Chapter 45: The Storm Rises (1)
December 27, a calm afternoon before New Year's Day. One after another, the traffic drove into the A.P company in Sinsa-dong, and the various entertainment meeks with long guns and short guns on their backs walked into the press conference hall of the administration building. From the excited expressions of these people, it is clear that heavyweight news will be born here.
Yes, today is the day when A.P Entertainment held its inauguration ceremony and held a press conference to the public. To this end, many friends in the entertainment industry and many entertainment reporters were invited to attend.
In fact, South Korea is so big, and if there is anything going on in the entertainment industry, these pervasive reporters will definitely know in advance. It's just that C.J Group has already greeted all entertainment media in advance, asking them to postpone revealing the news of A.P to the outside world, and everything will have to wait until today's inauguration ceremony.
In South Korea, the C.J Group is a well-deserved giant crocodile, with a network of relationships crisscrossing the country. No matter how big the background is, the media will not be stupid enough to take the initiative to provoke such a strong enemy. But all the media outlets are gearing up and preparing their best reporters to grab more news at this press conference.
In the president's office on the top floor of the administration building, Kim Young-min and Choi Jung-won stand side by side. Looking down at the square below, watching all kinds of heroes pouring in, I couldn't help but feel a trace of pride from the bottom of my heart. Starting today, the entertainment landscape in South Korea and Asia will change significantly, and A.P will join the game as a new force. And this change was born from the hands of these two people who were less than fifty years old together.
Kim Young-min rushed back from China yesterday, and his PR has been very effective during this time, and it can be said that A.P has opened up the situation in China. As a result of his negotiations with BJ, A.P's China Draft will be held on January 25, 2001.
This move came a year earlier than S.M's China Raiders. To put it bluntly, A.P will be the leader in the Chinese market. Moreover, Cui Zhengyuan, a pseudo-local snake, knows more about China's market than Li Xiuman, and A.P's achievements in China will definitely surpass S.M's in the future.
According to the Jihua proposed by Choi Jung-won and Kim Young-min, the main card of this draft is Lee Jung-hyun. At that time, Lee Jung-hyun will personally rush to China to participate in the draft as a judge.
These are all later words, and the first task at present is to announce the news of the establishment of A.P. to the outside world.
Today, the press conference will be held first, and the outside world will be able to learn about A.P through the publicity of major media. At the press conference, in addition to announcing the establishment of A.P, the company's leadership, the areas involved in the company's operations, the dissolution of turbo, and the release date of Kim Jong Kook's solo flight and his new album will also be announced.
After the reporters walked into the venue and sat down according to the name plates, an employee of A.P stepped forward and handed over the process of today's press conference.
Che Bingwan is the chief reporter of the entertainment section of "Jingxiang News", and he is an old man who has been engaged in entertainment interviews for more than 20 years. He has a wide range of contacts in the Korean entertainment industry, and has good personal relationships with the executives of various entertainment companies and TV stations. So as early as September, when A.P had just started to acquire and reorganize, he had already received specific news. However, just as he was about to break the news in the newspaper, he received a notice from the editor-in-chief of the newspaper, telling him to stop the relevant actions and wait for the newspaper's decision.
He is a veteran employee of the newspaper, and he is also the head of the office, and he is also a pivotal figure in the newspaper, and the editor-in-chief also relies on him. Because of this relationship, he privately asked the editor-in-chief for the reason.
The editor-in-chief did not have any taboos, and informed that the newspaper did not report on the relevant news for the time being after receiving a notification from the C.J Group. got the answer, Cha Bingwan secretly said how important this new entertainment company is, and it can get such protection from the parent company.
Although the fruits of his labor were lost, Che Bingwan was not dissatisfied. Now that my newspaper has received such a notification, it is estimated that other peers will be similar. Everyone is each other, and the opportunity is still open. Sure enough, in the days that followed, he didn't see any news about C.J Group's new entertainment company in other news media.
With a keen sense of smell honed over many years in the industry, he sensed that the new company was going to make big moves. If this news doesn't break out, it will definitely cause a sensation across the country. Therefore, while collecting relevant information and tracking the context of A.P., he applied to the editor-in-chief and took the initiative to take the task of interviewing.
The previous acquisitions were too big for A.P to be silent. Therefore, he can also get some information. But the reorganization of the company and the purchase of a new building, one of which was made of internal confidentiality provisions, and the other was not in the entertainment field, he had no way of knowing the specific situation.
It wasn't until today that the newspaper got a notification from A.P that he hurried here. On the way here, his mind was full of questions. Weishenme's chosen address is Sinsa-dong instead of Cheongdam-dong and Amogujeong, where entertainment companies are gathered?
However, when he got out of the car and saw the seven buildings lined up, and the logos made of seven Chinese characters reflected each other in the sun, the shocked heart had already made the answer clear.
What Korean entertainment company has such a big deal to build seven buildings in one go? Not to mention South Korea, even the whole of Asia, including Europe and the United States, I have never heard of any entertainment company with such courage. Others don't know that with these seven properties alone, this company can become the largest brokerage company in South Korea. S.M, SidusHQ and it have become pediatrics.
At this time, with the help of his assistant, Che Bingwan sorted out the shooting equipment and began to sit down and concentrate on studying the flow chart in his hand. He ignored the origin of A.P's name and the composition of the company. Because in his previous investigation, the information about this part has already been known. It wasn't until the personnel appointments after the company's restructuring that he took a closer look.
When he saw the president Kim Young-min, he felt a sigh in his heart. He knew this person, the former head of the overseas development team of S.M, and later changed jobs. This information is certainly not a secret to him, an old bird.
However, when he saw the following introduction of the executive director Cui Zhengyuan, Rao couldn't help but burst into foul language with a calm attitude that Che Bing had exercised for more than ten years. "Sixteen years old, do you want to be so exaggerated"?
Think about when I was sixteen years old, I was still fighting with people in high school, or I didn't dare to confess when I saw the girl I liked. Look at people again, it's already the executive of such a big company. People are more angry than people.
Che Bingwan carefully marked it, this executive will be the target of his focus, think about the title of "sixteen-year-old executive", how eye-catching.
It didn't matter if he was so foul-mouthed, Zhao Junrong, a reporter from the "Central Daily" who was sitting next to him, was startled, and the camera in his hand almost fell to the ground. He and Che Bingwan are old acquaintances, and their peers are enemies, and the two both cherish each other and compete with each other. At the moment, he said angrily: "Reporter Cheda, what is the big thing that alarmed your old man"?
Che Bingwan didn't care about his ridicule, handed over the flow chart in his hand, and said in a huffing voice: "Look at what this is, the sixteen-year-old executive is just a demon, and it must be big news if it breaks out."
Unexpectedly, Zhao Junrong was indifferent to the news, and sorted out the equipment in his hand by himself.
Che Bingwan wondered, he knew this old opponent very well. Where is there hot news, this guy will definitely pounce like a mad dog, why is it so strange now? Grabbing the other party, he raised his own questions.
was dragged by Che Bingwan, and Zhao Junrong couldn't continue to tidy up. In desperation, I had to reveal what I knew to him. Unlike Che Bingwan, whose job is to engage in entertainment, Zhao Junrong's previous work department was an economic reporter, and he later changed careers to do this.
Although the Cui family is low-key, it still has a lot of popularity in the economic field, so Zhao Junrong knows the relationship between the Cui family and the C.J Group. Moreover, JoongAng Ilbo was founded by Lee Kun-hee, the president of Samsung Group. Although it was later forcibly stripped off by the Jeon Dou H dictatorship, it is still inextricably linked to Samsung. With the help of the good relationship between Samsung and C.J Group, when Cha Bingwan was still searching for clues, Zhao Junrong had already learned the whole process. The main purpose of his visit this time is actually to disband and fly solo for Kim Jong Kook.
After listening to Zhao Junrong's eloquent words, Cha Bingwan suddenly realized. Unexpectedly, the immature-looking teenager in the information has such a strong background. However, hatred of the rich is human nature, and in Che Bingwan's impression, the children of wealthy families are the kind of virtues that are drunk and drunk, and they have never had any sense of haode. Thinking of this, I couldn't help but sneer, "It turns out that I am an airborne gentleman again, who doesn't eat, drink and have fun at a young age, but learns from others to do business." I don't think this company will last long."
When he said this, Zhao Junrong was a little unhappy, "I can't say that, although I don't get much news." But as far as I know, A.P's big moves during this period are basically related to this executive director Cui. Even their president, Kim Young-min, was brought in by him from S.M."
"Is that true"?
Zhao Junrong put down the camera in his hand and said dissatisfiedly: "I said, you and I have known each other for many years, when did you see me tell a lie?"
Although the two are opponents, Zhao Junrong's character and Che Bingwan can still be trusted. There is one thing to say, never to tell lies or lies. Even if they compete with each other, it is admirable.
Cha Bingwan's small eyes kept turning, and he silently thought about Jihua in his heart. Although today's press conference will last for an hour, with so many reporters present, it will be everyone's turn, and the time to ask questions will definitely be very short. Rather than trying hard to get all the news, it's better to make a trade-off and focus on the point of 16-year-old routine.
At the same time, Zhao Junrong was also looking around. Looking at the reporters on the left and right and behind them, they are basically familiar faces. As a top-level reporter in their industry, they basically deal with people who are almost as famous, and this is the first time that so many big-name entertainment journalists have gathered together.
However, Zhao Junrong smiled coldly, and his playful eyes crossed these people. Many people present did not know that at the reception at the end of the press conference, only a few media outlets, such as JoongAng Ilbo, Chosun News, KBS News Department, SBS News Department, and MBC News Department, were allowed to enter the venue, and no one else had this qualification.