Chapter 8: Gao Yaotai

On the day of the Lantern Festival, Li Shenglin and Han Xue had a phone call, greeting the Han family on the phone. chatted with Han Xue's mother for a long time, and was instructed by the old man of the Han family to end the call. went home and had a meal with the old man, and then returned to his house.

Lee Seung-rim returned to South Korea this time to buy a house for himself, near the Cheonggyecheon River in Seoul, and he knew that it would not be long before Lee Myung-bak became mayor of Seoul, and in less than a year, the Cheonggye Elevated Road was completely demolished in July 2003. After two years and three months, the restoration project was carried out, and in October 2005, 5.84 kilometers of clear Cheonggyecheon spring water was restored to the citizens of Seoul.

Lee Seung-rim did not comment on this project, believing that Lee Myung-bak was more interested in serving the people for this political achievement, but in any case, this is also a good thing for both worlds.

After the New Year, Baek Sang-hiko used his connections to recall some friends who had left LT Company. Bai Xiangyan asked Li Shenglin's opinion before, the company needs to develop, Li Shenglin waved his hand and said that the company that was willing to come back would definitely not treat them badly, and Bai Xiangyan was relieved.

The recruitment is mainly based on Bai Xiangyan, and Li Shenglin participates in the whole process, and he has to know more about the Korean brokerage company Bai Xiangyan, and Li Shenglin follows him to learn. Bai Xiangyan has no opinion on this, but he knows the taste of being a subordinate.

The company's expansion is still progressing steadily, and Baek Sang-yan is not making a big splash, and he is constantly absorbing talents in accordance with Li Shenglin's instructions. Baek Sang-yan asked Lee Seung-rim about his plans, and Lee Seung-rim didn't have to hide it from him, and directly told him that he wanted to separately package the soon-to-be-disbanded Fin.K.L captain Lee Hyo-ri.

is very familiar with Lee Hyo-ri and Baek Sang-yan, who had left the DSP company when Lee Hyo-ri debuted, but he still cherished the excellent trainees in the company as an artist reserve army. It's a pity that things are impermanent, and after Baek Sang-hi and Lee Yeon-ho, who were expected to succeed as president, tripped up, they were also opponents with DSP.

When Fin.K.L debuted, Baek Sang-hi still paid a lot of attention, and at that time, he also thought about cultivating his own girl group by taking advantage of the general trend, and he almost debuted last year. Bai Xiangyan put almost all his efforts and resources on this girl group that has not yet debuted, but unfortunately it was poached by Li Yanhao in the early stage of his debut, and this girl group that has not yet debuted directly announced its disbandment.

Li Shenglin asked Baek Sang-yan about the reason for leaving the DSP company, but Baek Sang-yan didn't elaborate, but he knew that the reason for leaving was related to Lee Ying-ho and the people behind him.

It's not that you haven't done a relationship with the top level when you start your own company, but it's not as big as the one behind the DSP, and the relationship is not close enough. There aren't too many people who stand out for LT, which is why it's so bleak now.

Regarding Lee Seung-rim's plan, Baek Sang-yan mistakenly thought that Lee Seung-rim was going to sign the entire Fin.K.L. He wasn't too optimistic about this, he didn't know that the members of Fin.K.L would fly solo in a few months, and Li Shenglin was not very easy to say.

LT was so dismal that he couldn't even receive any news and intelligence, and Li Shenglin didn't know if his choice was wrong. Now that I've acquired LT, I don't have a choice. At least for a complete set of training trainees to get it yourself, this is not a loss.

DSP company and S.M company urine Li Shenglin knows very well, although S.M company can suck away the bone marrow of artists, people have an innate advantage in cultivating artists with a high level of fame and fame, and countless people who dream of making their debut will follow one after another even if they know S.M's style.

DSP is now the only company on an equal footing with S.M, but after the dissolution of Fin.K.L, DSP launched SS501 in the next few years.

In the future, the three giants of the Korean entertainment industry will have a unique YG and JYP, and JYP's style is somewhat similar to S.M. Park Jin Young's Nobody Divine Comedy became popular all over Asia, making Wonder Girls unbeatable in the number one position. Even some boy bands are not as popular as Wonder Girls.

It's a pity that Park Jin-young has no matching strategic vision for the boldness of popularity, and is always inferior to S.M and Lee so-man. After Wonder Girls became popular, Park Jin-young planned to realize the American dream of Koreans, delusionally dreaming that Wonder Girls would conquer the United States with only one divine comedy.

Although WG is also popular in the United States, the European and American pops don't buy the Asian pops. WG did not have follow-up songs to consolidate its popularity, the United States did not conquer, but the popularity of South Korea gradually lost, and it was replaced by the boyhood who experienced the Black Sea three times, and occupied the first place of the girl group for several years.

DSP companies are not as good as S.M in terms of training. The former is a well-known wine company, and its artists have sued the company for insulting things many times.

Coupled with the cold-blooded attitude of the Korean agency towards its artists, Lee Seung-rim felt that as long as he used enough money, there was still hope to snatch Lee Hyori from the DSP company. Because the current Lee Hyori is still not the national fairy queen Lee Hyori, Li Yanhao doesn't know what kind of popularity Li Hyori will bring by packaging it independently, otherwise Lee Seung-rim will definitely dispel this idea.

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Before waiting for the news of Fin.K.L's solo flight, another thing flooded the entire small Korean entertainment industry.

In 2002, when Gao Yaotai was smooth sailing, member Jin Qiu was exposed to drug use, and fellow group members Kim Jong-min and Shin Ji were not able to stay out of the matter, and they were inevitably suspected of drug use, and malicious news flew all over the sky for a while.

Lee Seung-rim knows Ko Yo-tae, and the title song of Ko Yo-tae's first album, "Pure Love", has won the first place on the K-pop song charts for three consecutive weeks on the charts of major TV stations, and has sold 30,000 copies in 10 days. 10 years later, the song is still a classic among Korean commercial dance music classics.

In 2004, Gao Yaotai entered the peak, and the 6 albums continued the success of Gao Yaotai. Its title song "Disco King" and the follow-up song "Spark" also won the championship for three consecutive weeks in the MBC music camp and KMTV's popular ballads.

The song "Spark" is indeed very popular in Asia, and in his previous life, Lee Seung-rim was also familiar with the melody of this song when he didn't understand Korean. Later, after the Internet developed and Korean entertainment developed, I learned about Gao Yaotai and Shen Zhi.

When he knew the name Shen Zhi, Li Shenglin's first thought was Shen Zhi, who was translated as "Funny Family" broadcast on local stations in China. I thought it was the same name, but I didn't know that I later found out that this Shen Zhi was his Shen Zhi.

Before systematically understanding Korean entertainment, Li Shenglin always thought that Gao Yaotai was a person's stage name, China's Internet and computers were popularized very late, Li Shenglin only watched Gao Yaotai from TV, and the Korean group did not introduce much, so that Li Shenglin thought that Gao Yaotai was a male or female singer, and the remaining female or male was a backing singer. And then add the backing dance!

After getting to know Gao Yaotai, Li Shenglin learned about Gao Yaotai's development process, Gao Yaotai is known as the Korean disco king, but the development is not all smooth sailing. First, the lead singer left and joined Kim Jongmin, Kim Jongmin had a poor memory due to a head drop when he was a child, and his silly style was very different from Cha Sungmin's image and singing style.

Ko Yo-tae's fans did not accept Kim Jong-min, but with the help of Shin Ji and Kim Qiu's insistence, Kim Jong-min still became a stable member of Ko Yo-tae and was also accepted by fans, and then today, Kim Kyo was exposed to drug use. In addition, Li Shenglin also knew that even if the matter of Jinqiu passed, the members of Gao Yaotai would have to go through a change before they would be fixed.

After Jin Qiu took drugs, Gao Yaotai's agency wanted to dissolve Gao Yaotai, Kim Jong-min and Shin Ji begged Ruli Company, and the company decided to give them a chance. So there was Gao Yaotai's "10,000 people convened", Gao Yaotai successfully convened more than 6,000 people (Gao Yaotai's task is 5,000 people) The success of the convening was for Shen Zhi, and Zhong Min established the confidence to continue walking. also further sublimated the friendship between the two.

At this time, Ko Yao-tae was left with only Shin Ji and Jong-min, until the 4th episode was released, and when the 4th episode was released, he joined the member Kim Young-wan, and later left. In 2003, Jung Myung-hoon joined the album in the fifth album, although the album was very successful and won multiple awards. But soon Jung Myung-hoon also left. It wasn't until 2004, when the 6th album "KOYOTE.6" was released, that the new rapper Bai Jia was added to stabilize the group.

Looking at the news in the newspapers and on the Internet, Li Shenglin felt that he should make a move? Taking advantage of Gao Yaotai's low period, it would not be bad to take Gao Yaotai under his command.

On April 14, 2002, during the day when Gao Yaotai was convened, when Shin Ji and Kim Jong-min were shouting everywhere on the street with a loudspeaker, Lee Seung-rim sent Baek Sang-yan and others to negotiate with Ko Yao-tae's brokerage company.

Ruli Company originally had the idea of disbanding Gao Yaotai, but due to feelings and other reasons, Gao Yaotai mobilized a 10,000-person convening activity. But this is not to say that Gao Yaotai will not be disbanded, if the convening of 10,000 people fails, Gao Yaotai's company will see that Gao Yaotai's prospects are bleak, and will definitely disband Gao Yaotai mercilessly.

Now someone is willing to take over the 'mess', something that Gao Yaotai's company can't wait for. Moreover, Li Shenglin's compensation price to Gao Yaotai's company is also satisfactory, and both parties are naturally happy. didn't want Gao Yaotai to fall into a period of silence because of the change of agency, Li Shenglin discussed with Ruli Company and asked him to cooperate with SL Entertainment to customize Gao Yaotai's itinerary.

It will definitely take a while to take over various things, and if there is the cooperation of Ruli Company, SL Entertainment can take its time. SL Entertainment was willing to pay a portion of the compensation, and Ruli readily agreed. It was agreed that on April 15, Ruli Brokerage Company and SL Entertainment jointly issued a statement that Gao Yaotai joined SL Entertainment.

The success of the convening of 10,000 people made Kim Jong-min and Shin Ji very happy and moved. However, after the concert, they were notified by the company to change their contract to SL Entertainment, which made their hearts fall into an ice cellar.