Three-way work
Longzhen Culture is an entertainment and cultural company established last year, and before the company was established, the company's original team has been doing performance planning, event promotion and other aspects of work. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
In September last year, MBK signed a contract with Longzhen Culture and handed over the Greater China brokerage contract of its girl idol group T-ARA to this company. It also represents the beginning of the company's shift to working with talent management.
Later, T-Ara released the Korean version of "Little Apple," a divine comedy that swept the country in China last year, as a sign of its full-scale foray into China. However, due to the age of the members and the lack of a clear plan for the company, most of the members are determined to learn Chinese, but most of the time they spend three days fishing and two days drying nets.
Since then, T-Ara has also held some events and participated in some shows in China, but its popularity has not increased significantly. And this can also be taken for granted, after all, there are very few programs that Longzhen Culture can find for them, and they are very influential, plus although they are learning Chinese, they have not made significant progress, so they naturally entered the bottleneck period of popularity.
Due to the slow growth of popularity, MBK is no longer so important about entering the Chinese market, but more attention is put into the planning of new girl groups. Yoo Hae-jin has heard a lot of news about MBK's new girl group when he was in South Korea, and it is estimated that this group will debut within this year.
Liu Haizhen, the material of Longzhen Culture, knew him well before he came to China, and if he hadn't met Lin Jun, then this company would have been his main target. Now that he meets Lin Jun, this company is also an important item on his acquisition list.
Longzhen Culture has been hosting various performance activities since very early and has rich experience in this area. In addition, since the beginning of Hallyu's foray into China, the company has also hosted a large number of Chinese performances by Korean groups. It can be said that at present, the development direction of this company is highly consistent with the development goals set by Liu Haizhen for the company.
In order to prevent this company from becoming a serious competitor to Liuhaizhen in the future, the acquisition is a very good option.
Lin Jun was operating this matter during this time.
The entertainment industry says that it is not big or small, Lin Jun has found some previous contacts, and there are really many people who know Chen Hailong, the general manager of Longzhen Culture. After contacting the other party, Lin Jun bought a plane ticket and came to Guangzhou on the same day.
After three days of talks, Lin Jun successfully acquired a 53.5% stake in Longzhen Culture from shareholders Lu Yang and Chen Hailong. There is actually a reason why it is so refreshing.
Longzhen Culture signed T-ARA with the intention of transforming into an artist agency. However, this line of work is too deep, and they have paid a high signing fee, but they can only rely on concerts and other activities to recover part of the funds. Due to business conflicts after the company's transformation, many companies that originally approached them to host performances also cut off contact with them. And due to the lack of connections, they can't get T-Ara on some popular shows.
All in all, now they are in a dilemma, stuck in a very awkward position. Therefore, after a detailed discussion with Lin Jun, both of them felt that there was nothing wrong with merging into the ll culture.
So in the end, Liu Haizhen paid about 34 million yuan to acquire the shares, and exchanged a part of the shares of LL Culture (China) Company with the shares of Longzhen Culture in the form of an equity exchange. In the end, Longzhen Culture was merged into LL Culture (China), and the original employees of Longzhen Culture did not want to leave Guangzhou for the Shanghai headquarters, so they stayed in the Guangdong office to continue their original positions.
However, most employees are willing to travel to Shanghai.
Originally, their job was to run around the country, and they spent less time in Guangzhou. What's more, since the company's transformation, the original jobs have decreased a lot, and the salary has naturally come down. If you stay in Guangzhou, you will only be engaged in some clerical work, and if you want to do your original job, you still need to go to Shanghai.
After Liu Haizhen's explanation was resolved, Lin Jun had to hurry back to Shanghai. After receiving the capital injection of LL Technology, LL Culture (China) was also officially registered. The new company still has a lot of things to solve, for example, Longzhen Culture, these employees must have enough office space when they go to Shanghai, and the company's office location has not yet been selected.
In addition, T-Ara's Greater China brokerage contract has also been transferred to LL Culture (China), so Lin Jun also has to quickly form a team to make arrangements for T-ARA's future development.
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Hani's proposal is really a long drought for Liu Haizhen, and at this time his negotiations with Dragon TV have entered a river situation. Although the intention of cooperation has been reached, Dragon TV is a little difficult to accept the price he offered.
Liu Haizhen is very confident in the future of "MLT", so the price proposed is not much different from the price proposed by Dragon TV to buy the copyright of "Infinite Challenge". But "Infinite Challenge" is a time-tested national variety show, while "MLT" is a program that has just been officially launched at the beginning of this year. Although the ratings of "MLT" are now approaching 15%, ranking first in the same time period, the long-term development is not optimistic.
In order to find a breakthrough point, Liu Haizhen turned to Zhejiang Satellite TV and Hunan Satellite TV. However, Zhejiang Satellite TV's current main cooperative TV station is SBS, and Hunan Satellite TV has cooperated with MBC many times, but it does not have much interest in "MLT".
On the contrary, Zhejiang Satellite TV is very interested in "Jin Bingwan's Law of the Jungle", while Hunan Satellite TV is very interested in "I Went to School". After these two TV stations heard about Liu Haizhen's whereabouts, they were also willing to maintain a good relationship with him, and asked him if he could match them up and buy the adaptation rights of the two programs.
"Jin Bingwan's Law of the Jungle" is the next program that Liu Haizhen is going to take over, and the entire production team of "I Go to School" has already joined his company, not to mention matchmaking, his company also has a share in the copyright of these two programs.
After hearing that Liu Haizhen was in contact with other TV stations, Dragon TV also changed its attitude and took the initiative to seek cooperation. And Dragon TV is also deeply interested in "I Go to School", and jointly bid with Zhejiang Satellite TV and iQiyi, wanting to win the adaptation rights of the two seasons of this show.
At this time, if you can shoot a Chinese special and attract a group of Chinese fans, then Liu Haizhen will be able to take advantage of the trend and raise the price again.
Just looking at the current bids of the two parties, Liu Haizhen has been staggered. He spent a lot of money to acquire Longzhen Culture, but as long as the copyright of this show is sold, the part of the funds allocated to his company alone is enough to make up for the money spent.
Not only that, but in order to shoot these two shows, the TV station will definitely continue to cooperate with Liu Haizhen and hire his company's production staff. This is another income receipt.
Of course, he raised his hands in favor of this.
After getting Yoo Hae-jin's approval, Kim Min-seok also let go and began to investigate artists who had studied in China, or Chinese who had developed in the Korean entertainment industry. The first choice is definitely Hani and Jimin, the guests of the previous episode, and Zhang Yu'an, who served as the Chinese representative in the JTBC program "Non-summit Talks", has also become his target.
In fact, there are many artists in the Korean entertainment industry who have something to do with China, such as Kim Hyo-yeon of Girls' Generation and Choi Si-won of Superjunior who have studied in China. In addition, 2pm Nikun is of mixed Chinese and Thai descent, and is currently focusing on the Chinese market. There are also two Chinese in JYP's rookie boy group GOT7.
In short, there are a lot of candidates.
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While Kim Min-seok was worrying about which artists to invite, Kim Woo-seo of the same company was also busy.
"MLT" is now a trending program with the highest rating of 17.8% in an instant, and MBC has also given unlimited tolerance to this program with the highest ratings in the same period. It can even be said that the reason why Liu Haizhen was able to get strong support from MBC is because the ratings of this show are too strong.
Now Liu Haizhen and Jin Yurui want to make a big news, and MBC is still struggling to squeeze out some financial support despite its tight finances. Of course, this support is not gratuitous. In this large-scale special, the advertising space of "MLT", which was originally monopolized by Liu Haizhen, must also be given up for MBC to arrange.
In addition, MBC also provided some political and network assistance to the production team. The major shareholder of the station is the Broadcasting Culture Promotion Association, and its former chairman is now the president of South Korea. It is easier to obtain visas through television stations and to communicate with the local government for assistance.
All in all, this series of chores was finally done three days before the show was recorded. Bai Zongyuan has already boarded a flight to Paris, and then he will take a car to Provence. Sane also boarded flights to LA, and their destinations were far away from South Korea and had to depart early.
Cao'e and Zheng Junying are much more relaxed, they can take the next morning's flight and arrive in two or three hours anyway. Despite this, Cao'e still made time to take a flight to Shanghai a day ahead of schedule on the grounds that she needed to prepare in advance.
She is not a character who sits idly by, and prefers to take the initiative herself rather than leave the decision to others. What's more, Liu Haizhen's sudden scandal with Jessica also made her very worried.
"This guy doesn't know what charm he has, how can he meet beautiful girls everywhere he goes, and it's Jessica's senior......" When she sat on the plane, Cao'e tossed and turned and couldn't sleep, thinking about this question all the time.
The previous opponent was Hani, who was the general trend of the year, the grace of "Please Answer 1997", and Hyuna, who was known as "Little Lee Hyori", she was never so worried. Because she is confident that she will not be worse than them, and she will not pay less to Liu Haizhen than them.
But when the opponent is Jessica, she becomes worried.
What gave her the idea of wanting to debut as an artist was Girls' Generation. And the reason that supports her perseverance in interviewing SM trainees is that Jessica practiced for seven years before she was able to make her debut.
She has always fought for her girlhood, and now that her former idol has become a potential opponent, how can she not be worried?
After coming to Shanghai, Cao'e did not immediately contact Liu Haizhen. I couldn't get in touch immediately, Liu Haizhen used another phone card in China, and the mobile phone in South Korea was turned off when the battery was out.
Although the number of viewers of the last live broadcast was very high, even Jin Yurui's PD complained that there was no interesting point, and it was the least important when it was broadcast in the end. In fact, it is very interesting to do this link well, and it is easy to arrange some plots to make the two spark.
Cao'e's idea is the arrangement of links.
So after having lunch at the hotel, she went to the writer's room and began to "conspire" with the writer.
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"What happiness!" Yun'er looked at the girl who nodded a little shyly, and watched the boy put on the diamond ring for the girl, and couldn't help but say enviously. Although she couldn't understand what the boy said, the happy looks on the faces of the two made Yuna very envious.
"Has Nuna ever thought about when to get married?" Liu Haizhen looked at this scene and also fell into thought, and this question blurted out involuntarily.
"I don't even have a boyfriend!" Yuna pouted unhappily.
"How come? Isn't Nuna in love with Lee Seung Ki?" Liu Haizhen was stunned, Yuna and Lee Seung Gi's relationship was exposed last year, and there has been no news of a breakup since then, Liu Haizhen thought that the two were still in love.
"Hey, I didn't have much relationship with him last year, we were busy with each other's work and didn't even have the opportunity to meet, and we coordinated several times to no avail, and finally we had to choose to break up. Yuna sighed, this was her first public relationship, although she had already thought that the ending was unlikely to be good, but breaking up like this still made her feel a little lost. "Now we are negotiating, and after reporting to the company, the company said that it intends to suppress the news and wait until it returns to break out the hype. ”
"Isn't Nuna afraid that I will say it?" Liu Haizhen saw that Yun'er was a little depressed, so he laughed and joked.
"Ah, if you had such a loose mouth, you wouldn't have been able to make such a big career. Yun'er gave him a blank look and said. "Besides, I didn't hide this from the people around me, except for my father, even my sister and brother-in-law also knew about it. ”
"Why is Nuna hiding it from his uncle?" asked Liu Haizhen curiously.
"At the beginning, my father was against me and Shengji oppa, and later Shengji oppa surpassed me a lot in popularity and career, so he reluctantly nodded. At that time, he said, if I am serious about falling in love, then I will always talk about marriage. Yun'a said with a sad face. "At that time, I was full of confidence and thought that this time I could keep talking about marriage. And my dad is looking forward to seeing the day I get married. Now that we're breaking up, I don't even know what to tell him about it. (To be continued.) )