"Have you arrived?"

"It's here, it's time to greet you."

In Seoul, in an office building owned by CJ Group, a group of middle-aged men in suits hurried to a VIP lounge on the top floor.

Before they could enter the VIP room, they heard the faint sound of laughter coming from the room.

Standing at the door, a few people sorted out the somewhat wrinkled suits that walked quickly, and then knocked on the door and walked in.

"Director Wu Yuan, and all my colleagues in the era of light and shadow, hello everyone."

"I'm the head of tvN Channel, a subsidiary of CJ ENM Group, and I'm honored to be working with director Oh Yuan and Light and Shadow Times."

The leading staff member took the initiative to extend his hand to Wu Yuan, who was sitting in the middle of the lounge, and said with a little respect: "My name is Li Zhenghyuk. ”

Wu Yuan, who was chatting with Liu Yifei about where he was going to go tomorrow, immediately stopped talking, stood up and shook hands with Li Zhenghyuk.

This Lee Jung-hyuk is not simple, he is the head of tvN's drama channel.

tvN is a pay-per-view cable channel owned by South Korea's CJ Group.

Although this paid channel was only launched in October 2006, and it has only been a little more than two years, tvN is standing behind the big chaebols in South Korea, and the future development will not be bad.

"Nice to meet you." Wu Yuan smiled and nodded: "I don't need to introduce myself, right?" ”

Lee Jung-hyuk hurriedly said: "Director Wu Yuan, as our most advantageous film director in Asia, I believe that every Asian knows you." ”

"It's an honor to work with you this time, when we received the invitation from your company, we were very scared, we didn't expect you to choose to cooperate with our start-up paid channel, which is really unexpected."

The smile on Wu Yuan's face remained unchanged, but he complained in his heart.

Isn't there no way to cooperate with the three major Korean TV stations, otherwise which round will be on tvN in this opportunity?

In the past 10 years, many Korean dramas have been exported to Asia, and they have grasped 85% of the Korean TV ratings, which is very xenophobic to outsiders in the era of light and shadow.

They are unwilling and not interested in cooperating with a Chinese TV drama company in any Sino-Korean co-productions, let alone using the influence of their own TV stations to promote outsiders' dramas.

tvN, as a start-up pay TV channel, is now too lacking in ratings and desperate to snatch the market from the mouths of the big three.

They don't care about the introduction of foreign aid, the most important thing is to be able to grab the market for their TV channels.

At this time, the era of light and shadow came to the door and wanted to cooperate in Sino-Korean co-productions, and the two sides hit it off.

tvN originally wanted to make a piece of the cake of TV dramas, but because of the small family, any larger production company was unwilling to sell their dramas to them.

Compared with the three major Korean TV stations, which account for more than 85% of the ratings, the ratings of pay stations like tvN are too low, only 1%-3% points.

If the original trajectory is followed, TVN will not be able to start its own TV drama unit with difficulty until after 2010, and it will take a lot of hard work to buy a TV series made by a group of Korean third-tier actors, and it will start to develop little by little.

But now the situation is different, and the era of light and shadow has come to the door.

tvN is backed by CJ Group, and since the channel was launched, what has been lacking has never been money, but channels, production experience, and viewership.

The age of light and shadow can just make up for their shortcomings in this regard.

Therefore, tvN is very active in this cooperation, not only contracting half of the production cost with a big wave of the hand, but also as long as the TV exclusive broadcast rights, the rest of the income is not touched.

In other words, in addition to the need for tvN to broadcast this "Ghost" on their channel, no matter how tossed in the era of light and shadow and how much benefit it generates, it is still in the era of light and shadow.

Wu Yuan likes this kind of big money, and he has the style of a domestic coal boss.

All he needs to pay is to let tvN install some crew members, and then let CJ Entertainment stuff some of its artists into the crew.

They are not Koreans for the male and female protagonists, and there is only one Korean actor among the four leading actors, so they have no opinion at all.

At first, Wu Yuan was quite surprised, but then he also figured it out.

This is the same as the mainland co-produced TV dramas with Hong Kong Island, Taiwan Island and Singapore in the late 90s and early 00s.

At that time, the mainland had to pay for it, and it was also responsible for opening up the relationship between the TV station's film buying department to ensure that the TV dramas could be broadcast on the mainland TV stations normally, but they did not have the right to determine the role of the leading actors of these co-productions.

At that time, a large number of dramas co-produced by Neiding, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore were all starring Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singaporean actors, and the mainland partners did not dare to put a fart.

To put it bluntly, in order to introduce advanced TV drama production concepts and levels, we can only be low and small.

The same is true for tvN now.

It's not that the production level of Korean TV dramas is not as good as that of Huaxia, on the contrary, Korean dramas are much more influential than mainland dramas, and Taiwanese idol dramas can compete with Korean dramas.

But who called tvN a pay channel!

In recent years, the three major free-to-air TV stations KBS, MBC, and SBS, have produced Korean dramas that have taken Asia by storm.

Excellent pay TV stations such as tvN, JTBC, AND OCN have either just been established or haven't even scratched the word yet.

Even tvN, which was established relatively early, cannot integrate into the circle of the three major ones at all, and the three are not interested in cultivating enemies for themselves, and the crew in hand, or the film and television production companies they often work with, will not contact tvN.

I can't find a "teacher" in China at all, so I can only rely on tvN, which is reckless and reckless, and now that I am willing to be a teacher in the era of light and shadow, of course I am overjoyed.

It's fortunate enough to be able to cooperate, and I don't dare to ask for casting rights at all, so I should pay the tuition.

Highlight a bold and generous image of a lot of money.

Anyway, Wu Yuan looked at Li Zhenghyuk's gaze like looking at a fortune boy, and the smile was brilliant.

With a wave of his hand, CJ Group gave 40 million yuan to account for half of the production cost of "Ghost", but as long as there is a Korean TV exclusive broadcast right, this kind of injustice cannot be found with a lantern.

"Minister Li, the crew of your channel should be ready, right?" Wu Yuan said with a smile: "Please rest assured, our crew team in the Light and Shadow Era is the top in the whole of Asia. ”

"In order to do a good job in the project of "Ghosts" this time, even many staff members were transferred from the film crew."

"You may not know that many of the film crews trained by our company have followed me to schedule films in Hollywood and participated in the filming of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series."

"The crew of your channel, if you can learn with us this time, you will definitely be able to cultivate a team that is not inferior to the three major in South Korea."

"When the time comes, tvN will be able to make its own TV series, and it will not be a dream to catch up with the big three one day."

Wu Yuan wasn't bragging.

After four or five years of continuous investment, tvN was able to produce or buy popular dramas such as "Queen Inhyun's Man", "Signal", "Please Answer Series" and "Hotel De Luna" after 2012.

"Ghost" is also a drama made by tvN with money.

This time, with the cooperation of the era of light and shadow, and it is estimated that the cooperation will continue in the future, and the development of tvN will be pressed on the rocket, which will be more brilliant and brilliant than the original trajectory.

Of course, the age of light and shadow is not a loss.

Use tvN's money to make "Korean dramas" for yourself, and then harvest the Korean market in turn, that's called a blood profit!

tvN, as a paid channel, has a limited influence, and it is impossible to do the main free light and shadow broadcast in the early stage, and the majority of the Korean market will still be made by light and shadow fast broadcasting.

Not to mention that there is a broader mainland market, which can be enjoyed exclusively in the era of light and shadow.

tvN, which accounts for half of the production cost, can actually share a little more than 10% of the benefits.

tvN is more about cultivating its own production team in a cooperative way.

Of course, Wu Yuan didn't plan to hide it, and he would indeed train a group of TV drama production teams for tvN, after all, the real money tuition fee was indeed given.

It can only be said that tvN does not lose, and both parties are satisfied with the blood in the era of light and shadow.

"Then borrow Director Wu's auspicious words and wish us a smooth and successful cooperation!"

Lee Jung-hyuk and Wu Yuan both showed happy smiles on their faces and held each other's hands tightly.

"Happy working together!"

"Happy working together!" (End of chapter)