Kim Tae-hee was a little dazed during classes and meals at Seoul University these days. She was still thinking about the shocking news revealed by Kim Hee-won, "Song Yi said that he and you will get a marriage certificate in Nevada by the end of the year, and you will be husband and wife soon."
OPPA is going to marry her? Why didn't OPPA tell her the news in person, but through her sister? Did he want to give her a surprise? But when she asked her sister for details, her sister refused to say anything. She didn't know whether the news was true or not.
Kim Tae Hee was eating while thinking bitterly. Kim Tae Hee's lunch in the cafeteria today was pork tofu soup, whitebait, vegetable salad and radish kimchi. It was full of protein, carbohydrates and vegetables, and the nutrition was very balanced. Kim Tae Hee paid great attention to body management at school.
Sitting opposite Kim Tae-hee is a slightly plump girl. She is a freshman at Seoul University this year and her name is Lee Ha-nui.
Lee Ha-nui joined the Seoul National University Ski Club right after entering college, and became good friends with Kim Tae-hee because of their common interest in skiing. Kim Tae-hee likes her new friend who is humorous, straightforward and talented, and the two often have dinner together.
Lee Ha-nui had heard of Kim Tae-hee before she entered Seoul National University. Although Kim Tae-hee had only endorsed two advertisements, Samdasoo and Hera lipstick, she was already a well-known star at Seoul National University.
Thanks to the publicity effect of Samdasoo and Hera lipstick, many brands contacted Kim Tae-hee, hoping that she could be the spokesperson for their company's products, including Lotte Candy, Samsung mobile phones and other Fortune 500 brands, but Kim Tae-hee declined.
The reason given by Kim Tae-hee is simple. She needs to focus on her studies and musicals at the moment and does not have the energy to take on new endorsements.
After this news was exposed, Kim Tae Hee's popularity increased. Korean netizens all gave Kim Tae Hee thumbs up in this entertainment news.
1L Netizen: "Between study and money, Tae Hee chose the former without hesitation. This is the difference between the top students and us."
2L Netizen: "Tae Hee's family is rich and beautiful, and she has no shortage of money, so why would she give up her studies for money?"
Netizen 3L: "I heard that Kim Tae-hee's agency doesn't get along well with Samsung and Lotte, so she didn't accept endorsements from these two companies." If Song Yi saw this comment, he couldn't help but give him a thumbs up.
Netizen 4L: "Are you kidding me, 3L? How can Kim Tae Hee's agency be at odds with both Samsung and Lotte at the same time?"
Netizen 5L: "Doesn't Kim Tae Hee's agency have a modern background?"
Netizen 6L: "Isn't Kim Tae Hee's ad produced by Shinhan Media? Doesn't this company have Samsung background?"
Netizen 7L: "How can ordinary people like us understand the secrets between these chaebols? If you keep talking nonsense, be careful that the legal departments of these big companies will sue you."
The excitement on the Internet actually boosted ticket sales at the National Theater of Korea. The musical "Empress Myeongseong" starring Kim Tae-hee was packed, and the theater received flowers from fans at almost every show.
In the musical "Empress Myeongseong", Kim Tae-hee did not play the heroine Queen Myeongseong, but King Gojong's favorite concubine Lee Sang-gung.
Queen Myeongseong was the queen of Gojong, the 26th king of the Joseon Dynasty. She married Gojong at the age of 16. In the first three years of her reign, Gojong favored Lee Sang-Gong and ignored her.
Li Shanggong gave birth to the prince Li Shan. She relied on the emperor's favor and ignored Queen Myeongseong, opposing the queen in every way. Myeongseong plotted hard and finally moved Gojong's heart. In the end, Myeongseong expelled Li Shanggong from the palace, and Li Shanggong's son Li Shan also died of smallpox.
Lee Ha-nui went to the National Theater to watch Kim Tae-hee's musical. Kim Tae-hee played the role of Lee Sang-gung very well. Whether it was the arrogance when she was favored or the despair of being expelled from the palace, Kim Tae-hee portrayed it very vividly.
When Lee Sang-Gong, played by Kim Tae-hee, learned that Prince Lee Sun had died of smallpox, she was extremely sad, without a single tear, and her whole body became limp, distraught, and on the verge of collapse.
When Lee Ha-nui saw Kim Tae-hee's performance, she felt the same way. Lee Sang-Gong was indeed hated in the early days, but now she is just a poor mother who has lost her child.
When Li Shanggong learned that Li Shan had passed away, she knew in her heart that her life was hopeless. Her son could not inherit the throne, she could not return to the palace, and she would never be able to defeat her opponent Mingcheng.
Li Shanggong coughed a few times, coughed up blood, and finally fainted. The last words before she fainted were "Mingcheng, you have such a cruel heart, but the child is innocent after all!"
Lee Sang-Gong, played by Kim Tae-hee, is naturally the villain in the play. In the early stage, Lee Sang-Gong made the audience hate her, but in the later stage, the audience could not hate her.
It was only after Song Yi watched several musicals in a row and saw that Kim Tae-hee's acting skills had improved visibly that he agreed to let Kim Tae-hee star in the TV series "Dae Jang Geum".
Li Haoni looked at Kim Tae-hee who was distracted. There was no duck neck in the food in the university cafeteria, so why did Kim Tae-hee seem to have no appetite?
She couldn't help but ask, "Senior Taixi, is today's food not to your taste?"
Kim Tae Hee looked at Lee Ha Ni with a worried look on her face, "Nothing, I was just thinking about something. Ha Ni, if I get married at the end of the year, as a good friend, will you support me?"
Li Haoni was delighted when she heard what Jin Taixi said, "Is senior sister getting ready to get married? Did your boyfriend propose to you? That's great! If you get married, please let me be your bridesmaid and witness your happiness with my own eyes, okay?"
Kim Tae-hee could feel Lee Ha-nui's joy, and she immediately figured it out and stopped worrying about it.
Yes, marriage itself is a beautiful thing. She originally planned to marry Song Yi after graduation. Now she just moved the wedding date forward by one year. What is she afraid of? If it were her relatives or good friends, they would definitely understand and support her decision. She also believed in Song Yi and believed that this man would make her live a happy and fulfilling life.
"I have this plan, but it hasn't been finalized yet. After all, I haven't graduated yet, and I'm an actor with many fans in China. Even if I get married, I won't announce it to the public. I'll hold the formal wedding after graduation. Honey, I haven't told anyone about this yet, you must keep it a secret for me." Kim Tae-hee said.
Li Ha Ni felt a great sense of responsibility. She looked around and felt relieved when she found that no one was eavesdropping on their conversation.
When Kim Tae-hee was a freshman and sophomore, there were many boys around her, and some boys even wrote love letters to her to express their love to her.
But Kim Tae Hee's response is always the same, which makes people despair. Kim Tae Hee will always just smile and refuse any gifts from boys, "Thank you, but I already have a boyfriend."
Song Yi gave Kim Tae Hee a BMW M3 on her birthday, but she seldom drove it to school in the first half of the year. After the second half of the year, Kim Tae Hee needed to run between the theater, school, and home, so she drove the M3 to school. So from this semester on, Kim Tae Hee had a lot less time around her, and she didn't need Lee Ha Ni to protect her.
As Kim Tae-hee's new best friend, Lee Ha-nui has not yet met Kim Tae-hee's boyfriend Song Yi, but she often hears news about Song Yi on TV or in newspapers.
Lee Ha-nui has been using the social networking site inschool recently. She is in the second batch of invited users, and Kim Tae-hee is in the first batch.
As soon as Lee Ha-nui successfully registered, she immediately followed Kim Tae-hee and added Kim Tae-hee as her friend. Lee Ha-nui was always the first to like and comment on Kim Tae-hee's updates on inschool. Students at Seoul National University jokingly called Lee Ha-nui "Kim Tae-hee's number one lackey."
When Lee Ha-nui learned about her classmates' comments, she was not angry, but rather complacent, which shows that she is Kim Tae-hee's best friend at Seoul National University. Girls often fight for the title of "good friend" or "best friend".
"By the way, senior, when will inschool be fully open for registration? Many of my classmates want to become friends with me on inschool. After graduating from high school, we will not be studying in the same place, and we all want to learn about everyone's latest developments through inschool." Li Ha Ni said.
Kim Tae-hee smiled apologetically and said, "I'm not really sure about this." She was going to the company later and planned to ask for Lee Ha-nui.
Song Yi was holding a meeting with the staff of Xinya Network Co., Ltd. in Xinya Building. "On November 11, inschool will be open to all college students in South Korea for registration."
"There are about 3 million college students in South Korea, including undergraduates, masters and doctoral students. I hope that before Christmas this year, the number of registered users of InSchool will exceed 2 million."
"According to my estimate, after the Korea-Japan World Cup, inschool's users will exceed 15 million, covering 30% of the Korean population."
Song Yi did not finish his words. This 30% of the population will also be the most powerful consumer group in Korea. When the number of inschool users exceeds 15 million, a large number of companies will place advertisements on the inschool website. Shinya Network will surpass Naver and Yahoo Korea and become the Internet company with the highest advertising revenue in Korea.
At this time, Liu Yongjun, the chief of the Xinya Network Operations Group, raised his question, "President, last time you said that the inschool registration will be fully open in mid-November. Now it is confirmed to be November 11th. Does this date have any special meaning?"
Liu Yongjun graduated from Seoul University. He previously worked at an online gaming company, Han Game, whose founder was Kim Beom-soo.
Unlike other paid online games in Korea, Kim Beom-soo provided the game he developed with great effort to users for free. In just one year, the number of players of Han Game increased from a few hundred to 10 million.
Kim Beom-soo was a former employee of Samsung. He found his former colleague Lee Hae-jin, and Naver and Han Game merged to form a new portal website NHN (Next human network). The reason why Lee Hae-jin agreed to the merger was that Naver had not yet found a good way to make profits and could not turn losses into profits through its advertising business in South Korea, while Han Game had strong profitability, so Kim Beom-soo and Lee Hae-jin hit it off and facilitated the merger of Naver and Han Game.
Han Game merged with Naver, and Yoo Young-jun of Han Game's operations department felt that his business philosophy did not match that of NHN, so he joined Shin-A Network Co., Ltd. as the operations team leader.
According to historical trajectory, NHN would sooner or later break up again due to uneven distribution of spoils. A forced melon is never sweet, and Lee Hae-jin and Kim Beom-soo have been competing for the top spot in the Korean Internet.
Lee Hae-jin stuck to Naver, while Kim Beom-soo later founded Kakao and developed the Korean version of WeChat Kakao Talk, the Korean version of Alipay Kakao Pay, and South Korea's largest online bank Kakao Bank. Later, Kakao, Kakao Pay and Kakao Bank were listed separately. Kim Beom-soo's net worth exceeded US$13 billion, surpassing Chen Jae-yong in personal wealth, making him the richest man in South Korea and enjoying unlimited glory.
But what's interesting is that when Kakao Pay went public, Kakao's CEO Yoo Young-jun sold Kakao Pay shares and cashed out 49.6 billion won, which caused dissatisfaction in the securities industry and the public, and he eventually resigned as CEO of Kakao. Thinking of this history, Song Yi naturally valued Yoo Young-jun more and decided to focus on training Yoo Young-jun. Lee Hae-jin and Kim Beom-su were already local lords at this time, and Kim Beom-su was unwilling to be inferior to others, so Song Yi could not recruit him under his command.
At this time, Song Yi also had to admire Liu Yongjun's keen observation. Song Yi certainly had his plans for choosing November 11, 2001 as the date for fully opening registration.
"November 2001, November 11, what is the first thing that comes to your mind when you see so many 1s?" Song Yi asked Liu Yongjun.
"1 and 0?" Liu Yongjun guessed. Liu Yongjun was right, 1 and 0 are the basic units of computer storage of binary.
As Song Yi's secretary, Jiang Xiu Na had been eavesdropping, writing something down in her notebook with a pen.
Song Yi suddenly pointed to Jiang Xiu Na, "Secretary Jiang, when you mention 1, what do you think of?"
"Single? Odd number?" Jiang Xiu Na's imagination ran wild.
Song Yi snapped his fingers. "Bingo! Girls are more sensitive in their emotions. I plan to create a festival for single men and women on the Internet. It will be held on November 11th every year. This festival is called Singles' Day."
"November 11th," Song Yi simply drew four vertical lines on the blackboard in the conference room. "Look at them, they are parallel lines that never intersect, just like untouchable lovers, seemingly within reach, yet so far away, all alone, so lonely, isn't this the day for bachelors to revel?"
Song Yi continued to ask Liu Yongjun, "If it is Singles' Day and you find that all your classmates have girlfriends, what would you most want to do?"
Liu Yongjun said without hesitation, "Get rid of singleness."
Song Yi had a teachable expression on his face, "You're right. Our main focus at InSchool is campus socializing. When you leave college, you'll find that college girls are actually the easiest to pursue."
"They are not bound by the shackles of early love in high school, nor do they have the pressure of further studies. Studying is no longer everything in their lives, and they also hope for a wonderful relationship. Moreover, most of them are leaving their parents for the first time and living alone. They lack experience in living alone. If we can give them care and help in life and study, it can partially replace the role of their parents in their minds. Moreover, freshman girls are easier to pursue than senior female students." Song Yi continued to talk.
Just as Song Yi was giving instructions in the conference room, Kim Hee-won led Kim Tae-hee in from the back of the conference room.
When the employees of Xinya Network saw Jin Xiyuan, they hurriedly prepared to greet her, but Jin Xiyuan gestured for them to be quiet. Jin Xiyuan and her sister listened to Song Yi sharing his experience in picking up girls in college.
The more Jin Xiyuan listened, the weirder it felt. She couldn't help but quietly ask her sister, "Tae Hee, did Song Yi really never have a relationship at Yonsei University? It seems like what he shared is from experience."
Song Yi also noticed that Jin Taixi came in at this time. He nodded and greeted the two of them first, then continued: "Of course, I am just sharing my experience. Whether it can work or not still needs to be put into practice. Maybe it is just talk on paper. After all, what you learn from books is shallow. You have to practice it yourself to know it thoroughly."
"The reason I tell you all this is just to emphasize that the core demand of all social networking sites is to make friends with the opposite sex."
"You finally got into college after high school. You are studying in Busan. The girl you like in high school is studying in Seoul. How can you contact her? And you don't know her cell phone number, so how can you contact her?"
"It's very simple. Sign up for an inschool account, then search for her school and name. Then her homepage will pop up. Follow her and add her as a friend. If you are already friends, you can start messaging and chatting."
"You can learn about her latest updates through her homepage, see her latest photos, find out if she has a new hairstyle, is catching up on a new drama, or has read an interesting book. Then you will have something in common, right?"
"If you don't know each other, but just met once on campus, and you fall in love with her at first sight, and then you find out her name through your classmates, and then you muster up the courage to add her as a friend, and then send the first message, 'Hi, can we be friends?'" Song Yi said.
"Believe me, if inschool is open to all college students, the registration rate of freshmen will definitely exceed that of seniors. I will create a new advertisement for inschool, starring Cha Tae-hyun and Kim Tae-hee."
"In addition to this commercial, I need you to go to various universities and mobilize your mobilization capabilities. It would be best if you could hold some activities during Singles' Day, such as giving a rose to newly registered single users."
"If we don't have enough manpower, we can recruit part-time students from the school. In addition to receiving cash compensation on the same day, part-time students can also get priority opportunities to intern at New Asia Media. In a word, we will give money if you want money and people if you want people!" Song Yi began to assign tasks to Liu Yongjun and others.
"Okay, today's meeting ends here. I need you to take action immediately. Go, go, go!" Song Yi clapped his hands and urged.
After the employees left the meeting room, Song Yi walked towards Kim Tae Hee and said, "Isn't the meeting a bit boring after waiting for so long?"
Kim Tae Hee was very excited, "How could that be? I felt that the OPPA meeting was very interesting and I learned a lot. Isn't the slogan of inschool the phrase 'Hi, can we be friends'?"
Song Yi was really surprised by his girlfriend this time. He knew that Kim Tae-hee was very smart, but Kim Tae-hee's performance today still made her look at her with admiration.
"That's right. There were so many people in the conference room, but no one could guess it just now. Yet you guessed it in one go. That's awesome!" Song Yi gave his girlfriend a thumbs up.
Jin Xiyuan repeated, "Hi, can we be friends?" Although this sentence is easy to understand, it reveals the essence of inschool's product.
Song Yi said to Kim Tae Hee, "Let's go to Shinhan Media later. This inschool commercial is of high standard. It's directed by Kwak Jae-yong, Cha Tae-hyun and you will be the partner, and I will be the producer. When the commercial is broadcast, the plot will definitely be impressive."
Jin Xiyuan was a little puzzled. "If it's for promoting inschool, Guo Zairong + Jun Ji-hyun + Cha Tae-hyun are the most suitable candidates. After all, the popularity of "My Naughty Girlfriend" has not passed yet. Why did you choose Tae-hee to star in the inschool advertisement?"
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