Chapter 1: Rise to Fame

If ZK in 05 and Han Taejun had a perfect start, then in 06, the height of ZK can be said to be a higher level.

January 1st

The press conference of the TV series "Palace" was held at the Korean Hotel, and the attention of media reporters was focused on this TV series, which is known as the most luxurious TV series filmed on location, although it is somewhat regrettable in the lineup, after all, it is also ZK's first TV series, and it should be star-studded like the first movie.

However, in the next broadcast period, the ratings of "Palace" are also steadily improving, and it is almost as imagined, Han Taejun never thought that the ratings of "Palace" would exceed the results of last year's "My Name is Kim Sam-soon", which is unrealistic.

The average rating remained at 23.6% after the 24 episodes, with the highest rating at 28.8% at the time of the 15 episodes and the finale. This is already a very remarkable achievement in the New Year's opening drama of the M Broadcasting Bureau, and the key point is that it also defeated the competing TV dramas of the K and S Broadcasting Bureaus at the same time to rank first.

The number of advertisements has also increased to 12, and the income is completely beyond Han Taejun's expectations, and the front line of the M Broadcasting Bureau sold the TV series adaptation rights of "Palace" to several other countries and regions, and Park So-hee included selling the adaptation and sales rights when he signed the copyright sales with Han Tae-joon, but in the end, Han Tae-joon still gave Park So-hee 10% of the dividend, which is already a large amount.

The relationship between the two is also much closer, and they agreed that they can work together with good works in the future.

In March, ZK held a press conference to announce that it would produce zuò to shoot the new work "Traitor Monster" directed by Bong Joon-ho, and at the same time, Song Kang-ho was invited to star as the leading actor, and the heroine was selected to join Bae Doona, and other actors were also put in place.

The film's production press conference has attracted a lot of people's attention and expectations, the phenomenon of the theme is the first time in South Korea, with a disaster as the background, focusing on the story of an ordinary family in the face of the monster of the Han River, the screenwriter directed by Bong Joon-ho abandons the Hollywood way of personal heroism, but more interprets the order of the traditional family, emphasizing the creation of family relationships.

After 3 months of filming, the review was completed and the release qualification was obtained, on July 27, the Hanjiang Monster was released in South Korea, the investment in this film is not much, the number of moviegoers in 467 theaters exceeded 150,000 on the first day of release, this number is still rising, all the audiences who have watched this movie are applauding, after all, the movie explains a lot of problems, and the core value is very intuitive.

Immediately followed by the cooperation of the Propaganda Department, the popularity of the film is even more booming, and the major broadcasting bureaus and news media are vying to report and publicize, which is also a rare phenomenon in the film industry, and the chairman of the revitalization committee met with Han Taejun and Bong Joon-ho, and the film was successfully exported.

So far

By the end of its release in September, the Han River Monster had created a myth at the Korean box office, and ZK's reputation was already standing side by side with that of giant CJ.

Many media began to get to the bottom of it, about ZK, about Han Tae-joon, Bong Joon-ho once mentioned Han Tae-joon in an interview, as a junior of Yonsei University, Han Tae-joon's vision really didn't say, no one is thinking about anything, but he will succeed.

Of course, there is always more to pay, let's just say that in the movie Hanjiang Monster, Han Tae-joon and Bong Joon-ho stay on the shooting site every day, and his job is just to do chores, believe it, a representative of a manufacturing company is actually helping the director with chores.

August

ZK Productions announced that it will start filming Kim Young-hwa's new work "The Troubles of Beauty", the film starring Kim Ya-jung and Zhu Jin-mo, tells a series of interesting stories that happened after the gorgeous transformation of a heroine who looks ugly, is obese but has a unique voice and sings very remarkably, as a comedy film, the film was put on the screen at the end of the year, and in half a month by the end of the year, the number of viewers has exceeded 3 million, and it is still growing.

Many viewers are going for ZK, after all, there is a consensus in the hearts of the audience that ZK will not disappoint if it is produced.

In terms of TV series, Han Taejun was originally going to contact "Dream Couple", but the Hong sisters were not in vain, they had already prepared the script, and Han Taejun also felt a pity when the news came out from the M Broadcasting Bureau, and then "Snow Queen" Han Taejun simply gave up, and there was no time at the filming site of the movie at that time.

Entering the end of the year

At the end of November, the Blue Dragon Film Festival above.

ZK's "Monster of the Han River" came to prominence and received a total of 6 nominations, including Best Film, Best Grossing Korean Film, Best Technology, Best Lighting, Best New Actress and Best Supporting Actor.

At the end of December, the M Broadcasting Bureau Acting Awards ceremony was star-studded, Han Tae-joon sat in the living room of his home and watched the artists who appeared in the TV, and there were not many awards in TV dramas and entertainment ZK, with the TV series "Palace", Yoon Eun-hye and Joo Ji-hoon won the male and female newcomer awards of the M Broadcasting Bureau respectively, which was a great affirmation for the two actors, and the opportunity to get the newcomer award in life is only once for the actors.

In terms of infinite challenges, in addition to winning several awards last year, this year has also gained a lot, Han Tae-joon was not nominated for the award, in addition to Yoo Jae-seok won the big award for a second time, and several other MCs also won respectively.

After watching the award ceremony

In front of the sofa, he took a piece of apple and put it in his mouth, but Han Taejun's expression was not very clear.

ZK can be said to be on the right track, the money owed to Li Chengyi has long been paid off, Li Chengyi has not appeared in South Korea for a year, in terms of investment, at the beginning, Li Chengyi's father's company invested a total of 13 billion won in ZK has been taken back, and at the same time, it has also received a very objective dividend.

Changing the structural framework of ZK is the biggest problem in front of Han Taejun, Han Taejun does not understand very well in this regard, the chairman of the company and Han Taejun discussed, this chairman was personally hired by Han Taejun, very simple, if you want to change the management structure of the existing ZK, to put it bluntly, you only need to break away from the relationship with Li Chengyi, you only need not to accept the investment of American companies, and promote the company to speed up the pace of listing, from which Li Chengyi will be elevated.

After all, Li Chengyi and Han Taejun signed a contract at the beginning, and the two parties had legally binding copywriting on the structural relationship after the company's future development, and Li Chengyi, as the largest investor, enjoyed the position of deputy representative of ZK Zuò company, and of course there were some problems in the automatic termination clause, but that needed to be in the case of Li Chengyi's death or a big problem.

Han Taejun is entangled in this, if there is no Li Chengyi, there will naturally be no current ZK, it was not easy to get investment before, and it is a large amount as soon as he opens his mouth, but now it is different, ZK has become famous, and many companies take the initiative to invest.

The prosecution's investigation of Lee Seung-yi's evidence collection is still continuing, and more than a year has passed, but there has been no breakthrough in the progress, and if Han Tae-joon comes out to testify, he can help the prosecution, but the problem is that ZK will also be affected by this.

"Tae-joon"

Park Shuying was also worried when she found her son sitting on the sofa in a daze, on the surface, ZK is now infinitely beautiful, and when she goes out to mention Han Taejun's son, everyone is envious and jealous, Park Shuying is also very proud in front of friends and relatives, but Han Taejun has been worried all day lately.