Boutique 02
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“Professor Choi, here it is! here!”
Man waving his hand.
He is a very slender man with long limbs and a very tall body.
Hyeon-joon, who had changed into gym clothes, saw that familiar face as soon as he came out of the locker room.
Dongwook Choi is a fund manager at Richard Global Asset Management.
That was him.
After getting to know the wine bar [Rose] through the introduction of Yoon Soo-yeon, the owner, we got in touch through KakaoTalk exchanges several times.
Then, when he found out that Hyun-joon went to the same high class one fitness center, they started exercising together like this.
“Did you come out early today?”
“Well, these days, the company doesn’t even pay night wages, so there’s no reason to work overtime. Indeed, Professor Choi. What time did you say your golf lesson was?”
“9:30.”
“I have some time.”
“yes.”
It is now almost 8:00 at night. From this point on, before golf lessons, Hyun-jun’s daily routine was to use this and that fitness equipment, sweat out, take a shower, and then go to the pool to finish swimming.
Meanwhile, golf lessons are conducted at an indoor driving range equipped with a screen golf system.
“Then could you talk to me for a minute before we start working out? Would it be all right by any chance?”
Choi Dong-wook suddenly suggested that we talk for a while.
Hyeon-joon doesn’t know why, but first of all, he went to the customer lounge with him.
In fact, the membership fee here is quite high, but the facilities and services are excellent, so it was the best place for members to have tea and chat.
Meanwhile, the two of them went to a table on one side of the lounge and sat down, and a female center employee immediately appeared and asked for a drink to drink.
And they simply ordered an iced americano. Of course, all of these costs are free.
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“Professor, are you interested in investing?”
“Investment?”
“yes.”
“Well, of course I am interested.”
“Then, do you have any plans to make a good investment?”
“yes?”
In the conversation that started a while later, Choi Dong-wook was suddenly asking Hyun-joon about participating in the investment.
However, when Hyun-joon, who did not know the situation, was puzzled, he immediately began to explain.
“Do you know what a boutique is?”
Boutique, of course, is a word Hyun-jun knows well.
Before returning, as someone from a former workshop, I can’t help but not know this word.
Originally, the word boutique is French for a store that sells expensive clothes or gifts. In the stock version, boutique is a term referring to a kind of stock power.
These boutiques used to make considerable profits by catching rich money stocks in the past and working on stocks using the money as a medium.
Now, it is generally in a state of evolution in the form of small and medium-sized.
In general, small groups of people form their own teams and work on various stocks. It was true that the miniaturization increased the professionalism. In other words, as former fund managers and former analysts became members of such boutiques, boutiques that were generally small in size but with great returns were spreading in Yeouido and elsewhere.
Of course, there are also amateurs among them.
“As expected, the professor is different. Going to that expensive wine bar or having a membership here is not something the average person can do.”
So, he thinks of Hyeon-jun as a rich young professor. Come to think of it, if Hyun-joon had heard such words before investing in stocks, he would have been somewhat embarrassed. Hyun-joon now is in a completely different situation, so Hyun-joon just smiled.
“What the hell is going on?”
“Ah, I received a request, and a close senior of mine runs a small boutique in Yeouido. There is a good item this time, but there is a request for cooperation because the funds are a little short. Well, I belong to a company, so it’s okay to get involved in this kind of thing. If any of the people around you are interested, I’ll connect you. How are you? professor?”
So, I am asking Hyun-Jun if he is willing to invest in a boutique.
In fact, it would be hard to find someone better than Hyun-jun in the investment side.
However, Choi Dong-wook in front of him had no way of knowing that.
Hyeon-joon smiled and pretended not to know, and asked softly.
“Then how much money can I put in?”
“Off the record, the minimum unit is approximately 2 billion won.”
2 billion won?
“And the yield is guaranteed at least 20%. It holds pretty hard.”
So, if the rate of return is 20%, you put in 2 billion won and earn 400 million won.
This is a very good investment in these days of low interest rates.
“Of course there is no principal guarantee, right?”
“yes. That’s natural. However, up to 70% of the principal amount is guaranteed. Are you interested?”
Choi Dong-wook, an American-style undercut hairstyle with the back and side hair cut very short.
Choi Dong-wook, who had exceptionally thick eyebrows, had a manly appearance in the style of a nobleman.
I heard that his father is the current president of a large company. He is also a member of the so-called gold spoon.
“By the way… I don’t know much, but by the way, how much investment do you generally manage in a boutique unit like this?”
“Ah, well, every boutique is different. The place I introduce starts a project with at least 40 billion won.”
“Is it on the big side?”
“yes. In an era where it’s not easy to find jeonju these days, that’s a lot.”
“Then is it that hard to find jeonju?”
“Well, the bigger ones are mostly loan sharks, and it’s a bit dangerous to deal with. That’s the side that hits a lot. The boutique I mentioned is the legal way to manage assets. So you won’t have to worry about anything else.”
is it legal
At those words, Hyunjoon laughed inwardly.
As a former stock worker, Hyeon-joon didn’t feel the truth at all. In the stock market, even if it is legal, in practice, things that are not different from illegal are often committed. No matter what, in order to scrape the stakes, various ingenious operations have to be entered, and isn’t it the Korean stock version where such operations are frequently performed?
A kind of grueling battlefield.
So Hyeon-jun felt that the word “legitimate” didn’t go well with a boutique. Of course, there are some people who really invest like investing.
“Then, do you know the moneylender side well?”
Hyeonjun asked again, posing as a curious person.
Choi Dong-wook, who confirmed Hyeon-jun’s clear eyes, began to talk about this and that without any doubt.
As expected, since Choi Dong-wook was in the current position, he had heard quite a lot of rumors about this and that, and he knew a lot of unconfirmed information.
“Well, in the past, loan sharks in Myeong-dong were quite famous. But now, not only in Myeong-dong, but also in Gangnam and all over Seoul. Isn’t it global now? Even Chinese capital is pushed in. In addition, there are some boutiques that have become big hands in an instant by attracting various investments after setting up large and small asset management companies. Of course, if the moneylenders become involved, they say that this is a bit dangerous because it can lead to a connection to the darker side of the world.”
Then he gave some examples.
“This is non-public information, but recently several people have been called to the prosecution in the Cheongshim Construction stock price manipulation case. An investment company called Nexel In the Com intervened in this board, but according to Chirashi, there is another loan shark or something else behind it. Nothing has been revealed yet.”
“Then, if you say that entity, do you mean that illegal forces are active?”
“yes. It’s kind of like that. I don’t know if you’ve heard of it, but last year [Efem Medical]’s stock price manipulation case was huge. The problem is that it was only noisy in the Yeouido stock market, and the reality was not revealed at all.”
what?
That moment.
Efem Medical?
Hyunjoon suddenly woke up.
A past that has been forgotten for a very long time.
Hyun-joon, who came from a stock workshop, vaguely remembered the stock he worked on.
Before the regression, when I think about that time period, especially if it was last year’s case, it really seemed that the event that Hyun-jun touched was right.
At that time, Hyun-joon started working as a clicker (a person who buys and sells stocks according to the instructions of the technician).
Isn’t Hyun-joon now irrelevant to that kind of life?
If that’s the case, it means that someone else did the work instead of Hyun-jun.
Nevertheless, [Efem Medical] the fact that the stock price manipulation incident occurred was still the same as before.
Hyunjoon felt more and more strange.
My heart started beating on its own.
It is true that it gives a little goosebumps.
Hyunjoon’s expression hardened.
When Choi Dong-wook was puzzled, Hyeon-jun quickly threw a question to change the atmosphere.
“Then… do you know that Kim Si-cheol is the director?”
“yes? Director Sicheol Kim? No, this is the first time I’ve heard of it.”
fortunately you don’t know
definitely don’t know
It was a name he threw out just in case, but luckily Choi Dong-wook said he didn’t know, so Hyeon-jun was a little relieved. Anyway, it seems that that person and Choi Dong-wook have nothing to do with each other.
“why? Are you important?”
“Oh, no. He’s just someone who works in the investment world and knows him.”
“Oh yeah? Then, if you tell me which company you work for, I will…”
“no. Rather than that, if possible… I would like to invest in people who are doing investment work more legally. Could you please introduce them to them?”
Then, Choi Dong-wook looked at Hyeon-joon in silence.
Soon he smiled and replied.
“The boutique I mentioned earlier is of that type. If you are looking for a more normal boutique than that, ah! Where is it?”
Choi Dong-wook pondered for a while.
Then he asked the question again.
“Then would you invest in such people if you found them?”
“yes. Depending on the circumstances, it may be. First of all, if there are any decent people, I would like to meet them.”
Hyunjoon said so.
Choi Dong-wook nodded.
“Then why don’t we meet at the boutique I mentioned earlier? You can meet and judge.”
“Ah, then is that so?”
“yes. You see.”
So Hyun-joon made an appointment.
Soon after, I started working out on my own.
And time passed and it was already Sunday.
Hyeon-jun was contacted again by Choi Dong-wook.
If you have time at night, let’s meet at the Sky Lounge of a mo hotel in Gangnam.
He said that he would introduce the boutique he had mentioned at the time.
Hyeon-joon thought about it for a while and eventually made an appointment at 10:00 pm. It was because if there was a good boutique, Hyun-jun wanted to make a relationship with a good investment network, apart from investing.
An investment company that Hyun-jun is planning.
It’s because we need these real practical experts to do this lineup.
And as time passed and it was almost 10:00 at night, Hyun-joon arrived at the meeting place on time.
But there, very unexpectedly, a very sophisticated and beautiful woman was found sitting with Choi Dong-wook.
