241. Chapter 233 Pan-SA Ecosystem



Song Yi could understand Song Suying's concern, but he did not forget to joke with her, "Senior, I don't quite understand what kind of women can be touched and what kind of women can't be touched? For example, can I touch someone like you?"

Seeing that no one heard their conversation, Song Suying rolled her eyes at Song Yi and said, "Do you think you can do whatever you want just because Tae Hee tolerates you? I should call my aunt and expose your true colors and ask her to come to Seoul to deal with you."

Song Yi explained: "I am interested in the piece of land in North Gyeongsang Province owned by Xu Meijing and plan to buy it. Xu Meijing also begged me to introduce a date to her daughter, so I chatted for a while. She is not as good as Sister Suying in terms of appearance, figure, and temperament, so why should I go to great lengths to please her?"

Seeing Song Yi's rogue look, Song Suying said, "I really want to take a camera and take a picture so that the SA employees can appreciate Chairman Song's wise and heroic appearance."

At this time, Song Suying noticed that someone came to see Song Yi. She said in short, "I will ask Sister Enxuan to go skiing at Elysian Resort soon. If you have time, please come and find us. I have something important to talk to you about."

Song Yi's attitude suddenly became serious, "Okay, Sister Suying."

The person coming towards Song Yi was also an acquaintance. She was Gu Yeon-kyung, the eldest daughter of Gu Kwang-sung, chairman of LG Group. Song Yi met her at the wedding of Gu Kwang-mok and Zhou Zhiyi.

Gu Yeon-kyung's fiancé is Kim Myung-kyu, the president of SA Telecom. The two are already discussing marriage and are planning to get married next year.

Kim Myeong-kyu was previously the president of LG GNS, and later became the president of SA Telecom with the recommendation of Gu Kwang-mok.

Gu Yanjing did not come alone. There was a short-haired beauty next to her. Gu Yanjing pulled the short-haired beauty towards Song Yi. The short-haired beauty was a little restrained. She noticed that Song Yi was looking at her, and she stroked the hair beside her ear unnaturally, and then smiled at Song Yi.

Song Suying noticed the actions of Gu Yeon-kyung and the others and shook her head helplessly, "It seems that you are really popular. Gu Yeon-kyung is getting married soon, and she is your subordinate's fiancée, so don't have any ideas about her. LG is your only ally among the five major conglomerates." Song Suying reminded them emphatically.

Song Yi's face was dark, "Sister Suying, I know the seriousness of the matter. I'm not the kind of person who can't walk when I see a beautiful woman--"

Before Song Yi finished speaking, Gu Yanjing had already walked over, bowed to greet Song Suying, and then said, "Director Song, Aunt Zhien and I have something to talk to Chairman Song about. I hope we didn't disturb you guys?"

Song So Young politely responded to their greetings, "Jie Eun, Yeon Kyung, you guys chat, I just happened to have finished talking to him."

When Song Yi heard Aunt Ji-eun, he immediately understood the identity of the short-haired beauty. She was Gu Ji-eun, the third-generation member of the LG family.

Gu Ji-eun's father is Samsung's son-in-law Gu Ja-hak, and her mother is Chen Jianxi's sister Chen Shuxi. Because of her mother Chen Shuxi, Gu Ji-eun previously worked for Samsung and only returned to the family business Aiweihong Foods last year.

In 1987, Samsung founder Chen Bingzhe passed away. His eldest son Chen Mengxi's wife Fu Nansun received shares in CheilJedang and Samsung Marine Fire Insurance, but his second daughter Chen Shuxi got nothing.

Chen Jianxi bluntly stated that it was a mistake for his sister Chen Shuxi to marry the son of the founder of LG. If she inherited Samsung's subsidiary, the property would be transferred to competitors and would never be given to her.

Chen Shuxi later joined forces with Chen Mengxi and Samsung Chairman Chen Jianxi to sue the inheritance company, but they failed to win the lawsuit after 30 years.

The reason why Gu Ji-eun returned to work at Aiweihong Foods was because she and her husband Ji Sang-yu divorced. After the divorce, Ji Sang-yu immediately married the famous Korean movie star Shim Eun-ha.

Shen Yinhe's ex-boyfriend is Lee Young-ae's current boyfriend Zheng Haoyong. Shen Yinhe and Zheng Haoyong were about to get married, but Lee Young-ae interfered with their relationship and became the mistress.

If Lee Young-ae had not won Song Yi's recognition during the Lee Eun-joo case, and had become popular again by playing the second female role Choi Jin-young in "Dae Jang Geum", she would not have gotten rid of the passive situation of being criticized by everyone in the film and television industry. Therefore, Lee Young-ae has always maintained a good personal relationship with Song Yi and SA Films.

In 2002, Conservative Party candidate Lee Chang-hui participated in the South Korean presidential election. After Lee Chang-hui lost the election, he visited Stanford University and Ji Sang-yu was always by his side and won Lee Chang-hui's trust.

At present, Lee Chang-hui seems unwilling to accept two consecutive defeats in the presidential election. Lee Chang-hui has set his sights on the 2007 presidential election. Ji Sang-yu is regarded as Lee Chang-hui's right-hand man. Later in 2010, he tried to run for mayor of Seoul. Although he lost the election, he was still successfully elected as a member of parliament.

Ji Sangyu's father is the chairman of a small and medium-sized enterprise with assets worth tens of billions of won. However, this guy is handsome and eloquent, so he can win the favor of LG family Gu Zhien and Shen Yinhe.

Ji Sang-yu and Shim Eun-ha got married in a low-key manner this year. After marriage, Shim Eun-ha was very low-key, turned down many film offers, and focused on taking care of her husband and children. However, Shim Eun-ha later also had suicide rumors, and it seems that her marriage with Ji Sang-yu was not happy.

Gu Yanjing first introduced Gu Zhien to Song Yi, "President Song, this is my aunt Gu Zhien. She is now the head of the purchasing and logistics division of Aiweihong Foods. She has some company business and wants your help."

Song Yi hurriedly shook hands with Gu Zhien. Judging from their relationship, Gu Zhien should be the cousin of Chen Fuzhen and Chen Xinyu. "Hello, Minister Gu."

"Chairman Song, this is what's going on. I want to sell the food produced by our Aiweihong on Souhan.com. However, Souhan.com believes that the variety of food we offer is far less than that of Aiweihong's offline stores, so they temporarily do not agree to our opening of a selected store on Souhan.com." said Gu Ji-eun.

Song Yi understood that the Souhan flagship store is divided into ordinary stores, preferred stores and selected stores. The channel promotion strength of the three stores is different, and the deposit is also different.

The deposit for ordinary stores is 10 million won (60,000 RMB), for preferred stores it is 20 million won, and for selected stores it is 50 million won.

As a platform, SouHan.com certainly hopes that all stores have as complete a range of products as possible, so as to attract more consumers to place orders online.

For example, Uni-President instant noodles have many flavors, including old-style pickled cabbage beef noodles, tomato stewed beef brisket noodles, pickled pepper beef noodles, etc. Among them, the best-selling one is the old-style pickled cabbage beef noodles.

As a result, Uni-President, which has always relied on offline channels, supplies all flavors of instant noodles to offline supermarkets, convenience stores and shopping malls, while only a few flavors such as tomato stewed beef brisket noodles and pickled pepper beef noodles are available on JD.com. The best-selling old-style pickled cabbage beef noodles is not supplied to JD.com. It would be a miracle if JD.com is willing to help Uni-President instant noodles with omni-channel promotion.

As flagship stores of Sohan.com, the exposure opportunities of selected stores are much higher than those of the other two. Sohan.com was unwilling to open a selected store for Aiweihong on the grounds that the variety of food on Aiweihong’s shelves was not complete enough, so Gu Zhien had no choice but to find Song Yi in person for help.

Seeing that Song Yi and her aunt Gu Zhien had already started talking, Gu Yanjing immediately found an excuse to leave. Song Yi and Gu Guangmok had a good personal relationship, so she had a good relationship with Gu Guangsheng's two daughters. If Song Yi agreed to some of Gu Zhien's requests for her sake, then LG Group Chairman Gu Guangsheng and Gu Guangmok would blame her for being ignorant.

Aiweihong is not a subsidiary of LG Group. It should belong to a pan-LG enterprise. The brothers of each chairman of LG Group can split the company they inherit and set up a separate company.

When Gu Ja-hak left Samsung and returned to LG Group, he devoted himself to the food manufacturing industry of LG Group. Later, he split the company and established Aiweihong Food.

As a pan-LG enterprise, Aiweihong Food has obtained the excellent supply rights of LG Group. The company has also developed rapidly, with annual sales exceeding 500 billion won.

Gu Ja-hak has one son and three daughters. The eldest son, Gu Bon-seong, is ambitious and uneducated. The other two daughters only inherited shares and did not participate in the management. Only Gu Ji-eun, who graduated from the Department of Business Administration of Seoul University, has a talent for business. However, the LG family also passes the business down to males, not females, so Gu Ji-eun has no chance of inheriting Aiweihong Foods.

In 2016, Gu Ji-eun teamed up with her two sisters Gu Mi-hyun and Gu Myeong-jin to drive her eldest brother Gu Bon-seong out of Ai Mi Hong Foods. Later, Gu Bon-seong was unwilling to be outdone and teamed up with her eldest sister Gu Mi-hyun to regain control of Ai Mi Hong Foods.

The battle between Gu Ji-eun and Gu Bon-seong for the throne ended in a draw because Gu Myeong-jin supported the third sister Gu Ji-eun, and the two sides could be said to be evenly matched.

Song Yi asked, "Minister Gu, the products on Souhan.com are not complete, so it is impossible to open a selected store. If Aiweihong only sells a small number of food products but opens a selected store, it will undoubtedly constitute unfair competition to other merchants."

When Gu Zhien heard Song Yi say this, she knew that there was no room for maneuver and looked a little disappointed. "I also know that this request is a bit presumptuous. Sorry, President Song, I'm bothering you."

Song Yi called out to Gu Zhien, "Minister Gu, I guess it was your idea to sell Aiweihong Food on Souhan.com, right?"

Gu Zhien didn't understand why Song Yi suddenly asked such a question, "Yes, President Song is right, how did you guess it?"

"I know that your father is basically no longer in charge of Aiweihong's specific affairs. The company is now mainly managed by Representative Gu Bensheng."

"When Sohan.com was first launched, I brought Yoo Young-jun to visit Representative Gu Bon-seong, hoping that he could open an Aiweihong flagship store on our Sohan.com to sell Aiweihong's various foods."

"Representative Gu Bonsheng received us warmly for the sake of Chairman Gu Bonsheng, saying that he would hold a meeting immediately to discuss the matter and give us a reply soon. However, almost two years have passed, and the Aiweihong flagship store has not yet opened."

"And Minister Gu must have studied the operating model of our SouHan.com in depth, so he opened the SouHan Selected Official Flagship Store for Aiweihong Food." Song Yi said.

When Gu Ji-eun heard what Song Yi said, she couldn't help but curse in her heart. Aiweihong Food originally had the opportunity to become one of the first merchants to settle in Souhan.com, but such a good opportunity was missed by her elder brother Gu Bensheng.

Gu Zhien now deeply understands what it means that you ignored someone at first, but now you can't afford him. You know, in the early days of Sohan.com, Song Yi and Sohan.com's director Liu Yongjun took the initiative to find Aiweihong Food to discuss cooperation.

The last time Gu Benen went to Sohan.com to discuss cooperation, she was met only by a vice president of Sohan.com. She didn't even get to meet Liu Yongjun himself, and was sent away.

"To be honest with you, Chairman Song, my brother and I do have differences on the direction of running Aiweihong." Gu Ji-eun was not afraid to expose her family's dirty laundry, and a bitter smile appeared on her face.

Song Yi agreed, "Minister Ju, from my personal point of view, I definitely prefer you to take over Aiweihong Food. But this is your family's internal affairs, so it is not convenient for me to intervene."

"The LG family has always followed the eldest son inheritance system. Your eldest brother now holds the most shares of Aiweihong. No matter how capable you are, you will not be able to inherit Aiweihong Food. Why don't you choose to leave Aiweihong and find another place? Maybe taking a step back will allow the sea to be wide enough for fish to leap and the sky to be high enough for birds to fly." Song Yi suggested sincerely.

Gu Zhien heard Song Yi's intention to recruit him, and couldn't help asking, "President Song, what do you mean?"

"Minister Gu, this is the case. Although this is the first time I meet you, I admire your work ability. Sohan.com is currently in need of a vice president in charge of group procurement, and I think you are a perfect fit."

"Now, both SA Soft and Sohan.com are in a period of rapid development, and we are eager to recruit talents in various management fields. I really hope that Minister Gu can seriously consider Sohan.com."

"Moreover, our SA Soft will complete its listing on the U.S. stock market by the first half of next year at the latest. If you join our company now, you will not miss the equity incentive plan at the end of the year." Song Yi revealed a key piece of information.

Ju Zhien looked at Song Yi meaningfully. She couldn't imagine that Song Yi was willing to tell her such important information in advance in order to recruit her.

However, as an emerging conglomerate, SA Group is indeed in a period of rapid expansion. Anyone with a discerning eye can see the value of SA Telecom, a subsidiary that is second only to SA Soft, SA Construction, and ABS Television.

Song Yi is willing to appoint Gu Yeon-kyung's fiancé Kim Myung-kyu as the president of SA Telecom. On the one hand, it shows that SA Group and LG Group are indeed in the honeymoon period of cooperation. On the other hand, it also shows that SA Group currently lacks a large number of senior management talents.

At this time, Song Yi added the final fuel to the fire, "Minister Ju, I know you don't want the Aiweihong Foods that your father worked so hard to establish to be ruined by your eldest brother."

"In fact, if you withdraw from Aiweihong Food now and let your eldest brother run the company alone, your father will realize that he is not worthy of your trust only when the company is unsustainable."

"When your two sisters are dissatisfied with the current situation of the company and demand a change of the company's representative director, that will be the best opportunity for you to return to Aiweihong Food. At that time, you will bring in our resources of Souhan.com and funds to acquire the shares held by your brother and reorganize the board of directors. Only in this way can you lead Aiweihong Food to rebirth, don't you think?" Song Yi said.

"You stay in Aemihong now. Even if you make some achievements, President Gu Zixue won't see them. He will only think that it is your eldest brother Gu Bonsheng who is leading the way. The better you do, the more hostile your eldest brother will be to you and the more he will try to suppress you."

"Suppose you join Sohan.com and make achievements in SA Soft. When Aipinhong falls into a management crisis, one is the eldest son who is not worth using, and the other is the youngest daughter who manages the business well."

"If President Gu Zixue does not want to sell Aiweihong to LG Group, then he will have to accept your return to Aiweihong Food and take control of the company," Song Yi analyzed.

Gu Zhien was somewhat suspicious of Song Yi's intentions. "President Song is willing to help me gain control of Aiweihong Foods after only meeting me once?"

Song Yi pondered for a while, "Minister Ju, in fact, I have always positioned SA Group as a large investment company."

"The combined revenue of South Korea's top 10 conglomerates accounts for almost 60% of South Korea's GDP, and Samsung's exports alone account for almost 20% of South Korea's exports."

"The reason why these companies can maintain their monopoly for a long time is that once they find a new company with potential, they are ready to use funds to buy it and make it a subsidiary of the group. In this way, they will have more and more subsidiaries and the company size will become more and more bloated. Once a financial crisis occurs, the huge organizational structure will also make these conglomerates unable to resist risks. Just like the bankruptcy of Daewoo Group back then, after all, it is difficult to turn around a big ship."

"Since I set up Sohan.com, our SA has been making every effort to support small and medium-sized businesses, so that more representative local brands can sell their high-quality and low-priced products to consumers throughout Korea and even the world through Sohan.com."

"We at SA have been screening out companies or individuals with potential and investing in these small companies in advance. Brands such as Anta, Sanda Water, and Elephant Seasoning are our SA's long-term partners."

"Unlike Samsung, we have no intention of acquiring these brands. Instead, we are willing to provide resources, funds and technology to help these brands grow and build a pan-SA ecosystem around the SA Group so that everyone can achieve common prosperity and coordinated development."

"Investing means investing in people. I am optimistic about Minister Ju, so I am willing to invest in you personally in advance." Song Yi explained.

Song Yi learned this trick from Penguin. Penguin is the best investment company among the Internet companies in the mainland. They have invested in JD.com, Meituan, Pinduoduo and many other Internet companies.

As of June 21, Penguin has invested in more than 800 companies, including more than 100 listed companies and unicorn companies. The market value of its holdings in listed companies alone is as high as 1.45 trillion yuan.

Last year, when Penguin went public, Pony Ma admired Liu Chiping, who worked at Goldman Sachs, and recruited him. Song Yi actually contacted Liu Chiping and asked him to join SA Capital Fund, but Liu Chiping rejected Song Yi's invitation on the grounds that he preferred to live in Hong Kong Island.

If Song So-young was around, she would definitely pour cold water on Song Yi, saying that investment is investment in people. To put it bluntly, Song Yi just saw that Gu Ji-eun was pretty, and he just wanted to satisfy his hobby of collecting beauties from the five major chaebol families in South Korea.

Gu Ji-eun has also heard of Song Yi's reputation for being a playboy. There have been rumors that Song Yi plans to gather Korean actresses born in the 1980s. He has already gathered Kim Tae-hee, Song Hye-kyo, Jun Ji-hyun, Son Ye-jin, and Sung Yu-ri. Only Han Ga-in has escaped Song Yi's clutches.

In April this year, Han Ga In and Yeon Jung Hoon got married. SA Films also gave Han Ga In a script for "Witch Yoo Hee". Han Ga In herself thought the script was great and wanted to star in it, but due to Song Yi's reputation, she was a little hesitant.

Gu Ji-eun thought that SA Group and CJ Group are the top two entertainment and media giants in South Korea, so she made a strange request to Song Yi.

"I have no problem joining SouHan.net, but I hope President Song can agree to one of my conditions." Gu Ji-eun raised her head, looked at Song Yi, and said with courage.

"Please speak, Minister Ju." Song Yi looked relaxed.

"I divorced Chi Sangyu last year, and he married Shim Eun-ha this year. He is good at disguising himself, and he used the excuse that the couple had been separated for a long time because they were not in harmony. Even before the divorce, he was still flirting with Shim Eun-ha and maintaining contact with her."

Judging from Gu Ji-eun's tone, she doesn't have much hatred towards Shen Yin-he, but she has many complaints about her ex-husband Ji Sang-yu.

"Are you planning to have our SA Films ban Shen Yinhe so that she will never be able to act in film and television dramas again?" Song Yi asked.

"No, that would be too easy for Ji Sangyu. I hope SA Films can invite Shim Eun-ha to star in a TV series or movie. If possible, I hope Chairman Song can take advantage of Shim Eun-ha and cheat on Ji Sangyu." Gu Ji-eun said hatefully.

Song Yi was a little amused when he heard Gu Ji-eun's request. If Gu Ji-eun asked Song Yi to have a secret relationship with Lee Young-ae, it would be quite easy. Maybe Song Yi wouldn't even have to do it. With just a little hint, Lee Young-ae would crawl into Song Yi's bed obediently in order to make a name for herself in the entertainment industry.

But Shen Yinhe is different. After getting married, she plans to retire from the entertainment industry and stay at home to take care of her husband and children. Others don't plan to be in the entertainment industry anymore. No matter how capable Song Yi is, he can't force her to come out to film, let alone have sex with others, unless Chi Shangyu goes bankrupt or gets involved in a sex scandal. "Minister Gu, you may have misunderstood. I have never had sex with any female artist." Song Yi's face was very calm. What he said was indeed right. Although he slept with many female stars under SA, both of them were willing.

When Gu Zhien heard Song Yi say this, she lamented how shameless he was. "Forget it, just treat it as my angry words. If Shen Yinhe returns to filming in the future, she will ask President Song for help sooner or later. Then you can sleep with her."

Song Yi didn't expect that Gu Zhien had such a deep grudge against Ji Shangyu and his wife. His expression changed, and he half-jokingly suggested, "Minister Gu, I may not be able to take revenge on Ji Shang for the time being. I can't sleep with his current wife Shen Yinhe. But if Minister Gu is willing to cooperate, I can sleep with Ji Shangyu's ex-wife first, which is also a kind of revenge on him. What do you think?"

Actually, I think Shen Yinhe is prettier than Li Yingai!      (End of this chapter)


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