Traveling Through the Tokyo Bubble Era

Chapter 682 I Want to Dress Up
Nonhyeon 2-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul.

It is adjacent to Apgujeong and Cheongdam-dong, and is an area where many multinational companies like to set up offices.

After the start of the Seoul Olympics, the South Korean government lifted restrictions on Neon Entertainment products, so Yunshang Entertainment also opened its own office here.

Hideki Hanyu is different from the bosses of other entertainment companies in Japan. Those guys are content to make a profit from Japan's market and have little interest in expanding their business overseas.

Therefore, under the leadership of Hideki Hanyu, Yunshang Entertainment Group has a more international temperament and is even more active in exploring overseas markets than Sony.

However, unlike Sony, which likes to push its artists to go abroad and explore the United States, Yunshang Entertainment prefers to use capital first, and mainly expands its overseas territory through cooperation and investment.

In Hideki Hanyu's opinion, as long as a good ecosystem is created and the market is well controlled, it doesn't matter whether Japanese artists make money overseas.

Moreover, Hideki Hanyu is well aware that with the bursting of the Neon bubble economy, social trends and aesthetic styles suddenly shifted, and he began to cling to his own small cultural circle, making it increasingly difficult to integrate into international trends.

After all, Japan has the second largest record market in the world. Even if Japan does nothing, it can still make a lot of money for other companies in the industry. Naturally, it has no ambition to expand outward.

In this regard, Japan's entertainment industry is not even as good as South Korea, which is why K-POP later became more popular internationally and surpassed J-POP, which appeared earlier.

Knowing all this, Hideki Hanyu is powerless to change the general trend, and he doesn't want to change it from the bottom of his heart. Naturally, he will not devote himself to any strategy of promoting local artists to go overseas.

Anyway, as long as he can make money, he doesn’t care about the life or death of Japanese culture.

Therefore, the Yunshang Entertainment branch established in Gangnam District is not only responsible for the operation of local business and artists in South Korea, but its core business is the overall management of investments in South Korea.

In fact, the main work of each overseas branch of Cloud Entertainment is localized operation and active integration into the local environment, rather than helping the artists and projects of the headquarters to develop overseas business.

In the same building, in addition to the Cloud Entertainment Group, there are also affiliated companies such as Crescent Cinemas, Cloud Fashion magazine, Storm Advertising, Blockbuster, Tsutaya Books, etc.

After all, if Hideki Hanyu doesn't take action, then it's fine. But once he chooses to enter the market, he will definitely choose a joint operation.

As for the office building of Yunshang Entertainment Group, there are also offices of other investment industries of Hideki Hanyu, such as Elf Entertainment, Elf Communication, Game Base Publishing House, and Uniqlo, which entered the South Korean market earlier.

They chose to build their office here to gather together, mostly because of Hideki Hanyu.

September 24th.

Hideki Hanyu arrived at the branch office building of Yunshang Entertainment in South Korea early in the morning.

After he got off the car in the underground parking lot, Chiba Xun, who had been working there, came to meet him.

"Mr. Hanyu, you have your own elevator here."

Hanyu Hideki nodded and followed Chiba Kaoru.

This was his first time here since Yunshang Entertainment Group bought the building and moved in.

It’s not that he doesn’t care, but the previous decoration has not been completed and the business is still in the process of preparation and adaptation.

Today everything was ready, so he decided to come over and take a look.

In a separate elevator hall, Hideki Hanyu got on his exclusive elevator, which went up all the way and finally reached the highest ninth floor.

Influenced by Korean TV dramas, Chinese people always think that Seoul, the capital of South Korea, is a high-end international city with many CBDs and skyscrapers.

But in fact, once you have been here, you will find that it is completely different from the prosperity you imagined.

The city construction looks quite ordinary, and there are not as many skyscrapers as expected.

In fact, most of them are multi-story buildings like the Yunshang Entertainment Group.

When the exclusive elevator reached the ninth floor, under the guidance of Chiba Kaoru, Hanyu Hideki walked into this office floor that belonged to him alone.

That’s right, the entire ninth floor is Hideki Hanyu’s office.

In fact, it is no longer appropriate to describe it as an office.

Because in addition to offices, there are also private meeting rooms, reception rooms, audio-visual rooms, gyms, studies, bathrooms and other rooms.

Therefore, if you just look at the scene, this place is more like a temporary residence for Hideki Hanyu.

And this design was indeed what Hideki Hanyu requested.

After all, as his business in South Korea grew, he needed a place like this.

As for the houses in Itaewon that can be occupied next year, for Hideki Hanyu, who has always believed in the principle that a cunning rabbit has three burrows, the more rabbit burrows the better.

After touring his private space, Hanyu Hideki and Chiba Kaoru went downstairs to meet with the branch's subordinates and learned about the branch's operating status from several managers.

However, South Korea has just lifted the ban, and Yunshang Entertainment’s business has just started, so there is actually nothing important.

After understanding the situation, Hideki Hanyu returned to the private space on the top floor again.

At this time, it was Chiba Xun's turn to report to him on the latest situation.

First of all, in Japan, as the locust disease has not improved, the "self-discipline" atmosphere in the whole society has become increasingly strict, and the business of entertainment and media companies such as Yunshang Entertainment has inevitably been affected.

For example, many entertainment programs on Yunshang Satellite TV had their content temporarily changed or were directly stopped from broadcasting because they were criticized for not being serious.

Even the band program "Band's Heaven", which has already been prepared and has begun to be promoted and scheduled to be broadcast at the end of the month, has to be subject to censorship, and it is unknown when it will be launched.

This situation has begun to make Yunshang Entertainment worry about whether the "Red and White Song Contest", known as the Japanese Spring Festival Gala, will be cancelled due to Tianhuang's illness.

The 'Red and White Songs Contest' is of course important to Yunshang Entertainment. After all, it is an important occasion for its artists to gain exposure.

But the top management of Yunshang Entertainment actually has another level in mind, which is that the "Red and White Song Contest" is actually a weather vane for Yunshang Entertainment.

Because only if the 'Red and White Song Contest' is successfully broadcasted, the 'New Year Song Contest' of the cloud satellite TV station, which has become a tradition of cloud entertainment, can be successfully broadcasted.

When Chiba Kaoru said this, Hanyu Hideki naturally knew that this year's "Red and White Song Contest" was actually held, and there would naturally be no problem with Yunshang Entertainment's New Year's Concert.

However, he would definitely not tell Chiba Kaoru about this kind of prediction of the future.

Of course, it is not just Yunshang Entertainment that is affected by the "self-restraint", even the business of Storm Advertising has been affected.

For example, in some overseas brands’ advertisements, just because of the line “How is everyone?” it directly touched the sensitive nerves of some people and was eventually ordered to be modified.

In a word, due to the influence of the locust, the atmosphere in Neon is now quite depressing, which once again dissuaded Hideki Hanyu from the idea of ​​returning in a short time.

After talking about Zisu, Chiba Xun reported some other things in Neon.

For example, although the Recruit bribery case began to die down in public opinion due to self-discipline, the actual investigation is still going on, and even as in the original history, it gradually implicated the senior management of Neon Telephone Company.

Hideki Hanyu knew that this also meant that a bigger storm was brewing, but because Tianhuang was seriously ill, nothing was revealed.

Of course, what Hideki Hanyu is most concerned about at this stage is not the Recruit Group. What he really cares about is some rats who have been dealing with him secretly.

As the bribery case of the Recruit Group was exposed, the scope of the case became wider and wider, and Hideki Hanyu was ready to stab these guys in the back.

He is different from these mice. To deal with him, the mice only use some minor and insignificant tricks.

But if he takes action, it will be a thunderous blow, and with the help of the irresistible trend of the times, he will completely defeat these guys.

After Chiba Xun finished reporting on things in Japan, he also talked about some things overseas, such as his situation in the American company and his investment in Europe.

As for Asia, Northeast Energy’s investment in Singapore has been confirmed.

The "Cornerstone Bank" established by Hideki Hanyu using various means has entered the final preparation stage and is not far from successful registration.

After the establishment of "Cornerstone Bank", the next step was naturally to gradually transfer his funds.

After all, the New Year is just around the corner, and after the New Year, the Japanese bubble economy will officially enter the countdown stage. Hanyu Hideki has huge funds, so it is naturally impossible for him to wait until the final peak to escape.

So actually from now on, he will start to "cash out" the Japanese economic bubble, and by the way, he will also have to dig a hole for those rats.

As for the "harvesting" taking advantage of the collapse of the Neon economy, that is the plan for the next stage.

Then came the news from Hong Kong.

The turmoil caused by Asia Cinemas has gradually subsided, and the management of Asia Cinemas has also undergone a major reshuffle. Then, under the maintenance of Peter Fang, who "made meritorious service after his crime", the business is back on track.

Although the matter has been settled, the aftermath has not subsided.

The series of accidents made some people realize for the first time what the power of "capital" is.

Everything they had relied on in the past was like a mantis trying to stop a chariot under such power, and they didn't even know how to start resisting.

That suffocating feeling of fear remains deeply in the hearts of many people.

After the fear, a big fight broke out on the dark side over the power vacuum left by the accident, but everyone quietly withdrew their claws involving Asian cinemas.

Because they all realized that Asian cinema chains are not the same theater owners they used to be who they could intimidate with a few machetes.

In addition to the aftermath of the Asian Cinema incident, Chiba Kaoru also reported good news from Hong Kong.

That is, Mr. Zhao San contacted him and said that there was a result about the logistics company, but he hoped that Hideki Hanyu could come to Hong Kong to talk to him and his family.

Hanyu Hideki readily agreed to this matter and directly told Chiba Kaoru, "I have agreed to accompany Mr. Hatoyama and will go to Australia to participate in an event on the 28th. Please notify Mr. Zhao for me. I should be able to go to Hong Kong at the beginning of next month."

Hideki Hanyu is still very interested in the logistics channels held by the Zhao family, especially the domestic part.

But just as he finished speaking, Chiba Kaoru immediately said to him, "Teacher Hanyu, according to the latest news received by Director Uemura, due to the impact of self-restraint, Mr. Hatoyama's trip to Australia may be cancelled or postponed."

Hearing this, Hanyu Hideki frowned and said, "Tohoku Energy has specially organized a renewable energy-related event in Sydney for this matter and invited many important guests to participate. It is impossible to cancel it now."

Chiba Kaoru had no answer to Hanyu Hideki's words.

After all, such a big matter is not something that a small assistant like her can interfere with.

And Hanyu Hideki didn't expect Chiba Kaoru to say anything. Finally, he rubbed his eyebrows and made a decision.

"Since the sudden incident cannot be changed, let's inform Tohoku Energy that regardless of whether Mr. Hatoyama's trip is postponed or cancelled, Tohoku Energy's activities in Sydney will proceed normally, and I will personally participate. Tohoku Energy will ultimately be responsible for its own reputation."

Tohoku Energy is now continuously investing in Oceania. For the sake of its corporate image, Hanyu Hideki cannot go back on his word.

"Yes, President." Chiba Xun quickly agreed.

At this point, the work report has come to an end.

Just at this moment, there was a knock on the door of Hideki Hanyu's office.

"Boss, it's me."

Marco's voice came from outside.

"Come in." said Hanyu Hideki.

Seeing Marco push the door open, Qianye Xun took the initiative to leave, "Teacher Hanyu, I have to go take care of my work first."

"Go."

Hanyu Hideki waited for Chiba Kaoru to leave, then turned to look at Marco and asked, "Did you find any results on the matter I asked you to investigate?"

Marco replied, "There is a result. Cho Jung-eun, the eldest daughter of the president of Taeyoung Construction Co., Ltd., is the most suspicious."

"Tell me in detail." Hanyu Hideki showed an interesting expression.

"She visited the Lee family the day after her husband returned to Seoul from Gyeonggi Province. As a member of the board of directors of PBS TV, she must have known about her boss's work at PBS. And Taeryong Construction happened to be an investor in the mall that her boss visited in Gangnam District."

Marco tells us what he has learned.

Obviously, what Hanyu Hideki asked Marco to investigate was why Li Fuzhen knew about him and Choi Jin-sil a day ago.

He originally thought that Li Fuzhen had arranged someone to monitor him.

But afterwards, Marco said that his people did not find any signs of being monitored that day.

Now it seems that it was not surveillance, but someone tipped off.

Why did Zhao Zhenen do this?

Is it to sow discord between him and Li Fuzhen?

I have to say, the other party almost succeeded.

Fortunately, "the devil is always one step ahead of the righteous", and after so many years of ups and downs in love, his skills as a scumbag are well-deserved. He easily controlled the eldest daughter of Samsung and successfully escaped danger.

Although this incident has passed, now that we know who is behind this, we must remain on guard.

He must be more careful with Zhao Zhenen in the future.

Thinking of this, Hanyu Hideki was about to tell Marco to arrange someone to keep an eye on the eldest daughter of Taerung Construction.

But suddenly the phone in front of him rang.

Hanyu Hideki picked up the phone and a playful smile appeared on his face.

After hanging up the phone, he chuckled and said, "Speak of the devil and he will appear."

The call just now was transferred by assistant Qianye Xun.

The person who made the call was Zhao Zhenen, whom he was just trying to guard against.

The purpose of the call was simple: to invite him, an important investor of PBS TV station, to participate in an event organized in the name of PBS TV station.

Seeing that the other party was using the name of PBS TV station, Hideki Hanyu agreed.

"I want to see what this woman is going to do."

Hanyu Hideki muttered a few words to himself, then picked up the phone again and gave instructions to his assistant Chiba Kaoru.

"Notify the stylist to come here. I have an event to attend tonight and I must dress up."

(End of this chapter)