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Race King Um Bok-dong.
A 2019 release already generating serious buzz.
And the stock market was no different.
The company behind it was listed on the KOSDAQ, after all.
[Rough screenshot of 50% gains]
At first, nobody cared.
A movie?
It simply didn't register with investors.
₩20,500 ▲₩15,450 (+305.94%)
The stock price was exploding.
Even the disinterested suddenly found themselves paying attention.
The holy trinity of Korean box-office cheat codes.
And all three are stacked in one movie?
It literally cannot fail.
The reasoning.
Once you heard it, it actually sounded plausible.
The rising stock price suddenly made sense.
How big would the movie hit? How much money would it print?
Paran-Domi market cap = ₩350 billion
Projected profit from 10 million viewers = ₩130 billion
PER under 3, lmao
For reference, content stocks average 20–30
Analysis posts flooded the communities.
They lit a fire under investor sentiment.
The fantasy that the price would keep climbing.
This was the exact process of a theme stock being born.
"Stock Gallery psy-ops complete!"
"Femco psy-ops complete!"
"What about the stock discussion boards?"
"Those didn't even need psy-ops."
Of course none of it was coincidence.
The Illicit Stock Manipulators used every trick in the book to drive the price higher.
With material this good, it's literally free money lying on the floor.
One of those tricks.
Jang Seon-young, CEO of Big Ant Capital, knew the playbook cold.
This wasn't his first rodeo.
He knew exactly how to herd retail capital into a frenzy.
They were stoking pure FOMO.
That gnawing anxiety that if you didn't buy right now, you'd miss everything.
I can't sleep from the regret of not buying back then
Psy-ops.
Analysis.
Mockery.
Every angle possible to make people desperate to buy.
And the ones who thought they were too smart to fall for it?
They were the ones who bought at the absolute worst moment.
Movie hit? Agreed.
Still cheap? Also agreed.
But the chart is in a dangerous zone right now, that's what I'm saying!
I'll scoop it up in the 10,000-won range
Because they thought they understood the stock's value.
They never once imagined they were dancing exactly to the manipulators' tune.
"Is the operation going well?"
"Have I ever disappointed you, boss?"
"Haha! Silly question."
That was the operation.
It was never easy work.
Even with every dirty trick in the arsenal.
The guy running the actual business has to deliver.
Everything hinged on the material.
Good material made the pump easy and glued the retail investors on like iron filings to a magnet.
In that sense, he had the perfect partner.
Park Gwang-jae, CEO of Paran-Domi Entertainment.
"Paran Bio…… ah, excuse me! It's Entertainment now, isn't it?"
"The era of peddling miracle drugs is over."
"You made the perfect pivot~."
Movie investment was just the latest signboard.
He simply switched the company into whatever business would juice the stock price at any given moment.
He really does have a talent for picking things that are easy to control the price of.
You didn't need actual results for a stock to move.
Pure expectation was more than enough.
Biotech was the classic example.
Even after the Baekjezen scandal had shredded public trust.
"Just keep any noise from leaking until opening day. I'm a little worried about how the press screening went……"
"You can stop worrying right now."
"Meaning?"
"I've already greased every palm that needed greasing."
He had manufactured yet another piece of material.
It was so well-crafted that even Jang Seon-young himself almost bought the hype.
Business genius. Absolute genius.
He inflated expectations to the sky.
A movie starring world-famous K?
Of course it became a topic.
Even if the reality was nothing but an empty husk.
"Every industry has them. People who make a living watching the room and reading the vibes."
"Ahh~!"
"I asked them for some nice articles."
"You're quite the operator yourself, boss."
"Haha, as the company's CEO I'm simply doing my best to support the stock price."
A proper film.
He had never made one.
He had no intention of ever making one.
Not my problem.
The only question that mattered was whether it worked as material.
Just like biotech stocks rocketed the moment they claimed they had a miracle drug.
"Time for us to start doing our part as well."
"What part?"
"Starting tomorrow I'll mobilize the analysts and vacuum up every last retail investor. Boss, you just sit tight and guard the shares."
Park Gwang-jae was playing his role perfectly.
The rest was on Jang Seon-young.
He knew more ways to manipulate a stock price than he could count.
A score this size is worth throwing the entire company's resources at.
News and analysts.
Two levers to jack up buying pressure.
Shake the price up and down to lure the retail crowd in.
Big Ant Capital had this process down to a science.
He had been certain it would be a flawless operation.
"Boss!"
"You little shit, can't you see I'm on the phone?"
"Th-there's a huge problem! There's a crazy woman!"
"What?"
An unexpected spoiler had appeared.
Movies.
She already knew that taste was subjective.
A film that is pure garbage to one person
could be someone else's life-changing masterpiece.
You weren't supposed to casually trash a work of art.
"I didn't get the invite myself. An oppa I know got invited and brought me along."
Still, her mouth was itching to speak.
The Um Bok-dong Sora had just watched was pure garbage.
You couldn't even call it a matter of taste.
The film's quality.
It was clumsy in almost every department.
She couldn't find a single thing worth praising.
"They said they spent 15 billion won so I went in with expectations. But the CG didn't even look natural, and before that I couldn't even tell what they were trying to say. It's not really an independence-movement film and it's not really a sports film either, so the theme just feels muddy……"
Whether it would flop or not was beyond her ability to judge.
That wasn't her place to decide.
But one thing was certain.
She had only meant to tell people not to get their hopes too high.
The chat exploded.
Because the company was actually listed.
Shut this bitch down!
That was the order.
The moment the report reached him, Jang Seon-young launched an immediate public-opinion war.
To make sure she never opened her mouth about it again.
However she had managed to get into that press screening.
He could not allow the board to be ruined.
He threw his employees into the chat and flipped the narrative.
Do you have any idea how much this operation is worth?!
It wasn't even hard.
All they had to do was make her realize her imagination was wrong.
Psy-ops, analysis, mockery.
He had assumed one little girl would be trivial to control.
"I'm only saying this because I'm worried. The stock has shot up so much in such a short time, right? If the box office underperforms, the price can crash right back down."
Her convictions were solid.
Sora had zero intention of folding her opinion.
Fucking bitch.
She had seen it with her own eyes.
Every word she had spoken on stream had been carefully filtered.
Paran-Domi was a pure pump-and-dump stock.
She had only spoken up because she didn't want her viewers to get wrecked.
"Ah…… is that so?"
The mockery kept pouring in.
Her anger climbed higher and higher.
Her nipples were hard enough to cut glass.
Click. Clack!
Words alone never landed.
As an investor she already knew that.
Even if I take the loss myself.
She wanted that pump-and-dump stock, those manipulators, completely fucked.
She turned her conviction into action.
Short sell order has been filled!
She did exactly what her nipples told her to do.