At a Korean BBQ in Koreatown last night.
A little girl, maybe six, was sitting at the next table with her halmoni.
She was refusing to eat her galbi.
I assumed she was a picky eater.
Her grandmother sighed and offered her japchae instead.
She refused that too.
Then I overheard what she was actually upset about.
"Halmoni, the chaebol discount is structural. Why does Samsung Electronics trade at 9 times earnings when it dominates global memory?"
I froze.
She pulled out a placemat covered in calculations. Price-to-book ratios for every company in the KOSPI 200.
Circled in red crayon: anything trading below 0.7.
Her grandmother muttered something about cross-shareholdings.
The girl slammed her chopsticks down. "The Value-up Program is real this time, Halmoni. The National Pension Service is voting against bad governance. Activist funds are circling Hyundai Motor."
A waiter walked by. She stopped him.
"Excuse me. Do you know if Korea has been upgraded to developed market status by MSCI yet?"
The waiter did not know.
She nodded grimly and wrote something on her napkin. It said: "PATIENCE."
Her grandmother finally got her to eat by promising to open a brokerage account that supports KRX listings.
I asked the girl her name.
She looked up from her ssamjang.
"Lee. Lee Jae-yong."
But then she added, "The good one. The one who actually returns capital to minority shareholders."
I rotated 15 percent of my portfolio into Korean preferred shares before the kimchi stew arrived.
Trading at a 40 percent discount to commons.
Greatest dinner of my emerging-markets-deep-value career.
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