Chapter 296 F1 Korean Grand Prix Opening Ceremony



Chen Xinyu turned around, and her bathrobe fell to the ground. Song Yi looked at Chen Xinyu's graceful beauty, and his heart was warmed. He picked up Chen Xinyu and took two steps towards the bathtub. "Xinyu, blow dry your hair later. Let's take a bath together, shall we?"

After the incident, Song Yi sat on a rattan chair, and Chen Xinyu snuggled in Song Yi's arms, like a docile kitten. Chen Xinyu stroked the stubble on Song Yi's chin with her hand, "Why didn't you shave clean today? Are you trying to act deep in front of me? You pricked me when I kissed you just now."

Song Yi heard Chen Xinyu's complaint and joked with her, "When I kissed you just now, didn't you prick me too? Let's not say anything to each other."

When Chen Xinyu heard Song Yi say this, her face suddenly turned red. She pinched Song Yi's thigh with her hands. Song Yi felt pain and begged for mercy, "Xinyu, be gentle. If you are too harsh, be careful that it will delay your happiness in the next life."

Chen Xinyu glanced at Song Yi with a charming look in her eyes, "You are the only man I have, but you have so many women. If I leave you, I can still find another man who loves me to marry. If you leave me, you will have to stay alone with your beautiful wife and children."

When Song Yi heard Chen Xinyu say this, he shook his head and said, "I used to think that you and Fu Zhen had different personalities, but it turns out that this is just an appearance. You are also a rose with thorns."

Chen Xinyu smiled and said, "Only roses with thorns can leave a deep impression on people. If roses have no thorns, what is the difference between them and the flowers and plants that can be seen everywhere in the park?"

"Women are emotional. They can show their coldest side to someone they don't love, and they can also show their softest side to someone they love. I've never pursued love, and I can't be a man's canary. The more someone wants to tie me down, the less likely they are to get me."

"I used to feel like I was wearing a layer of armor, which was getting thicker and thicker. It protected me on the surface, but it also made me feel suffocated. In the past two years, I felt like I was alive again. After I gave up the 190 million US dollars worth of stocks that my father gave me, I became much more relaxed. I would not be afraid even if my father knew that I was with you." Chen Xinyu held Song Yi's hand and said firmly.

Song Yi's heart tightened when he heard Chen Xinyu's words. Chen Xinyu in the original time and space committed suicide in a luxury apartment in New York in November 2005. Chen Xinyu said that she felt like she was alive again in the past two years, and she was indeed right.

"Some birds are destined not to be kept in cages. Every feather of theirs shines with the light of freedom." Song Yi said a classic line.

Chen Xinyu kissed Song Yi and said, "After the Korean Grand Prix is ​​over, I will run a few laps on the Lingyan Circuit. The Ferrari 599 only has two seats. Do you want to sit in the passenger seat and experience the speed and passion?"

Song Yi shook his head. "Everyone who can drive wants to experience the feeling of speed on the track. However, even a skilled driver like Senna still had a car accident due to his overly risky driving strategy. We don't need to take this risk. After all, a gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall."

Chen Xinyu glanced at Song Yi in confusion. "Sometimes I really suspect that underneath your young body is the soul of a middle-aged man. You don't have the gene for adventure in your bones. No wonder you are so successful in business."

As the first F1 Korean Grand Prix, the opening ceremony was scheduled before the start of the race on October 21. The opening ceremony usually lasts 15 minutes, but because South Korean President Song Woo-seok will be at the race site, attend the opening ceremony, and give a speech, the operator of the F1 Korean Grand Prix, Hyundai Sports, communicated with the F1 organizing committee and set the opening ceremony time to 45 minutes.

Like the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup, the opening ceremony of the F1 Korean Grand Prix featured some cultural performances. The finale was Kim Taeyeon leading 99 children from South Jeolla Province to sing the traditional Korean song "Arirang".

In addition to Kim Taeyeon, there were also girl group Wonder Girls, boy group TVXQ, FTisland, SS501, BigBang, and solo singer Lee Hyori who sang her own songs at the opening ceremony.

Wonder Girls was the most popular girl group in 2007. The song "Tell Me" written by JYP's Park Jin Young for Wonder Girls has won 10 first places in the music programs of the four major TV stations, KBS, MBC, SBS and ABS, since its release.

FTisland is a boy band launched by FNC Entertainment this year. They are on a good run, with their song "Love Sickness" taking 7 No. 1s. SS501 is a boy band under SA Music, and their song "4 Chance" also took 5 No. 1s.

When the lineup for the F1 Korean Grand Prix opening ceremony performance was announced, YG Entertainment fans expressed great dissatisfaction.

SM Entertainment has TVXQ and Taeyeon, JYP Entertainment has Wonder Girls, SA Music has SS501, and even FTisland from FNC Entertainment participated. Why can't BigBang, who won the first place six times with the song "Lies", participate in the opening ceremony? Are you Hyundai Sports deliberately discriminating against our YG Entertainment artists? When YG Entertainment fans expressed their dissatisfaction on the inschool official website, SM Entertainment fans were also dissatisfied. SA Music and SM Entertainment are the children of the SA Group. Hyundai Sports is willing to support artists from other entertainment companies, which is already very respectful. Didn't you see that Girls' Generation and Super Junior, who won the first place five times, did not participate in the opening ceremony performance? BigBang fans couldn't help but retort to SM Entertainment fans, "SuperJunior doesn't have any songs to show off this year. What qualifications do they have to participate in the performance? Besides, didn't Girls' Generation's leader Taeyeon perform the finale? What else are you not satisfied with?"

Girls' Generation's fans were also somewhat dissatisfied when they saw BigBang's fans stirring up trouble on the inschool website and trying to bring the war to Kim Taeyeon.

"The finale song of major sports events in South Korea is 'Arirang'. Kim Taeyeon is a singer from South Jeolla Province. She sang 'Arirang' with 99 children to symbolize peace on the peninsula. She didn't sing her own songs, nor did she promote Girls' Generation. What are you dissatisfied with?"

"Is it so great that BigBang's 'Lies' got 6 1st place? Girls' Generation also got 5 1st place, but Girls' Generation still didn't show up at the opening ceremony?" Girls' Generation's fans spoke up for their older sisters.

BigBang fans also responded strongly, "Is Kim Taeyeon the only singer in Jeolla South Province? Isn't Kim Jong Kook, who won the KBS, MBC and SBS Music Awards, more qualified to represent Jeolla South Province than Kim Taeyeon?"

"Even if Kim Jong Kook doesn't perform, isn't TVXQ's leader Jung Yunho from South Jeolla Province? Since TVXQ is already attending the opening ceremony, why not let Jung Yunho sing 'Arirang' with the kids?" BigBang's fans analyzed the situation in detail.

Kim Taeyeon also saw these comments online. She found that whether it was fans of TVXQ, Super Junior, BigBang or SS501, they all seemed to have a lot of complaints about the Girls' Generation group.

Fans of TVXQ and SuperJunior complained that some members of Girls' Generation had no sense of boundaries and deliberately posted photos with TVXQ or SuperJunior on the inschool website in an attempt to gain popularity and to use any means necessary to become famous.

Kim Taeyeon was a little worried. Girls' Generation hasn't become popular yet, but there are already a lot of anti-fans. What puzzled her most was that Girls' Generation, TVXQ, SuperJunior, and SS501 were all artists under SA Group, but the fans of these three groups had the most complaints about Girls' Generation.

Seo Ju-hyun noticed Kim Taeyeon's uneasiness and tried to comfort the captain, "Taeyeon, don't worry. Since Hyundai Sports invited you to sing "Arirang" as the finale, they have recognized that you are the most suitable candidate. My mother will also take me to Jeollanam-do to watch the F1 race this weekend. If you are free, we can have dinner together then."

Kim Taeyeon inexplicably felt that it was Song Yi who designated her to sing the finale. Song Yi wanted to use the F1 Korean Grand Prix to promote the Girls' Generation group, but did not want to be criticized, so he asked Hyundai Sports to invite her to sing the finale.

Park Jin-young also announced on the inschool homepage the good news that the Wonder Girls group will attend the opening ceremony of the F1 Korean Grand Prix.

As the first group to appear, Wonder Girls has fully proved its international influence. Wonder Girls will officially enter the North American market next year and hold concerts in North America. JYP Entertainment wants to build Wonder Girls into an international idol group.

On October 21, the opening ceremony stage of the F1 Korean Grand Prix was set up in the morning, and the artists participating in the art performance came to the stage in advance to rehearse. The most famous of these artists is Lee Hyori, who will sing Secret Garden's "You Raise Me Up" at the opening ceremony. This music is also the theme song of Michael Schumacher's farewell memorial film.

Michael Schumacher was the guest commentator for the live commentary of the F1 Korean Grand Prix on ABS TV. Lee Hyori's singing of this English song can be regarded as a tribute to Schumacher.

Song Yi and Hyundai Sports President Zhou Mengkui jointly hosted F1 President Bernie Ecclestone, F1 Race Director Charlie Whiting, "King of Racing" Michael Schumacher and his entourage at noon. Jeollanam-do Governor Lee Kwang-hun and Yahoo Korea President Chen Xinyu also attended the Hyundai Sports welcoming banquet.

Song Yi is no stranger to Lee Kwang-heon. Justice Minister Ha Mi-ae promoted the reform of the Korean prosecution system, and Lee Kwang-heon was the first director of the Public Prosecutions Office. During Lee Kwang-heon's tenure as director of the Public Prosecutions Office, he also launched an investigation into Le Seok-ik.

When Song Yi was planning to bid for the F1 Korean Grand Prix, Lee Kwang-heon already knew that the F1 venue would be located in South Jeolla Province, which is the voting base of the ruling party Open National Conference. Song Yi also took this into consideration when he won the right to host the F1 Korean Grand Prix. North Jeolla Province and South Jeolla Province were originally positioned as tourist provinces.

Bernie and Song Yi were bragging about each other's business. Bernie said he was also a user of Galaxy S1 series phones. He suggested that Song Yi could add some racing elements to the Galaxy S series phones.

Gaojin Electronics is already a global business partner of F1, and there are already many Galaxy S1 series mobile phone billboards at the F1 Korean Grand Prix. If the Galaxy S series mobile phone has F1-related factors, it will have to pay a lot of promotion fees to F1. Bernie is really smart.

Song Yi's response was all perfunctory, saying that Gaojin Electronics is interested in having closer brand cooperation with F1.

After dinner, Song Yi and his team returned to the competition venue. Before the opening ceremony, Zhou Mengjiu and Zhou Yixuan of Hyundai Motor Group, Zhou Mengzhun and Zhou Jixuan of Hyundai Group, Xu Meijing, director of Hyundai Sports, daughter Jin Youmei and son-in-law Zhou Dashan all appeared in the VIP seating area on the upper level of the garage in the maintenance area. Zhou Mengjiu and his son and Xu Meijing chatted and laughed in their seats, and Zhou Dashan and his wife introduced the current situation of the Xingzhou Racing Industrial Park to Zhou Mengzhun and his son.

In addition to the Yeongam Circuit, the venue for the F1 Korean Grand Prix, the Seongju Automotive Industrial Park also has an F1 theme hotel, a karting club, a car theme park, a modified car club, etc. The karting club also has a miniature version of the Yeongam Circuit, which is convenient for car fans to experience the fun of driving a karting car.

Zhou Mengjiu and his son noticed Bernie Eccles and Song Yi entering the venue. Zhou Yixuan noticed Chen Xinyu following behind Song Yi. Chen Xinyu was wearing a pink suit and skirt, and her black stockings made her figure look particularly graceful. For today's commentary, Chen Xinyu also wore a pair of plain glasses, which made her look particularly stunning.

Zhou Yixuan said to Zhou Mengjiu, "Father, today Miss Xinyu is the guest commentator. This should be Miss Xinyu's first appearance on TV. I wonder what President Chen thinks when he sees Miss Xinyu's commentary today?"

Zhou Mengjiu glanced at Song Yi with a somewhat unswerving expression. SA World Tower, which SA Group applied to the Seoul City Government this year, has been approved.

SA World Tower is located in Songpa District, close to Jamsil Subway Station. The building has a designed height of 568 meters and a total of 118 floors.

After splitting up Hyundai in 2001, Zhou Mengjiu considered building a skyscraper as the new headquarters building of Hyundai Motor Group.

Zhou Mengjiu never dreamed that in addition to the four core industries of the Internet, media, real estate and finance, the SA Group would actually launch a strong challenge to Samsung Electronics in the consumer electronics industry. Gaojin Electronics has become the third largest mobile phone manufacturer in South Korea.

Hyundai Motor Group's new headquarters building is still on design paper, but SA World Tower has been approved and SA Group has already bought the land in Songpa District.

SA Group is building a new headquarters in Songpa District, and the loudest protest is actually from Lotte Group. Lotte World Theme Park is located in Songpa District, not far from SA World Tower. When SA World Tower is completed, users of SA World Tower will be able to directly overlook the Sanxin Lake of Lotte World Park.

The most important thing is that Lotte Group originally planned to build a skyscraper in Songpa District, but it has never been approved. Now that SA World Tower has been approved, it is impossible to build a skyscraper of the same height in the same location unless Lotte Group is willing to modify the design height. The planning of Lotte World Tower will be adjusted from a super high-rise building over 500 meters to a high-rise building over 200 meters.

Zhou Mengjiu knew what Zhou Yixuan was thinking. Originally, Zhou Yixuan was the most outstanding third generation of the modern family, but the appearance of Song Yi stole Zhou Yixuan's limelight.

Now Zhou Yixuan naturally didn't dare to compete with Song Yi. As the richest man in South Korea and a world-renowned billionaire ranked fifth on the Forbes Rich List, Zhou Mengjiu had to be polite when he saw Song Yi. How could Zhou Yixuan dare to do anything weird?

However, the reason why Zhou Yixuan was unhappy was not because of Song Yi, but because of Zhou Zhiyi, who was also the third generation of a modern family.

After postponing the ruling date once, the U.S. International Trade Commission made a ruling on the patent lawsuit between Apple and Gaojin Electronics on October 18, determining that Gaojin Electronics did not infringe on the four patents submitted by Apple.

Some analysts believe that Apple's loss is only the first step in a series of legal disputes between Apple and Gaojin Electronics, two mobile phone manufacturers, which will have a significant impact on the future smartphone market. It is not ruled out that Apple will initiate more patent lawsuits against Gaojin Electronics in the future.

As the managing director of Gaojin Electronics, Zhou Zhiyi has appeared on many American TV shows. Her well-reasoned responses on the shows have given Gaojin Electronics and the Galaxy S1 series of mobile phones a strong presence.

According to data released by operator Sprint, since Zhou Zhiyi came to the United States to lead the patent lawsuit against Gaojin Electronics, the weekly sales of Galaxy S1 series mobile phones have increased by 8%. A "Zhou Zhiyi whirlwind" has also been set off in the United States.

South Korea's three major newspapers have followed up on Zhou Zhiyi's outstanding performance. There are already voices from the outside world saying that Zhou Zhiyi is the most outstanding third generation of the Hyundai family and that Zhou Zhiyi is an outstanding young talent with an international vision.

Zhou Mengjiu, Zhou Mengxian and Zhou Mengzhun have always been competing with each other, and their children are naturally compared. Zhou Yixuan was very uncomfortable when he saw that the Korean media were praising Zhou Mengxian's eldest daughter Zhou Zhiyi.

Zhou Mengjiu said to Zhou Yixuan: "Someone saw Chen Xinyu driving her Ferrari 599 to Xingzhou. After today's F1 race is over, Chen Xinyu might drive her new sports car to run two laps on the Yeongam Circuit."

"President Chen has never liked seeing Chen Xinyu racing, and Chen Zairong also cares about his youngest sister. Since we are at the scene, and I am Chen Xinyu's elder, of course I can't just ignore it. Yixuan, you and Chen Zairong should let him know." Zhou Mengjiu instructed calmly.

Zhou Mengjiu, who is shrewd and calculating, may have seen something from Chen Xinyu's performance and suspected that the relationship between Song Yi and Chen Xinyu has gone beyond that of a male boss and a female subordinate, so he ordered Zhou Yixuan to inform Chen Zairong. Samsung Family cannot tolerate Chen Xinyu being a mistress to Song Yi now. In order to preserve the reputation of Samsung Family, Chen Jianxi and his son will definitely not sit idly by.

After giving instructions to Zhou Yixuan, Zhou Mengjiu stood up as if nothing had happened, and went with Zhou Mengzhun to greet Song Yi and Bernie Eccleton.

Song Yi didn't know that Zhou Mengjiu was plotting against him behind his back, and he praised the three young men, Zhou Yixuan, Zhou Jixuan and Zhou Dashan, in front of Bernie Eccleton.

Bernie Eccleton knew that Zhou Yixuan would inherit Hyundai Motor Group in the future. After chatting with him for a while, Zhou Yixuan's face became much better. Bernie Eccleton encouraged Zhou Yixuan and hoped that the first Korean team would appear in the F1 arena in the future.

Seeing that Song Yi really wanted to promote his son-in-law Zhou Dashan, Xu Meijing's favorable impression of Song Yi deepened. Although she did not hear the conversation between Zhou Mengjiu and his son, she noticed that Zhou Mengjiu and his son focused their attention on Chen Xinyu. She decided to find Song Yi alone after the game to remind him.

Although SA Group, Hyundai Motor Group and Hyundai Group are all shareholders of Hyundai Sports, SA Group and Hyundai Motor Group have always maintained superficial harmony but have not been in harmony with each other.

Since SA Group has already entered the mobile phone industry, it is possible that it will enter the automobile industry in the future and challenge Hyundai Motor Group.

Although members of the modern family cannot get involved in the core industries of other family members, Song Yi can no longer be regarded as a member of the modern family.

The total market value of all listed companies under the SA Group has exceeded the total market value of all companies owned by other members of the Hyundai family. The Hyundai family can no longer restrain Song Yi from getting involved in the automotive industry.

SA Group has been involved in the retail industry before. SouHan.com's offline physical store SouHan Mall has blossomed in major cities in South Korea. The 16 Walmart stores have further consolidated SA Group's competitive advantage in the retail department store industry.

The opening ceremony was scheduled for 15:00 p.m., and at 14:55, President Song Woo-seok's motorcade appeared in the parking lot outside the competition venue.

Wonder Girls were ready to enter. Min Sun-ye, Ahn So-hee, Park Yoo-eun, Lee Sun-mi and Kim Yoo-bin were wearing tight-fitting space suits, attracting the attention of many racing fans.

Min Xianyi and Park Yu-eun changed their hair to neat short hair, dyed red and orange respectively. Kim Yu-bin is also from Jeollanam-do, and her appearance also attracted a lot of cheers.

Wonder Girls debuted in July 2007, almost at the same time as Girls' Generation. As representatives of the second-generation girl groups, Wonder Girls have become the top girl group in South Korea with the hit song "Tell Me", while Girls' Generation's development has been less impressive.

In 2007, Wonder Girls had a song called "Tell Me", and in 2008, they had another song called "Nobody" which became popular all over the Internet. Girls' Generation won the ninth consecutive championship in music programs through the song "Gee" released in January 2009, officially becoming the top girl group in South Korea. After winning the ninth consecutive championship, they gave up the music program to express their respect for the 10 No. 1s of the Wonder Girls group.

When Wonder Girls first debuted, there was no Kim Yoo-bin in the five-member group. The original member was the "wild horse" Kim Hyun-A. Less than a month after Wonder Girls debuted, Kim Hyun-A was forced to leave the group due to gastroenteritis. Kim Yoo-Bin joined Wonder Girls only last month, but as soon as he joined the group, he won 10 first places. Maybe this is the case that small success depends on support, and big success depends on luck. Kim Hyun-A's luck is really bad. If she had stayed in Wonder Girls, she would not have needed to go the sexy route to become popular.

When Kim Hyun-ah returned home to recuperate, SA Music extended an olive branch to Kim Hyun-ah. As long as Kim Hyun-ah still intends to continue to be a singer, SA Music welcomes Kim Hyun-ah to join at any time. SA Music President Ji Jong-hwa promised Kim Hyun-ah that SA Music would train her as the second Lee Hyo-ri.

The cultural performance at the opening ceremony finally came to an end. When Lee Hyori, the second to last performer, sang "You Raise Me Up", Michael Schumacher showed surprise and sang along softly in the live broadcast of ABS TV.

When the fans at the scene saw Michael Schumacher singing softly in the live broadcast, the fans sitting in the audience also sang along. This shot has become a classic scene of this year's F1 Korean Grand Prix.

After Lee Hyori left the stage, 99 children from South Jeolla Province appeared in traditional Korean costumes, and Kim Taeyeon appeared in the center of the stage in a pink tulle dress. Kim Taeyeon also had long blond hair today. Standing in the center of the stage, Kim Taeyeon was particularly eye-catching, like an exquisite Barbie doll.

Seo Joo-hyun, who was sitting in the audience, saw Kim Taeyeon's solo stage look for the first time and pulled her mother Yoo Hye-young's arm, "Oh mom, Taeyeon is so beautiful today."

The members of Wonder Girls were a little dissatisfied and complained about Kim Taeyeon, "She was singing the traditional Korean folk song 'Arirang', but she deliberately didn't wear a hanbok, and her hair color was similar to Sunye unnie's. Isn't this deliberately riding on the popularity of our Wonder Girls? If you don't know, you would think today is her personal stage."

Min Xianyi stepped in to appease the other members, "Don't say that. After all, the F1 race is an international event. The hanbok of the children in South Jeolla Province can already highlight our Korean culture. Kim Taeyeon wears a long skirt to reflect the fusion of Eastern and Western cultures."

After the singing of "Arirang", the highlight of the opening ceremony came next, and South Korean President Song Woo-seok delivered an opening speech.

"Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. After careful preparations by Formula One, Hyundai Sports and Jeollanam-do, the first F1 Korean Grand Prix is ​​now open on schedule."

After finishing her performance, Kim Taeyeon did not leave, but walked to the VIP seating area holding her long skirt. Hyundai Sports invited these idol groups and singers to attend the opening ceremony of the F1 Korean Grand Prix, and Hyundai Sports also presented these performers with tickets to the F1 Korean Grand Prix.

Kim Taeyeon didn't expect that her seat was actually the VIP seat with the best view. When Kim Taeyeon sat down, she noticed that she was sitting in the back row of the ABS TV commentary booth. The two rows in front of her were ABS TV's F1 special commentators Michael Schumacher and Chen Xinyu. Song Yi and Bernie Ecclestone sat together, only one row away from Kim Taeyeon.

Kim Taeyeon felt a little cold sitting in her seat. There was a wind blowing on the field. Song Yi, who was talking to Bernie, noticed that Kim Taeyeon was shivering and instructed his secretary Jiang Xiu Na.

Jiang Xiu Na walked over to Kim Taeyeon and handed her a leather jacket. Kim Taeyeon thanked her and put on the jacket. Kim Taeyeon put her hands in her jacket pockets to keep warm and suddenly found a hotel room card in her pocket.

Kim Taeyeon's heart sank. This jacket was handed to her by Jiang Xiu Na, so this leather jacket is likely to belong to Song Yi. Song Yi left the room card in the jacket. Was it a hint that she didn't need to rush back after watching the game, and he would wait for Kim Taeyeon in the hotel room? Song Yuxi's speech had ended. Kim Taeyeon, who was worried, applauded along with others. She didn't have the heart to watch the F1 race now. She was worried about how to get rid of her agent and then go to the hotel to meet up with Song Yi. (End of this chapter)


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