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My father brought his bankbook and showed it to me.

“What is this?”

“Your bankbook.”

“Do you have my bankbook?”

“Yes. All the money my son earns is in here.”

I went to a kindergarten program, filmed commercials, and appeared in movies.

Of course, there would have been an appearance fee.

The fee I received for appearing in ‘Confession of a Pianist’ was 20 million won.

Hong Jeong-woo, who receives the highest salary among child actors, is paid around 30 million won, so you can see how much Director Kim Si-woon bet on me to cast me.

The advertising fee received for filming the TTN commercial was 12 million won.

He said that Sora and I are the first child actors to earn over 10 million won.

A regular appearance on Waggle Waggle Kindergarten earns around 600,000 won per week.

Among the 18 grades of broadcasting station appearance fees, child actors are ranked from 1 to 5, and Eugene, Sora, and I received the highest grade of 5.

It wasn’t a level I deserved since it was my first time appearing on a broadcast, but I benefited from having Eugene and Sora by my side.

By appearing on Waggle Waggle Kindergarten for a year, he earned 32 million won.

In addition, if you add up the incentives paid to the actors for appearing on TV, taking pictorials as a child model, and ultimately surpassing 5 million, it comes to around 30 million won.

There was about 100 million won piled up in the account.

It was a reward for working in the entertainment industry for a year and a half.

“I don’t need this much money.”

“You don’t need it now, but when you grow up, you’ll have a lot of expenses. Since it’s money you earned, I’m saving it for later.”

“Mom and Dad can use it too… .”

“My son earned his money with difficulty, so you can’t spend it however you want.”

There are very few cases where the money given to parents with the promise to keep it and give it back to them when they grow up actually gets returned.

But Mom and Dad saved up a lot of money and gave it back to me.

Their hearts for me were as warm as the spring sunshine, so I hugged them both tightly.

“Now, Hajin is rich. What do you want to do?”

“There’s nothing I can’t say to her. She has too much money.”

“Is it still a bit too much?”

It’s a waste of money to just receive interest from the bank.

Because the value of cash will continue to decline over time.

The minimum investment required to maintain current value is minimal.

‘Since it has nothing to do with acting, my future predictions don’t move at all.’

I wish a future prophecy would suddenly appear and tell me how to make money at this time.

If you read comics or novels, they often give you amazing investment information or information about where you’ll hit the jackpot.

But my future prophecy told me nothing but acting and accidents that would interfere with acting.

So I decided to write down the only investment information I knew before the regression.

“Dad, do you invest in stocks?”

“Eeeek!”

With a single scream, my father fell backwards.

At the same time, my mother’s face became serious.

“You, still… .”

“No, no! I won’t do it anymore. I promised not to do it after that bite! Where did Hajin hear that? .”

“There is an icon called HTS on the computer. You can buy and sell stocks with it.”

HTS is an abbreviation for Home Trading System.

A computer program that allows individual investors to buy and sell stocks from their home or office without having to go to the trading floor.

After the advent of smartphones, everything was replaced by apps, but now everyone who uses a feature phone uses HTS.

I found out that my dad was investing in stocks because I had this installed on my computer.

When I started talking about stocks, my mom and dad’s faces turned strange.

His expression is like, “How on earth do you know something like that?”

“When I went to the movie office, I saw the director and my senior doing it. I was curious about what it was, so I asked and he explained it to me. He said that I should know how to invest in stocks from now on.”

Of course it’s a lie.

When you go to a film studio, all they talk about is real movies.

I needed an excuse so I sold the movie theater I used to frequent.

Dad nodded vigorously.

“Of course. If you don’t know about stocks, Hajin, you’ll be left behind by the times.”

“Hey bot!”

It’s no wonder mom is so angry.

Because I saw my father’s desperate negative returns on HTS.

I scolded my dad a lot in the living room because he thought I was sleeping, but he saw me through the crack in the door.

It wasn’t a large amount of money, but it’s pathetic that my dad lost money because of a rumor that was like a flyer.

“But Hajin, why did you talk about stocks?”

“I want to invest in stocks with this money.”

“Hajin!”

My river was drawn on my mother’s forehead.

It is understandable that such a reaction would arise when a son, following his father who had a negative return, decides to invest in stocks.

“You worked so hard to earn money, why are you trying to spend it on something dangerous? You shouldn’t be trading stocks recklessly. Let’s just leave it in the bank, okay?”

Because of my dad, investing in stocks has already become a ‘risky thing’ for my mom.

But I am not the one to back down here.

“Mom. In foreign countries, many parents open stock accounts as gifts for their children when they enter elementary school. They teach their children how to invest that way from a young age. I want to do that too.”

For parents, there is no magic bullet like ‘education’.

When we started talking about economic education, my mother’s expression began to lighten.

Since I started my entertainment career, he has been listening to my stories seriously.

You will discover a different ‘adultness’ from your peers.

“I’m not saying I’ll do it right now. I’ll study about stocks first and invest after I start elementary school.”

Some investment firms even run stock classes for children.

I plan to go here with my mom and show her that I am serious about investing in stocks.

“So, promise me that you will do it when I invest later today. In the meantime, I will keep this money in the bank.”

The reason I say this is because we have to wait for two things.

One is the listing of YJ Entertainment, and the other is the subprime mortgage crisis that started in the United States in 2007.

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The subprime mortgage crisis that led to a chain of bankruptcies at U.S. financial companies in 2007 also had a huge impact on the domestic stock market.

This is because stock prices fell sharply as foreign investors rushed to withdraw their money.

One of the stocks that received the biggest shock at that time was entertainment stocks.

It was so shocking that the stock price of SN Entertainment, a leader in this industry, fell below 1,000 won in mid-2008.

Before the financial crisis, it was over 15,000 won, so it has fallen by a whopping 6% from its peak.

The reason I remember this in detail is because I invested a little bit in Enter before the regression, but there was a legendary certification incident.

‘I never thought there would be a warrior who would leave this alone for 10 years.’

At the time, a die-hard fan of SN’s girl group ‘Ladies’ Generation’ invested 20 million won when he saw the stock price of less than 1,000 won.

Then, after 3 years, the profit was certified and the rate of return was a whopping 2700%.

This is because the SN stock price recovered to 26,000 won at the time of certification.

After that, he certified his earnings every 2-3 years, and in 2018, 10 years later, he posted his final certification message saying he would sell it.

The final return was 3100%, and the price difference alone exceeded 700 million.

It was the biggest return I’d ever seen before the regression.

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YJ Entertainment, founded by Eugene’s father, goes public before the financial crisis.

In 2008, the stock price fell further than SN, but then recovered dramatically over the next few years.

If I bought YJ stock in 2008, I could have made a profit greater than that of a certified die-hard fan of Lady Generation.

So I told my mom that I would study stocks and then invest.

In 2008, I was in the 5th grade of elementary school.

If you study stocks that hard, they will probably listen to you and let you invest.

The reason I want to buy YJ Entertainment stock is because I owned it before the regression and I have a rough idea of the stock price trend.

Other than this, I don’t remember any other investment targets like stocks or coins.

To begin with, I wasn’t interested in anything other than the entertainment stocks I had invested in.

YJ’s stock price has been on a steady upward trend since 2008, and the price right before the return was 70,000 won.

If you put in 100 million won when the price drops below 1,000 won and hold out for 10 years, you can become a building owner.

‘We need a building.’

The building owner intends to buy a real building, not a metaphor.

I’m not buying a building because I want to live comfortably on rent.

I’m thinking of buying a building because my memory has become clearer recently.

In that memory… there was a manager who took good care of me.

[I think this role would suit you well. The audition date is….]

[Okay, Inma. How much is that? Are you paying your rent?]

[You can do better next time, why are you so pathetic? Have you ever failed an audition or two?]

[If you don’t get a lead role by then, it’s invalid. You have to diligently go to auditions.]

He is the brother who promised to recruit me as the first actor when I became independent.

Unfortunately, I returned without seeing the planning company established.

In this life, I plan to find my brother and become the number one actor.

I even bought a building to set up a planning company.

That would have been the future foreshadowing that would have brought back memories of my brother.

“Mom didn’t know Hajin was so interested in stocks. When she becomes an elementary school student, she should study hard and try investing. But before investing, she should definitely consult with her mom and dad.”

“Yes, I will.”

Done!