Chapter 145: February
Due to the birth of the song "Lies", President Yang Hyun Suk was ready to release a mini album for them in advance, but because of the DVD mobile phone release that had already been confirmed, he had to wait for a while.
Although the lyrics of "Lies" have been filled, the score has not yet been adapted, and in the free time before the press conference, Kwon Zhilong focused almost all of his energy on this matter.
It's just that to Kwon Zhilong's surprise, Kim Sung-won seems to be more optimistic about this song than him, and his enthusiasm is no less than him. Many of the details that had already been finalized by Haode were often overturned by him after a night of thinking.
At this time, the entertainment industry in South Korea is not calm.
Since January 1, domestic violence, car accidents, suicides, drug abuse incidents and other bad news have been frequent, making the entire Korean entertainment industry stunned, calling the beginning of 2007 "Black January".
Don't think that just because these things don't concern you, you don't have to care. These things represent not only the personal problems of some artists, but the image of the entire entertainment industry, and the public will directly substitute this sense into all artists in the entertainment industry.
Many people in the entertainment industry have expressed "I really want to go where to pray to God and worship Buddha" to dispel the mildew around them.
Thankfully, a series of events in February diverted the public's attention.
On February 14th, bigbang held a DVD launch event for his first solo concert. This is the first DVD release event held on a mobile phone in Korea.
Also on February 14, the five-member girl group WonderGirls launched by JYP released their first single album "THEWonderBegins", injecting a fresh atmosphere into the Korean entertainment industry, and the media temporarily shifted their attention to this newly debuted girl group.
WonderGirls' debut album was produced by JYP President Park Jin-young, and included the singles "Irony", "Sorry Heart", and "Badboy". Among them, the title song "Irony" has won the love of many people with its easy-to-catchy HipHop melody.
"Fresh and lovely, innocent and lively," Kim Sung-won realized that this was exactly the kind of feeling he wanted, but he always felt that something was missing, like an essential salt.
"Still inspired?" Choi Hyun-jun asked strangely after seeing Kim Sung-won walking out helplessly.
"Well, after all, it's the first time I've written this kind of song, and the difficulty is certain." Jin Shengyuan has gradually become accustomed to this irritating feeling, as if he is locked in a small dark room, and he can't always find the key to open the door, and the more this happens, the more he needs to calm down.
On February 15th, S.M officially announced: "Ayumi, a female singer from the group Sugar, has officially signed a contract with the company on the 13th, and in the future, Ayumi will not only be active as a singer, but also the work of the program host and actor will be in full swing." ”
2006 was the heyday of Ayumi.
Although she was also very popular as a member of SUGAR, it wasn't until she joined the regular team of the weekend gold entertainment programs "Love Letter" and "X-MAN" that people began to understand her cute nature. Because of the poor Korean language, the strange pronunciation is always used as an object of entertainment, but Ayumi herself does not reject it, but entertains herself, giving full play to the essence of the artist, and is widely loved by the audience.
In August 06, Ayumi flew solo as a solo singer and covered the popular track "LOVEHONEY" by Japanese singer Koda Rami, which changed the cute image and boldly challenged the route, and her popularity soared.
However, when Ayumi was just entering her heyday, her agency unexpectedly collapsed, and although she signed with S.M in February this year, all this inevitably had a big impact on her.
Jin Shengyuan also sent a special text message to congratulate Ayumi for this reason, and the relationship between the two is not bad.
However, Ayumi couldn't help but vent her bitterness at him: after joining S.M, she would basically completely disappear from the Korean entertainment industry and seek development in Japan.
finally ushered in the pinnacle of her life, but she had to withdraw in an instant, and the blow to Ayumi can be imagined, no wonder she couldn't help but spit out her bitterness to Jin Shengyuan - you know, the two are not close relatives.
However, Kim Sung-won still patiently enlightened Ayumi, after all, ordinary friends are also "friends".
Originally, it was just an ordinary congratulatory text message, but I didn't expect it to become the target of Ayumi's complaints, and it wasn't until nearly an hour later that Kim Sung-won hung up the phone amid the snickering of Park Jung-yoon and Choi Hyun-joon.
However, as soon as Kim Sung-won finished his call with Ayumi, Park Sang-jung called. …,
"President, the loan has been negotiated, and you need to come and sign it in person." Park Sang-jung's words lifted Kim Sung-won's spirits.
"Haode, I'll rush to Jeju Island now." After Jin Shengyuan finished speaking, he hurriedly hung up the phone.
Kim Sung-won's "Jeju Island Green Tea Complex" has developed exceptionally smoothly, and a large amount of investment has brought huge benefits, and many green tea-related companies that were originally well-known have either been acquired or forced to withdraw because of their small scale, and have basically established the status of Jeju Island's No. 1 green tea company.
Now Park Sang-jung's status has been completely different, he withdrew from the "Jeju Baster Farm" and officially became the president of the "Jeju Island Green Tea Complex", and he is indeed a genius in business, as long as Kim Sung-won plans the general direction, he will complete it perfectly, sometimes even exceeding the expected goal.
After a year of stability, Kim Sung-won decided to make 2007 a year of great development, and the first thing he did was to seek a five-year loan of 100 billion won from the Jeju Island government.
Nowadays, "Baster Black Pork" has become the image of Jeju Island in the whole country, and although the "Green Tea Complex" has just started, it is larger and more modern, so the loan is not too difficult to handle, but there are too many details to be discussed, so it has been discussed since the beginning of the year.
Kim Sung-won himself is not proficient in this matter, so he only needs to listen to Park Sang-jung's report regularly, and the rest will naturally be handled by a professional lawyer team.
Choi Hyun-joon and Park Jung-yoon re-signed a 10-year contract with Kim Sung-won earlier this year. For the convenience of his own career, Jin Shengyuan made this decision. The trust established by the two parties over more than two years made the new contract sign smoothly, and Jin Shengyuan didn't care about the salary of the two, the only requirement was that the two of them must keep everything about Jin Shengyuan confidential.
Nowadays, many things about Kim Sung-won involve business secrets, and Choi Hyun-jun and the two often follow closely, and it is not good to always deliberately avoid the two, and now that a new contract has been signed, Kim Sung-won is relieved to take the two to Jeju Island.
Kim Sung-won's Jihua is very simple, which is to use the huge influence of entertainment culture in South Korea and even Asia to sign long-term endorsement contracts with a large number of artists in the entertainment industry.
The amount of money required by Jihua is very large, which is why he will ask the Jeju Provincial Government for a loan again. For example, at the end of 2006, the media with good things counted Lee Hyo-ri, BOA, and Shinhwa to 1 billion won for endorsements, and TVXQ 800 million won, etc., although it is not true, but it also shows the huge potential.
After hearing his report, the Jeju provincial government agreed after several discussions.
"President, this kind of cost is too big, if we can't succeed, our company is easy to collapse." Park Sang-jung couldn't help but persuade again after seeing Kim Sung-won.
"It's okay, I'm not trying to sign a star like Zhang Dongjian, although they are famous, their exposure is too low and doesn't meet my requirements." Kim Sung-won explained, "What I want to sign is TVXQ, SJ and other combinations. The first is that there are a large number of people, which is beneficial to our publicity, and the endorsement status of singers is much lower than that of film and television stars.
Secondly, I want to sign with some new groups that have just debuted, such as BigBang and Wondergirls.
Another type of contract object is the popular variety show of the three major radio stations, although we are drinks, etc., the chance of appearing in the camera is not large, but it can be advertised with clothing companies. ”
Park Sang-jung hesitated, but did not speak again after all. "Jeju Island Green Tea Complex" is not a joint-stock company after all, and Kim Sung-won's sense of direction seems to be innate, and he has never made a mistake, not to mention that he has always trusted him very much.
After signing the contract, Kim Sung-won handed over the endorsement advertising to Park Sang-jung.
In late February, the name of "Jeju Island Green Tea Complex" appeared in major entertainment media.
The reason is simple, TVXQ, SJ, YG's five-member boy group bigbang, and even JYP's just-launched girl group wondergirls have all announced that they have signed an endorsement contract with Jeju Island Green Tea Variety Show.
As for the content of the endorsement and the endorsement fee, both parties are confidential, and the media has no way of knowing. What they are even more puzzled about is that it is not surprising that TVXQ and SJ of S.M Company were selected, but what about the new company Weishenme signing two other tender rookie groups at the same time?
Moreover, it can be seen from the company's generosity that they don't care about the endorsement fee, but weishenme didn't sign a contract with first-line superstars such as Zhang Dongjian, Lee Ying-ae, and RAIN?
However, it didn't take long for the news that the company had signed a long-term contract with MBC TV's actual variety show "Infinite Challenge", and at the same time, billboards of the company were also erected on billboards on major traffic arteries, which dazzled many media.
"Could it be that this company is a subsidiary of the Samsung Group?" Many media reporters can't help but speculate with wicked interest.
In any case, a series of actions by the "Jeju Island Green Tea Complex" have finally dispelled a lot of the black clouds hanging over the heads of the entertainment industry. With the company's move, many advertisers have joined in, and the entertainment industry has once again ushered in a frenzy of "making money", which will naturally make everyone happy and red.
Not to mention that the entertainment media didn't understand, even Park Jin-young didn't understand that the other party Weishenme would sign his own rookie group instead of choosing RAIN, and as for Lao Yang, it was Kim Sung-won who personally negotiated a contract with him, and made it clear that he valued the potential of BIGBANG.
Yang Hyun-seok was completely stunned at the time, thinking that Kim Sung-won had changed his career to be a liar.