Song Yi's words are actually borrowed from the classic lines in "Legend of the White Snake" starring Pan Yueming and Liu Tao, which are quite lethal to Yui Aragaki and Masami Nagasawa. At least Song Yi's eyes lit up when he saw Yui Aragaki.
As the conversation deepened, Aragaki Yui learned that Song Yi also had a music production company under his name, and Kim Jong Kook and Lee Hyori were the leading singers of New Asia Music.
Turbo and Fin.KL are also well-known in Japan, but they are still not as famous as Boa in Japan.
Song Yi said to Yui Aragaki, "Ms. Aragaki, you are still in the stage of voice change. It is still unknown whether you can gain a foothold in the fiercely competitive Japanese music scene. However, the career life of an actor is often longer than that of a singer. I hope you can also work hard to convince your agent and agency and seize this opportunity."
Aragaki Yui bowed again and thanked him, "I will try my best, thank you for your kindness."
After finishing the business, Song Yi saw that it was getting late, so he asked Yui Aragaki and Masami Nagasawa to notify their agents to pick them up. If it was inconvenient, he could also help call a taxi. The taxi fare in Japan is very expensive and not affordable for ordinary people.
Aragaki Yui's agent is a middle-aged woman. When she saw that Aragaki Yui was not drinking and her clothes were intact, her eyes softened when she looked at Song Yi.
Sitting in the agent's car, Yui Aragaki broke her usual silence and talked about what she saw and heard today. The agent then learned that Song Yi was a Korean entertainment tycoon, and his company had many well-known artists such as Jun Ji-hyun, Song Hye-kyo and Ko Hyun-jung.
Yui Aragaki asked her agent cautiously, "New Asia Pictures invited me to audition for their new film "If Love Has Destiny". This film is also a new work directed by Director Guo Zairong. The audition will be arranged in Japan. Do you think the president will agree to let me star in New Asia Pictures' film?"
The agent was slightly stunned when he heard what Yui Aragaki said, "I will report this to the president and try my best to help you."
The next day at noon, Jin Xiyuan drove over to pick up Song Yi, and the two went to have lunch together. Yokohama and Tokyo are only about 20 kilometers apart, and it only takes half an hour to drive there.
"Can a Korean driver's license be used in Japan?" Song Yi originally thought that Jin Xiyuan would call a taxi to meet him.
"Of course a Korean driver's license cannot be used in Japan, but I have obtained an international driver's license. When I was working at Korean Air, I wanted to drive around the world, so I obtained an international driver's license (IDP) for this purpose." Kim Hee-won replied with a smile.
Song Yi and Jin Xiyuan went to try the ramen restaurant Tsuta at noon. It is a Michelin-starred ramen restaurant. The secret thick soup and cooked soup base are their specialties. The price is not expensive. Two servings of ramen are only more than 4,000 yen.
"Every time I flew to Tokyo, I would ask my colleagues to dine at this restaurant together. But for some reason, I suddenly felt that today's ramen was not as delicious as before." Kim Hee-won felt lost.
Song Yi didn't think it was strange. Korean ramen tasted average to begin with, and since it was a rare opportunity to come to Japan, he naturally thought that Tsuta's ramen of various flavors were very delicious.
Song Yi's family has two chefs, one for Chinese food and one for Western food and pastries. When Jin Xiyuan got used to eating Chinese food, her taste was naturally different.
Song Yi looked at the busy chefs in the kitchen and suddenly got an idea. He said to Jin Xiyuan: "We can make a food show in the future, invite chefs from China, Japan and South Korea to compete on the same stage, use the ingredients in the stars' refrigerators, and then make food on the spot, and then invite the guests who are recording the show to taste the food together."
Once talking about work, Jin Xiyuan immediately became more serious. "Using the star's refrigerator? Do we need to move the star's refrigerator to the TV station for recording? What if the food in the refrigerator is damaged due to power outage during transportation?"
Song Yi smiled, "This is just a gimmick for the show. In fact, as a fan, they would be curious whether the stars usually cook and what they keep in their refrigerators. We don't have to actually move their refrigerators to the show."
"We only need to place a refrigerator of the same model as the one in the celebrity's home at the show site, and put the same ingredients in it. Of course, in order to reflect the authenticity of the program, during the recording process, we can also film the process of transporting the refrigerator into the TV station." Song Yi said.
The show Song Yi was talking about was the JTBC TV variety show "Please Take Care of My Refrigerator", which was later bought by Penguin Video. The mainland version of "Please Take Care of My Refrigerator" was hosted by Mr. He and Wang Jiaer, and was filmed for a total of six seasons. It is also one of the few long-lived variety shows on Penguin Video.
When Jin Xiyuan heard Song Yi talking about the details of the variety show, she found the show more and more interesting.
Unlike "X-Man", "Please Take Care of My Refrigerator" is a talk show, which mainly depends on the on-the-spot reactions of the participating guests.
Yoo Jae-seok's contract with MBC has ended. Yoo Jae-seok joined Shinya Media as a personal agency and became the first MC under Shinya Media. "X-Man" has started recording. Lee Hyori, Kim Jong-kook and Sung Yuri have participated in the recording of the first episode. The first episode will be broadcast on SBS TV in mid-July.
Kim Hee-won went to the SBS studio to watch the recording process of "X-Man". The SBS staff were also amused by the guests' performances. They obviously liked this indoor variety show very much.
Although the cooperation with SBS is quite pleasant, Kim Hee-won has no plans to hand over the show "Please Take Care of My Refrigerator" to SBS.
Currently, New Asia Media maintains a good cooperative relationship with the three major TV stations and does not favor any one TV station.
For example, "Winter Sonata" was given to KBS, "X-Man" was given to SBS, and the second half of the year's big drama "Dae Jang Geum" is scheduled to be broadcast by MBC.
Because considering that New Asia Media is preparing to apply for a wireless TV station next year, "Please Take Care of My Refrigerator" can be used as New Asia TV's own variety show. After all, as Song Yi said, this is a long-lived variety show, different from "X-Man".
As for the host of the show "Please Take Care of My Refrigerator", it still adopts the configuration of one main MC and one deputy MC.
There is no better candidate for the main MC than Yoo Jae-seok. As for the deputy MC, Song Yi suggested changing it every season, choosing a popular member of a popular idol group of the same year.
According to Song Yi's idea, he plans to set TVXQ's Jung Yunho as the deputy MC for the first season, SJ's Kim Heechul as the deputy MC for the second season, SS501's Kim Hyun Joong as the MC for the third season, and Girls' Generation's Kim Taeyeon as the MC for the fourth season.
If New Asia Media started applying for wireless TV in 2003, then New Asia TV officially started broadcasting in the second half of 2004. According to the time calculation, Girls' Generation should have debuted in the fourth season, and Kim Taeyeon would be the deputy MC.
After eating ramen, Song Yi and Jin Xiyuan went to visit NHK TV together. The negotiation with NHK TV went smoothly, and Song Yi did not bother about the cost of introducing the TV series.
NHK TV is planning to broadcast Winter Sonata on its satellite channel NHK BS-2. If the show is successful, NHK TV will then broadcast the show on its flagship terrestrial channel.
Although he didn't care about the copyright fee for the TV series, Song Yi was very concerned about other income from "Winter Sonata". New Asia Pictures and NHK made an agreement that the two parties should share the peripheral income from the videotapes, DVDs and books of the same name of "Winter Sonata" equally. Song Yi knew that this was the big part.
In fact, after NHK broadcast "Winter Sonata", the videotapes, DVDs and books of this TV series were also sold out. Thanks to the drama "Winter Sonata", NHK reversed the trend of declining sales and profits in 2002.
The DVD of "Winter Sonata" is not cheap, costing 3,400 yen per set. More than 100,000 sets of DVDs were sold in Japan alone. "Winter Sonata" brought 3.5 billion yen (about 236 million yuan) to NHK TV station.
Only after "Winter Sonata" set off a viewing craze in Japan did NHK TV realize how wise Song Yi's decision was to split the peripheral income from videotapes, DVDs and books equally, but that is a story for later.
Song Yi promised that the male and female protagonists of "Winter Sonata", Bae Yong-joon and Song Hye-kyo, would come to Japan to participate in NHK's variety show to promote "Winter Sonata". New Asia Network (Japan) Co., Ltd. will also place inschool advertisements on NHK TV.
Song Hye Kyo has no new TV drama shooting plans in the second half of the year, and her focus in the second half of the year will be on the Japanese market. New Asia Entertainment will also set up an office in Japan to serve New Asia artists and connect with the Japanese market.
Because of its small area and small population, Korean entertainment companies attach great importance to the Japanese market. For example, SM Entertainment established SM Japan a long time ago.
TVXQ, Super Junior, Girls' Generation and EXO have all released Japanese albums, and Girls' Generation has frequently held concerts in Japan. The Japanese commercial performances, endorsements and concerts of these groups were later handed over to Avex Records.
If New Asia Entertainment sets up an office in Japan, it can take over this part of the work, and there is no need for Avex Records to make this money. If Inschool can take root in the Japanese market, New Asia Entertainment can also quickly grow into a giant entertainment company in the Japanese market by relying on Inschool's resources in Japan.
In the next few days, Song Yi and Jin Xiyuan traveled all over Tokyo, and under the guidance of a real estate agent, they looked at all the office buildings in Tokyo. Song Yi knew that the rent in Tokyo was very expensive, but the rent price still made him feel painful.
Song Yi originally wanted to place the office of New Asia Network (Japan) Co., Ltd. in the port area, but the rent in the port area was indeed too high for New Asia Network (Japan) Co., Ltd. In the end, Song Yi decided on Shibuya, next door to Microsoft Japan headquarters.
In addition to the office location, Song Yi also quickly finalized the candidate for CEO of New Asia Networks (Japan) Co., Ltd., who was recommended by Masayoshi Son and is named Tsuyoshi Idezawa.
Idezawa had just graduated from the University of Tokyo and had many years of experience in the Internet industry. He had previously worked at Microsoft Japan, Yahoo Japan, and ZHD. Song Yi conducted a one-on-one interview with him and was quite satisfied with his personal abilities, so he hired him immediately.
The registered capital of New Asia Network (Japan) Co., Ltd. is 1 billion yen, of which SoftBank invested 200 million yen, accounting for 20% of the shares. Song Yi certainly couldn't let Masayoshi Son get this bargain for free. The two parties also made a lot of supplementary agreements. Yahoo Japan and Z Holding would invest resources to help promote inschool. For example, inschool would choose Japanese idol star Takuya Kimura to be inschool's Japanese spokesperson.
When Tsuyoshi Idezawa learned that the team of New Asia Network (Korea) Co., Ltd. had developed a web game "Happy Farm" specifically for inschool Japanese users, he breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that Song Yi had already figured out how to open up the Japanese market.
In fact, "Happy Farm" has been launched in the mainland market. As long as you register a Xinya network pass, you can play this web game. Xinya network pass can also log in to the school network directly and automatically generate a school network account.
Xinya Network Puhai Branch has launched the Xinya Game Hall, which contains many chess and card games, such as Happy Landlord, Happy Mahjong, Happy Chess, Happy Gobang and so on.
At that time, the mainland game industry had already had the saying "Lianzhong in the north and Xinya in the south", but with the help of "Happy Farm", a simple and easy-to-play vegetable stealing game, it had already snatched away many users from Lianzhong Games.
Ourgame founder Bao Yueqiao also criticized Song Yi for not following the rules of martial arts and only caring about copying the Ourgame game interface, which is a serious infringement. If it were in the Japanese, Korean, European and American markets that value copyright protection, Xinya Network would have gone bankrupt long ago.
Guo Haibin, general manager of Xinya Network Puhai Branch, responded to Bao Yueqiao's remarks, "I have always respected the predecessors of Internet companies. Ourgame is just a game aggregation platform. Doudizhu, mahjong, chess, and gobang were not invented by Ourgame. How can it be said to be plagiarism? On the contrary, Ourgame urgently launched the stealing vegetable game, which plagiarized many ideas of Happy Farm. Mr. Bao's greed is a bit ugly."
While Guo Haibin and Bao Yueqiao were exchanging sharp words, Song Yi remained silent. Xinya Game Hall had indeed snatched away many game users from Lianzhong. His goal was to follow Lianzhong's path and leave Lianzhong with no other way to go.
Xinya Game Hall would update a new game every week, and he planned to use the same tactics as the mobile phone industry to exhaust Lianzhong Game. As long as players found that the number of games in Lianzhong Game Hall was far less than that of Xinya Game Hall, Lianzhong would not last long.
Song Yi ignored the online war of words. Although Bao Yueqiao wanted to draw the flames of war to him, he had no interest in responding. In Song Yi's view, Lianzhong only had the advantage of being the first mover in time. Sooner or later, Lianzhong games would be eliminated by picky Internet users.
He and Jin Xiyuan had already flown to London and were looking at luxury houses on Kensington Street. Kensington Street is a famous wealthy area in London, known as the "Billionaire's Street". The residents here are either rich or noble. Song Yi plans to buy a building here and give it to Jin Xiyuan.
If Song Yi successfully acquires Manchester United in the next two years, then the most suitable person to manage the club will be Kim Hee-won.
Song Yi will fly to the United States this summer to get his marriage certificate with Kim Tae Hee. He knows that every woman longs for a wedding, and Kim Hee Won is no exception. He cannot give Kim Hee Won a status, so he can only compensate her in other ways.
In Song Yi's mind, the British real estate and Manchester United Club shares will be left to Jin Xiyuan and their children. If Jin Xiyuan is pregnant, letting her stay in London to give birth can also avoid the eyes of Korean paparazzi.
Thank you all for your monthly tickets. A chapter was blocked for no apparent reason. Alas.
(End of this chapter)