On January 23, Cui Zhengyuan got up early. When he arrived at the office, it was rare to see that his assistant Jun Meiyan was already sorting out the documents.

Jeon Mi-yeon is a twenty-three-year-old girl who just graduated from Seoul National University and took up the position of assistant to Choi Jung-won after New Year's Day.

Don't look at the little girl who has just graduated, but she has already had relevant internship experience in many large companies before, which can be regarded as experienced. Otherwise, Cui Zhengyuan would not dare to let such a newcomer serve as his assistant, knowing that he has to handle the meticulous and complicated work, which covers almost most of the company's matters, and the average rookie is not competent at all.

Another reason why Jun Mi-yeon was chosen was because her father was Choi Jung-won's father, Choi Ki-chan, an assistant and hardcore subordinate in the big GJ party. Knowing the roots and knowing the bottom line coupled with a close family relationship made her stay by Cui Zhengyuan's side as soon as she entered the A.P company and became the general manager of the company.

Choi Jeong-won's previous assistant, Kang Hoon-ho, should have performed well and had outstanding ability, and he had been appointed as the general representative of A.P Company in Japan, responsible for the development of the Japanese market.

The little girl has been in the company for more than 20 days, and all the work is well organized, and the documents are sorted out according to priority, which is always placed in an obvious position on Cui Zhengyuan's desk for him to read and approve.

Some documents that involve a lot of content and involve a wide range of documents, she will also consult the relevant information and attach it to it. As long as Cui Zhengyuan takes it out and compares it, he can make relevant judgments at a glance.

In this regard, thanks to her family history. Her father used to be Choi Ki-chan's assistant for more than 20 years, and he was known for his mature and steady style of doing things. It can be said that Jeon Mi-yeon has the style of a father.

But today, this usually stable and generous girl, after Cui Zhengyuan came, she has been looking at him with a blank eye, and she is a little unconscious in doing things.

Seeing her situation in his eyes, Cui Zhengyuan didn't care, and even laughed twice.

You know, Choi Jung-won is known for his strict work requirements within A.P. Don't look at him who is usually amiable and treats people like a spring breeze, but if anyone doesn't work seriously and responsibly, he will definitely be unlucky. For this reason, more than five supervisors have been fired by him.

The reason why I didn't get angry at Jeon Mi-yeon's nonchalant attitude was just because today was Chinese New Year's Eve, and tomorrow would be the New Year. In A.P Company, except for the left-behind staff and artists with schedules and their related staff, they have all been on vacation.

Others can take a holiday early and go home early for the New Year, but Cui Zhengyuan can't.

Jin Yingmin is still in China and has not returned, and it is estimated that he will not be able to come back for the Chinese New Year, and he is likely to be busy in China until the seventh or eighth day of the new year.

Han Sung-ho went to the United States to negotiate with the American record company for Choi Jung-won's debut album.

Of the three giants, only Cui Zhengyuan is left, and all the big and small things are piled up on his head, which keeps him busy until now. In addition, he is also needed as a decision-maker to deal with unexpected situations, so he has to wait until he finishes dealing with today's affairs before he can take a vacation.

As Choi Jung-won's assistant, Jun Mi-yeon had to accompany the prince to study, which was more than a week less than others. If you were someone else, of course, you wouldn't dare to say anything. But with the relationship between Jun Mi-yeon and Choi Jung-won, she has to nag in his ear non-stop, but she has been waiting for this day for a long time.

Fortunately, there are not many documents today, the year-end summary has been done, and the next year's jihua has also budgeted, and the other projects are negotiated a long time ago, as long as the relevant personnel do it. By about ten o'clock in the morning, Cui Zhengyuan signed a document in Zuihou, announcing that all the work was over.

"Ah, it's finally a holiday, I can have a good haode fun." Jeon Mi-yeon stretched a big lazy waist, and Meimei said her thoughts.

After working for several months in a row, Cui Zhengyuan is also very tired, and he has to recuperate in the past few days of rest for the New Year. "Sister Meiyan, where are you going to play during the Chinese New Year?"

After listening to Cui Zhengyuan's question, Jun Mi-yeon's little face suddenly collapsed, and she said resentfully: "Where else can I go, at most I can go to Jeju Island to have fun." It's all Uncle Cui's fault, I'm still busy during the Chinese New Year, and my dad can't rest." After that, he glared at Cui Zhengyuan fiercely.

Cui Zhengyuan rubbed his nose depressedly, and said in his heart What are I doing to blame me for my father's affairs, did I suffer an unwarranted disaster? said on his lips: "It's not that you don't know, how dare you relax when the mayor is running for mayor at a critical moment." He's busy, and my dad has to follow suit. My dad is busy, and of course Uncle Quan will be busy."

Jun Mi-yeon also knew that Choi Jung-won was telling the truth, and she really couldn't complain about Choi Ki-chan. "I know, but it's just a matter of talking. These politicians don't know what they're busy with. I didn't see them busy making our South Korea the number one country."

Cui Zhengyuan smiled, got up and put on his coat, and walked out. "Okay, Sister Meiyan, you can slowly dream of your Shijie number one country, I'm still busy."

When he walked to the door, he thought of something again, turned around and asked, "Have you arrived with the flower basket I want you to order?"

Hearing him ask about work, Jeon Mi-yeon also became colorful. "It's already here, and I have the driver loaded it in the car. When the time comes, you can ask him to help you get it. I won't follow you, anyway, you'll go straight home after you go there."

"It's okay, I'll just go alone. Sister Meiyan, clean up here, and you can go back. We'll see you in a week."

"Well, Executive Director Cui, I wish you a happy new year in advance."

Cui Zhengyuan looked back and smiled, "You too, remember to say hello to your family on my behalf." I'll visit again when I have time."

Coming out of the company, Choi Jung-won instructed the driver to drive to the Yeouido MBC Center.

The reason for coming here is that there is a musical event to celebrate the New Year today.

But that's not the reason why Choi Jung-won came here. A concert at MBC is not yet worthy of his personal congratulations with a basket of flowers.

You must know that the music program of the TV station is almost every day, and I have never heard of anyone sending flower baskets to congratulate them. What's more, this is just a temporary program to congratulate the New Year, and it is not the opening ceremony of a long-term program.

He came here because it was a singing event for Kim Jong Kook's new album. After today's stage, Kim Jong Kook's 20-day singing activity is coming to an end.

Compared with other artists' casual singing periods of up to a month or even months, Kim Jong Kook is definitely much more streamlined this time. But don't underestimate the short time and think that the effect is not good.

In just these twenty days, Kim Jong Kook won a total of eleven music program championships, sweeping all the music charts. The top three of the major music charts are all occupied by his new songs, leaving the fourth place far behind.

Relying on the perfect music quality, Kim Jong Kook's album has achieved unanimous praise. As of yesterday, 780,000 copies of the album have been sold, and more than 300,000 pre-orders are not counted.

Thanks to the vigorous promotion of A.P, this album has also gained wide popularity overseas. 430,000 copies were sold in Japan and 110,000 in Taiwan and Southeast Asia. Even in the Chinese mainland market, with the sign of Li Zhenxian's fellow door, there are also 30,000 sales.

This is already remarkable, you must know that even Li Zhenxian herself, who has a super high reputation in Chinese mainland, sold less than 100,000 copies of her last album. After all, consumers in that market have not yet developed the habit of buying genuine albums, and most of them still obtain songs through piracy and eavesdropping.

The sales of nearly one million copies have also greatly excited the industry.

Since the economic crisis of '98, the Korean market has entered a recession. Although the efforts of the Kim Dae-Z government have recovered somewhat, it is not enough to bring the purchasing power of the South Korean people back to the previous level.

Among them, the biggest impact is undoubtedly the entertainment market. After all, these are secondary to filling your belly. It is only when there is no need to worry about food and clothing that people consider these secondary spiritual consumptions.

Since then, record sales in the Korean music industry have been declining year by year, and they have never regained their former glory. Coupled with the disbandment of Seo Tae-zhi and the children, and the split of the fire truck, the entire song and ballad industry was full of mourning, and some people even pessimistically issued the argument that "Korean music is dead".

Some people may question, isn't this time period for the rise of Korean music? HOT, Crystal Boy, GOD, and Shinhwa all debuted one after another and began their journey to dominate Korean music. Will Weishenme say that Korean music is dead?

In fact, within the Korean music industry, groups such as HOT and Shinhwa do not represent the mainstream at all. Haode music speaks by strength.

HOT has haode songs, haode dances, and even haode packaging promotion, but not in terms of strength. Not only them, this is a common problem of almost all idol groups.

In the eyes of real musicians, idol groups are not musicians at all, they are just singers at best. What is Singer? It is that he can only mechanically sing songs composed by others, dancing dances taught by others, without his own soul.

What is a real musician? It's Lee Seung-chul, Shin Seung-hoon, Cho Seong-mo, and Seo Tae-ji, only these people who win with their own music are qualified musicians.

Even Kim Jong Kook during the turbo period couldn't do it, and Choi Jung-won heard someone denigrate him more than once as "the one who danced". Of course, after the release of this album, no one questioned his strength.

Changing the previous dance style, Kim Jong Kook undoubtedly revealed his unique singing voice. The rendition of several classic songs made everyone shut up.

The huge success of the album's sales has made Kim Jong Kook's popularity explode. Even at the turn of the year, the major award ceremonies are rampant, and the winners of the grand prizes are slightly inferior to those of the capital. High popularity means high attention, which represents a steady stream of money in the eyeball-based entertainment industry. For a while, many advertisers flocked to the city, waving banknotes in anticipation of cooperating with Kim Jong Kook.

Under Choi Jung-won's decision, Kim Jong Kook took a total of 12 advertisements. All of them are top brands in Korea, such as Samsung mobile phones, Kia Motors, Lotte Department Store, and Holiyo Foods. Some other brands that are not well-known or less powerful have been eliminated by him, and if Kim Jong Kook wants to become a top superstar, he must make certain choices in the advertisements he takes.

In just 20 days, Kim Jong Kook brought a total of 2.7 billion won in profits to A.P. from album sales, advertising revenue, commercial performances and program appearances. Note that this refers to the net profit after the cost is removed. In this year when the annual income of singers reaches 2 billion, Kim Jong Kook has undoubtedly created a big miracle.

After the statistics came out, the questioning of Choi Jung-won's decision-making by the A.P company came to an abrupt end. The eyes that looked at this young executive were all filled with admiration and awe.

Outsiders don't know, but they, insiders, know it. Without Choi Jung-won's strong support and perfect planning, Kim Jong Kook would not have been able to achieve such perfect results.