The Overly Competent Junior Employee

“I thought there was some source…”

Meanwhile, Dokyung, who had returned to the office after the meeting, was searching for something with a serious expression.

Oh Seok-hoon, who was leaving after the meeting, had acted as if he had a definite source.

“There’s nothing here?”

Dokyung checked today’s rankings on both major mobile stores, and Take Games’ new release had clearly fallen to 6th place as its initial hype faded.

The users’ evaluations of “King of the Empire” in game communities remained cold.

While actual players’ assessments were this frigid, the market’s evaluation of Take Games was incomprehensibly hot.

“It’s like smart people have collectively taken some pill that makes them act like fools.”

Market participants sometimes became the smartest people on Earth, reflecting the yet unseen future in stock prices with uncanny wisdom.

But now, they were collectively ignoring what was visible and chasing only an invisible future.

It was utterly irrational.

“Information I don’t know must be circulating somewhere.”

Even in this irrational situation, Dokyung first doubted himself, wondering if he might be wrong.

If Oh Seok-hoon and the market participants really knew information he didn’t, then he had made the wrong judgment.

Knock knock-

As Dokyung was engrossed in searching for data, the door opened and Choi Woojin entered.

“You’re back from your outside work already?”

“Yeah, I flew back right after sealing the deal.”

“Do you have something urgent?”

“I do. Something urgent. I heard you had a showdown with Assistant Manager Oh Seok-hoon?”

“What?”

“Kyung-jun-ssi said he heard raised voices between you two as he was leaving the conference room.”

It seemed a colleague had overheard the argument between Dokyung and Oh Seok-hoon after the meeting ended.

“We didn’t really have a showdown…”

“Then did you beat him up one-sidedly?”

“No, I got beaten…”

At Dokyung’s words, Choi Woojin’s eyes widened in surprise.

“You got beaten? Who? Yoon Dokyung?”

Dokyung stood up, moved to the sofa, and began to speak.

“Assistant Manager Oh Seok-hoon is my senior and colleague. He’s never treated me badly before… I didn’t want to act disrespectfully just because we have different opinions now.”

“That’s right. Yoon Dokyung is someone who does what needs to be done when it needs to be done. Not someone who acts carelessly.”

Choi Woojin sat down with a smile.

“I made some calls here and there on my way back.”

“Calls?”

“Yeah, Oh Seok-hoon-sunbae has been… although he’s still an Assistant Manager, he’s been a PB for 6 years. I didn’t think he’d act like that without anything to back it up.”

Dokyung quietly looked at Choi Woojin, focusing on his words.

“But everyone said they didn’t know anything.”

“It seems there really isn’t… anything.”

“Wait, let me finish. So I just called Taesan.”

“What?”

“I called a colleague at Taesan. I thought they might have some source, looking at the same data but having a different view from us.”

Choi Woojin was truly remarkable. Right now, anyone could see it was a battle between Taesan and Yuseong.

Even if they were colleagues, it was a situation where one couldn’t just call Taesan and ask them to divulge information.

“You want to know too, don’t you? I wanted to scratch that itch for you. And I was curious too.”

Choi Woojin spoke with a smile, then looked at Dokyung with a serious expression.

“It seems like they’re going to bury some coins.”

“Coins?”

“Yeah. Blockchain.”

Dokyung felt like he’d been hit hard on the back of the head.

“Don’t tell me they’re aiming for P2E?”

P2E (Play to Earn) literally meant earning while playing. Applied to games, it meant being able to earn money while playing the game.

“That’s right. It seems Take Games is saying they’ll issue their own coin and exchange it for in-game currency.”

“This is…”

“But apparently only a few people within Taesan know this information. Since it’s leaked to me now, I guess everyone in the industry with decent information power will know soon?”

“This doesn’t make sense. Take Games has never hired blockchain developers.”

The coin ecosystem was ultimately a battle of blockchain technology. Coins don’t just pop up overnight.

To develop their own coin and apply it to a game, they would need both blockchain developers and game developers.

All the game developers were given notice of recommended resignation, and they never hired blockchain developers, so where would this coin suddenly come from?

“After hearing about the recommended resignations, I scoured all the online job sites. Take Games had even stopped new hires. It’s just an unfounded rumor…”

“So they’re saying they’ll make it soon, I guess?”

“What’s the source of this information?”

“It seems to have leaked from Take Games’ side.”

Dokyung felt anger rising to the top of his head.

Just when the market was most vulnerable and everyone was swayed by trivial information, they seemed to be acting cunningly as if to exploit this aspect of the market.

Right now, investors’ trust in coins had hit rock bottom, but if playing games gave coins that could be traded for real money, investors would accept that the ecosystem was solid.

And this coin would eventually be treated as an asset of Take Games.

In a market like now where even the smallest good news could cause a big fuss, what if this information was released?

“Listening to you, Dokyung-ssi, this feels like a scheme.”

“Yes. Take Games won’t announce it directly.”

“Right. They’ll just leak information like this. As I said earlier, since the info has come to me…”

In a few days, it would become information known to all market participants.

He seemed to understand why Taesan was looking at a different outlook with the same data.

With this information, the market would react hotly.

“They cunningly leaked the information to Taesan.”

“Because they have the most clients.”

It was highly likely that VIP clients were already receiving asset management services based on this information.

“I need to confirm this.”

Dokyung took out his mobile phone, found a number, and pressed the call button.

“Assistant Manager Yeon-ji, this is Yoon Dokyung. I’m sorry to bother you when you’re busy, but I have a question.”

-…

“Have you heard anything about Take Games creating a coin ecosystem? The development team staff…”

-…

“Yes, yes. Thank you. I’ll visit you later.”

As Dokyung hung up, Choi Woojin, who had been watching with a curious expression, spoke up.

“What did they say? That it’s false information?”

“She said she’ll call around and get back to me.”

“Really? I checked the stock price while you were on the phone, and it looks like Take Games is starting to bite? It was moving sideways in the morning session, but now it’s up 3%.”

At Choi Woojin’s words, Dokyung got up and went to the computer.

He checked the trading trends through the trading system.

“Retail investors are receiving institutional volume. Foreign investors are on a selling trend.”

“Institutions and foreigners must have finished analyzing the information by now. Taesan initially issued a report blinded by that information, but now that a contrary opinion report has come out from our side, they’ve become quite serious.”

“Taesan?”

“Yeah, according to my colleague, the analyst who wrote the buy report briefed the directors.”

Taesan must have realized by now that the information was nonsense. If they had just looked a little more carefully, even just checking the hiring traces publicly available on the internet…

The market seemed intent on transferring all the damage caused by malice and ignorance to individual investors.

Ding-

[Lee Yeon-ji: Dokyung-ssi, I looked into it. The development team leader says it’s nonsense.]

As Lee Yeon-ji’s reply arrived, Dokyung gathered his documents and stood up.

“Where are you going?”

“I can’t stop the entire market, but I should try to reduce the damage around us.”

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“Yes, sir.”

Meanwhile, Oh Seok-hoon, a PB at Yuseong Investment Securities’ Seongnam Branch, was busy answering incoming calls.

“Ah… President Kim, you shouldn’t talk about this anywhere.”

Oh Seok-hoon began to speak to his client as if he were really discussing important information.

“Actually, the reason I moved all of your positions to game stocks was because I heard that information.”

Of course, Oh Seok-hoon had obtained this source after that, but nothing would change by saying so in the current situation.

e thought he should definitely put his clients in debt where he needed to flatter them.

“Yes, yes, that’s right. But please don’t mention it anywhere before it’s officially announced, as we need to secure more positions. Oh my, you want to put in more funds?”

Oh Seok-hoon’s mouth was about to reach his ears.

“No, not at all. How could there be anything impossible? It might be a bit late, but the more you put in, the more you’ll eat. Yes, yes, just put it in your account when you’re ready and let me know. I’ll buy it for you.”

-…

“Haha, President. Please praise me after you see the profits. We’ve been together for three years, so even if I can’t tell you this information, I’ll at least secure positions for you.”

In the life of a PB who was thoroughly at the bottom, there was only one chance to taste the position of being on top.

Thorough profits.

If you return the client’s money with definite profits, then you become a super “subordinate” above the superior.

Oh Seok-hoon was enjoying that moment right now.

“Yes, yes, I’ll contact you again. Take care.”

After ending the call, Oh Seok-hoon clenched his fist and smiled.

“It’s gone up 3% in the meantime? Seeing that clients know the information, it must be circulating quite a bit…”

Knock knock-

“Yes, come in.”

As Oh Seok-hoon spoke, the door opened and Dokyung entered the room.

“Why are you here?”

Oh Seok-hoon snapped as if dealing with an unwelcome guest.

“Assistant Manager Oh Seok-hoon, I have something to tell you.”

“Something to tell me? Didn’t we agree to see the results the market would show?”

“It’s something I need to tell you before those results come out.”

“Why? Is your stomach burning a bit now that Take Games is rising?”

Despite Oh Seok-hoon’s still-hostile attitude, which seemed unlikely to be swayed even if Dokyung shared the information he had gathered, Dokyung decided to speak.

This was something he had to do, not for Oh Seok-hoon’s sake, but to avoid regretting it later, no matter how things turned out.

“Actually…”

Dokyung began to tell Oh Seok-hoon everything he had figured out, but Oh Seok-hoon listened with an expression that suggested it made no sense.

“I think we should liquidate our clients’ positions even now. This is the last chance, sunbae.”

Dokyung emphasized his final words.

After pondering for a moment with a hardened expression, Oh Seok-hoon looked at Dokyung and curled up one corner of his mouth.

“Dokyung-ssi, that’s interesting.”

“Pardon?”

“I enjoyed your interesting deduction.”

“Assistant Manager!”

“Dokyung-ssi, I’ve been in this field for 6 years. Even if the situation is as you say, we can still sell when all the information is out and the stock price has risen.”

“It might not rise.”

“In the current situation, you don’t think it will rise when the coin news is buried?”

Of course, it would rise. It had to rise, given that the information thoroughly reflected everyone’s hopes.

But there was always that slim chance.

Even Take Games couldn’t announce this openly. That’s why they were leaking the information like this.

What if, in this situation, things didn’t flow as they intended? Rumors were like that, after all.

“Get out. I’ll handle this myself. Dokyung-ssi, just take care of your own clients.”

Dokyung couldn’t understand what had blinded Oh Seok-hoon’s eyes. But thinking he had done his duty, he looked at Oh Seok-hoon.

“It’s your choice, sunbae.”

“I said get out!”

At Oh Seok-hoon’s dismissal, Dokyung bowed his head in greeting and left his room.