Chapter 490: Backfired
When WG's agent accompanied WG to leave the scene, he said something to the members, intentionally or unintentionally: "Have you noticed Girls' Generation, they seem to be acting relaxed and happy, do you want to meet them again?"
Oh manna Xuanmei's popularity can be said to be in full swing at this time, but she is also the youngest in the team, and she has been hospitalized for respiratory syndrome before, so she said a little tiredly: "I didn't see it, let's go back to the car and talk about it......"
Everyone else basically means the same thing, and their agent can only nod helplessly to lead you when he sees everyone's performance.
As we all know, on February 15, 2008, WG became South Korea's ambassador for fair election campaigning, and the implications behind this are self-evident. After all, South Korea's presidential election ended at the end of 2007. Therefore, WG is recognized as the new president in the circle, and the fact that JYP hugged the new president's lap early has often become a topic of conversation in various top clubs.
Generally speaking, in an organization that has been in operation for a long time, it is normal for different factions to appear due to different philosophies, but the struggle between various factions generally does not exceed the bottom line of the organization's level. For example, in the entertainment industry, the principles of law-abiding and fair competition are generally pursued. Therefore, the factional disputes within the various companies in this circle will basically not lead to a large number of people being forced to leave the company, just like Li Xiuman, although he has been squeezed out by the company before, but he has shares in his hands, he can choose to go to the United States for a vacation, rather than being forced to sell his stocks - if someone does this, it will touch the bottom line at this level, and it will be attacked by the crowd.
This is a very simple logic, after all, in a highly privatized society like South Korea, the rights of shareholders are fully protected at the level of the constitution, and forcing people to sell shares is not a bandit act that violates the constitution.
In 2008, in the Korean entertainment industry, there were a lot of high-level shareholding companies leaving and forming new companies, why is this?
There is only one situation that can create such a situation, that is, the entire organization is facing the intervention of powerful external forces, and the threat of this external force to the entire organization has reached the extent of exceeding the bottom line, and in this case, forcing people to sell shares is not an act of breaking the bottom line, but a product of public self-preservation.
Therefore, the fact that Kim Young-min, Lee so-man and others joined forces to force out some shareholders did not cause an uproar in the company's board of directors, and similarly, other brokerage companies also had a similar situation in 2008, such as JYP Entertainment, which has always regarded Saman as a rival.
Interestingly, not only are there high-level shareholders in these two companies who were forced to leave, but looking at the entire Korean entertainment industry, similar incidents have occurred in various brokerage companies, and many of the senior executives who split out of the original company will actually form a new company together with people who came out of the company that was a rival before, I have to say that this is more like a large-scale liquidation and reorganization of various forces in the Korean entertainment industry.
Coincidentally, the emergence of a large number of new brokerage companies in South Korea in 2008 does coincide with the timeline of the reorganization of forces in the political circle, and along with this timeline, there are also a large number of first-, second-, and third-tier celebrity artist suicide news.
Therefore, the Korean entertainment industry is really not mixed, but anyone who has some achievements wants to go abroad to develop in order to become a talisman to some extent in the future...... This also explains why it also rose with the economic trend of the 80s, but the Korean entertainment industry is not like the Japanese entertainment industry, which has formed a complete market system comparable to the American entertainment market.
The entertainment market in other countries is good, you can earn more money, and you can also provide an additional umbrella for yourself, which will naturally attract aspirants to rush in. But if you look back, you can find that your own market is not good, in fact, because your predecessors have not cultivated your own market at all.
And the market of their own country that has been cultivated by other people's predecessors, as people who are not the descendants of others, want to enter, and do not pay enough price, why?
is still the same sentence, the entertainment industry is not a circle of charity, but a circle that nakedly follows the law of the jungle, and resolutely does not let others go to the circle if you can go to it or not. Therefore, the relationship between this circle and the political circle is quite close, not only because this circle is helpful for the propaganda of the political circle, but also because the two circles follow the same law.
Fundamentally, both circles were initially developed on the basis of economically powerful chaebols, corporations, or banks. The economic circle also pursues the law of the jungle, but the law of the jungle in this circle is relatively mild, except for the banking circle, large enterprises basically use the development of their own unique competitiveness to achieve market domination, and generally do not do things that others do - of course, some black history things will not be mentioned here.
Phoebe is well versed in the mode of operation of the system, so she has always been able to make bold and effective plans for the development of the entertainment market of Girls' Generation in Europe, America, Japan and South Korea. At the same time, because most of her plans will take half a year to come out, it is not clear to the outside world at this time that Girls' Generation hides such a "very valuable" character.
It is precisely because of this that Phoebe has always been cautious about the Chinese market, and used the invitation to the People's Liberation Army Academy of Arts to find pure northern Chinese actors for the film.
On the South Korean side, although some people know that Phoebe is valuable, their understanding of the value contained in Phoebe is almost based on the villa murder case in the first half of 2004, and many people think that Phoebe's adoption relationship is the real reason for her abduction, because this may involve the inside story of the American political family system, so no one in South Korea is willing to dig deeper.
The topic returns to WG, after they served as fair election ambassadors, they did go more smoothly, but there is no price behind it, that is, a certain degree of policy tilt will inevitably lead to a backlash against this tilt in the later stage.
Especially in 2008, WG's footprints were all over the world, and even the China that Korean artists most wanted to go to, they had also been there, and they were even accepted by the Chinese government to some extent, so as the new president's forces continue to subdue past opponents, new members will naturally yearn for this kind of treatment, and this has caused WG to give up some opportunities in some directions. Compared with the Chinese market, JYP's senior management will naturally choose the better American market, and more importantly, most of the songs prepared by JYP for WG are more advantageous than Girls' Generation's song resources - that's right, the company's supply of girls' generation's song resources is indeed very criticized, the key is that no matter how hard the company tries to build a global creator network, but companies that did these earlier abound, they are just the first in South Korea.
In fact, after the release of the new album just now, WG was able to get five places even in the absence of music programs, which cannot be said to be without ideas for singers in the entertainment industry.
So what the economist just wanted to tell the WG members was to let them learn about Girls' Generation, and when he saw Girls' Generation staying in the audience, although there was not a single shot, all the members were still under the leadership of the captain Taeyeon, watching the performance seriously, and also moving along with the performance, to be honest, although the singer would not be able to see the audience most of the time due to the lighting effect when he was on stage, he could still watch the monitoring replay in the venue after returning to the lounge, and there were many singers who paid attention to the reactions of the lively audience, will pay more attention to the reaction of similar artists who come to watch the performance to their own performances - some singers have never mixed up all their lives, and for this reason, it is really not a good habit for others to be busy with themselves offstage when they perform.
WG's agent knows that WG needs an opponent no matter what, which is not only related to the amount of WG's own topic, but also related to another problem, that is, there is no good impression of a dominant person in the circle, and this perception will gradually spread to the people with the influence of insiders, and when it reaches the peak, WG may fall worse than Girls' Generation.
Moreover, WG, which has just been debuting for a year, has already performed abroad many times, and even Japan, which is considered difficult for Korean artists to enter, has also taken the initiative to send invitations to WG to hold concerts. Although this sounds like good news on the surface, JYP executives are also worried that the announcement of this news without a rival to compare with will increase the envy of the WG in the circle.
JYP knew that Girls' Generation had gone to the United States before, and he also filmed a group show, which was said to be very good, so they looked all over the circle and found that Girls' Generation was still the most suitable opponent for WG, just like HOT had to have NRG as an opponent in that year.
Moreover, if there is a domestic opponent, then WG, who plans to go to the United States next year to open the market for the Korean Wave, will be able to maintain its popularity in China and not lose the Korean market, but the problem is that Lee Xiuman's brain doesn't know what is wrong, and after hearing the sample song of WG's follow-up, it will actually make Girls' Generation completely silent, and JYP's orangutan brother is simply mad about this.
Therefore, before the performance, WG took the initiative to find Girls' Generation first, and it was indeed instructed by someone, in order to quickly help Girls' Generation up, but people didn't fall into the trap at all.
And when watching the performance, Girls' Generation actually looked very high throughout the whole process, and WG's agent also paid special attention to it, and it turned out that SBS didn't give Girls' Generation a shot at all, but the other person's agent didn't say anything at all, which shows that Girls' Generation will not re-emerge as quickly as JYP expects anyway.
However, for WG, even if they don't have Girls' Generation as an opponent, they still need an opponent, but they really can't find a suitable combination of "origin" and level at the moment. And through this observation, WG's agent further discovered the problems of WG members, all of them are quiet and excessive, there is no such type in Girls' Generation, such as that Phoebe, but people's previous performance in variety shows is really remarkable, if it weren't for going to the United States to study, I'm afraid that Girls' Generation's variety show performance would be on a higher level.
On the other hand, on the WG side, there is no variety show engine, which almost makes WG's second invitation rate very low, look at the group that also debuted in 07, the boy group BB knows how important variety shows are for a group to stabilize fans and attract new fans, so this weakness of WG has caused JYP to rely on the creativity of Brother Orangutan and other musicians to continue the WG legend, in case the source of creativity is exhausted one day, then WG's scenery will come to an end.
From the agent's personal point of view, the split of JYP also has a very bad potential impact on WG, after all, Brother Orangutan is still a creator, and his vision in other aspects is obviously not as accurate as the management of the company, so he will subconsciously avoid his weaknesses, and the result is what WG is today. And this is in the eyes of the broker, there is a conflict of long-term interests.
Therefore, after WG's agent saw Girls' Generation's performance today, he wanted the members of WG to at least learn from others, even if it was good to learn Sunny to poke Phoebe's fingers, but WG was really too tired to understand the agent's intentions at all, and the agent himself knew that in JYP, WG is now the heart of Brother Orangutan, and no one wants to point fingers at WG, so when he saw that his efforts failed, he had to sigh secretly, nodded and smiled: " Well, let's check for anything left behind at the end, and we'll go on the next trip!"
"Yes~~" The members responded to the agent's order in tired voices, and each walked out with their things. Although everyone is really tired, but because Brother Orangutan promised to take them to the United States next year to develop, as long as they concentrate on singing and dancing, perform well in the itinerary selected by the company, as long as they don't fall in love and don't have a boyfriend, there will be no problem in going to the United States for development......