Chapter 04: Hulu Ventures
Unimportant characters are always easy to forget, but important characters, like gold in the gravel, can't be avoided if you want to.
Li Xiuman returned home, carefully sorted out the recent unusual equity changes of S.M Company, and scrutinized the details one by one, and suddenly found that this equity change was very similar to the last time Japan Ai withdrew its investment. It's not like, it's almost the same. The last time Ai withdrew his investment, it turned out to be the means of Japan's Yamaguchi-gumi, when the Korean Wave invaded Japan, and the Japanese entertainment industry was worried that the Korean Wave would replace the mainland, so the Japanese entertainment industry used the means to make S・M plant a big heel in Japan. At that time, Baoer and TVXQ were in full swing, and it was precisely because of this heel that Baoer did not release a new album for two years and fell off the throne, and the situation has only improved in the past two years.
Will it be the handiwork of the Japanese Yamaguchi gumi this time?
Li Xiuman became suspicious and pondered for a long time.
The situation in South Korea and Japan is different, and the triangular relationship in Japanese society, the chaebol, the gangsters, and the politicians, the power of the three is almost equal, thus forming a relatively stable triangular structure. But there is no triangular structure in Korean society, which is a bipolar structure of chaebols and political parties. The chaebol controls the economy of almost all the people, and the political parties are the protective force supported by the chaebol. Turning it over, political parties also want to control the chaebol, and love and kill each other.
Japanese politicians have a long family history, they are conceited of their reputation, and they pay great attention to their image. The dark side of things, they will not do it themselves, but will hand it over to the gangsters to do. Therefore, the last time Japan Ai withdrew its investment, although it was the instigation of the Japanese Ministry of Culture, the executor was the Yamaguchi-gumi. In South Korea, the chaebol is about the same as the Japanese politicians, and they are also very fake, and they have a bunch of dirty things, but they instruct the politicians to do it. In South Korea, political parties are about the same as the triad. And if you want to be a money-making company like S.M., there must be a political party behind it.
Behind S.M stands the New Millennium Democratic Party. This party was founded by Kim Dae-jung, when he was president. It was during this period that S・M rapidly developed into the 'Big Three'. But now that the ruling party has changed, the help that the backers behind S.M can provide is very limited. It's not entirely bad, it's less constrained. The autonomy of the S・M has also increased. But when something happens and the 'big brother' is needed, the big brother can't hold up, which is also a problem.
Li Xiuman thought for a while and made several phone calls in a row. The context of the matter gradually became clearer. With the strength of the Yamaguchi Group, it has long been disdainful of covering up, which is why Li Xiuman will find it so easily.
As he thought, it was the Yamaguchi-gumi who bought Neowizbugs within eight hours, sold Neowizbugs' S.M stake to a leather bag company within 12 hours, and Lee Su-man went through the rest. Neowizbugs offered to withdraw its shares, which were split equally among the shareholders, completing the divestment and receiving 800,000 shares. But the next thing is incomprehensible. The leather bag company, which received the 5% S・M stake transferred by Neowizbugs, transferred the equity to a South Korean investment company, Hulu Ventures, the next day, a company that had no impression at all.
However, the information chain is complete, because the email received today is sent in the name of this 'Hulu Ventures'. Speaking of this email, Li Xiuman couldn't help but smile bitterly, he had been in business for more than 25 years, and he had never seen such a child's letter. How can a normal businessman threaten like this, if you don't let Jessica go back to her girlhood, I will sell the shares to Kim Young-min...... Childish! Ridiculous! But Li Xiuman had to admit it. The timing of the other party's arrest was too accurate, and at this time, he couldn't ignore the five percent, and changed to another time. This ridiculous thing, he can't even look at it.
Now all the focus is on this 'gourd venture capital'. Li Xiuman racked his brains to think back, and he really didn't have any impression at all. It is said that the investment company that can work in the Yamaguchi-gumi will not be unknown in South Korea, is it because it has been in the United States for too long. The information here in South Korea has not been updated for a long time, so can't it keep up?
Li Xiuman called several old friends one after another, all of whom were well-informed people in the Korean financial circles, but they also knew nothing about this 'gourd venture capital'. Li Xiuman searched for information about Hulu Venture Capital on the Internet, not a single useful one, what came out was either a gourd, or a screenshot of a cartoon in Chinese, what is going on with this Hulu Venture Capital, is it that as an investment company, it has not invested in anything, is it specially registered to acquire shares of S・M company?
Li Xiuman was depressed, threw the mouse, leaned on the back of the chair and breathed, at this time, a Skype video request popped up in the lower right corner of the computer, Li Xiuman clicked the mouse, and the image of his eldest son Lee Hyun-gyu appeared on the opposite side.
Treating this son, Li Xiuman has always been strict and doting. He was very strict about the things he had set up for his son, such as studying, but outside of the framework, he was very doting on his son, and this doting became more prominent after his wife's death.
"Done with everything at school?"
"Well, that's all done, I'm packing my bags, I'll be on the plane in about three hours, and I'll be able to see my dad in thirteen hours. ”
"Okay, good ......" Li Xiuman muttered, looking at his eldest son, who looked like his wife, and suddenly remembered his deceased wife, he couldn't help but feel sad, and his expression was a little gloomy. Lee Hyun-gyu was immersed in the joy of being able to return to South Korea soon, and suddenly saw Lee so-man's appearance, and suddenly realized that his father was so old, the hair on both temples was white, and he felt a little uncomfortable, he had never said such a thing before, but this time, after hesitating, he asked, "Dad, have you encountered anything difficult?"
"Oh?" Li Xiuman looked at his son in surprise, and suddenly felt a little relieved, and said, "Don't you never care, what's wrong today?"
Lee Hyun-gyu was a little embarrassed, scratched his head and sneered: "Wasn't I young before, but now I'm twenty years old."
"Sure enough, my son ......" Li Xiuman nodded, although he didn't expect his son to help at all, but he still told him. In his opinion, Lee Hyun-gyu will have to experience this kind of thing sooner or later, and this time he can't help, and it can be regarded as accumulating experience.
"Hulu Ventures?" Li Hyun-gyu heard the name and asked, "Dad, are you sure it's Hulu Ventures?"
"Yes," Li Xiuman couldn't help laughing when he saw his son's reaction: "What, have you heard of it?"
"Really, Dad, I've really heard of it!" Lee Hyun-gyu was so excited that he was able to help his father for the first time: "I know an elder brother, his company is Hulu Ventures, I must be right, the third sister also knows, I don't believe you to ask her!" (To be continued.) )
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