The number of people petitioning the Blue House to expel Song Jong-guk from the South Korean national team exceeded 100,000, and the chairman of the Korean Football Association, Zhou Mengzhong, announced that Song Jong-guk voluntarily withdrew from the South Korean national football team.
Song Yi and Kim Hee-won came to the Paju training base again to fulfill their promise on behalf of the New Asia Media Properties Group and give out $500,000 in goal bonuses to Lee Eul-yong and Ahn Jung-hwan who scored goals in the World Cup third place match. Park Ji-sung, who assisted, also received $250,000.
The Korean players were a little unwilling. If Song Zhongguo hadn't gone out to have fun on the eve of the third place match, they should have been the third place. In this way, all the members of the Korean team could equally share the $5 million prize set by Song Yi.
Song Yi seemed to have guessed what the Korean team was thinking and encouraged all the players: "As the host of this World Cup, you have already made a name for the Korean team. European teams are now afraid of Korea and have developed a fear of Korea. As long as you can win any knockout match, we at New Asia will reward you generously."
Song Yi made big promises to all the Korean players. In fact, the Korean team has not won any World Cup knockout match since the Japan-Korea World Cup. Their best record was only the round of 16, so Song Yi didn't need to cash out the bonus at all.
After receiving the $500,000 check, Ahn felt much better. After the World Cup, Ahn returned to Italy and was stunned when his Mercedes-Benz parked in front of his residence was smashed by angry Italian fans.
Moreover, he originally thought that Perugia would renew his contract when the lease expired on June 30. However, Perugia club president Gaucci announced to the media that he would "fire" Ahn Jung-hwan for show, and called on Serie A clubs and Serie B players to stop using Korean players. Those who violated the rules would be fined 3.8 million euros by the Italian Football Association.
Ahn Jung-hwan responded that the South Korean team was the biggest surprise of this World Cup, and his goal against Italy was undisputed. It was meaningless to discuss the referee's decision, and we should respect Moreno. Ahn Jung-hwan's remarks seemed to imply that Italy could not afford to lose.
Ahn Jung-hwan is looking forward to the arrival of Song Yi and Kim Hee-won. He also wants to sign a contract with Shin Asia Agency and let Shin Asia Agency help him play in European leagues. Even if he cannot join the top five European leagues, it would be fine if he can play in the Eredivisie, Belgian First Division or Portuguese Super League teams.
Park Ji-sung's contract with Kyoto Phoenix was originally due to end in December, but with the intervention of Masayoshi Son, Shin-Asia Agency and Park Ji-sung paid a penalty to Kyoto Phoenix and terminated the contract early.
The Dutch Eredivisie club PSV Eindhoven has officially announced the joining of Park Ji-sung, with jersey number 13.
The PSV Eindhoven club offered Park Ji-sung a signing bonus of $1 million, an annual salary of $600,000, and an annual appearance fee of $300,000. The contract was signed for three years. This $3.7 million is the player's salary after tax, and the pre-tax contract salary is about $6 million.
According to the agreement, Shin-Asia Agency can get a 4% contract commission, which is US$240,000. In addition, Shin-Asia Agency can also get 20% of Park Ji-sung's commercial income, which is the bulk of the money.
The Dutch Eredivisie starts in mid-August and ends in May of the following year. Park Ji-sung will go to the Netherlands at the end of July to start the club's pre-season training camp, where he can develop a good understanding with his teammates.
In the original time and space, Park Ji-sung rushed to Europe to join the PSV Eindhoven Club after his contract with the JD Phoenix Club expired in late December 2002.
Because he missed half of the season, Park Ji-sung was not familiar with his teammates at PSV Eindhoven. PSV Eindhoven and Ajax were still busy competing for the league championship that season, so it was naturally impossible to give Park Ji-sung too much playing time. Park Ji-sung basically sat on the bench and watched his teammates play.
Although PSV Eindhoven won the league title, this title has little to do with Park Ji-sung. Now that Park Ji-sung can attend PSV Eindhoven's pre-season training on time and has more time to practice coach Hiddink's tactics with his teammates, Song Yi believes that Park Ji-sung will definitely have more opportunities to play.
Of course, Kim Hee-won rejected Ahn Jung-hwan's request. Shin-Asia Agency currently has no plans to sign players. If Ahn Jung-hwan wants to stay in Europe to play football like Park Ji-sung, he might as well seek help from Hiddink. If Hiddink hadn't chosen Park Ji-sung, Park Ji-sung wouldn't have landed in the European league so smoothly.
When Ahn Jung-hwan heard what Kim Hee-won said, he just wanted to curse. If Hiddink was willing to help, why would he ask Kim Hee-won for help? Zhou Mengzhun accompanied Song Yi for a walk on the football field. "You came back from Europe so soon, for the Seoul mayoral election? In fact, you can support Song Yuxi's presidential election, and there is no need to support Park Donghao's election for Seoul mayor. For us consortiums, we are very opposed to the emergence of a strong president like Zheng Puxi."
Song Yi felt that Zhou Mengzhun was overthinking it. "The South Korean president cannot be re-elected, so how could there be another Zheng Puxi? Moreover, for the current South Korea, if there is another Zheng Puxi, it would actually be a blessing for South Korea."
When Zhou Mengzhun heard Song Yi say this, he stopped, and the entourage behind him also stopped, leaving the two of them enough space to talk.
"Did you really mean what you said just now? Song Yi, you have to understand that if it is a weak president, no matter who is elected president, they will need to rely on us."
"As soon as Zheng Puxi came to power, he placed Samsung Chairman Chen Bingzhe under house arrest on the pretext of illegally amassing wealth. Chen Bingzhe paid a huge bail before he regained his freedom. You have to know that the word 'official' has two mouths. Today you can be a guest of honor at the Blue House, and tomorrow you can be a prisoner at the local prosecutor's office."
"Do you know that all of our family members have intentionally or unintentionally ignored our fifth brother (Zhou Mengxian)? It's because he is too close to the government and has invested heavily in promoting economic cooperation between North and South Korea for the sake of the old man's ideals."
"Our neighboring country, China, has a five-year plan and a ten-year plan because their policies have continuity. But our country is different. Whether it is the progressives or the conservatives, they cannot stay in power for a long time."
"So the economic cooperation between North Korea and South Korea is doomed to fail. North Korea has been watching our moves and announced the suspension of economic cooperation at the slightest sign of trouble. How can the Kaesong Industrial Park and Mount Kumgang International Tourist Area be developed if they survive in such a tight spot?"
"The lower classes in South Korea will never be satisfied. Even if South Korea develops as well as the United States and Japan, they will still be dissatisfied."
"When they drive a Hyundai, they want to upgrade to a BMW. When they live in an apartment, they still want to move to a villa. As long as they are not living as well as the people around them, they will blame others, the government, the company, their parents, their wives, but never themselves."
"In addition, the US government has been constantly interfering in the situation for its own benefit. Do you think that Zheng Puxi was assassinated just as the murderer said, 'I did everything for the country, without any personal gain'? For the United States, South Korea's military dictatorship is not conducive to American capital taking advantage of the Korean market." Zhou Mengzhun and Song Yi said frankly.
"Uncle Mengxian expects the north and south of the peninsula to be unified in the future. What he expects is very beautiful, but in reality he is unable to do it. He is a bit like a martyr in the church."
"Except for the two sides of the peninsula, none of the surrounding major powers hope that the peninsula can be unified. Because a unified peninsula is not in their interests. I only hope that the peninsula can be peaceful. Only a peninsula far away from the war can preserve the wealth we have accumulated. You must know that the wealthy and aristocratic families that have lasted for hundreds of years in the mainland will also be destroyed by war." Song Yi spoke his true feelings.
Zhou Mengzhun knew that Song Yuxi would continue Zhong Xiaotong's sunshine policy in foreign policy and continue to promote the reconciliation between the North and South Korea and the economic cooperation between North and South Korea. The economic cooperation between North and South Korea cannot be separated from the Eshan Group, and Zheng Enxuan and Song Yi must be the key figures in the economic cooperation between North and South Korea.
At Zhou Zhengyong's funeral, Kim Dongshin of the North Korean Asia-Pacific Peace Committee had already met Song Yi. Zhou Mengzhun believed that the North had already collected Song Yi's information and made a file. The Zhou Zhengyong Gymnasium in the center of Pyeongjing will be completed next year. Zhou Mengxian, the former chairman of Hyundai Group, Zheng Enxuan, the chairman of Eshan Group, and Song Yi are all on the invitation list.
Zhou Mengzhun was lobbying for Zhou Mengjiu, hoping that Song Yi would give up supporting Park Donghao. Without Song Yi's campaign funding, it would be difficult for Park Donghao to win the election.
Zhou Mengjiu and Zhou Mengzhun also understood what Song Yi meant. In fact, Song Yi was more optimistic about Park Donghao than Song Yuxi.
Park Dong-ho may not have rich experience in governing now, but if he is successfully elected as the mayor of Seoul, as long as he can fulfill his campaign promises, solve the housing problems of Seoul citizens and manage Cheonggyecheon, then with his five years of experience as the mayor of Seoul, he will be able to win the Blue House.
From Zhong Wanyou to Zhong Xiaotong, and then to Song Woo-seok who may win the election in December, South Korea has had three consecutive progressive presidents. If Park Dong-ho, who is Song Yi's favorite, is added, the South Korean government will have four consecutive progressive presidents. This is absolutely unacceptable to the conservative party in South Korea.
If Song Woo-seok wins the presidential election this time, the South Korean Conservative Party will invite Zheng Puxi's daughter Zheng Jinhui to participate in the next presidential election. Since Zheng Puxi has helped the five major groups, Samsung, Hyundai, Lotte, LG and SK, the five major groups will definitely join forces to send Zheng Jinhui to the Blue House.
The modern family also had their considerations in supporting Song Yuxi this time. Zhou Mengjiu, Zhou Mengzhun, Zhou Mengxian and Song Yi all got what they wanted.
Hyundai Motor and Yanjing Motor cooperated to build a factory. A pro-China president, Song Yuxi, could help Yanjing Hyundai open up sales in the mainland. Zhou Mengzhun became the chairman of Hyundai Group as he wished, and Zhou Mengxian was assigned to Eshan Group, and he could continue to promote economic cooperation between North Korea and South Korea through Eshan Group. As the liaison representative between the Hyundai family and Song Yuxi, Song Yi had enough say in both Song Yuxi and the Hyundai family.
On July 11, Daewoo Group's creditors announced that they would sell Seoul Plaza to Shinya Media Real Estate Group for 120.4 billion won (about 720 million yuan). Seoul Plaza was also officially renamed Shinya Group Building.
Seoul Plaza is the former headquarters building of Daewoo Group, formerly known as Daewoo Building. After Daewoo Group went bankrupt, Korea Development Bank, a creditor of Daewoo Group, used this building as collateral and later renamed it Seoul Plaza.
Seoul Plaza has a total of 22 floors, including 17 floors above ground and 5 floors underground, with an area of 24,854 square meters. New Asia Media Real Estate Group bought the building in the form of cash plus loan as the company's new headquarters.
In the second half of the year, New Asia Construction, New Asia Capital Fund, New Asia Media, New Asia Pictures, New Asia Music and New Asia Agency will all move to this building to work together.
As for the Shin-Ah Building in Seocho-dong, it will be used as the office building of Shin-Ah Network Co., Ltd. With the advancement of Sohan.com and KartRider Rush+ projects, Shin-Ah Network Co., Ltd. is recruiting people almost every day, and the original office space of Shin-Ah Network Co., Ltd. is no longer sufficient.
When Chen Zaican heard that Song Yi bought the Seoul Plaza Building, he was very surprised. He originally thought that Song Yi might become his boss in the future, but who knew that Song Yi would suddenly become his landlord. Shinhan Media has its office on the 15th floor of the Seoul Plaza Building.
Song Yi entrusted the renovation of the New Asia Group Building to Jin Xiyuan. Like the New Asia Building, the top floor of the New Asia Group Building will be used as Song Yi's chairman's office. Song Yi will be running between the New Asia Group Building and the New Asia Building.
The reason why he didn't keep an eye on the renovation of the New Asia Group Building was because he and Kim Tae-hee made a special trip back to Yanjing and brought his niece Song Miao to Seoul.
After not seeing each other for half a year, Song Yi felt that Song Miao seemed to have grown a lot taller. After Song Miao moved into Song Yi's Chengbeidong villa, she became familiar with Song Yi's dog Black and took Black to play on the lawn every day.
Song Miao also followed the games of the Chinese men's football team. She also went to watch the football games of Yanjing Guoan in person. She is also a little football fan.
"Uncle, I heard from the newspaper that you are planning to acquire a Chinese A-League football club and introduce high-level foreign players from South America to help improve the level of Chinese men's football. Is this true?" Song Miao rarely met Song Yi, who got off work early, and chatted with him in the courtyard.
Song Yi laughed dumbly, "Who told you that? Just take a look at the news in the newspaper, don't take it seriously."
The actual situation was that the Puhai branch of Xinya Network contacted the Puhai Shenhua Club and was interested in becoming a sponsor of Shenhua. In addition, there were rumors in the industry that Song Yi was going to buy a football club, so the rumors became more and more mysterious, and it became that Song Yi wanted to become the new owner of the Shenhua Club.
After Song Yi returned to Seoul, he went out early and came back late every day for Park Donghao's mayoral campaign. Considering that Lee Guangxue's poll rate was higher than Park Donghao's, Park Donghao had to agree to the proposal of a live debate with Lee Guangxue on KBS TV station. I'll adjust the plot. See you tomorrow. Thank you for your monthly votes.
(End of this chapter)