CHAPTER XLII
Two months is enough time for a lot to happen.
On the larger side, the struggle between the conservatives and the liberal faction, which suddenly became fierce in August, has gradually become an open fact, and the public can clearly see through the media that the confrontation between the United Party and the Grand National Party is becoming increasingly severe, and the powder keg detonated by the "Pro-Japanese Property Investigation Committee" has led to an unprecedented unity of the conservatives, and they have continued to press on the Roh Moo-hyun government on the advantage of the victory in the local elections.
Some foreign media said that this is the conservatives in response to Park Jinhye's involvement in his father, hoping to reverse the impression of voters by showing weakness, because in the previous party candidate survey, Park Jinhye is the most promising representative of the Grand National Party, and she has an affinity that other candidates cannot match among the national group over 40 years old - that is the legacy of the "Han River miracle" in the Park Chung-hee era.
As early as May, during the local elections, the Grand National Party took advantage of the near-disfigurement of Park Kim Hye's attack to win the sympathetic votes of many middle voters, and finally defeated the liberal faction.
On a smaller scale, the political turmoil is not as far away as the public thinks, but it has actually affected various fields, the most representative of which is probably the final end of the JS war.
In the two months since J.H. and SK were mediated by the Blue House and held negotiations, the talk of the war has not diminished, on the contrary, its spread has expanded even more with the passage of time.
The first reason is naturally the legend of Ahn Joon-hyuk, the founder of J.H.
Back after the release of the first album. There are a large number of fans on the Internet who have dug up his private information, and there is naturally no detail, but some descriptions are enough for people to understand Ahn Junhyuk's past, such as growing up in a poor single-parent family, no prominent background, and no highly educated background.
However, such an "ordinary" person has completed the gorgeous counterattack of idol singers, actors, start-up entrepreneurs, and even the most popular ones through a series of "wars" to bring down IHQ and defeat SK. This makes the concerned people quite identify with him and have a desire to understand. Not to mention the boost from his fans.
In the past two months, you can see headlines such as "Ahn Jun-hyuk is in charge of Facebook, and the latest public statement is how, causing heated discussions in the US IT community" and so on. Among them, the reprinting of fans is indispensable.
For Park Hongji. own changes. It's probably the smallest aspect in the past two months.
There was not much sensation and no newspapers, and he left the newspaper where he worked. also resigned from a part-time job in the magazine, and the only wave left behind was probably that peers in the industry accidentally remembered that Park Hong, who was once famous in the economic field, seemed to have not seen him for a long time...... That's all, although the so-called "small fame" is a fact, it is mostly also a beautification of oneself.
Leaving newspapers and magazines is not that he is ready to leave the industry, on the contrary, in the past two months, Park Hongji, who has nothing to do, has devoted more energy to economic investigation and research, especially the Internet industry.
When he first reported the JS war, he found the similarities between the concept of triple play and Web 2.0 in the future, and it can be seen from the prediction and formulation of various experts that the future development of the Internet industry must be based on interaction. This gave him some ideas at the time, and later, Ahn Junhyuk took charge of Facebook in the United States, which deepened his judgment even more.
The future of the Internet industry is interaction.
Of course, the "interaction" mentioned here is in a broad sense, specifically subdivided into different fields, and has different concepts, and only from the Internet information industry, the so-called interaction, obviously is the user from readers, recipients, to creators, participants of the change-through interaction to achieve sharing, through sharing to achieve communication, through communication, so that everyone can become a news and information producer, become a new aggregation point, and no longer just passively accept the indoctrination of a small number of professionals - BBS and Blog services are at the beginning of this change, and they are starting to gain popularity.
The opportunity that Park sees is that there is no real Web 2.0 website in South Korea!
At present, the dominant online public opinion is still the portal website, the closest to the Blog service Cyworld, its existing model is also far from the interaction, and the function reflected is more to copy personal websites.
The inspiration for the opportunity came from a casual remark when he interviewed Ahn Joon-hyuk a few months ago:
"The real power of Web 2.0 lies in the fact that in its interaction mode, many new aggregation points will be spontaneously generated, continuously accumulated, and subdivided...... This in itself spontaneously subdivides the market and spontaneously breaks the monopoly pattern of the current Internet industry......"
He still remembered that when he said this, the young man's eyes flashed with grace and calmness in the faint light of the distant campfire.
This passage kept ringing in his mind later, about the current monopoly of the traditional Internet industry, of course, Park Hongjian has long been clear, in terms of portals, Naver, Nate, Daum, Yahoo South Korea The four giants have almost occupied all the share, in the field of search, Naver dominates, and Nate has Nate to crush everything.
Ordinary people only notice the glamour of these websites, but they do not notice that their dominance has made the market gap for new websites smaller and smaller, and it has also made Internet start-ups face more and more competitive pressure - the market is so big, they have finished the cake, and the new companies can only wait for death.
But Ahn Jun-hyuk obviously doesn't think this kind of rule is eternal, Park Hong gradually saw in his words the opportunity to expand the overall scale of the market, and this opportunity is a business opportunity!
He has many years of reporting experience in the field of finance, and his research on finance may not be high, but through his professional connections, he keeps in touch with many financial experts, and he can get their first-hand analysis and insights, and even make relevant comments himself...... There are so many advantages. For a few months, he kept thinking, why not seize the opportunity of this market segmentation?
Perhaps, he can also set up a Web 2.0 website, focus on finance, focus on interaction, use those advantages, attract high-income people who pay attention to finance, and include them in a new professional media founded by him!
In recent months. He's been busy with it. When a company is established, it is impossible to solve everything with ideas, and there are many troubles in implementation. Although the idea is not yet very mature, but for a few months. I also gradually recruited some like-minded friends. Like what. August, with whom he fought a few months ago.
But Park Hongjian also encountered one of the most difficult problems -
He lacks funds!
"A penny is hard to beat a hero!"
After another afternoon of charging, in the cramped rental room, Park Hong, who closed the book, gradually rubbed his brows. Leaning back in his chair slightly tiredly.
If you want to create a company, especially an Internet company, even if you solve the most important content production link through your own connections, but in terms of platform, the development and maintenance of the website still requires a lot of capital investment, and his idea is still a relatively new concept in China for the time being, and there is no basis for reference, so it is almost impossible to attract investment.
Park Hongji, who had no clue and had been distressed for a long time, was awakened from his contemplation by hunger after the most, looking at the time, it was already more than nine o'clock, the time was relatively late, he was single, and he was too lazy to cook by himself, so he called and ordered takeout, and on the way to wait, he turned on the TV and watched, and a piece of news attracted his attention.
"The latest news from Yonhap News Agency, the dispute between J.H and SK came to an end today thanks to the efforts of the Blue House!"
Huh? Negotiations are done?
Park Hong was stunned and immediately turned up the volume.
With the announcer's standard Seoul accent, the picture of frequent flashing fill lights began to appear on the screen.
Looking at which building should be near the National Assembly Square in the background, led by Moon Jae-in, the newly appointed head of the Cheong Wa Dae's secretariat, a familiar young man, and a somewhat chubby old man, are shaking hands with each other with a smile, and the announcer continues to report:
This is the second handshake between J.H CEO Ahn Joon-hyuk and SK Chairman Chey Tae-won after mediation and settlement in more than three months, and this conversation between the two sides also represents the end of the JS war that lasted for half a year. According to the analysis of relevant sources, the war between J.H and SK for half a year has caused direct or indirect economic losses of at least 90 billion won, and the former second largest consumer electronics brand in China, Fantai, has suffered a heavy blow as a result, and its market share has been repeatedly reduced in half a year, forcing the management of Fantai to split up some non-core businesses and subsidize losses. And it caused a crisis of confidence, but also endanger the entire electronics industry, the latest market research report shows that due to the bankruptcy of only Kai, the turmoil of the mobile phone manufacturing enterprises affected by the heavy blow of Pantai, the output value of the electronics industry continued to decline by 3 percentage points this month, the market value of 12 listed companies evaporated reached about 50 billion won, the entire Korean mobile phone is facing unprecedented trauma, in order to make up for the loss, represented by Pantai, the overseas market in addition to Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics is difficult to maintain, the remaining brands have been fully withdrawn, the territory developed in the past few years has been almost all destroyed, some trade union representatives said that the domestic mobile phone manufacturing industry has ushered in a cold winter……”
“…… Details of the talks between J.H and SK were not released, but an official from the Ministry of Information and Communications revealed that the talks ended with J.H's withdrawal from Pan-Thai and that Ahn Joon-hyuk's ambition to enter the electronics manufacturing industry appears to have come to an aborted ...... Some experts analyzed that in this war, J.H did not fully achieve its dominance over digital music, nor did he take over Pan-Thailand, and his strategic goals have been frustrated, and the loss may reach 20 billion won, and judging by the end time of the negotiations, Ahn Jun-hyuk returned from the United States two weeks ago, and it seems that it is only to settle the negotiations, and such an outcome may represent a bias on the Blue House......
However, some experts pointed out that J.H may have received some compensation from the Blue House, and just one day before the end of the negotiations, Ahn Joon-hyuk stepped down as CEO of J.H Entertainment and J.H Music, and the decision-making power of J.H Company was handed over to the board of directors dominated by the new company J.H Holdings, with Ahn Jun-hyuk as chairman, and on the afternoon of the same day, J.H Holdings issued a takeover offer to the online shopping site Gmarket, and according to reliable sources, the relevant authorities have approved the acquisition ......" (to be continued......