Chapter 574: The Last Concert [Mr. Run Run Shaw Goes Well]
PS: Xiexie's tip!
On February 8, 2005, the Seoul Olympic Park was flooded with countless people.
The Zuihou concert of Choi Jung-won, the greatest and most well-known international singer in the Republic of Korea, will be held here, and the long-awaited fans will be impatient and want to enter early.
is worthy of being the most popular singer in Korea, and a total of 120,000 tickets for this concert have been sold.
If it weren't for the capacity constraints and safety of the scene, the Seoul police might have been able to exceed 150,000 people.
People with good deeds have calculated and come up with a dumbfounded figure.
According to the average ticket price of 170,000 won, this concert alone, Choi Jung-won earned an astronomical amount of 20.4 billion won.
What's that concept?
In other words, Choi Jung-won's income from this concert alone is comparable to the entire annual income of a medium-sized entertainment company in South Korea.
When this data was posted online, it immediately sparked a wave of discussion. Someone gave Cui Zhengyuan an exaggerated title: a mobile gold-absorbing machine.
Later, IU's annual revenue of 4 billion won was made as a mobile small and medium-sized enterprise. But obviously, Cui Zhengyuan's income can no longer be compared with small and medium-sized enterprises.
If there is a better description, the money printing machine in action may be more realistic.
For a time, Cui Zhengyuan became the first choice for various popular lists.
The tickets for Choi Jung-won's concert are definitely the most expensive among Korean singers. But even so, before the concert started, it was still hard to get a ticket.
Some scalpers raised the price of tickets by 250,000 won, but they were still swept away.
Fans can see that with Cui Zhengyuan's three-day fishing and two-day net-drying activities, the next concert may be the Year of the Monkey.
Maybe this concert of his will become a swan song, and it will be impossible to feel it live in the future. So even though the ticket price is staggeringly expensive. There are still a lot of people who flock to it.
Since the concert was held in South Korea, HBC canceled the live broadcast this time in order to ensure ticket revenue. Only before the opening will there be some news interviews and in-house broadcasts.
But it was the broadcast before the opening that also made fans who couldn't enter the stadium addicted.
Guess what they saw?
Lee so-man, Park Jin-young, Yang Hyun-suk, Park Wan-kyu, Kim Chao-han, Yoon Do-hyun, Cho Young-pil, Cho Hyun-mi, Song Dae-gwan, Tae Jin-a, Jang Dong-kun, Lee Byung-hun, Choi Min-sik, Song Kang-ho, Yim Jung-hwa, Ko Yo-tae, Jang Woo-hyuk, Shinhin, G.O.D., Teddy, Lee so-young, Jeon Do-yeon, Son Ye-jin, Han Ga-in, Kim Tae-hee, Kim Ha-na, Park Chan-wook, Yoon Ji-kyun, Cho In-sung, Kim Sun-ah, Choi Ji-woo, Choi Dong-hoon, Lee And-hwa........................
That long list of celebrities that shines enough to blind the eyes that anyone who sees them will gasp.
"Only Cui Zhengyuan's concert can bring so many big names together, right?" Whoever sees it can't help but sigh from the bottom of their hearts.
Any of these people is a very representative figure in the Korean entertainment industry.
Usually, as long as one appears in front of the public, it can cause a strong sensation. But today. Here, they willingly played a supporting role.
Some of these people came to observe and learn.
For example, Li Xiuman and other heads of entertainment companies came to the scene with their subordinates to feel the advanced experience of Europe and the United States brought back by Cui Zhengyuan.
Others came to learn from the scriptures.
Like Jang Woo-hyuk, Ko Yao-tae, Yan Zhenghua and others. These people all have the strength to hold concerts, and they want to learn more from Cui Zhengyuan, a powerful peer.
And the actors and directors are out of friendship.
Among these people at the scene, many of them have starred in films and television produced by A.P Company or C.J Group, and they are naturally inextricably linked with Cui Zhengyuan.
Anyway. With so many big-name personalities cheering up, Cui Zhengyuan's concert was raised a lot out of thin air.
In the words of the JoongAng Daily, this is the only concert of the king.
Interesting, although most of the entertainment people present are concentrated in one area. But they are far from each other. And even if it's only three or five steps apart, they don't see each other.
For example, Lee so-man, Park Jin-young, and Yang Hyun-suk, this is the case.
The contradictions between these three people are well known throughout the country. So to see them actually converge on one occasion. And they don't breathe with each other, and everyone will smile when they see it.
Only Choi Jung-won's concert can bring them together, right?
Kim Young-min returned to S.M with great prestige and received high hopes from many people.
Li Xiuman, who was originally hiding in the United States and watching the clouds roll up, also felt a huge threat. I am afraid that after a long time, I will be hollowed out. So I hurriedly carried out public relations, found a relationship and got a presidential pardon and returned to China.
As soon as he returned to the company, he made a strong announcement that he would also be the art director.
Not only did he get the planning power of TVXQ, but he also searched for candidates and prepared to launch new people.
Everyone can see that he is going to wrestle his wrist with the new president and declare his sense of existence.
Coming to see Cui Zhengyuan's concert today, Li Xiuman not only came by himself, but also brought Yu Yongzhen and several cronies.
Among these people, there are not only music creation, but also trainee training.
Li Xiuman's purpose is also obvious, that is, to let these pretentious subordinates take a good look. When they are proud and complacent, the gap between others and them has widened.
They haven't noticed the gap yet, but the number of people present today really scared them.
The concert of more than 100,000 people, they have not seen it. But it was a super-large platter concert, and it was only when top singers from all walks of life in Korea gathered that it had this effect.
A concert like this, just one singer, can bring together so many people. Except for Choi Jung-won, no one can do it.
"This ...... This is too exaggerated, could it be that their A.P company lost money and made money, and deliberately invited it? One of the directors still couldn't adapt to the crowd in front of him, and he stammered a little.
Hearing his words, the others showed disdain.
I don't know how this kind of pig brain became a director? Don't look at Choi Jung-won's huge reputation in South Korea in recent years.
As long as anyone who has studied the entertainment industry a little bit knows, if it were not for the restrictions, it would not be difficult for the number of people to attend today to exceed 200,000.
The concert held at Busan Marina Plaza some time ago was attended by 143,000 people.
It's still the economically underdeveloped southern region, and like the developed northern region now, the high ticket prices can't stop the enthusiasm of fans at all.
For the ignorance of his subordinates, Li Xiuman was also angry. I want to reprimand two sentences, but look at the strange people who are irrelevant to the front and back. In case it was not good to be heard, so I endured it.
Unlike the people at S.M, the people at JYP focus more on the organization of the concert site.
Although JYP is slightly inferior to S.M in terms of overall strength, the former has done better in terms of singers in the past two years.
Park Ji-yin, Rain, G.O.D., and Park Jin-young themselves are all proud and successful in their careers.
Unlike S.M Company, except for Dongfangshen's struggling start and BOA's stumbling start, the others are not worth mentioning at all.
So in recent years, JYP singers have also started to hold concerts one after another.
In 2004 alone, Park Jin-young, G.O.D, and Rain all held solo concerts.
It's just that their scale can't be compared with Cui Zhengyuan at all, and they can't be tricked in the organization of the concert.
Park Jin-young has always had the idea of holding a concert for the JYP family. I believe that when the fans of the artists gather, there may be a little bit of the charm of Choi Jungwon's concert.
At this time, sitting next to Park Jin-young was Hong Seung-sung, the president of JYP, who had not yet collapsed, and it was under the combination of him and Park Jin-young that JYP was thriving.
It's just a pity that in the future, Park and Hong have serious differences of opinion on JYP joining the SK system and maintaining independence. Eventually, Hong Seung-sung left and founded CubeEntertainment.
Later facts proved that Hong Shengcheng was indeed better than Park Jin-young in company decision-making.
JYP joined the SK system, and it seems that it has received strong reinforcement and strong financial support, but it has lost its independence.
Various gods and Buddhas continue to install cronies in the company, cultivate party members, and dictate administrative planning. It not only seriously hindered JYP's normal entertainment planning, but also caused complaints from all over the company, which greatly affected the normal development of the company.
So much so that when it came to Zuihou, even its artists couldn't stand it and blamed the company's decision-making.
Otherwise, how dare Yu Ze play a small artist on SNS to question the company's personnel appointments and decisions?
Compared with JYP's embarrassment, cubeentertainment, which operates independently, has grown by leaps and bounds, and in just a few years, it has begun to become one of the top entertainment companies.
Top companies like S.M and YG also have a lot of shili behind them.
But without exception, when it comes to the operation of the business, they all maintain their independence and do not allow anyone to meddle.
Even Choi Jung-won has always been careful in this regard, so even though A.P is a direct subordinate of the C.J Group, he does not allow people from the group's headquarters to interfere in the company's operations. Once he finds out, he will definitely be hit hardest.
In the case of continuous criticism, A.P company will develop so well.
Park Jin-young just couldn't see this, so he made a bad move, which led to the decline of JYP. (To be continued......)