Just as Zhou Hao had predicted, the Korean stock market plunged in mid-November, even to the point of plunging in the water.
However, what Zhou Hao said was right. The Korean people always had a blind faith in their country, even when the stock market plummeted, they still did not let go of the stocks in their hands.
As for those who held stock index futures contracts, they also let Zhou Hao, who was short on money, take a large amount of it from their hands.
At the same time as the stock market plummeted, Korea's currency market, due to its unreasonable economic structure, finally triggered all of its hidden troubles due to the financial crisis.
On November 17, the won fell to a record 1,008-1 against the dollar, and the government had to ask the International Monetary Fund for help to contain the crisis temporarily.
Many people thought that the currency crisis in South Korea was under control, or at least that it would not worsen, and South Korean shareholders were confident that the country would pull itself together and not lose its reputation as the head of the four Asian countries.
However, under the anticipation of tens of thousands of people, on the thirteenth of December, the Han Yuan collapsed completely. The exchange rate against the United States dollar plummeted to 1737.60 to 1, matching with the history of Zhou Hao's memories.
Just as the Korea Yuan exchange rate fell to its lowest point ever, Zhou Hao returned all of the Korea Yuan that he had borrowed from the Korean Bank back.
Of course, compared to the time when Zhou Hao was borrowing money before, the value of the Korean dollar had dropped by half.
At that time, Zhou Hao borrowed roughly eight billion Hong Kong dollars from the Korean Bank, which was one billion dollars.
But now, the Korea Yuan had lost half its value. The 800 billion won that was originally worth a billion US dollars was only worth 500 million US dollars now. Which is to say, Zhou Hao only needed to repay 500 million US dollars.
This operation on Korea, just on the foreign exchange market alone, Zhou Hao had earned close to a billion dollars, and on the Korean stock market, Zhou Hao had also earned a billion dollars.
Back then, Zhou Hao had invested 12 billion Hong Kong dollars in Korea, but now, he had earned almost 20 billion Hong Kong dollars.
However, Zhou Hao knew George. After the Asian financial crisis, although Soros's name had become even more famous, but he had also found hatred in almost the entire Asia.
Many of the Mafia, which had suffered heavy losses in the financial turmoil, also took to the air.
If not for the protection from the United States, George would never have escaped. Soros had died a long time ago.
Although Zhou Hao looked down upon Korea from the bottom of his heart, a rabbit would still bite if forced to do so. At that time, if the Koreans were to find out that he had played a supporting role in their economic crisis, they might not be able to do anything.
The office on one level of the Hong Kong Plaza was the temporary headquarters of the "Galaxy Investment Corporation".
Including the owner of the Plaza, no one would have thought that in this office, there was such a "Galaxy Investment Company" that had created over ten billion dollars in profit within a year.
Previously, since the "Galaxy Investment Company" did not provide external services, nor did it recruit customers for investment, the staff inside had to busy themselves with the daily operation of the computer.
The Real Estate Management Office in the Plaza saw an investment company like this, but did not engage in any investment business. They even thought that this was a criminal enterprise that laundered money, even reporting it to the police.
In the end, it was Zeng Yingpei who helped "Xinghe" to clarify this matter, and did not make this matter public.
So it was known that, until now, the ordinary citizens of Hong Kong and the people of the financial world had no idea that there was an investment company hidden here that was famous throughout the world.
At this time, in the offices of the "Galaxy Investment Company", Song Jiahao, Willie Worth and many of the employees were celebrating. The air was filled with the thick smell of champagne and some colored paper used for celebration.
"Come, let's toast to the success of this' Korean strategy '!" Song Jiahao raised the champagne in his hand high up.
"Cheers!" Willie Worth and many employees also raised their wine cups.
Song Jiahao laughed and said to everyone: "Boss said, the success of this mission depends entirely on everyone's combined efforts, thus he decided to give out thirty million of the rewards from this mission, as the reward for our work!"
"Yea!"
Hearing this news, all the employees present, regardless of whether they were male or female, started screaming in excitement. Since the company had a total of sixty employees, if they were divided evenly, each person would receive almost half a million dollars in bonuses.
Not only that, they had invested their money in Korea along with the company, and now that they were in the palace, they made two to three times the profits.
Although they are just ordinary employees at the "Galaxy Investment Company", they are now richer than the executives of the big companies in Hong Kong.
Especially Song Jiahao and Willie Worth, the two of them most likely already had a taste of ten million dollars.
Therefore, they had already made up their minds to follow "Xinghe" and Zhou Hao.
"Where's the boss? Is he still in China?" a British female employee asked in Chinese that she wasn't very familiar with.
Zhou Hao's operation team contained a lot of financial elites of different nationalities, and because Zhou Hao had displayed such a great talent in the past year, his prediction of the stock market was extremely accurate. They didn't know, and didn't believe in the fact of being reborn, so they thought Zhou Hao had used his analysis to deduce the direction of the stock market.
They were the elite in this area, so they naturally knew how complicated and difficult it was to predict the direction of the stock market. They needed to calculate a large amount of information and data.
Yet Zhou Hao was still a youth who wasn't even twenty years old, and was such a youth, yet was able to complete such a large amount of analytical work. Therefore, no one in the company looked down on Zhou Hao because of his age. On the contrary, they all admired him.
They were all wondering what kind of culture was needed to nurture such a genius. Therefore, their worship of Zhou Hao triggered their curiosity and admiration of Chinese culture. Eventually, many people started to learn Chinese and Chinese culture.
Song Jiahao laughed at the female staff: "That's right, the boss still has some matters to attend to at home, so he won't be coming over.
However, in order to reward you all, he has already booked a room at the Peninsula Hotel. Tonight, everyone can enjoy it as much as they want. All the expenses will be reimbursed by the company. "
Everyone burst into cheers when they heard this. A male American employee added, "Speaking of which, the boss is the most amazing financial genius I've ever seen.
I used to be at George. Soros's Quantum Fund had worked before, but even the shrewd and scheming George had never been able to predict the stock market so accurately like his boss.
Back then, George had all the analysts in the company work day and night for two months in order to gather all the pounds before he finally figured out the financial situation in the UK. That was a top analyst that George had recruited from all over the world with a lot of money.
However, the boss was able to do it alone, it's really unbelievable. "
"That's right, the boss is much better than any hype I've ever seen." Willie Worth, who was standing in front of the window, lightly took a sip of his wine, "Even if it's Julian, the one who's called 'Tiger' in the financial world. I'm afraid Robeson cannot compare to him. "
Willie Worth was a German man who was around 30 years old. Although he had pure German blood, he was of American nationality. When Zhao Yuqin established the "Galaxy Investment company" for Zhou Hao, he found Willie Worth through a headhunter company abroad.
According to the internationally renowned headhunter's introduction, Willie Worth was a rising star on New York's Wall Street.
And Willie Worth's financial capabilities were just as the headhunter said, he and Song Jiahao were the two most outstanding players in the "Stellar River".
But he was different from Song Jiahao, Willie Worth was still single, and he had someone who was extremely handsome, so he was the company's most popular diamond king other than Zhou Hao.
"Right, have you guys seen the local Korean news?" Suddenly, a French female employee said: "A lot of people who went bankrupt in the stock market jumped to their deaths, including executives from some big companies.
Although we are not the main cause of this financial crisis, we have also contributed to it, and I feel a little uneasy. "
Willie Worth sneered, and then said indifferently: "I advise you to stop being so merciful, in terms of financial operations, it is not really about morality, it is just an operation, the financial markets do not belong to the category of ethics, morals do not exist here, because financial markets have their own rules of the game."
He looked at the many employees in the company. "We are participants in the financial markets. We will play this game according to the rules we have set. We will not violate these rules, so we need not feel guilty or responsible.
In terms of this financial storm, even if we don't do anything, it will happen. "
If Zhou Hao was present, he would definitely be extremely surprised, because what Willie Worth had said was after the Asian financial crisis of his previous life. Soros said the same thing to the media.
Willie Worth said: "Moreover, just like what the boss said, if those Koreans did not have their ridiculous so-called national confidence, if they did not hold onto the shares tightly, how could they have ended up like this.
In the words of the boss, those Korean Koreans aren't worth being pitied for! "