I hope AWARE can stay the course and keep going like this for a long time.

Youngsoo: Hello. I’m 46 years old, and my name is Youngsoo Park. I work as a public servant. I’ve been subscribing to AWARE ever since it first launched.

Youngsoo: I think I first found out about AWARE through CEO Ryunsu Sung’s Facebook. I had been following his posts even before AWARE started.

What really set AWARE apart for me was that most content out there tends to lean too theoretical or, on the flip side, overly intuitive and emotional. It’s usually skewed one way or the other, but AWARE feels very well-balanced. The perspective isn’t biased, and I felt the data is well integrated too. I’ve kept subscribing purely because I trust the CEO’s personal capabilities.

Youngsoo: Not at all. It didn’t feel burdensome to me. Some people might think it’s a bit pricey compared to other content out there, but AWARE has its own unique perspective that you don’t really find elsewhere, so I don’t feel like I’m wasting my money at all.

Youngsoo: These days there’s a lot of Naver Premium Content, so I’ve tried some of that, and I’ve also followed blogs that analyze export data or technical indicators. They each have their strengths, but the more I read them, the more I felt, “This is something I could probably do myself.”

With AWARE, to give a recent example, there was a piece pointing out that a certain stock seemed to be pulling ahead in the AI market. You might get a hint of that from looking at the financial statements, but I think you also need to actually use the service, understand the technology, and have other capabilities as well. There are almost no articles that can cover all of that with a fresh, younger sensibility and original insight, and I really liked that AWARE does this.

Youngsoo: No, not at all. The only thing I felt a bit unsure about was when you recently replaced a stock in the model portfolio. I got the sense that it might have reflected some subscriber dissatisfaction with the stock’s weak performance. Since AWARE’s philosophy is to look to the future and hold growth stocks for the long term, I do worry a little about whether that philosophy might get shaken.

Youngsoo: Not really. I basically follow the AWARE model portfolio as a reference and hold the same names. The only difference is… I set my own valuation ranges and plug them into Excel. So if I feel a stock has gone above the value I’m aiming for, I partially take profits. I use AWARE’s picks as a reference, but I adjust the detailed weightings myself. But overall, I follow the direction AWARE suggests.

Youngsoo: This is something I keep emphasizing, but even though I don’t understand stocks as deeply as people like CEO Sung or Sungwoo, I’ve been investing since college for a long time, so I’ve come to really feel that there’s this almost indescribable kind of insight that’s incredibly important.

I think the real strength is in being able to read the market, and there are very few people who can actually do that. But when I read the posts on AWARE, I feel like that kind of insight is there, which I really like. It’s something you can only understand through experience, so I’m not sure how to put it into words, but I just hope AWARE doesn’t get shaken by anything and keeps going like this for a long time.