Song Yi and Aragaki Yui went to the COEX Convention Center together. Zhou Zhiyi had already arrived at the venue in advance and was directing the staff to go over the press conference process again.
After seeing Song Yi, Zhou Zhiyi put aside the work at hand, greeted Song Yi, and nodded to Aragaki Yui, "Ms. Aragaki, the location for your live broadcast has been arranged for you. I will take you there first."
Yui Aragaki quickly expressed her gratitude, "Thank you, Director Zhou, thank you for your trouble. President, I'll go over first."
There are about 1,000 seats at the entire press conference, including seats for the media, representatives of partner manufacturers, employees, and representatives of South Korean government officials. Attending Gaojin Electronics' autumn new product launch conference today is South Korean Prime Minister Zhou Yuncan.
Zhou Yuncan was previously the president of Seoul National University, and was later nominated by President Song Woo-seok as the Prime Minister of South Korea. In 2003, Song Yi was assassinated at Seoul National University, and Song Yi and Zhou Yuncan came into contact. Song Woo-seok is now in the middle and late stages of his administration. In order to boost the Korean economy, Song Woo-seok appointed Zhou Yuncan, a former economics professor, as the Prime Minister of South Korea.
When Song Yi expressed his intention to enter the mobile phone manufacturing field, Song Yuxi was actually a little worried. After all, SA Group had never been involved in the manufacturing field before, and mobile phones are a high-tech industry.
South Korea is geographically small and has a population of only 50 million. If it relies on the local market, it cannot support four or five mobile phone manufacturers. The South Korean government generally focuses on supporting two or three companies to enter a certain industry to form a duopoly competition pattern.
South Korea's mobile phone manufacturers already include Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics. If the SA Group enters the mobile phone manufacturing industry, it remains to be seen whether it can break the duopoly of Samsung and LG. It may even affect the good cooperative relationship between the SA Group and LG Electronics.
Moreover, the mobile phone manufacturing field itself requires a large amount of initial capital investment. If the SA Group cannot compete with Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics, it will bring uncontrollable risks to the SA Group's operations and will also weaken the SA Group's competitive advantages in media, Internet and real estate businesses.
The opposition Grand National Party has confirmed Chung Geum-hye as the only presidential candidate, while the ruling party is still hesitating about who to choose as the presidential candidate next year.
Song Woo-seok personally prefers to support Justice Minister Ha Mi-ae to represent the ruling party, the Open National Assembly, in the 2007 presidential election. However, many members of the Open National Assembly feel that Ha Mi-ae's style of doing things is too tough, and hope to select Scholar Party official Zhou Yuncan to participate in next year's election.
Zhou Yuncan has not yet publicly announced that he will participate in next year's presidential election, because when he was teaching or serving as president of Seoul National University, he repeatedly declined invitations from Zhong Wanyou and Zhong Xiaotong and gave up the position of head of South Korea's economic department on the grounds of concentrating on teaching.
Song Yi knew that Zhou Yuncan actually wanted to participate in the 2007 presidential election, but his personal prestige was still not as good as that of the Iron Lady Xia Meiai.
After all, Xia Meiai was a judge and was not good at economic affairs. If South Korea's economic growth rate during Zhou Yuncan's two years as prime minister is better than that from 2003 to 2005, then Zhou Yuncan does have a chance to surpass Xia Meiai in the polls.
South Korea's richest man Song Yi and South Korean Prime Minister Zhou Yuncan both appeared at Gaojin Electronics' autumn new product launch conference. Naturally, the South Korean media got wind of the news, and several major TV stations and newspapers almost sent representatives to attend today's autumn new product launch conference.
The first of the four major TV stations to arrive was naturally ABS TV under the SA Group. ABS TV also got the media seats with the best view. The ABS TV media delegation was led by Lee Hyun-jin.
When Li Xianzhen saw Song Yi, she came over to say hello to him. She looked around and didn't see Song Jingyan. "Didn't my sister-in-law say she would also come to the press conference? Why didn't I see her?"
"It's still early, she will probably come later. What do you want to see her about?" Song Yi asked.
"It's okay, I just want to chat with her for a while. My dad is urging me to have a child every day, and I want her to help me share the pressure." Li Xianzhen smiled evilly.
Lee Hyun-jin was wearing a black suit today, with a rose-red round-neck fashionable shirt underneath, and the pearl necklace around her neck added a touch of femininity.
As a host of ABS TV, Lee Hyun-jin's hairstyle is a big wave, and the hairstyle requires fluffy feeling, so as to create a sense of stability. However, Lee Hyun-jin's hairstyle has a small inward curl, which is stable and playful, and gives people a sense of girlishness.
Song Yi's face darkened when he heard this. "Uncle Li wants to have a grandson, why are you directing the blame to your sister-in-law? Now that the talk show "North-South Dialogue" has gained a good reputation, it's time for you to take a break. If you plan to have a child, I will definitely support you with both hands. As a great contributor to our ABS TV Tower, I will definitely give you an extra-long maternity leave next year. As long as you plan to come back to work, your position will always be reserved for you."
"President, you sound easy, but President Cui didn't say that. President Cui has asked me to be the president's assistant and start taking over some of her work. When SA Media Group is established, President Cui plans to slowly hand over the management of ABS TV station to me. President Cui is training me to be the next president. I'm pregnant now, so I'm letting President Cui down."
"On the contrary, you really need to pay more attention to my sister-in-law. My previous sister-in-law divorced my brother before she even got pregnant. This sister-in-law seems to be a strong woman, and she travels to the mainland every few days. She is now responsible for planning the opening of SA Bank's Puhai Branch."
"My brother has finally been transferred back to the Seoul Central District Prosecutor's Office from the Suwon Prosecutor's Office, but my sister-in-law is often on business trips. The two of them are like the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, and they only see each other a few times a year. How did my sister-in-law get pregnant?" Li Xianzhen spoke up for her brother Li Yuan.
Li Xianzhen is Kim Tae-hee's college best friend. She had a very good relationship with Kim Tae-hee in college and envied Kim Tae-hee for finding such a good boyfriend as Song Yi. Later, Li Xianzhen found out that Song Yi was two-timing. When he was dating his younger sister Kim Tae-hee, he did not reject his older sister Kim Hee-won. Her filter for Song Yi was shattered. She felt that Song Yi was a scumbag and felt sorry for her best friend Kim Tae-hee.
Later, both Kim Hee-won and her sister married Song Yi, and Lee Hyun-jin calmed down. After all, her best friend Kim Tae-hee didn't mind that her sister Kim Hee-won took Song Yi's love away, so as an outsider, she didn't need to speak up for Kim Tae-hee.
Song Yi and Li Xianzhen joked, "Why should I care whether your sister-in-law is pregnant or not? I can't do this kind of thing for you. If you want a child, I can help you."
Li Xianzhen looked at Song Yi with a mocking expression, smiling but not saying anything. Song Yi felt something was wrong and felt a chill behind him. He turned back and found that Song Jingyan was standing behind him and had heard the conversation between him and Li Xianzhen.
Song Yi wanted to slap himself twice at this moment. It would be so embarrassing if you were caught talking nonsense. He felt that he was a little bit arrogant today. He was very confident about the success of the press conference. In addition, Li Xianzhen's dress was particularly charming, so he couldn't help but make a joke. Who knew that Song Jingyan would catch him.
Seeing Song Yi's embarrassed look, Song Jingyan's anger subsided a little. She was a little helpless, "Brother Yi, you are already thirty years old and the father of several children. How can you still be so dishonest? If I hear you making such a joke again next time, don't blame me for complaining to Sister Taixi."
After Song Jingyan left, Li Xianzhen had a playful expression, "President Song, it seems that my sister-in-law doesn't want you to help. I would really like to ask you for help, but Tae Hee and I are good friends, and I don't want to ruin our sisterhood. When I convince Tae Hee, I will ask you for help."
Song Yi glared at Li Xianzhen. Li Xianzhen clearly saw Song Jingyan coming over, but deliberately did not remind him, just to see him embarrass himself in front of Song Jingyan.
Now that Song Jingyan is gone, Li Xianzhen is still deliberately teasing him, which is simply killing him. Kim Tae-hee can tolerate Song Yi sleeping with other women, but she absolutely cannot accept that Song Yi and Li Xianzhen are having an affair.
Song Yi was not happy. "Thank you for your kindness. I can't help you for now. If you and your wife have any unspeakable problems, I will definitely help you find the best doctor to treat you. Okay, you go ahead and do your work. I'll go look around somewhere else first."
As Song Yi left, Li Xianzhen didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "Humph, this playboy is quite stingy. He will take revenge if he has a grudge."
Song Yi first went to Yui Aragaki's live broadcast room, where all the live broadcast equipment had been installed. In order to increase Yui Aragaki's popularity, Song Yi showed his face in front of the camera.
Song Yi is still very popular among Japanese netizens. When he appeared in Yui Aragaki's game live broadcast room, his fans found it unbelievable.
Many comments appeared in the live broadcast room, asking whether Yui Aragaki is Song Yi himself. Many comments floated in the live broadcast room, "Is it Song Sang himself?" "Such a young richest man? Amazing!"
Yui Aragaki covered her mouth, held her chest and bowed to thank the fans. Song Yi and Yui Aragaki confirmed, "Underage netizens cannot recharge or give gifts in the live broadcast room, right?"
Yui Aragaki nodded and answered Song Yi's question, "President, it's not just the live broadcast room. Our SA-produced games prohibit underage users from recharging or purchasing props. They can only play the game for 120 minutes from Monday to Friday. If they exceed the game time, they will be forced to log off to prevent them from becoming addicted to the game."
Song Yi randomly answered several questions from fans in Yui Aragaki's live broadcast room, and then said that he would randomly draw 100 lucky viewers in the live broadcast room to win electronic products from Gaojin Electronics' autumn conference as gifts to give back to Yui Aragaki's fans.
The atmosphere in the live broadcast room was quite relaxed. Song Yi stayed there for half an hour, attracting enough attention for Yui Aragaki, and the popularity of the live broadcast room was getting higher and higher. More and more fans shared the link of Yui Aragaki's live broadcast room on the inschool website.
At this time, other news media also began to enter the venue one after another. The media delegation of Dong-A Ilbo was led by Zhang Enying. Song Yi and Zhang Enying met and the two chatted briefly.
Zhang Enying didn't see Cui Shanji, and knew that she might be a little embarrassed, so she found Li Xianzhen first, and the two started chatting.
When the Dong-A Ilbo employees saw Zhang Enying and ABS TV assistant president Li Xianzhen chatting and laughing, they couldn't help but speculate that it seemed that Chairman Choi Won-seok really intended to fade out of the management of the newspaper in exchange for a cooperation opportunity between ABS TV and Dong-A Ilbo.
At 7:15, South Korean Prime Minister Zhou Yunchan and other government officials arrived at the COEX Convention Center.
As soon as Zhou Yuncan entered the venue, many media and business friends who were familiar with him greeted him. Zhou Yuncan responded one by one, being very polite.
When Song Yi saw Zhou Yuncan coming in, he stood up from his seat and walked towards Zhou Yuncan. Zhou Yuncan noticed Song Yi's actions, smiled, walked quickly to Song Yi, and took the initiative to shake hands with Song Yi, "President Song, I look forward to your performance tonight. I hope Gaojin Electronics can bring us a surprise."
A young reporter from the JoongAng Ilbo noticed that when Zhou Yuncan shook hands with Song Yi, he half-bent and bowed his head to greet Song Yi. He felt a little unfair, "South Korea is really hopeless. The Prime Minister met the richest man and even bowed in front of him. If South Korea is dominated by chaebols, how can ordinary people like us have a chance to stand out?"
Song Yi's attitude was very humble, but his expression was very confident. "Thank you for your blessing. Gaojin Electronics will definitely not let you down."
Zhang Enying also noticed this scene and was very excited. A man’s life is worthwhile only if he can live to this point.
There is a super large LED screen behind the press conference site, with Gaojin Electronics’ advertising slogan written on a blue background, “Quality creates excellence, technology changes life - Gaojin Electronics”.
Zhou Yuncan was the last guest to arrive at the meeting. Sitting to his right was LG Group's crown prince, Gu Guangmo. Chen Zairong also quietly entered the meeting room and sat in the center of the First Planning delegation.
Song Yi's secretary Jiang Xiu Na noticed Chen Zairong's arrival, came to Song Yi, and told him about it. Song Yi didn't care. Tomorrow, Gaojin Electronics' mobile phones will be sold through all channels, and Samsung Electronics can also buy Galaxy S1 mobile phones offline. At this time, Song Yi's trump card has been revealed, and it is normal for Samsung Electronics to want to come and learn about the competition.
The host of Gaojin Electronics' autumn new product launch conference was Zhou Zhiyi. Zhou Zhiyi, who was wearing a skirt, greeted everyone gracefully and then invited Song Yi to the stage to give a public speech.
Song Yi straightened his clothes and walked to the podium with firm steps. More than a thousand people in COEX Convention Center all focused their attention on Song Yi. Although Song Yi is very well-known in Korea and there are many gossips about him in the media, today is the first time that Song Yi has given a public speech.
"Good evening, everyone. I am Song Yi from Gaojin Electronics. The theme of my speech today is 'Quality creates excellence, technology changes life'."
"Five years ago, I left my previous company, Shinhan Media, and started my own business, establishing the first Shinya Entertainment. Five years later, our SA Group has become a large multinational company with a market value of 30 trillion won, 25 group subsidiaries, and 160,000 employees."
"According to the Fortune magazine's ranking of the world's top 500 companies, Nike ranks last. Nike's operating income in the last fiscal year was $15 billion. If SA Group merges the operating income of its subsidiaries in mainland China, its revenue scale will be around $20 billion. It will have no problem making it into the top 500."
Before Song Yi finished speaking, Chen Zairong, who was sitting in the audience, was shocked. SA Group was established only five years ago. In five years, Song Yi led SA Group to become a Fortune 500 company. If Song Yi was given another five or ten years, wouldn't he be able to shake Samsung's position in South Korea? No wonder his father was like a formidable enemy when he saw Song Yi, and he was very concerned about the movements of SA Group.
"Of course, I am reporting the achievements of our SA Group to you all, not trying to show off. In fact, I disagree with merging the revenue of the China mainland subsidiary into the parent company SA Group this year. Many directors of our group's board of directors expressed their incomprehension. Because being selected into the Fortune Global 500 can help our SA Group increase its visibility and facilitate us to promote SA Group's products more widely."
"Why would I refuse? I think only when a single subsidiary of SA Group becomes one of the world's top 500 companies would it be worthwhile for us to publicize it. I believe that within a few years, our SA Group will have three or four of the world's top 500 companies. Whether it is media, Internet, finance, real estate or consumer electronics, we have the hope of becoming industry leaders."
Sitting in the audience, Gu Guangmo listened to Song Yi's speech attentively. Although he and Song Yi were of the same age, their identities were very different. Even if he took over LG Group from Gu Guangsheng in the future, the cooperation between LG Group and SA Group would still be led by SA Group. In his public speech, Song Yi finally did not hide his ambition for the throne of consumer electronics.
"When I first started my business, I was thinking about what kind of company I wanted to build. Later, I thought clearly that I wanted to build a great company that would last for a hundred years. A great company needs great products so that consumers can remember our brand and leave our unique mark in the long history of mankind."
"When people see a light bulb, they think of Edison. When you pick up a phone, you think of Bell. When you pick up a cell phone, you mention Nokia."
Song Yi imitated the classic Nokia ringtone "Grand Waltz" on the spot, which made the audience laugh continuously.
After everyone stopped laughing, Song Yi continued, "Although mobile phone manufacturers have continuously released new mobile phones in recent years, and the functions have become more and more powerful. But I think the mobile phone industry has not made much progress, and it has not followed Moore's Law. Apart from larger memory and clearer photos, there is no disruptive innovation at all. Compared with the ever-changing Internet industry, it is simply an old cow pulling a broken cart."
"I think mobile phones should not be like this. Someone needs to step out and break the traditional thinking, and then change the way people use mobile phones. I think mobile phones will replace computers and become the first entertainment production tool for the public. A powerful mobile phone can completely surpass computers."
"I have been thinking about what kind of new mobile phone can liberate people from computers and enable them to communicate, entertain, work and relax on the phone."
"Next, let me reveal to you the real protagonist of Gaojin Electronics' autumn new product launch conference, the Galaxy S1 smartphone. Xiu Na, give me the phone." Song Yi ordered.
As soon as Song Yi finished speaking, everyone turned their eyes to Jiang Xiu Na. Jiang Xiu Na walked towards Song Yi with her phone in both hands. When Jiang Xiu Na handed the phone to Song Yi, Song Yi didn't pay attention and the phone fell to the ground with a "bang".
Jiang Xiu Na's face turned pale, and the media focused their cameras on the phone that fell to the ground and kept taking pictures. If this Galaxy S1 smartphone broke at the autumn new product launch conference, it would be a big joke.
This autumn new product launch was live broadcasted by the four major TV stations in South Korea and the inschool website of Gaojin Electronics. Everyone with a discerning eye saw that Song Yi did not hold the phone firmly, but dropping the phone on the spot was undoubtedly a major mistake, so it immediately aroused everyone's curiosity.
Apart from a slight cough, I am almost well now. The weather is getting colder, please keep warm. Thank you for your monthly tickets!
(End of this chapter)