Chapter One Hundred and Five
"JS Wars Escalate!"
On the night of May 28, when people who had studied and worked all day finally took time out of their leisure time to browse the content they were interested in, they were shocked to find that all portals were hung with similar headlines in bold and enlarged headlines.
"J.H Company held a press conference, and J.H President Ahn Jun-hyuk read out three important messages on the spot, revealing that J.H Company has submitted an Anti-Monopoly Investigation Application to the Ministry of Information and Communications, the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy, and the Fair Trade Commission together with SM and YG, and made an important decision to remove the three companies' music sources from Melon ......"
"The J.H &SidusHQ war has escalated rapidly, and since SidusHQ applied for an investigation into J.H's market disruption, J.H Company, which has been silent for four days, has sacrificed lethal weapons and launched an anti-monopoly war!"
"SKT is involved in the whirlpool of JS wars, J.H issued three important statements, pointing the spearhead directly at the main supporters behind the opponent, and the war between the old and new companies in the entertainment industry is heating up rapidly!"
One report after another, all of them are telling one thing - the JS war, which was more of an entertainment talk before, finally made a move on behalf of J.H Company, and if it doesn't hit, it's a blockbuster!
The rapid development of the incident caught people off guard, and many netizens who saw these reports were still stuck in the media comments that kept singing about the decline in the past two days as J.H was silent for more and more time, and the result was only half a day, and the wind suddenly turned around.
What the hell is going on?
People didn't have to wait long, not long after the portal published the relevant article. Naver, which has always been the fastest response in the industry, sorted out the relevant information and published a more detailed explanation article.
The article first reviews the initial causes and background of the JS war, and then analyzes:
"Looking back on the development of the past few days, J.H company has been passive in the initial face of SidusHQ's accusation of disrupting the market, as early as the investigation team stationed in J.H company, there are relevant professionals on the network to analyze, J.H in the face of SidusHQ's profit advantage because of SKT stationed and completely lost, but also made it generally not optimistic in the JS war. Ahn Jun-hyuk apparently discovered this problem as well, so during the silent period when many media outlets sang about it. He convinced SM and YG. We don't have any definite information yet on how he persuaded Lee so-man, Kim Young-min, Yang Hyun-suk, and others. But through today's counterattack, we can see that J.H is not unprepared, on the contrary, it is extremely well prepared......"
“…… Ahn Joon-hyuk in the free questioning time after reading out the three messages. Evidence of his lawsuit against SKT was shown to the media on the spot. In particular, the monopoly complaint against Melon. Ahn Jun-hyuk said that the Melon application software developed by SKT cannot support the download interface of online audio source websites such as Mnet and Bugs. This is an extremely domineering and exclusive behavior, SKT has led unfair competition with its dominant position in the mobile field, not only to the detriment of the interests of other platforms, but also to the interests of content providers due to monopoly, as well as the user's right to choose, it is forcing users to use and only use its services, which is against the spirit of fair trade......"
“…… The bundled software of SKT contract machine is also the highlight of the anti-monopoly war, An Junhyuk showed reporters a variety of built-in software of SKT contract machine, he said, many built-in software of SKT contract machine are associated with SKT-related value-added services, but in fact, many value-added services are aimed at specific groups, such as beauty push, business push, News push, etc., even if these services are not used by users, because of bundling and software background operation, they continue to consume users' pre-stored fees, which is equivalent to users paying for products that they cannot use......"
"After the press conference, we consulted with a number of professional bodies, and many experts said that the requests submitted by J.H were very specific because they were precedent. Microsoft, the world's world-class Windows operating system giant, was finally fined a huge amount of money in the anti-monopoly case that year because of its bundling of software and not supporting compatibility with other operating systems, and opened up part of the compatible information source code. Although the two cases are not comparable in scale and impact, the ultimate goal is to prevent abuse of market dominance, and in view of this, the expert also said that the Ministry of Information and Communications and the Fair Trade Commission are likely to accept the two investigation applications!"
As soon as the report was issued, it set off a violent earthquake on the entire Internet, causing widespread discussion among netizens, and people everywhere participated in the message boards of relevant news pages, entertainment and financial communities, after a short period of stunned.
Subsequently, KBS, MBC, SBS and other satellite TV stations Nine Point News also cited this article one after another, reporting on J.H's antitrust war against SKT.
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"Smack!"
Zheng Xuntuo, who received an emergency call from the company's propaganda department and hurried back to the company, just pushed open the door of the conference room, and a water cup smashed at his feet, and the splashed glass shards and water splashed all over the ground.
The conference room was already full of SidusHQ executives, including even some of SidusFHN's executives, such as Cha Seung-jae and others.
The entire conference room was silent, Cui Yongheng, who was in the first place, had a gloomy expression, water droplets were dripping on his hands, and his already small eyes were squinting at this time, and anger flickered in them, making his expression distorted and cold.
"Which of you will tell me what to do now?"
Everyone looked at each other, they were also stunned by J.H's anti-monopoly combination punch, yesterday the company was still looking at the media's ridiculed articles, privately laughing at J.H company for not doing its own power, but today, Ahn Junhyuk pointed the sword at SKT's behavior, directly escalating the war to the extent that they can't control it, now, what is their best way, the only choice is just to watch at a loss!
Cui Yongheng's expression became more and more gloomy, looking at his expression, he hesitated for a moment, and an executive whispered: "The top priority now is to notify SKT as soon as possible, and ask SKT to take the lead in handling this matter before the scale of public opinion continues to expand......
Before he finished speaking, Cui Yongheng grabbed a pen and threw it over, and then the whole person jumped up, grabbing the document casually and smashing it over there, while roaring angrily: "This is your suggestion? I don't know if things are out of control? Ah? I still use you to teach? I pay you tens of millions of wages a month, just listen to you and say that there is nothing you can do? Why don't you die, go to death! Fuck!"
Cui Yongheng, who was embarrassed to dodge left and right, and his emotions were completely broken, so that others did not dare to come close at all, and dodged away one after another, lest he be affected by the pond fish.
Compared with their embarrassment, several executives of SidusFHN, who were cowering in the corner and far away from Cui Yongheng, watched the excitement calmly because they would not be affected.
Although there is still a sign of IHQ 2 headquarters, FHN has actually been expelled from the core of IHQ, and since Choi Yongheng joined the board of directors, the management meeting has canceled their right to speak, and the failure of the administrative struggle has made the two sides almost enemies, which is a joke of course.
Cha Seung-jae was also watching from the sidelines.
IHQ was founded by him, and no one was more bitter and angry than him when he was invaded and kicked out of management by SKT Capital, so no one was more disappointed than him when he saw J.H blatantly targeting SidusHQ, but continued to remain silent after SidusHQ launched a counterattack against him.
But even he didn't expect that J.H's counterattack was so sharp and bold, and he didn't hesitate to burn the fire of war on SKT's body.
Not to mention what J.H suddenly stabbed at SidusHQ, at least from the perspective of market rules and reason, it is completely passive in the face of SidusHQ's accusation of disrupting the market, and it is very likely that the Performing Artists Association and the Cultural Promotion Agency will judge J.H to disrupt the market, accept SidusHQ's application, and ban Ahn Junhyuk himself indefinitely, this result is determined by the huge difference in the backgrounds of the two- Compared to SidusHQ, which is backed by SKT, J.H is really too small to mention.
However, when he successfully united SM and YG to apply for an antitrust investigation and slammed down the high-ranking SKT, the passive situation faced by J.H suddenly became clear, and in the foreseeable future, SKT's main attention will be focused on dealing with the antitrust case, and it will no longer be able to provide assistance to SidusHQ.
But......
Cha Seungjae frowned, although he privately admired Ahn Junhyuk's methods, but this response was not without a price, after J.H submitted the anti-monopoly application, although he could reverse the decline in public opinion, he also had to face direct pressure from SKT!
If he can't withstand SKT's next counterattack, J.H will still usher in a catastrophe, but the time will be delayed for the time being!
To sum up, the sacrifice of anti-monopoly is a big killer, which only alleviates the speed of J.H's demise, and if there is no better follow-up response plan, J.H still can't escape the fate of accepting sanctions!
Of course, these considerations were just his knee-jerk analysis, and he was neither a J.H. man, nor would he be happy to see SidusHQ deflated.
No matter what the future holds, at least for now, he can happily see that the first "prince" who kicked him out of the board of directors a few months ago and deprived him of all his hard work was embarrassed and embarrassed by being slapped hard - even if he used his ass to think about Cha Seung-jae, he could guess that the reason why this prince was mad here and scolded with all his demeanor must be because of J.H's actions, which made him angry with his father Choi Tae-won.
The Cui family is not only his sister-in-law...... (To be continued......)