the only one excited.

 

It was a time when everyone in Korea used Hanmail.

 

Internet users were Hanmail users, and everyone who knew Hanmail even if they didn’t know KakaoTalk was ready to jump into the craze.

 

“No… I know Daum is great too. I know it well. But you’re going to put in all 1 billion won?”

 

Seosing-a Family’s family meeting time.

 

Youngest Uncle (yes, that uncle who helped on moving day) who visited after finishing work expressed reluctance.

 

Unable to resist his younger sister couple’s bragging about their stock fairy daughter, he had tried it out thinking he was being fooled, then tasted success, and since then would rush over whenever there was a family meeting and subtly take a seat like this.

 

“It’s too reckless. Ask again, Sing-a.”

 

“Excuse me, Youngest Uncle? I told you I’m not possessed by spirits.”

 

“Right. I got it. But ask the general one more time.”

 

“Oppa! What general! I’m telling you, it’s our mother who’s teaching Sing-a! Our mother is the one suffering in the afterlife to support her children, but you keep looking for some general, oppa!”

 

“Suk-yeong! There’s no way Mother could be that capable!”

 

Uncle spoke firmly and pushed up his square-framed glasses.

 

“In our Bang family, there’s a meritorious general who fought under Admiral Yi Sun-sin during the Japanese invasions of Korea. He must be the one watching over us. No matter how foolish you are, you should watch your words. The elder is listening.”

 

“Brother-in-law! Stop saying such things! Even if she’s stupid, I’ll take care of my own woman!”

 

“No one has any intention of taking her away, brother-in-law.”

 

“…”

 

Family meetings had been established since last year, when I became famous nationwide as the mysterious mermaid girl.

 

According to Madam Bang Suk-yeong’s transcendent values that went beyond being ahead of her time – “If you earn money, you’re a member of society!” – my position within the family had been elevated.

 

The main agenda items of these meetings included how to reject the entertainment companies’ tempting offers, future plans for little Seosing-a, cheerfully checking today’s stock prices, and so on…

 

As the stocks I picked kept hitting their daily limits and my parents’ psychology of “Our little fairy is the best~” intensified, at some point I became the sole leader of these meetings.

 

All the other miscellaneous members became nothing more than obedient audience members.

 

“The market won’t stay like this forever. Continuous rising is abnormal. Look at neighboring Japan. In the ’80s, when they called it the ‘New Economy’ and stocks only went up every day, who could have imagined it would collapse overnight?”

 

Therefore, the only heretic who dared to challenge this fairy’s decisions was that youngest uncle, a former district office section chief.

 

“Right. I also think instead of 1 billion, if you really want to invest, about 100 million would be fine.”

 

No, there’s one more here.

 

Agreeing with Uncle’s words, Rampa Lim added seriously from the side.

 

“We can earn back 100 million quickly anyway.”

 

It was a thoughtless remark befitting the top prospect of the Formula world, where money rolled around like scraps of paper.

 

In the future, he’ll be someone who chooses Ferraris and Lamborghinis by color, so what do you expect?

 

No, no, wait, more importantly-

 

‘Why is he naturally included in this gathering?’

 

Rampa’s infiltration skills are impressive…!

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