Episode 532: Uncle Man's retreat is advancing
On February 25th, under the questioning of many Japanese media, Shuri Ueno gave an answer that made everyone doubtful: she had dinner with Zheng Xiyi because she wanted to invite him to star in the wooden 10 drama "Can't Be Honest with Each other" that Fuji TV is expected to broadcast in April, in which the second male is set as a Korean, a medical equipment salesman, and Zheng Xiyi is currently considering it.
As soon as the news came out, the Japanese people didn't react much, the South Korean people blew up first, Zheng Xiyi starred in Japanese dramas, it's nothing, Japanese movies have been made, do you still care about acting in a Japanese drama? If it's the male lead, that's the best evidence that Hallyu counterattacked Japan. But isn't it really a joke to let Zheng Xiyi, the Venice actor, the Baeksang actor, and one of South Korea's top actors, only play the second male lead in Japanese dramas?
CC's official website and Zheng Xiyi's fan club were unsurprisingly blown up again, asking CC and Zheng Xiyi to refuse the invitation from the Japanese side to appear. It doesn't matter if it's just like this, but the most bizarre thing is that the three major South Korean TV stations are inexplicably lying down, and Korean netizens have accused the three major TV stations of incompetence in the drama department, Zheng Xiyi has been back from the United States for nearly three years, and he can't even come up with a drama that can let him star, resulting in going to Japan to shoot a TV series, and he is still a male number two.
The ministers of the serial departments of various TV stations have cried and fainted in the toilet, Zheng Xiyi's pickiness of the script can be called the most Korean actor, not to mention that Zheng Xiyi's current worth is not something anyone can afford, what is so strange about him not appearing in TV dramas for five years, Lee Byung-hun starred in "ALL. But the selective ignorance of Koreans is well known to the world, how can angry Korean netizens care about this, and the national brothers are about to be abducted by the Japanese little lady by co-starring in the TV series, no matter how reasonable the explanation given by the three major stations is, they will only not listen, if they don't listen, they won't listen!
To save the three major TV series departments, it is S.M that shifts the focus, but not S.M.CC, but S.M headquarters. On February 26, Japan's Ai Hui officially issued an official announcement to sell off 16.9% of S.M's shares at a total price of 800 million yen, of which 1.4% was repurchased by S.M's largest individual shareholder Lee so-man with preemptive repurchase rights, and the remaining 15.5% was sold to the music portal BUGS under the famous South Korean IT group NEOWIZ, which became the second largest shareholder of S.M, second only to Lee so-man, who held 21.3% of the shares. On the same day, S.M issued an official announcement that Lee so-man, the company's largest individual shareholder, resigned as a registered director, and is no longer responsible for the company's operational affairs, only responsible for S.M's overseas business and artist training, and the company's operations will be all in charge of the company's current president and CEO Kim Young-min.
As soon as the news came out, it shook the entire Korean entertainment industry, and Zheng Xiyi's scandal disappeared without a trace, and the news that Ai Hui would sell S.M shares has long been there, and everyone is prepared, but the news that Li Xiuman officially stepped down as the registered director of S.M made everyone a little unbelievable.
Although Lee so-man, who is the creator of S.M, has always appeared in the hearts of fans as a tyrant, from a business point of view, Lee so-man is definitely the best businessman. Before Lee so-man founded S.M, the Korean idol agency was completely shoddy, but he really turned the idol agency into an industry, and established a one-stop scientific system of mining, training and operation, making idol stars a product on the industrial assembly line. Although he is not the first person in Korea to establish an idol agency, he is definitely the father of Korean idol agency, so his resignation as a registered director of S.M can be called a milestone event in the Korean entertainment industry, and it has made all shareholders have a trace of doubt about the future of S.M.
Zheng Xiyi let out a long sigh after hearing the news in Japan, he had already designed various plans for Li Xiuman's possible reaction, but the last thing he wanted to encounter was the current situation, Li Xiuman used the table to express to Zheng Xiyi his determination to rather be broken than destroyed. Yes, Li Xiuman's resignation is not a sign of weakness, but a statement of extreme toughness.
S.M's market capitalization has fallen to a dangerous critical point at the end of 09, or relying on the strong comeback of Girls' Generation at the end of January 2010 to re-stabilize the stock price, Ai Hui's sell-off is actually not good news for S.M, although BUGS took over has a certain positive impact, but after all, it is only a Korean local music portal, and Ai Hui is one of the largest record distribution companies in Japan, S.M's most important partner in overseas operations. Although Ai Hui claimed in the announcement that the sale of S.M's shares will not affect its cooperation with S.M at all, will the interests of shareholders and non-shareholders be the same? Will Ai Hui still do his best for S.M's artists in the Japanese market as he did in the past to promote Boer and TVXQ?
Maybe Ai Hui can continue to invest the same amount of energy to promote S.M's artists in Japan, but without shareholder dividends, Ai Hui will inevitably do things and demand returns at market prices, which means that S.M's profits from the Japanese market will be reduced. What's more, Bao'er is already going downhill, TVXQ's split is a fait accompli, SJ is unlikely to debut in Japan in the short term because of Han Geng's termination of the contract, and although Girls' Generation plans to debut in Japan in 2010, it is still unknown whether the Korean girl idol group will be successful in Japan, which is the fundamental reason why Ai Hui made up his mind to sell S.M's shares: S.M has not been able to bring much benefit to Ai Hui in the short term.
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Investors are not fools, at least those investment institutions will not be fools, Ai Hui's sell-off behavior is a very obvious signal for them, even S.M's best overseas partners are not optimistic about the future of S.M, and chose to withdraw, so how can investors be optimistic? Li Xiuman's resignation pushed the stormy S.M to the edge of the cliff, giving everyone the illusion that even he was going to leave S.M, but he also repurchased 1.5% If he really wants to leave S.M, how can Lee so-man spend hundreds of millions of won to buy back the 1.5% shares?
The so-called continued responsibility for S.M's overseas business and artist training is completely a stroke of genius, not to mention whether S.M's current overseas business is still there, artist training is actually to hand over the artist operation in the artist director's authority to CEO Jin Yingmin, and the authority of artist management is still in the hands of Li Xiuman, and at the same time, the authority of the supervisor of the trainee room, which has been vacant since Lin Xiyin left, has been drawn in, so Li Xiuman mentioned in the announcement is no longer in charge of the company's operational affairs, and Zheng Xiyi is just a joke.
Everything in the announcement is just to show Zheng Xiyi Li Xiuman's bottom line.
The repurchase of shares is to tell Zheng Xiyi that he will never give up his position as the company's largest shareholder, he can resign as a registered director, and is willing to assume the responsibility of supporting Kim Yingmin to force Lin Xiyin away last year, no longer meddle in the council, and cede the leading power of the council to Lin Xiyin. At the same time, he is also warning Zheng Xiyi that if he plays any tricks such as overhead, then he will immediately announce that he will no longer be responsible for overseas careers and artist training, completely quit S.M, and fight with Zheng Xiyi.
If Lee so-man really completely withdraws, it will be a fatal blow to investors' confidence, and S.M will inevitably fall into the brink of collapse, as the largest idol agency in South Korea, if it is really to be made like this by Zheng Xiyi, the South Korean government will not be the first to agree, and it is not what Zheng Xiyi wants to face, so he can only return to the negotiating table and shake hands with Li Xiuman, instead of slowly eliminating Li Xiuman's influence on S.M, and then kicking him away completely.
Li Xiuman's deep scheming was vividly displayed in this move to retreat into advance, and the proportions were mastered just right, and even Zheng Xiyi had to praise Uncle Man in the year of the sixtieth birthday. He originally thought that the older the rivers and lakes, the less timid he became, but he didn't expect Li Xiuman to be old and strong, and use the table to coerce the Zheng family sisters and brothers who have the behemoth RELOAD as their backing, no wonder S.M, JYP, YG have been neck and neck for so many years, but only Li Xiuman can firmly grasp the authority of the company and not be swayed by major consortia.
ON FEBRUARY 28, ZHENG XIYI QUIETLY RETURNED TO SOUTH KOREA, BECAUSE LI XIUMAN UNEXPECTEDLY INVITED HIM TO HIS HOME FOR DINNER, WHEN ZHENG XIYI CAME TO THE DOOR OF LI XIUMAN'S SMALL COURTYARD, IT WAS SUNNY WHO OPENED THE DOOR FOR HIM, "ANIHASE, XIYI OPPA!"
SUNNY greeted Zheng Xiyi with narrowed eyes, and then turned around and shouted inside, "Uncle, aunt, Xiyi OPPA is here." ”
As soon as Zheng Xiyi stepped into the small courtyard and looked up, Li Xiuman and his wife Jin Enzhen were already standing in the open hall with the door holding hands, and he hurriedly stopped, bowed 90 degrees and saluted: "Anihasse, Director Li Xiuman NIM, Kim Eunzhen Grandma NIM, Zheng Xiyi Yimida, I wish you a blessed New Year and good health." ”
"Today is a family banquet, Xiyi, you don't need to be so formally called, just call Uncle Man and Aunt Man. ”
Li Xiuman's face was full of wrinkles with a smile, and his wife Jin Enzhen also waved at Zheng Xiyi with a smile on her face: "Hey Yigu, good boy, come quickly, don't stand in the yard in winter, come into the house and talk." ”
Zheng Xiyi sweated, and greeted SUNNY into the house while saluting and thanking him, which means that Li Xiuman didn't tell Mrs. Jin about the company, otherwise I'm afraid that her old man will not only not call him a good boy, but it is only right to beat him out with a baseball bat.
SUNNY secretly stuck out his tongue at Zheng Xiyi's back, trotted all the way into the house first, hugged Mrs. Jin and said coquettishly, "Auntie is so eccentric, why didn't you let me enter the house first, I'm also standing outside." ”
Mrs. Kim has sons and wants a daughter the most, so she is quite fond of SUNNY. It's just that she's not in good health and can't go out much, plus Li Xiuman and SUNNY's father are brothers but the relationship is not harmonious, so it's rare to meet SUNNY, seeing her so cute, she immediately smiled from ear to ear, touched SUNNY's head and said, "Silly boy, Xiyi is a guest, you're not, do you still want your aunt to say hello?"
Zheng Xiyi sweats, SUNNY This girl is definitely one of the best among the nine girls when she was young, no matter what point she counts, she will not be a stupid child, it seems that Aunt Man's eyes are not very good, otherwise how could she continue to mislook herself and SUNNY......
When the four of them entered the house, Zheng Xiyi gave the gift and said a few polite words, and Mrs. Jin asked with a smile: "Xiyi, do you usually meet with Shungui a lot, what do you think of my Shungui?"
Zheng Xiyi Waterfall Khan, Aunt Man, not only do you not have a good eyesight, but you ...... Uh, no, it's the matchmaker who doesn't do it very well!