1988: Back to the human world for a few years

Chapter 89 Father and Daughter (1)

(Let’s see if it can be published this time)
a week later.

Dongying, Xicheng, a residential area.

"Father."

As a middle-aged man with slightly gray hair on his temples pushed the door open, Mu Liya, who was chatting and laughing with her mother in the corner of the living room, stood up and the expression on her face quickly returned to her usual cold expression.

Hearing this respectful yet slightly unfamiliar address, Mu Siyuan's eyes wavered a little. He looked at his daughter, who looked a little exhausted, and then shifted his gaze to the thick file bag on the coffee table. In the end, he just nodded and said, "Come to my study."

"Yes."

Mu Liya responded politely, bent down, picked up the file bag, and followed her father.

………………

Two hours later.

Mu Siyuan put down the thick stack of documents in his hand and looked at his daughter with a hint of suspicion in his eyes.

He naturally knew the purpose of his daughter's trip. He originally thought that what would be handed to him would be a complete and detailed plan report, but he never expected that the document in his hand, which was at least more than 70 pages long and covered with dense numbers and annotations, was just a rough deduction outline.

This was very unexpected, so unexpected that it was... a little creepy for those who know the subject.

This means that this outline, which took only a week to compile, has a relatively complete logic tree.
The densely packed numbers and annotations mean that this logic tree is not imagined out of thin air based on wishful thinking, but has a very rigorous and self-consistent basis for deduction.

To be honest, such a deduction outline of more than 50,000 words should at least appear in the research/project establishment work of a large industrial project.

And now...

Thinking of this, Mu Siyuan looked at his daughter with a hint of approval in his eyes: "Xiaoya, although I think it's a bit of an overkill to make such a detailed deduction for a small foreign trade project...but I'm very happy that you have the awareness of the eagle fighting the rabbit with all its strength."

Since she was a child, she has rarely received praise from her father. However, Mu Liya's expression did not fluctuate much. She just shook her head slightly and said, "In the past, I didn't think that an ordinary foreign trade project was worth such a big fuss... But now I understand that we have suffered so much in the past few years, purely because of our own fault!"

Looking at her father calmly, Mu Liya said with a hint of sarcasm: "I remember my father taught me since I was a child that planning is the key to success, otherwise it will lead to failure... Oh, when I think about it carefully, making decisions based on intuition is so ridiculous and dangerous."

How could Mu Siyuan not know that his own daughter was DISSing him?

His eyebrows twitched, and he was about to use his father's authority to scold him sternly, but when his eyes swept across the thick stack of documents, he fell silent again.

The words "We have suffered so much in the past few years, it's all our own fault" hurt him deeply... Of course he knew who the "we" his daughter was referring to.

Taking a deep breath, Mu Siyuan's temperament suddenly turned cold. He picked up the stack of documents again and flipped through them. He said in a rational and calm voice: "I won't go into the details. There are many important reasoning bases in this outline that I don't quite understand... Xiaoya, can you explain it to me?" Mu Liya adjusted her sitting posture and nodded gently: "Okay!"

Mu Siyuan pondered for a moment: "First, there are only three countries in Northeast Asia. The economic prosperity of the island countries is well known to the world, but why does this outline put forward the inference that [the short-term market looks at the island countries, and the growth market looks at South Korea]?"

Mu Liya's expression was calm: "Because according to the PEST analysis, although both regions have serious defects in the macro business environment, compared with South Korea, which has just stepped onto the highway, the island country has already reached its peak, and there are undoubtedly many more variables in the short term!"

At this point, Mulia pointed to a model on the front page of the document and explained: "The island country is a tiny country, but its GDP has reached 70% of that of the United States. Given its unique international role, this is undoubtedly an extremely dangerous signal."

“When a region’s politics lacks autonomy but begins to conflict with the interests of its own emperor, the consequences can be imagined… In fact, since the Plaza Accord, the island nation’s increasing trade deficit with the United States and its increasingly obvious characteristics of moving away from the real economy and toward the virtual economy also prove this point.”

"But South Korea does not have this problem for the time being. Although their international role is very similar to that of island countries, their GDP and industrial influence are unlikely to threaten a certain emperor in the short term... In addition, the United States has been continuously transferring its manufacturing industries to South Korea in the past two years, including many mid-to-high-end manufacturing industries originally undertaken by island countries. Looking back and learning from the post-war economic development history of island countries, the significance of this is self-evident."

Mu Siyuan nodded. Although this was the first time he heard of the PEST model, his daughter's judgment was similar to the conclusion they reached.

After thinking for a while, Mu Siyuan turned to the second page and asked a question that really puzzled him: "Why are there such big differences in the sustainable foreign trade projects defined for the two regions in this document?"

"For South Korea, the scope of definition is mainly labor-intensive foreign trade products such as textiles, raw materials, furniture, and ceramics;"

"And for island countries, they are mainly food, Chinese medicine, pet products, household products, beauty products, fitness products, industrial spare parts and other products? And they believe that if there are excellent products, IP cultural and creative products have great potential for involvement?"

After reading the two lines of words on the document, Mu Siyuan frowned: "The cultures of these two regions are very similar, and their economies are also very developed, but why are the definitions of sustainable foreign trade products so different?"

Mu Liya looked at him calmly: "Because there is a huge difference in the current per capita GDP between the two countries!"

Mu Siyuan frowned, not understanding what this meant.

Mu Liya smiled and said, "In my father's eyes, both the island country and South Korea are much more developed than our country, and both belong to the Confucian cultural circle. Therefore, you wishfully think that the situation in these two regions is similar... But in fact, from a business perspective, these two regions are completely incomparable!"

After giving her father a light DISS, Mu Liya took out a delicate notebook from her canvas bag and opened it: "As of last year, that is, 1988, calculated in constant US dollars (this book is based on the international purchasing power of the US dollar in 2015), South Korea's per capita GDP was 8119 US dollars... The overall business trend is in a state of coexistence of [struggle + enjoyment], and the people's ethnic consciousness has begun to awaken and gradually entered a sensitive period... Remember these words, it's very important."

"If we compare a country to a person, South Korea is currently at the intersection of the second and third levels of needs in Mazlow's need theory... that is, the stage where [security needs] and [emotional belonging needs] coexist;"

"This makes the people in South Korea emotionally unwilling to accept cultural symbols and products from [low-level ecological niches]... They are constrained by geographical conditions, their domestic market is small and resources are scarce, and their economy is heavily dependent on imports and exports... This makes them present a bipolar characteristic of importing low-value products and basic raw materials from low-level ecological niches, while enjoying and value-added products are imported from high-level ecological niches."

After thinking for a while, Mu Liya concluded: "Have you seen those nouveau riche who have been poor for a long time and suddenly become rich? They can't wait to show off by hanging all over their bodies with branded clothes when they have a little money... The business atmosphere there is almost like this impetuous one."

upstart?
Hearing his daughter's rather harsh description, Mu Siyuan's mouth twitched: "What about the island country?"

(End of this chapter)