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The Lotte Group is even more committed to this area than Nongshim, which has a company-named professional baseball team in Japan and South Korea, namely the Chiba Rhodes Ocean and the Rhodes Giants – "lotte" is the English name for Rakuten.

Running a team and sponsoring a tournament are two different concepts, the former is a 365-day investment, and the latter is just a few days a year.

Baseball is no less popular in Japan and South Korea than football, if not surpassed. To be able to run a professional baseball team named after your own company for decades is something that can only be done by a powerful corporation.

It's just that with the exception of Taiwan, the vast majority of mainlanders have no interest in baseball, and even mainland television rarely broadcasts baseball games -- "wild" baseball fans such as Zhao Qiwen can only be regarded as a rare exception.

Jin Yanping naturally knew this, so he couldn't think of how to describe the financial strength of Lotte Group to Liu Kewei for a while, so he had to take out the competition sponsored by Nongshim Group, which is relatively well-known in China.

Fortunately, there is really a Go enthusiast in this brother.

Duan Shanshan gave Liu Kewei a science popularization of what kind of status the Nongshim Cup is in the minds of chess fans, which made Liu Kewei and Che Guanglong, who don't pay much attention to Go, stunned.

Is there still a ring in Go? Can it even compete internationally in the form of a national team? China, Japan, and South Korea all send their strongest lineups every year to participate in the competition?

What does this tournament mean to chess fans to the World Cup?

Is it so exaggerated, although we know that the strongest Go countries in the world are indeed only China, Japan and South Korea, and there are basically no professional chess players in Europe, America, Africa and Australia, but Lao Duan, you take the World Cup as an analogy, it is a little too scary!

"Your Naxon Group is not listed in South Korea. So I don't know much about the market capitalization either. However, in the Republic of Korea, there is a saying about the so-called five chaebols and ten major companies, and your group, President Kim, and President Cho have never been on the list—of course, our S.M. company is the same. Jin Yanping added self-deprecatingly, and then continued, "However. His Excellency Chairman Lotte Shin Ge Ho and this group have always been on the list. ”

In fact, in terms of wealth, Naxon can crush S.M. Company, and Lotte can crush Naxon - but Jin Yanping is a person from S.M. Company after all, and he is embarrassed to smear his company's face, so he can only talk about it vaguely.

All in all, it was no difficult for Lotte Group to crush S.M. Company.

Liu Kewei sighed, it seems that he really can't underestimate this supermarket and amusement park. A company that almost sells instant noodles......

Well, in that case, a mere interview can make the head of the Jin room panic like this, and it can barely be said.

With just these few words, they had already stepped out of the elevator, and Jin Yanping led his brother, but the destination was not his office or the practice room of his youth, but a room that the three of them had never been to.

Push open the door and take a look. It turned out to be a conference room, with a long table in the middle of the room. There are several rows of chairs on either side.

On one side of the table, there was a man in his thirties, dressed as a formal workplace clerk, wearing a three-piece suit and tie, looking very gentle.

On the other side of the table, Taeyeon sat alone with a dull expression. The position of the elder was vacated. When she was young, the other eight people were sitting in the second row of chairs behind her, and none of them fell.

In addition to Taeyeon, the other eight were all sitting upright, not smiling, and didn't even dare to take a breath when they were young. It is completely different from the real face of the bombardment group in the past. Liu Kewei and Duan Shanshan, who are more familiar with them, feel that today's way of opening seems to be completely wrong.

Seeing them enter the house, the man and the young man got up and nodded in salute. Surprisingly, the magnitude of his bending was no less than that of the young ones, and he bowed a real 120 degrees!

"This is the assistant of the Lotte Group's public relations planning section, this is Mr. Yoo Ho Wei, who helped us get out of trouble at the music festival just now, and his colleagues car production and Duan planning. ”

Hey, it's actually a Japanese? Liu Kewei and his brother were a little surprised.

"Actually, I have seen Mr. Liu Kewei, in the video taken at the music festival. The assistant nodded with a smile. He spoke Korean, and he was fluent, at least Liu Kewei couldn't hear any difference from ordinary Koreans.

Liu Kewei immediately blushed, he was too unsuitable for such a "famous" way.

"First of all, on behalf of the Lotte Group, I would like to thank Mr. Liu for your feat of standing up in an emergency! ”

When the two sides sat down at the table, the assistant took out a metal card wrapped in transparent protective film from his jacket pocket, held it above his head with both hands, and handed it to Liu Kewei.

The other party came up so politely, Liu Kewei was not rude, and after exchanging a few glances with Jin Yanping and his two buddies, he also took it with both hands.

When I got it in my hand, uh, it turned out to be a high-level VIP membership card for Rakuten Shopping.

"If you go to our supermarket, you can enjoy the maximum discount by showing this card at checkout. Assistant Yamashita again owes and explains, "It may not be a too precious gift, please don't be surprised." ”

In terms of "etiquette culture", Japanese and Koreans are basically the same - etiquette is very respectful, but the value of gifts is often not too high, but tends to be practical or thoughtful, and more symbolic of one's heart.

By the way, when Koreans go to warm up to their friends, the most send-off is toilet paper!

"Uh, don't dare to be, in fact, Sunny was the first person to stand up, and it was also the MC of the music festival Wu Zhengtai who subdued that guy, I just helped a little bit in it!"

Liu Kewei turned around slightly, and stretched out a hand towards Sunny in the direction of his side.

Sunny smiled as sunny as her stage name, and she raised her hand and shook it wildly, presumably signaling that although she tried to stop the fanatical fan, she was dragged several steps away, so she didn't dare to take credit.

"Sunny West is Taeyeon-seo's teammate, and Oh Jung Tae-seo is also the host of the festival, so it means different to you as a regular audience member to be able to stand up and help. ”

The assistant Yamashita nodded with a smile and explained.

"Actually, I'm also a friend of Taeyeon and Sunny. Seeing that your friends are in trouble, it is a matter of course for them to stand up and help, and it is not as great as you say. ”

Liu Kewei explained honestly.

It's not that he deliberately wants to get closer to the young people, but he really didn't feel that he was involved in this matter as an ordinary audience member at that time, and he was so misunderstood by others, so he had to make it clear.

"By the way, Mr. Liu Kewei, your ticket to the music festival seems to have been given by Director Jin...... Could it be that Mr. Yoo Ke Wei is the relative death of Taeyeon and Sunny?"

Assistant Yamashita asked with interest.

You actually have gossip thoughts on this kind of detail? Liu Kewei glanced at him in surprise, and lowered his head modestly: "This kind of thing, my unilateral wishful thinking can't be counted, they themselves are here, if you don't believe it, you can ask them yourself." ”

The Yamashita assistant's curious gaze shifted to Taeyeon.

"At work, Liu Productions and their studios have some cooperation with me, and in private, Liu Productions and they are indeed our friends......

Taeyeon bit her lower lip and thought about it, then secretly looked in Kim Yeonpyeong's direction, and after seeing that the other party nodded imperceptibly, she replied carefully.

After all, as the captain of the group, she must be cautious in her statement on such occasions. It is not easy to cover up the facts by telling some lies that will be exposed by others casually, and not to say descriptions that are easy to give others a false impression and misunderstanding, and you have to take into account the company's position, which is not an easy thing to do.

In addition, although her eloquence is not bad, it is still quite inferior to Sunny and Xiuying, who have opened plug-ins in this regard. Therefore, when faced with this kind of issue, which may be a little "sensitive", Taeyeon is still more difficult.

Regarding her "official tone", which was quite skeptical, it seemed that there was still some suspicion, and the eyes of the assistant Yamashita moved to the faces of the other members of the young group behind her.

"Of course, Liu Productions is our own family, and I also invited Liu Productions for my previous debut at Seoul Fashion Week, and he did show up to support me, and even ......"

Jessica, a single-celled creature, said bluntly, almost missing her mouth, but fortunately, Xiuying next to her stealthily ripped off the hem of her skirt in a blind spot that others couldn't see, and she closed her mouth unsatisfied.

Her implication naturally was: We invited Liu Productions to this music festival, is it a very unusual thing? It is not the first time that we have sent an invitation to him!

"Yoo Productions is both a big fan of ours and a game producer with whom Taeyeon has a partnership, and he also has a good personal relationship with us, and he once had dinner with all of us a few times. ”

With a quiet demeanor, Xiuying opened her mouth calmly. Her statement is much more specific than Taeyeon's, not only supplementing Taeyeon's "official statement", but also specifically pointing out the key of "with all of our members".

It not only proves that the relationship between the two parties is indeed very close, but it will not be mistaken for a scandal.

Just like before, Xiuying once again stood up to save the scene at an important moment, and the standard style of "speaking responsibly" was fully revealed.

Taeyeon, Jessica, and Suyoung have basically finished what they need to say.

As for the fact that Liu Zuo is actually Yun'er's die-hard fan, everyone knew about it when he was young, but no one would be stupid enough to take the initiative to expose it on such an occasion.

With the gaze of the assistant Shuo Xun under the mountain, the other members of the young group silently bowed their heads one after another, and even Yun'er, who had never given Liu Kewei a good face, nodded hesitantly. (To be continued.) )