Song Yi smiled and said, "Isn't it clear what I mean? I heard that Chairman Cui encountered problems in his business operations. I like to do good things, so I plan to buy the Dong-A Ilbo to solve the cash flow shortage problem of the Dong-A Group."
Cui Yuanshuo found Song Yi's smile particularly glaring. "Song Yi, do you think I will agree to sell Dong-A Ilbo if you have evidence of my embezzlement of company funds? Dream on! I would rather go to jail than give in to you."
Song Yi applauded, "Chairman Cui is truly amazing. He is determined to die rather than live in disgrace."
"It doesn't matter. Even if Chairman Choi is unwilling to surrender and goes to jail, I have a way to buy the Dong-A Ilbo. After all, Mrs. Choi is eager to save her husband, and she can't bear to see Chairman Choi suffer alone in prison." Song Yi's attitude was neither impatient nor anxious.
"Song Yi, if you have anything to say, just come to me. What's the point of using me to threaten Enying? She is not involved in the management of the company. Don't the Chinese people believe in not sending crimes to parents, and not sending disasters to wives and children?" Cui Yuanshuo didn't expect that Song Yi would turn against him so easily, without considering the relationship between relatives at all.
"I didn't harm your wife and daughter. They are women and children. Why would I bother with them? But when Dong-A Ilbo and Chosun Ilbo reported the scandal between me and Moon Geun-young, you should have thought that this day would come."
"The Chosun Ilbo is the stronghold of South Korea's conservatives and is in the same boat with the Grand National Party. I really can't touch it now, but the Dong-A Ilbo keeps jumping around in front of me. Who gave our Chairman Choi the courage?"
Song Yi happened to be holding a copy of Dong-A Ilbo in his hand, and the headline on the newspaper was about the scandal of the national sister Moon Geun-young.
He folded the newspaper and gently patted Cui Yuanshuo's old face, "You can either sell yourself to the conservatives from the beginning and go all the way to the end. If you are also in the same boat with Zheng Jinhui, I will also let you go first."
"But you are a cowardly person. On the one hand, you accept donations from conservatives and help them discredit the Open National Conference. On the other hand, you want to get close to our SA Group and play two games at the same time."
"Chairman Cui, you know what kind of people are the most hated. They are people like you who are wavering and vacillating. You flatter whoever wins, and you step on whoever is in trouble."
"Behind the Chosun Ilbo is the Grand National Party, behind the JoongAng Ilbo is Samsung, and behind the Dong-A Ilbo is what? Are you relying on your so-called Dong-A Group? Everyone knows that it is a crime to possess a treasure, but our Chairman Choi just doesn't understand it."
"We have entered the Internet media era. The influence of an inschool website has actually surpassed that of your three major newspapers. While your Dong-A Ilbo can still be sold at a high price, sell it to our SA as soon as possible. After paying off the group's debts, you can still be a rich man, hugging your beautiful wife and living a comfortable life."
"If you don't know how to handle the current situation, after you go to jail, your wife will still have to save you by selling the Dong-A Ilbo. By then, you will have no money and no company. It's hard to say whether your wife will still be willing to follow you."
"After you've been in prison for three or four years, your hair will have turned white, your body will have deteriorated, and even your beautiful wife will have run away with someone else. What's the point of your persistence?" Song Yi's tone was very cold.
Cui Yuanshuo knelt on the ground and begged Song Yi for mercy. "Chairman Song, I know that some of the previous reports have offended you. I apologize to you. Our Dong-A Ilbo is willing to publish an apology statement to Miss Moon Geun-young in the newspaper. I promise that Dong-A Ilbo will never publish negative news about SA Group in the future. As long as Chairman Song is willing to let me go, do you think it's okay?"
Song Yi looked down at Choi Won-seok, "Chairman Choi, this is not right. You are Hyung-soo's father-in-law, and you are also my elder. How can you kneel to me? Aren't you going to shorten my life?"
"You are a treacherous and fickle person. How can I believe your promise? I have been in Korea for so many years and found that you have only learned the basics of Chinese culture. You will never learn the principles of propriety, righteousness, integrity, filial piety, brotherhood, loyalty and trustworthiness."
"When Shinhan Media was almost bankrupt, Jaechan came to you for help. You told Jaechan that you would lend him some money as long as he agreed to divorce Sunhee and give up custody of Yunju."
"Brother Jaechan was foolish enough to believe you at that time. But later when First Planning wanted to acquire Shinhan Media, you immediately regretted it. If it weren't for me, you would have divided Shinhan Media with First Planning and Kim Nam-yong. You even want to take a bite of your own son-in-law's company, so how could I believe the blank check you wrote today?" Song Yi said slowly.
Cui Yuanshuo wanted to make a final struggle, "Song Yi, if I sell the Dong-A Ilbo to you, those political parties and financial groups that donated to the Dong-A Ilbo will not let me go. Selling the Dong-A Ilbo is a dead end, and not selling the Dong-A Ilbo is also a dead end. Anyway, there is no way to survive, so it's up to you."
Seeing that Cui Yuanshuo was like a dead pig that was not afraid of boiling water, Song Yi didn't have time to talk nonsense with him, so he called Jiang Xiuna and said, "Xiuna, come to my office."
Jiang Xiu Na walked into the office and saw Cui Yuanshuo collapsed on the ground with no change in his expression. She walked to Song Yi and bent over to ask him, "President, are you looking for me?"
Song Yi instructed Jiang Xiu Na, "Call Li Yuan and tell him that Chairman Choi Won-suk of Dong-A Group embezzled 20 billion won of public funds from Dong-A Ilbo. As a caring citizen of Seoul, I will provide clues to the Seoul Central District Prosecutor's Office. Please ask him to bring his colleagues from the Prosecutor's Office to verify this."
After handling major cases such as Le Xiyi and Cui Anyuan, Lee Won was officially promoted to a first-level prosecutor. Lee Won was also transferred back to the Seoul District Prosecutor's Office from the Suwon Prosecutor's Office. With a few more years of experience, Lee Won will be promoted from a prosecutor to a senior prosecutor, and can go to other parts of South Korea to serve as the chief prosecutor of a prosecutorial branch office. Lee Won is a rising political star in the Korean prosecutorial system.
Cui Yuanshuo had of course heard of Li Yuan's name and knew that Song Yi was going to kill him. He finally gave up his fantasy and got up from the ground. "You are so cruel! You really are a heartless person who doesn't care about other people's lives. I can sell Dong-A Ilbo to SA Group, but you have to guarantee the personal safety of our family."
Seeing that Choi Won-suk had agreed to sell the Dong-a Ilbo, Song Yi said to Kang Soo-na, "Call Mrs. Choi and ask her to stay at Hyung-soo's house for a while. After the acquisition of the Dong-a Ilbo is completed, she can go back home to live."
When Cui Yuanshuo saw Song Yi doing this, he knew that on the one hand he was trying to protect Zhang Enying, and on the other hand he was also taking Zhang Enying as a hostage.
Kim Yu-moon bought an independent house in Seongbuk-dong for his son Kim Hyung-soo as the wedding house for Kim Hyung-soo and Choi Soo-jin. Although the area of this house is not as large as Song Yi's villa, it is next to Kim Hee-won's villa and the location is quite good.
In mid-September, Song Yi visited the Dong-A Ilbo newspaper office accompanied by Choi Won-seok, chairman of the Dong-A Group.
Cui Yuanshuo stated that there is great room for cooperation between Dong-A Group and SA Group in many industries such as paper media, Internet, and real estate.
In an interview with Dong-A Ilbo, Song Yi also said that if Internet media like inschool and Yahoo Korea cooperate with high-quality paper media like Dong-A Ilbo, they can make up for some of the business shortcomings of both companies.
Zheng Jinhui became alert when she saw the media reports. She found Chi Shangyu and said, "Contact Cui Yuanshuo and ask about the specific cooperation between Dong-A Group and SA Group. Could it be that Cui Yuanshuo wants to sell Dong-A Ilbo to SA Group?"
Ji Sangyu found it hard to believe when he heard Zheng Jinhui say this. "This shouldn't be possible. I know Choi Won-seok. Dong-A Ilbo is the lifeblood of Dong-A Group. Many big financial groups wanted to buy Dong-A Ilbo from Choi Won-seok before, but Choi Won-seok refused. Dong-A Group's investment business has been losing money in recent years. Dong-A Ilbo is one of the few profitable businesses of Dong-A Group. Choi Won-seok has no reason to sell Dong-A Ilbo."
Lee Chang-hui has decided to give up participating in the 2007 presidential election. Zheng Jinhui of the Grand National Party will participate in next year's presidential election as the only presidential candidate.
If Zheng Jinhui is elected president, then Lee Changhui will serve as the prime minister of South Korea. Zheng Jinhui and Lee Changhui have reached an agreement. Ji Shangyu was Lee Changhui's assistant before, and now he has officially joined Zheng Jinhui's campaign team as Lee Changhui's representative.
"The Dong-A Ilbo has a daily circulation of over 1 million copies and is now the second most subscribed newspaper in South Korea. The loyal fans of the Dong-A Ilbo are basically middle-aged and elderly people who support our Grand National Party. This is also our major voting base and we cannot neglect it. You should go to the Dong-A Ilbo now and make sure to find out the details of the cooperation between the SA Group and the Dong-A Group." Zheng Jinhui instructed Chi Sangyu.
When Chi Shangyu heard Zheng Jinhui say this, his expression immediately became serious, "Okay, representative, I'll do it right away."
Choi Won-seok received Chi Sang-yu at the Dong-a Ilbo newspaper office. Chi Sang-yu is now also an important figure in the conservative party. This year, Chi Sang-yu participated in the Seoul mayoral election as a representative of the Grand National Party, but was ultimately defeated by Park Dong-ho of the Open National Assembly, who was re-elected as the mayor of Seoul.
Park Dong-ho's re-election as Seoul mayor also means that the ruling party's Open National Assembly has basically confirmed Justice Minister Ha Mi-ae as its presidential candidate for next year. If Park Dong-ho really wants to run in next year's presidential election, he will not choose to continue to run in the Seoul mayoral election.
The citizens of Seoul highly recognize Park Dong-ho's achievements in the past four years of his administration. During his tenure, Park Dong-ho greatly improved the living environment of Seoul, built several forest parks, and increased the greening rate of Seoul.
Although housing prices in Seoul have risen significantly in recent years, the Seoul City Government still provides a large number of long-term rental apartments for young people or families with difficult living conditions to alleviate their housing pressure.
The main reason why Ji Sangyu participated in this year's Seoul mayoral election was to show his face in front of Seoul voters. Lee Changhui is now really training Ji Sangyu as his successor, and Ji Sangyu is aiming for the Seoul mayoral election in 2010.
"Councilman Chi, Song Yi came to me not because he wanted to acquire Dong-A Ilbo. He plans to launch a Super Membership service on Sohan.com. Users who have activated the Super Membership service can subscribe to the electronic version of Dong-A Ilbo for free. SA Soft will pay our newspaper a fee every year to purchase the electronic version of Dong-A Ilbo."
"Super membership? Just like the Prime membership on Amazon? Americans are rich and willing to subscribe to a separate paid membership service in addition to shopping. I'm afraid it may not work for Song Yi to imitate Amazon's paid membership service in Korea?" Chi Shangyu was a little skeptical.
"The Super membership service on Sohan.com seems to be somewhat different from Amazon's Prime membership. If you complete a purchase on Sohan.com, you will get a certain amount of membership points for each purchase. If your membership points reach a certain value, you don't need to spend money to activate the Super membership service. If the points are not enough, you need to spend money to activate the Super membership service."
"Sohan.com's Super membership service is quite cost-effective. Members can enjoy exclusive member discounts at any Walmart supermarket and Sohan Mall in South Korea. Super members can enjoy songs from SA Music and SM Entertainment. Super members can also read various novels, comics, magazines and newspapers for free. The electronic version of Dong-A Ilbo is only a part of this reading benefit. SA Group will also carry out similar cooperation with many other newspapers." Choi Won-seok said.
Song Yi's idea actually borrowed from Amazon's Prime membership and Alibaba's 88vip membership.
Sohan.com users can redeem 1 point for every purchase of more than 1,000 won on Sohan.com. Users with more than 9,999 points can activate Sohan.com's Super Member service for free.
In other words, Sohan.com users who spend at least 9.999 million won on Sohan.com in one year can get free Super membership. If Sohan.com users want to get free Super membership, they must spend at least 60,000 yuan on Sohan.com.
If the points of Sohan.com users do not meet the requirements, they will need to spend US$29.9 to activate the Super membership service.
Compared to Amazon's Prime membership service, which was withdrawn last year, Sohan.com's Super membership is undoubtedly much more cost-effective. Super members can also enjoy discounts when buying movie tickets at HugeDream Cinemas. Every year, HugeDream Cinemas will provide Sohan.com's Super members with 8 50% off movie tickets.
The price of a movie ticket in a Korean cinema is about 50 RMB. You can save 200 RMB just by buying movie tickets, which is almost enough to make back the 29.9 USD.
When Chi Sangyu left the newspaper, he did not forget to remind Choi Won-seok, "Chairman Choi, we raise a lot of funds from social groups every year and donate them to Dong-A Ilbo to maintain the long-term operation of the newspaper."
“We have no objection to you conducting some economic cooperation with SA Group to increase the income of the newspaper, but the reporting position of Dong-A Ilbo cannot change. Dong-A Ilbo must not become Song Yi’s propaganda mouthpiece. Next year is the election year. If Chairman Choi accidentally stands on the wrong side at this time, it will be an unknown whether Dong-A Ilbo can continue to be named Choi.” Ji Sang-yu threatened.
Cui Yuanshuo was furious when he heard Chi Shangyu say this, "Song Yi is threatening me, and you are threatening me too. Who do you think you are?"
"If you were really capable, your wife Shim Eun-ha wouldn't have starred in SA Films' movie The Host. Someone revealed before that in order to please Lee Chang-hui, whenever Lee Chang-hui came to your house for dinner, your wife Shim Eun-ha would always accompany him for drinks. You're a man who is willing to give away his own wife just to get promoted, and you dare to act like a big shot in front of me!"
When Ji Sang-yu first arrived at the newspaper, Choi Won-seok did have some other ideas. He also wanted to use the power of the Grand National Party to get rid of Song Yi's control.
However, when he thought of his wife Zhang Enying who lived in Chengbeidong, and the evidence of his corruption in Song Yi's hands, he quickly regained his senses.
Although Song Yi was not a good person, he was trustworthy. Politicians were not good people either. Maybe he would jump into the fire pit of the Grand National Party as soon as he left Song Yi's quagmire. He was afraid that if the fish died and the net was not broken, he would not be able to withstand Song Yi's thunderbolt.
"Congressman Ji, don't worry! As long as I am the president of Dong-A Ilbo, the political stance of our Dong-A Ilbo will not change, and we will always be the solid backing of the Grand National Party." Choi Won-seok assured Ji Sang-yu.
Ji Sangyu got Choi Won-seok's assurance and left the newspaper office with satisfaction. At this time, Song Yi was discussing business with Zhang Enying and Choi Sun-hee in the villa in Seongbuk-dong. He also received the news that Ji Sangyu had left Dong-a Ilbo. The content of the conversation between Ji Sangyu and Choi Won-seok was transmitted to Song Yi intactly.
"It seems that our Chairman Cui did not make a mistake this time and did not disclose the inside information that SA Group was going to acquire Dong-A Ilbo." Song Yi nodded.
This time, Song Yi is using the Super Membership service of Sohan.com to distract the attention of his opponents. Song Yi will send a work team to Dong-A Ilbo, nominally to carry out a project cooperation between Sohan.com and the electronic version of Dong-A Ilbo, but secretly SA Soft is ready to take over all the work of the electronic version of Dong-A Ilbo.
Choi Won-suk will announce in a while that he is unable to continue to serve as the president of Dong-a Ilbo due to illness, and his wife Jang Eun-young will temporarily take over Dong-a Ilbo. As Choi Won-suk's wife and a former news anchor at KBS, it is understandable that Jang Eun-young came forward to stabilize the turbulent situation of Dong-a Ilbo.
"Yuan Shuo is not that stupid. He would rather offend Ji Sang Yu than offend you." Zhang Enying said.
Song Yi put his arm around Zhang Enying, stroked her slender waist, and smiled, "Really? I was thinking that if Chairman Cui didn't obey, I would punish his wife today."
Thank you all for your monthly tickets, see you tomorrow.
(End of this chapter)