Mr Hoo's characteristics in the beginning were sort of bad. He seemed like he was mad all the time and was sad that his restaurant wasn't having a lot of business. He always was yelling at Doug to go study. He seemed like a grumpy old man. In the end though he seems a lot nicer, it says he was bright and cheery. He has know reason to be mad, his son won 2 Olympic medals, and his business was doing great. My predictions were very close to being right. I predicted that James would get some money from the winner and start a new business. I was almost right because he did start a new business by selling innersoles, but he didn't have to borrow money. One other prediction I had was that James would move to China with his wife. I was wrong about that one, he never even brought her back to visit, when he promised her he would. My last prediction was that James would become very rich from his business, I was right about that one. His innersoles are being sold in Chicago, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, and New York.