At the usual Pyeongchang-dong dinner gathering, Jeong-eun brought several sheets of paper along, and before they'd even started eating, she handed them out to Tak-hyeon and her siblings and said,

"Take a look at this. Are these numbers even remotely reasonable? It's badly underperforming the market average."

Confirming that Tak-hyeon was looking carefully at the paper she'd brought, Jeong-eun secretly rejoiced and turned to Seong-ho.

"Just how exactly are you managing this stock investment?"

"Sis! Seong-ho is, in an official capacity, a company president in the Ilhyeon Group just like you!"

"Don't you nitpick over pointless forms of address."

Jeong-eun shot Gyeong-eun a sidelong glare, then turned back to shout at Seong-ho.

"Trading like that — what exactly do you intend to accomplish?"

"'Like that'? I'm not sure what you mean."

"You don't know what I mean? Ha."

Jeong-eun let out a scoffing laugh, as if it were absurd, and turned to Tak-hyeon.

"This is exactly why we're stuck with returns this poor in the current market. A market like this calls for bold investment. But when you invest so cautiously it's practically conservative, who's going to keep holding the Buy Korea fund? Everyone's going to quit."

Jeong-eun turned back to Seong-ho, who still hadn't said a word, and asked once more,

"Is the fund currently seeing inflows or outflows?"

"As of now, we're seeing net outflows."

"See, listen to that."

"But the fund's assets—"

"Ah, enough."

Jeong-eun cut off Seong-ho as he tried to continue his explanation.

"Who cares what the assets look like? What matters is whether the fund's capital is flowing in or flowing out."

Jeong-eun turned to Yeong-su Cha, seated beside her, and asked,

"Isn't that right? When I first took over Ilhyeon Card, I didn't worry about performance or transaction counts either — I only cared about the customer count."

Cha, glancing back and forth between Seong-ho and Jeong-eun with an awkward expression, nodded and said,

"Performance kept improving steadily, but the real measure was whether we could hit 10 million subscribers or not."

Having drawn the parallel to her own situation, Jeong-eun turned to…