Chapter 168: Press Conference

In the end, An Yuxi decided to return on Mother's Day, that is, on May 9.

On May 7, S.M held a press conference to announce its global offering.

This press conference is the highest administrative scale in the history of S.M. Company, with Ahn Woo-se, the big boss behind the scenes, and even Lee so-man, the current president, and the next president Shin Sung-ho participated, and this may be the last time Lee so-man participated in the press conference as president.

Not only Shin Sung-ho also participated, but even Kim Young-min also participated, although there was a conflict with Shin Sung-ho, but the two sides were still consistent externally, which is related to the interests of the company, of course, more of their own interests.

Compared with An Yuxi, reporters are obviously more interested in Li Xiuman, his old man has not shown up for so long after being restricted from leaving the country by the court, and everyone has a stomach of questions to ask him.

"President Lee so-man, I heard that you are stepping down as president, right?" A stunned young reporter suddenly shouted.

Although the people in the audience were a little dissatisfied with this unruly person, they didn't stop him, they all stopped making noise, looking at Li Xiuman, they were all curious about how he would answer, because this was also a question they were very interested in.

"Yes!" Just as everyone waited with bated breath, Li Xiuman pondered for a long time, and then nodded solemnly, squinting his eyes and having a momentum.

"Wow!" The audience was suddenly in a mess, even if there was a guess of this content before, or something from the internal news of S.M's company, but this is not as shocking as I personally admitted.

Many reporters immediately informed their newspapers and websites, "S.M., the number one giant in the Korean entertainment industry, is starting to decline", "S.M's internal tilt", "The leader of K-pop, President Lee so-man, is stepping down, is this a loss for K-pop or an opportunity for other companies?" ","Without Li Xiuman's S.M, where will it go? A series of headlines with great subjective deception are formed in the minds of some reporters, the content is not important, the headline must be eye-catching, many "uncrowned kings" just want to make more money, and the headline must be long enough to attract people!

Of course, those larger newspapers and websites can't be like this, most of them are objective facts, of course, most of them, you can still use your imagination appropriately, yes, that's it.

"Silence! Quiet! The host Liu Taimin said loudly, and the audience has become a mess.

The reaction of the reporters has already guessed a little, Li Xiuman and the first director have also thought of countermeasures before coming, Li Xiuman's resignation may reduce the confidence of shareholders in S.M, they don't care about S.M, sign a "slave contract" or something, as long as they can make money. But Li Xiuman, as the largest shareholder, also has his own ideas, so he also tests the attitude of the people by the way, after all, what is the matter of being scolded all the time? He is 52 years old, his physical strength and energy have begun to decline, many things are beyond his strength, and he doesn't want to carry this infamy for the rest of his life, he still wants to enjoy his old age, now he is not a singer or an actor, what is it that there are so many things! He still wants to retreat into the background, it's enough to grasp the general direction, and leave the rest to young people to do, it's not a big deal to be a president, if it was ten years ago, how could Li Xiuman think so? It's his character to fight to the end, but now he's old.

The reporters in the audience couldn't be too unqualified, everyone was civilized, so their voices were much quieter, and waited for Li Xiuman to continue.

First of all, Li Xiuman lowered his profile to apologize to the people, apologized for his "mistakes", and hoped to be forgiven by the people, and then summarized the company's gains and losses over the years, imagined the future, and said that even if he no longer serves as the president of the company, he will serve as the artist director, so that everyone can see more and better singers, and I hope everyone looks forward to more confidence and so on.

Not only the media, but even the high-level leaders have seen for the first time that the always strong Li Xiuman will have such a "gentle" time, always tough style, coupled with a cold face, everyone has forgotten that he will be 60 years old in a few years, and he doesn't have so much energy to take care of so many things, what he wants to do now is that if he can reduce his sentence, it is best to fight for a probation, and save a little image, he doesn't want to go to prison when he is so old.

Originally, there were reporters who wanted to ask who the next president was, but unfortunately there was no chance, Li Xiuman kept silent after saying so much, and directly started the next agenda, and then Shin Sung-ho presided over the "world first sale", everyone thought that the press conference in a few days was not Li Xiuman's apology, but the press conference of An Yuxi's regular series, but from the meeting process, we can see a clue, the president is likely to be Shin Sung-ho.

Reporters are regaining their spirits, this is a global sale, even the "Pearl of Japan and Korea", the most influential artist in Asia, Bao'er is only releasing albums in South Korea and Japan.

And this An Yuxi's regular album is a global sale, this starting point I don't know how much higher than others, the scope of this album's sales not only includes South Korea, Japan, China (not limited to Taiwan), Europe and the United States, that's the United States! He's still a newcomer! When did S.M have such a big confidence and when did it have such a big financial resource? Many brokerage companies have also realized that S.M has become so powerful! Bao'er is booming in Japan, Kanta is also very popular in Taiwan, TVXQ has gained a firm foothold, and it is beginning to emerge, and now An Yuxi, who has just signed into the company, is also going to release a new album globally, this is still the one everyone thought before, is it the s.m company that will no longer be beautiful after the "myth" is terminated?

In the past, everyone didn't think about releasing new albums globally, but the question is what if they can't sell out? If no one buys it, it's a big joke, not only S.M Company, but even An Yuxi will be laughed to death by his peers, he spent a lot of money but didn't get anything, no one would be so stupid, would he be panicked when he had more money? K-pop hasn't gained a foothold in Asia yet.

The dream of conquering the United States is shared by many companies, such as Lee so-man, such as Park Jin-young, it should be said that every economic company has such a dream, but it depends on whether the strength is enough.

If An Yuxi does not achieve the desired results in the end, I believe that many companies will not mind seeing this joke, "It's really a big joke, the toad wants to eat swan meat", this is a comment from the online review.

Now all newspapers don't mind praising Ahn Woo-hee, praising s.m company, and going to the world This is K-pop, or the dream of all Koreans, but most newspapers still praise and disparage, questioning Ahn Woo-xi's strength, does a newcomer really have this kind of strength? This album is basically written and composed by himself!

When the time comes, if it really fails, everyone doesn't mind falling into the ground, after all, S.M company has been leading the way for so long~ Sao has been leading the way for so long, and it should leave a little living space for other companies, and I don't know how many consortia want to reach out to this system is not yet perfect, but the profiteering entertainment industry, as long as a project is popular, it is a lot of money.

So a newspaper company that lifts you to the sky before, and then may throw a stone in your head, there is no discipline at all, don't care, because they eat on topicality.

Because of the gimmick of "starting K-pop out of Asia and going to the world", Ahn Woo-seok's album and debut stage have received wide attention, whether it is a newspaper or a website, and even the three major wireless TV stations have inserted this news in the news.

In fact, strictly speaking, the first to enter the American market was s.m's h.o.T, the first group officially known as Idol, and it was also a figure who created history, this group is a legend for the Korean music industry, I don't know how many firsts have been created for Korean singers, basically the trainees within s.m will be in awe when they hear the name of h.o.T or kangta, just like a god.

At the press conference, it was also revealed that most of the songs were written and composed, and the arrangement was completed by An Yuxi alone, including Chinese songs in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and English.

This made the media even more surprised, but everyone was still skeptical, how could it be, if it was all written by him, or in four languages, he wouldn't believe what he said, that guy was only 19 years old, how could it be, unanimously expressed disbelief, even S.M Company didn't expect that the point that was originally used as a gimmick would actually lower the expectations of the media.

Overnight, An Yuxi became the headline again, "East Asia Daily", "Anglenews" and other well-known newspapers in the country also reported the news, many brokerage companies after receiving the news, there is no jealousy of S.M company and An Yuxi, more sympathy, after all, the higher the praise now, the worse the fall will be, no matter what you say now, you will still have to speak by the results when the time comes, and they don't believe that there will be such a demon who can create miracles.

Basically, no one is optimistic about S.M, and many newspapers have begun to prepare reports after the failure of S.M and Ahn Yuxi.

"Conquer the world? Is it hubris or ignorance? ”

"The last glory of s.m has drawn a big pie for the future of K-pop."

"S.M's last struggle, if it doesn't succeed, it will be a success."

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The next day's reports were basically related to S.M, such as Li Xiuman, such as An Yuxi, for example, An Yuxi's strategy to go to the world was regarded as Li Xiuman's final struggle, and the strong topicality immediately aroused heated discussions among the people, and for a time S.M Company was in the limelight, although the outside world tended to be a desperate gamble of S.M Company, and it was back to light.

The main reason is that at this time Li Xiuman said that he would "step down", which caused a misunderstanding, in fact, the leader of this work is Shin Sung-ho and A. What L is doing, the current s.m company does not have so much financial resources and channels to engage in such a big move.

Anyway, it's okay to have topicality.