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In the afternoon, Zhou Buqi went to South Korea.

As soon as the plane landed, there was something new.

Zhou Buqi's previous relationship in South Korea relied more on the Zheng family of Hyundai Group and carried out extensive cooperation with the Zheng family. This time, because of the threat to Xu Baihui, he had the opportunity to have more contact with the Samsung Li family.

This is a good thing.

When doing business in South Korea, you cannot avoid Hyundai and Samsung.

Even the Zheng family and the Li family have never been in contact with each other. On the one hand, they compete fiercely at the business level, and on the other hand, the two families often have contact in private.

The title of "World's Richest Man" has not yet been awarded.

This year's Forbes list of the world's richest people will not be released until early March. However, various gossips have already spread, and it has spread all over the world.

Mr. Zhou Buqi, who will not turn 26 until June this year, is likely to surpass Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and other established tycoons and become the new richest man in the world!

At first glance, it’s just a false title, it doesn’t matter.

In fact, there is a powerful invisible influence behind this.

In real society, money is often the simplest measure. Bill Gates and Buffett have been famous for more than ten years, and the most important reason is that they have money.

Now, Zhou Buqi rushed out.

First he went to Japan, and this time he came to South Korea. Zhou Buqi felt it firsthand. This invisible change can bring benefits to him at every level.

Samsung’s crown prince Lee Jae-yong personally came to the airport to pick him up.

After the meeting, Zhou Buqi was introduced to a "female escort" who could serve as a translator, a travel guide and some explanations of local life and culture.

At night, you can also take on some other tasks.

This escort is no ordinary escort. She is a popular artist and top-notch actress in the Korean entertainment industry, named Son Ye-jin.

You can see the difference right away.

In the Korean entertainment industry, movie stars are at the top of the industry, and Son Ye-jin is of course the top of the top; idols in idol groups are at the bottom of the industry.

Therefore, during business dinners, it is usually girls who are trainees who accompany them to drink, sing, and have fun. Even the idols of the debut girl group do not have the right to refuse. There are strict requirements in the contract.

Many idols who cause boys and girls to go crazy basically have to pass this level behind their backs.

When they were in contact with the Zheng family before, the Zheng family also invited idols from the girl group to drink and sing with them, and even held a series of subsequent activities in the hotel.

However, many of the girls in the girl group were minors, so Zhou Buqi sternly refused.

This time it's different.

The Li family is obviously more courageous!

He also showed more sincerity to Boss Zhou.

The richest man in the world!

If we asked some idols from the bottom of the industry to accompany us, it would be a bit unsightly, so we invited Son Ye-jin, the best actress of the Blue Dragon Award and Baeksang Award, to come out.

Boss Zhou doesn’t speak Korean, and Son Ye-jin is the best English-speaker in the entertainment industry, so she is the most suitable person to come forward.

However, when Li Zaiyong saw seven or eight beautiful young girls getting off the Airbus A330-200 private jet owned by Boss Zhou, he immediately regretted it.

If I had known better, I would have arranged a few more "escorts" for Boss Zhou!

From this scene alone, Zhou Buqi had a better impression of Mr. Li Zairong.

His arrangements were not very thorough.

This Son Ye-jin is quite famous. She is already in her thirties and has been in the entertainment industry for so many years. What kind of storms has she never seen? I have definitely participated in similar entertainment events.

Having experienced many battles, who likes this?

It was the second prince of the Zheng family who understood men's hearts better. He found a group of young and charming people, who felt shy, nervous, and wanted to refuse but were afraid.

This delicate and helpless state of virginity can best inspire the primitive wildness in a man's heart.

However, precisely because Li Zaiyong did not arrange things carefully, it means that this person has better personal ethics.

Just like Mr. Mitsui in Japan, his arrangements were so thorough that he was omnipotent. This all shows that this old guy is an old villain who can be shot ten times without being wronged.

Next, Zhou Buqi asked Sun Wanran to take the others and go home to rest. If he had the energy, he could go shopping in the center of Seoul.

Then, he took the language genius Ning Lu with him and followed Li Zairong into his motorcade.

The main driver is a luxurious stretched Lincoln.

It can carry seven or eight people.

Zhou Buqi has Ning Lu by his side, and a strong male assistant brought from China, who is actually a security guard. "Escort" Son Ye-jin was able to follow and sat on the left side of Boss Zhou.

Li Zaiyong was sitting opposite.

He was very enthusiastic and said that he would first ask Boss Zhou to visit several major business divisions of Samsung Electronics.

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "I can't get it."

Samsung Group is a giant.

But the core asset of Samsung Group's overseas business is actually Samsung Electronics, which mainly deals in electronic products, electrical products and some communication products.

For companies that specialize in hardware products, the price-to-earnings ratio is generally not too high. The top ratio is 30 times. That is, multiplying the net profit by 30 is the market value of the company.

Using this standard to calculate, Huawei's market value at its peak was US$150 billion, while Samsung Electronics' market value during the same period was approaching US$500 billion.

Huawei is already a god-like existence in China. Only through this horizontal comparison can we feel the unimaginable power of Samsung Electronics.

As long as the market value of any company that makes hardware products exceeds US$10 billion, it is considered a world-class company and can be called an industry giant.

There are only about a dozen companies in the world that are mainly engaged in hardware products with a market value of more than 100 billion US dollars, and Huawei is the only one in China.

Xiaomi in its previous life also briefly reached this threshold. However, Xiaomi relied on the concept of "Internet" to increase its price-to-earnings ratio to push its market value to more than 100 billion US dollars, which is not at the same level as Huawei.

Along the way, Zhou Buqi politely had simple communication with Li Zaiyong and Son Yejin.

Then we went to Samsung Electronics headquarters.

Visit along the way.

It's so big!

It is unimaginable that there is only a part of the business here at the headquarters. It is not only the top high-tech in the industry such as chips and LCD panels, but also some low-end businesses such as refrigerators, color TVs, computers, and audio.

Although Zhou Buqi was shocked, he could not belittle himself and said with a smile: "The mobile phone business should be the most professional division of Samsung Electronics, right?"

There is nothing to hide. Li Zaiyong smiled and said, "Indeed, Samsung mobile phones...hehe, we are still bitter enemies with your Asda."

"How can there be any sworn enemies?" Zhou Buqi waved his hand, "When I do business, I have never had enemies. Everyone is a friend, and colleagues who are in competition are even better friends. Because of the cooperation between Samsung and Asda Competition can make the smartphone industry better and promote the arrival of the global information age."

Li Zaiyong smiled and said, "I feel relieved after hearing what you said. The market share of Samsung mobile phones has surpassed Asda. I was worried that you would be unhappy."

"The market is the fairest."

Zhou Buqi didn't take it seriously.

Asda's share has indeed been exceeded, because Asda's Aster series are high-end models, with an average price of around US$500.

But Samsung mobile phones are different. They rely on the tactics of a sea of ​​mobile phones, especially those cheap mid-range and low-end mobile phones, to occupy a large number of the market.

Even the domestic market.

It is estimated that the sales volume of smartphones in the domestic market this year may reach 200 million units, while the sales volume of Asda's Aster series is estimated to be only about 10 million units, of which 4 million units are the mid-to-low-end Astermini aimed at college students. The expected domestic sales volume of normal Aster high-end machines is only about 6 million units.

The expected sales volume in overseas markets is expected to reach 30 million units.

This will push the sales volume of the Aster high-end machine series to more than 35 million units this year, with gross profit exceeding US$3 billion.

Domestic consumption power is still not rising.

Under such circumstances, an opportunity came for Samsung's mid- to low-end smartphones to enter the domestic market, causing deep concern among the Chinese Cool Alliance.

This is also the reason why Zhou Buqi advocated that Asda want to acquire Motorola.

The "Aster" high-end mobile phone brand that was finally established cannot be destroyed, so quickly rely on Motorola's global brand to occupy the mid-to-low-end mobile phone market.

At the same time, there is Ziweixing behind Aisida.

Ziweixing has developed Rokid, the world's best intelligent interactive voice assistant.

This has become a major selling point of the Aster series of high-end machines.

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "Apple has Siri, but Samsung is silent?"

Lee Jae-yong said: “Samsung has VoiceTalk.”

Zhou Buqi shook his head, "No interaction, that doesn't count."

Both Rokid and Siri are interactive intelligent assistants that can ask and answer questions and interact with each other. Behind this is the latest and most powerful AI algorithm network in the world, which is the top technology in the industry.

VoiceTalk is a very traditional language assistant that cannot be interactive.

That is, users using Samsung mobile phones can issue commands to the mobile phone through VoiceTalk, such as "open the browser", "open the music box", "call so-and-so" and so on.

All are system-level functions.

This thing appeared many years ago, and it is an AI technology more than ten years ago.

However, if a user asks VoiceTalk: "How is the weather today?"

VoiceTalk becomes unresponsive.

Samsung Electronics’ strength lies in hardware.

It's not good enough at the software level, especially for products like Rokid, which leads the development of global artificial intelligence. It wasn't until 2016 that Samsung Electronics acquired an American artificial intelligence company, a new company created by the team that developed "Siri" and later innovated again.

This allowed Samsung mobile phones to launch a true AI voice assistant.

This is far worse than in China, where all products are self-developed. Even if many AI algorithms are open source, Samsung Electronics does not have the level to develop it itself. There are more than a dozen similar domestic companies that are famous.

This is Zhou Buqi's opportunity.

Zhou Buqi smiled and asked: "How is it? Do you need help?"