"I didn't expect Mr. Li to invite me to this kind of place for tea." The current secretary general of the Korea Fair Trade Commission is Choi Jung-nam, and in a private club in Seoul, Choi Jung-nam sipped the tea in front of him with a smile, while sitting opposite him was Lee Kun-hee.

The Korea Fair Trade Commission, the English abbreviation is KPT, casually looking at this abbreviation, it is very similar to the famous fast food giant KFC Chicken FO. Of course, the Korea Fair Trade Commission is not a fast food business of KFC, and even this committee does not do any business at all, but is a semi-official, semi-non-governmental organization.

How to define the intelligence of the Korea Fair Trade Commission, I'm afraid a few words are not clear at all. To put it simply, from the trade exchanges between countries to the impact of a trading company that imports vegetables on the income of domestic vegetable farmers, they are all involved in it.

But if this foot is inserted, no one can grasp whether the other party approves it or not. Not long ago, for example, the Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) proposed that it would like to take steps to protect auto parts suppliers from the very low purchase prices caused by automakers. In response, Hyundai was also fined up to $660,000. Later, he targeted Daewoo and Kia, and also issued fines ranging from high to low.

As a semi-governmental organization, the KFTC sometimes has great powers, because according to the purpose of their organization, its main task is to demonstrate fairness and justice in trade. Judging from the fact that manufacturers of auto parts have lowered purchase prices, the Korea Fair Trade Commission seems to have done a great thing. But on the contrary, in this matter, none of the spare parts suppliers applauded, but privately blamed the Korea Fair Trade Commission for being too wide and stretching its hands too long.

This incident made the Korea Fair Trade Commission a little disgraced, just like the incident against E in the Korean company's office, which caused a big joke internationally. However, the Korea Fair Trade Commission, which has always done its own thing, did not care at all, and announced that everything they did was legitimate and necessary, and that it was only temporarily misunderstood that it would eventually be understood by the beneficiaries.

From this point of view, the Korea Fair Trade Commission and the Celestial Empire's reform commission are somewhat similar, especially the ability to pat the head on the same level, but the power of the Korea Fair Trade Commission is not as strong as the reform commission, but from the current point of view, its energy is not weak.

These days, Cui Zhengnan is a little depressed, why is he depressed? Of course, this is the reason why the incident of protecting auto parts suppliers was not recognized before. Originally, Choi Zhengnan was ready to play the Korea Fair Trade Commission and his own brand on this incident, and it would have been better if he even won a cheer. But who would have thought that what he got in the end was not cheers but a common scolding from both sides. In one sentence, Cui Zhengnan is Zhu Bajie is not a person inside and outside when he looks in the mirror.

If it weren't for Cui Zhengnan's thick skin and deep background, maybe he would be a little unable to sit still under his buttocks. Even so, he is racking his brains these days for the next possible target, as a way to deflect the impact of the last incident and salvage the reputation of the Korea Fair Trade Commission.

Coincidentally, I suddenly received a call from Lee Kun-hee yesterday. Choi Jung-nam and Lee Kun-hee can only be said to know each other, and the two sides have little friendship. Otherwise, Lee Kun-hee would not have called his office landline directly, but would have made a private phone call to communicate. What made Cui Zhengnan even more strange was that Lee Kun-hee took the initiative to invite himself to tea after chatting with him on the phone. This invitation made Choi Zhengnan a little puzzled, but Lee Kun-hee is not an ordinary person, and this bit of face still has to be sold. Besides, as the secretary general, Choi Jung-nam's meeting with Lee Kun-hee, South Korea's No. 1 business overlord, seems to be within his purview.

made an appointment, and Cui Zhengnan went to the appointment on time. This private club is very good, Cui Zhengnan has also been here a few times, the environment is quiet and elegant, it is a very suitable place to talk about things.

Picking up the teacup again and taking a sip of tea, Cui Zhengnan said the sentence just now with a smile. After he and Li Jianxi sat down, a lot of polite words had been said by both sides, and even the tea in front of them had been added once, but the topic still did not enter the main topic.

If Lee Kun-hee told Choi Jung-nam that he was only here today to drink tea and exchange feelings, he wouldn't believe it if he killed Choi Jeong-nam. None of the people present were ordinary people, one was the head of the Samsung Group, a famous entrepreneur in South Korea. The other is the secretary general of the Korea Fair Trade Commission. The two usually have a lot of opportunities, and the other party is not a close friend who has known each other for many years, what feelings can they exchange? If the old guy Lee Kun-hee is replaced by a beautiful woman, Choi Jung-nam doesn't mind having an all-round exchange with a beautiful woman from soul to **.

As expected, Lee Kun-hee smiled faintly and finally said his purpose.

"Secretary General Choi, what do you think of the Korea Fair Trade Commission, or what do you personally think of the smartphone market?"

"Smartphone industry?" Choi was stunned, but he quickly thought of Samsung's smartphone products. Turning his brain, Cui Zhengnan pondered the other party's intentions, and soon he thought of the contradiction between Samsung and OR Company. Could it be that Lee Kun-hee's purpose in asking him and his Korea Fair Trade Commission to target OR in the form of unfair trade competition? So as to get the initiative and benefit in the lawsuit with the other party and the acquisition of Samsung Corning?

Thinking of this, Cui Zhengnan laughed, he opened his mouth and said a cliché, and explained the current situation of the smartphone industry in a cloudy manner, but although he said a lot, he did not express any key meaning, that is to say, he took the way of playing Tai Chi for Li Kunxi's inquiry. This kind of method, Choi Zhengnan is very good at it, or the Koreans are very good at it, otherwise how can they say that their national flag is printed with a simple Taiji diagram?

"This bastard" Listening to Choi Jung-nam's nonsense with a stick and a hammer in the west, Lee Kun-hee was a little angry in his heart. He knew that this was intentional by Cui Zhengnan, and it seemed that he insisted on telling his intentions directly today, otherwise this kind of nonsense might continue until the end.

After thinking about it, Li Jianxi interrupted the other party's words and said with a smile: "Secretary-General Cui said very well, and I admire it very much." However, I have a somewhat different view of the smartphone market in South Korea. ”

"Oh, but I hear it," Choi Jeong-nam made a somewhat surprised expression and sat up straight in a posture of listening.

"Pan-Thai Company has been in crisis recently" Who would have thought that after Lee Kun-hee opened his mouth, he actually mentioned Pan-Thai Company directly, which made Cui Zhengnan a little puzzled. You must know that he, Li Kunxi, is the head of Samsung Group, and he is not the chairman of Pantech, so what does this Pantech company have to do with him?

Speaking of Pantech, this is a mobile phone manufacturer with a small reputation in South Korea. As early as 1991, after the establishment of Pantech, the company took the communications industry as the pillar, mainly engaged in wireless paging business in the early days, and later gradually involved in mobile phone manufacturers. Around 26 years, Pantech launched its own brand of mobile phones, which then appeared in smartphones, and Fantai also launched their smartphone products in 6 years, and achieved some success in the market.

South Korea is a small country, and a large group like Samsung is one of the few in South Korea. Compared to Samsung, or even LG, Pantech can be said to be a medium-sized company. But even so, Pantech entered the smartphone industry very quickly, and eventually became the third largest mobile phone manufacturer in South Korea.

In the past few years since smartphones seized the traditional 2 mobile phones, Pantech has been living a very nourishing life, and from its business point of view, there are signs of prosperity. But after all, Pantech is not a big company like Samsung and LGH, its foundation is not strong, and its market strategy in the international market has not been impressive. Its main markets are still in South Korea and the surrounding areas of Southeast Asia. This situation led to the lack of stamina of Pan-Thailand, and after the enterprise exhibition reached its peak, it naturally went downhill.

Lee Kun-hee suddenly...

mentioned Pan-Thai Company, which not only surprised Cui Zhengnan, but also made him secretly scold Lee Kun-hee, the old fox, for being shameless.

That's right, it's really hard to have a hard time now, with the name of South Korea's third-largest mobile phone manufacturer, and its smartphone products are not good even in South Korea, let alone overseas. If it weren't for Lee Kun-hee mentioning the name of Pan Thai today, maybe Choi Jung-nam wouldn't have remembered for a while that they still have such a "famous" mobile phone manufacturer in South Korea.

Besides, Fantai's performance is not good, there are many crises, this is your Li Kunxi's? Oh yes, from this point of view, it's about Lee Kun-hee. If it weren't for the fact that his Samsung mobile phone is the company with the highest share of local smartphone products in South Korea, perhaps Pantech would not have fallen to this point. Lee Kun-hee's words did not give people the idea of pan-Thai feelings, on the contrary, there was a feeling of cat crying and mouse fake compassion.

"Hehe, does the Secretary-General think that as the chairman of Samsung Group, my feelings about Pantai are a little too false?" Lee Kun-hee seemed to sense Choi Jeong-nam's thoughts, and immediately asked with a smile.

"Where is it, Mr. Li, as a leader in the business world, cares about his peers and juniors for all to see, maybe Mr. Li mentioned Pantai out of this attitude, right?" Choi Jung-nam is not a fool, of course he can't directly point at Lee Kun-hee and tell the truth, his eyes rolled, and he quickly said a guess that seemed very decent.

Unexpectedly, Li Jianxi actually hit the snake with the stick, nodded in agreement with the meaning of his words, and said with emotion: "Yes, you still know me, Secretary General."

"Cheeky old fox" Cui Zhengnan looked at the serious Lee Kun-hee, and couldn't help but curse in his stomach.

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