21

Taek-gyu was shocked when he saw the amount recorded in the OTK Company account.

"685 billion!"

Even though I checked the balance with my own eyes, I couldn't believe it. Today was the first time I realized that I could make this much money.

Taek-gyu said with regret.

"It would have been really great if the maturity date had been lowered further."

If there had been a further decline, profits would have exceeded 1 trillion.

Institutions and pension funds, which had continued to show a passive attitude during the trading session, intensively bought as much as 3 trillion won with about 2 minutes left until the closing price.

It was truly a buying bomb.

There was counter-buying due to overselling, but it was a desperate measure to reduce losses by raising the stock price in accordance with the option expiration date.

At this level, it was almost like stock price manipulation.

However, if the decline had continued until today, financial companies that issued options would have gone bankrupt one after another. Whether it was the government or a financial company, there was nothing they could do.

As the stock price rose on the option expiration date, our rate of return decreased significantly.

Even so, it is a phenomenal rate of return. Just looking at the numbers in my account makes me feel dizzy.

Why are there so many zeros?

Shouldn't we at least do some redenomination?

Taek-gyu asked me.

"How much should I give you?"

"huh?"

"We decided to split the profits half and half."

Of the KRW 685 billion, 13 billion is the investment principal and profit is KRW 672 billion. Half of this is mine...

Taek-gyu said after finishing the calculation.

"It's 336 billion. Right?"

"······."

If you pile up that amount of money, will it be as tall as a building?

Until I was discharged from the military, I was broke and had to worry about my future. But now i have 336 billion won on hand.

Is it really okay to accept such a huge amount of money?

Investment involves profits and losses.

Since I only invested 800 million won in capital, if there was a loss, Taek-gyu would have been responsible for most of it. In fact, until a few days ago, we were suffering billions of losses.

Thinking about what I've been through so far, I feel a bit bad for taking half of the profits.

After hearing what I said, Taek-gyu nodded as if he understood.

"So you won't take it? "Then I'm thankful."

I shook my head firmly.

"No, not that."

Taek-gyu chuckled.

"Anyway, if it weren't for you, I would have lost 13 billion won. "It wouldn't have been possible to turn 13 billion into 685 billion."

I provided information, and Taek-gyu invested capital.

Depending on your perspective, opinions will differ as to whose role is greater. Still, as a human being, we tend to think that our contribution is greater.

However, Taek-gyu said from the beginning that he would give me half without hesitation, and he intends to keep that promise.

How many people are like this in the world?

But suddenly I felt an eerie feeling.

"This is what foresight means..."

It only predicted that the cell phone would be discontinued. However, hundreds of billions of wons were earned.

What if it had predicted the 9/11 terrorist attacks or the financial crisis? What if it predicted war or a natural disaster?

It was as if electricity was running down my spine.

Taek-gyu must have been thinking the same thing.

"This is bigger than expected, you'd better not tell anyone about the Oracle Eye."

"Of course."

Our expressions were serious and serious, unlike before. I realized once again how great a supernatural power foresight is.

"What do you think will happen if this becomes known?"

Are they going to drag me away to an intelligence agency or something?

"But there are many people who say they have foresight."

Some of them are actively working as shamans, contemplatives, fortunetellers, soothsayers, professional investors (this is probably the most common), etc.

The reason there are so many people with precognitive abilities in the world is because there is no way to verify them.

Physical superpowers such as telekinesis can be objectively verified. However, since foresight is visible only to the individual, it is impossible to verify.

However, it is good to predict the future if it is correct or not.

"Those people are fake, but you are different."

If you really had foresight, why would you be reading fortunes or tarot cards on the street?

You could easily make money by going to a casino and flipping cards or just trading stocks.

"That is correct."

The only people who know about this ability are Taek-gyu and me.

This guy is the only person I can trust besides my mother. He won't tell anyone unless he knows it could hurt me.

After the serious conversation was over, Taekgyu smiled again.

"Anyway, we really made a lot of money."

When I heard that, I felt a little uneasy.

The financial market managed to regain stability, but the future outlook was not very good. Seosung Electronics' operating profit consensus was lowered one after another, and the trade balance was expected to deteriorate starting next month due to sluggish smartphone exports.

On the other hand, the stock prices of NPL and Chinese companies that are expected to reap profits rose.

"In this national crisis, can we be the only ones making profits like this?"

Taekgyu answered my question as if it were obvious.

"What's wrong? "It's not like we discontinued it ourselves."

"Of course."

Even if we had done nothing, L6 would have been discontinued, Seosung Electronics would have hit its lower limit, and KOSPI and KOSDAQ would have plummeted.

And while everyone was losing money, someone probably made a profit. For now, we just took the profits.

"It's all thanks to Oracle Eye."

That's not all. No matter how good the information is, it is useless if there is no money to invest.

If Taekgyu hadn't believed me and invested, we would have missed this opportunity and sucked our fingers.

Even if they were told the same thing, how many people would actually invest?

I don't know if he has good sense or is thoughtless.

"by the way."

"huh?"

"How are you going to get the money? If you receive it from in account, taxes will be due."

When money held in an overseas corporation is remitted domestically, taxes are incurred. As the amount is hundreds of billions of won, the tax rate is as high as 50 percent.

Taxes alone are over 160 billion won. Additionally, there is the problem of having to prove the source of the money.

"Do you want to take it in cash?"

"336 billion?"

How much would fill an apple box if the it were 50,000 won notes ? Even if one box had 600 million won, there would over 500 boxes.

No, can I withdraw 336 billion in cash before that? There are 6.72 million 50,000 won pieces?

I never imagined that I would be struggling with this problem.

What should I do? Should I also create a corporation in a tax haven?

While I was thinking hard, Taekgyu asked, "What are you planning to do with this money?"

I asked Taekgyu back, "What are you planning to do?"

"Well, I don't have anything special to do. But isn't it a bit sad that it will ends like this?" Taekgyu looked at me and continued speaking, "We invested 13 billion and earned 670 billion. If we reinvested this money, wouldn't we be able to make more money?"

Let's think realistically.

The reason we was able to earn 50 times more with 13 billion won was because the size of our capital was small. It is impossible to make such a profit all at once as the size of capital has increased to hundreds of billions.

Even so, if you can make consistent profits as your capital is hundreds of billions of won, you can make a huge amount of money.

I remembered the story about doubling.

If you fold a piece of newspaper 20 times, it will stretch over 100 meters. If you fold it 10 more times, the range will be over 100 kilometers.

If you bet 100 million at a casino and continue betting the winnings for 20 rounds, you can earn 104.8576 trillion won.

In current modern times we are in a highly developed capitalist society. Money can move the world, and money can even buy people's lives.

I'm not saying this figuratively.

Even now, in some African countries, children are dying from malaria and malnutrition. Lives that could be saved with just $1 pills and food are being neglected simply because there is no money.

With just one investment, I earned money that I could never use in my entire life. It is enough to spend this money without doing anything from now on.

But... Is this what happened? Is it right to be satisfied with this level and end it?

I remembered what I saw the night I was drunk.

CEO is the chief executive officer.

The CEO is not necessarily the largest shareholder.

Maybe that means that I will join hands with Taekgyu and run OTK Company from now on?

I held out my hand to Taekgyu.

"Shake this hand."

"What happen if i shake it?"

"You'll go all the way with me."

Taekgyu looked at my face and hands alternately.

"What if I don't shake it?"

"I will go to the end alone."

Taek-gyu thought for a moment and then shook my hand tightly.

"I don't know how far we will go, but let's go together."

"Haha!"

"Fuhaha!"

We looked at each other and burst out laughing.

---

I found a simple solution to the problem of sharing money.

"Let's move the investment principal to Korea first. And the name of the corporation is revised. You are splitting the shares of OTK Company, which is currently 100% owned by you, in half."

In this case, the money is still in the overseas corporation, so there is no need to pay taxes in Korea. Giving away corporate shares is also a gift, but in Dela Island, gift tax is also exempt.

"How about we do that?"

For some reason, there was no answer.

Taekgyu seemed to be thinking deeply about something, and after a while, he opened his mouth.

"Do you have the contract I gave you earlier?"

"I put it in my wallet."

"Give me a moment."

Without thinking, I took out the contract and handed it over. Taek-gyu opened the contract, and he suddenly grabbed it with both hands and started tearing it up.

Squeak!

The contract instantly turned into dozens of pieces of paper and scattered around.

I was taken aback by the unexpected situation and asked, "What are you doing, dude?"

Taekkyu said with a stern expression, "When I think about it again, half of it doesn't make sense."

"What?"

"How about 8 to 2?"

I was speechless.

Looking at his expression, it didn't seem like he's just joking.

Are you telling me to take only 20% of the funds instead of half? Is he going to stab me in the back now?

This is a world where money kills people. So, it is not surprising that he changed his mind when faced with hundreds of billions of wons.

Still, he's not that kind of person ...

Taek-gyu continued talking while looking at my dumbfounded face.

"You are 8, I am 2."

"······."

What does this mean again?