EPISODE 368: NEOWIZ AFTER INTEGRATION
After posting, Zheng Xiyi went out and poured himself a glass of milk, and when he came back, he refreshed it, the post had been marked in red, and there were more than 30 replies, look at the time in the lower right corner of the screen, it was more than 1 o'clock in the morning, and there were so many night owls in the forum Zheng Xiyi was also convinced......
Click in to see, the first replies are concerned about whether this is really Zheng Xiyi is speaking, after all, the username is his English name instead of the official Korean or Chinese name, after Park Zhiya replied to verify the authenticity of the username, fans began to welcome in various fancy ways, and some underage fans cried and asked "Chaser" to release the DVD quickly.
Zheng Xiyi replied to a few fans' speeches, and then refreshed this post There have been more than 100 replies, and after silently liking his night owl fans, Zheng Xiyi began to seriously consider whether to open Twitter, Facebook, Straw Hat Network accounts, and those social media in Huaxia, although ** will not appear a few years later, but a certain bar has been officially opened as early as 2003, these will be one of the most important means of propaganda in the future, and now early occupation can be one step ahead.
The merger and acquisition of RELOAD Korea and NEOWIZ Group has been completed, in order to be more localized and not to be rejected by the Korean people who pay attention to their own land, the new group not only makes NEOWIZ look like a Korean high-tech group in the public shareholding structure, but also continues to use NEOWIZ instead of changing the name RELOAD or NEOWIZ.RELOAD, which also makes the Korean financial media very excited for a while, because this is the acquisition of the Korean branch of a famous American IT company by the Korean high-tech IT group, which is definitely another successful case of a Korean high-tech company on the road to internationalization。
The purpose of Zheng Hee-yi's continuation of the name NEOWIZ is precisely to make people think so, because in any case, a foreign company in South Korea, a country where nationalism is prevalent, will always be more or less restricted, and now RELOAD Korea has turned into a local high-tech group, which is helpful for the company's image and business development in the future.
RELOAD KOREA'S MAJOR BUSINESS UNITS HAVE ALSO BEEN INTEGRATED WITH NEOWIZ'S VARIOUS SUBSIDIARIES, THE ONLINE GAME OPERATION DEPARTMENT HAS BEEN MERGED INTO NEOWIZ.GAME, AND THE PORTAL HAS BEEN INTEGRATED WITH NEOWIZ.INTERNET, WHICH OPERATES THE BUGS MUSIC NETWORK, BECAUSE BUGS IS ALREADY ONE OF THE NINE MAJOR DIGITAL MUSIC WEBSITES IN KOREA, AND IMMEDIATELY SURPASSED MELON TO BECOME THE NUMBER ONE DIGITAL MUSIC WEBSITE IN KOREA AFTER RECEIVING USER SUPPORT FROM RELOAD.
Zheng Xiyi now has to consider the mobile phone IM project, which is the core project that must start to prepare for a rainy day now. Although SNS will continue to be popular, Zheng Xiyi has little interest in it, because the SNS project itself has no profit point, unless it is absolutely dominant like Facebook, and at the same time, it is located in Europe and the United States, where users are accustomed to paying for services, and in Asia, it will be a very risky market development work to feed SNS with value-added services, and Zheng Xiyi does not have the kind heart to help the Korean Internet industry cultivate the market.
BECAUSE OF ZHENG XIYI'S HINTS, RELOAD INTERVENED IN IOS GAME DEVELOPMENT EARLY, AFTER THE IPHONE WAS LAUNCHED, THREE OF THE TOP FIVE GAMES ON THE APP.STORE BEST-SELLING LIST WERE DEVELOPED BY RELOAD'S US HEADQUARTERS, ZHENG XIYI HAS SENT THE DEVELOPERS OF NEOWIZ.INTERNET TO THE US HEADQUARTERS TO LEARN IOS DEVELOPMENT, AND EVEN CONTACTED APPLE TO ASK THEM TO TRAIN THEIR OWN DEVELOPERS, JUST TO DEVELOP IM APPLICATIONS ON IOS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
The development of IM is not a difficult task, but the real problem is how to get through government censorship and the support of mobile carriers.
All IM is involved in information security issues, after all, if an IM is popular, there will be tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of users, most of these users are ordinary people, but whether it is government officials or corporate executives also want to use mobile phones, they will also install IM, so IM's information security issues involve personal privacy and business secrets at a small level, and at a large level, it is not just a slogan to scare people if NEOWIZ is a foreign company, then even if the IM software is developed, it will not be able to get the greatest support in South Korea, and even be suppressed at the policy level。
Fortunately, the merged group company is still called NEOWIZ, purely from the share structure, the original NEOWIZ shareholders have only changed from having absolute control to the largest shareholder controlling 35% of the shares, and the other two major shareholders are RELOAD, accounting for 28% of the shares, and the other is a major shareholder with 23% of the shares is a Korean investment company established as early as 2004, and the remaining 14% The shares are owned by the Korea Science and Technology Agency and some minority shareholders, so the NEOWIZ Group is still a local company on the surface.
If you trace the South Korean investment company, you will find that the equity behind it is extremely complicated, the shareholders are mostly offshore investment funds, these investment funds do not need to disclose financial information, so it is impossible to find out who the real controller is, and in fact, this investment company and those investment funds are many shell companies established by Zheng Xiyi, Lin Xiyin and Shen Yuanhao in order to achieve cross-shareholding, so RELOAD actually holds 51% of the absolute controlling stake in NEOWIZ Group.
Although the trouble on the government side can be bypassed in this relatively hidden way, the trouble of the mobile communication company is Zheng Xiyi's biggest headache now.
The largest telecommunications company in Korea is SK Telecom, which is part of the SK Group, the second largest telecommunications company is KTF, which is the largest WCDMA network communication company in Korea, the third is LG Telecom, which is a subsidiary of the LG Group, and finally KT, the largest fixed telephone company in Korea. KTF and KT can be excluded, because one is the WCDMA network, and the integration of machine and card is stuck in the early development of smart phones, and the other is mainly a fixed telephone, which is not strong in mobile communications, so only SK Telecom and LG Telecom are included in the list of considerations.
SK Telecom is a very dangerous partner, SK Telecom is completely a giant in South Korea's information and communication industry, and it is notoriously domineering in South Korea's information industry, and many new companies in the industry have been forcibly acquired by SK Telecom, and if they are unwilling to be acquired, they will be under pressure from all walks of life in South Korea. With such a notorious SK Telecom, Zheng Hee-yi really didn't dare to cooperate with it, after all, behind it was the SK Group, the third largest consortium in South Korea, even Lotte was a step worse than SK, and it was not too difficult for it to swallow the entire RELOAD in one gulp, so Zheng Hee-yi set his sights on LG Telecom.
Although LG Telecom is also a big chaebol like LG Group, LG Group was already a yellow flower after it was split in 2005 because of the separation of co-founders Gu Jia and Xu Jia, and the Xu family established GS Group with major businesses such as petrochemical, construction and retail, and Gu Jia retained the LG Group brand but the remaining main businesses are electronics, communications and chemicals. The current LG Group is not even one of the top ten chaebols in South Korea, so Zheng Xiyi plans to pull Jang Sun-yoon into the NEOWIZ Group first, and then go to LG Telecom to cooperate, so that he can repay Jang Sun-yoon's favor when he asked Jean Jang-tae to help him last time, and he can deter LG Telecom with a fake tiger.
Only wooing Zhang Shanyun is not only because she is not surnamed Xin, but also because she is separated by a generation from the Xin family, and the succession is naturally ranked after the main family, Zheng Xiyi can see the ambition in her heart, the more ambitious people are almost impossible, the more they pay attention to their own interests, because she can only cross the bloodline barrier and regain hope when she has huge interests, so it is safe to cooperate with her, at least there is no need to worry about being swallowed by the Lotte Xin family.
After the whole plan was conceived, Zheng Xiyi found that it was already three o'clock in the middle of the night, and he didn't care about the official fan forum anymore and went upstairs to sleep, and slept until noon the next day before waking up.
"Yo don't stop, Sister Shanyun, I'm Xiyi. ”
"EH, YOU CONSCIENCELESS LITTLE GUY STILL REMEMBER NUNA ME?"
Zheng Xiyi sweated profusely, remembering that he hadn't seen Zhang Shanyun for two years, although he still sent text messages to greet him during the New Year's holidays, but he didn't make a single phone call, which was really unconscionable.
Laughing embarrassedly twice, Zheng Xiyi hurriedly apologized: "Haha, Crisp Song Hamida, Sister Shanyun has a lot, and she knows that I am very busy in the United States, so she will definitely forgive me." ”
Zhang Shanyun smiled and said: "If you want to forgive you, you have to look at what you want me to do, if you expect me to help you something, it depends on your sincerity." ”
"Sister Shanyun, I just returned to South Korea some time ago and took over a movie, and it wasn't filmed until yesterday, and as soon as I woke up today, I called NUNA to say hello, isn't this sincerity enough?"
Zhang Shanyun was deceived by his rhetoric, and said very casually: "Okay, I also received it, and I also felt the sincerity, so be it, hang up." ”
Zheng Xiyi's head was suddenly as big as a fight, even if he fought with old foxes like Li Xiuman and Jin Yingmin, he was not afraid, because he could pretend to be stupid if it was a big deal, but it was useless to play this trick with Zhang Shanyun.
"Nei, Nei, I was wrong, Sister Shanyun, there are some things I want to talk to you about today besides asking for peace, I don't know when you have time, it would be better if I could invite you to dinner!"
Zhang Shanyun smiled proudly, and while checking his itinerary, he said to Zheng Xiyi on the other end of the phone: "If there is something in the future, just say that there is something, don't play those false things." Well, I don't have any plans for tonight, it's okay to eat, where are I going?"
Zheng Xiyi was immediately grateful, how could a person like Zhang Shanyun not have dinner arranged, her itinerary was arranged at least two weeks in advance, so she obviously planned to cancel the reservation to eat with herself.
"THEN THANK YOU NUNA, THE TIME HAS BEEN SET BY ME, AND THE LOCATION IS UP TO YOU, NUNA. ”
The pen in Zhang Shanyun's hand shook, and suddenly smiled and said, "Then let's go to the Shilla Hotel for a meal today!"