Actor: Thank you.

MBC TV station is one of the three major TV stations in South Korea.

In addition to a large number of excellent TV dramas, the station also produces film works.

However, movies are just a minor business and account for a very small proportion of their business volume.

Moreover, its channel capabilities in theaters are not strong.

Therefore, even if they obtain the copyright and re-screening rights of "Secret", the profits they can obtain from their own operations will not be too high.

But why should they do it themselves?

Since Zhang Yuan came to them, he must understand everything.

After MBC obtains the copyright, it can make a lot of money by simply adding a price to the distribution!

This means that they have become the middlemen in Zhang Yuan’s original process of directly selling to the film and television company.

The middleman will naturally make a profit from the price difference.

These old Koreans from the film and television companies teamed up to target me, a foreigner.

so nice.

I'm also going to find an old stick and let you guys hit it yourselves.

Originally it was a conflict between enemies, but now I will turn it into an internal conflict.

When hearing that Zhang Yuan was going to give away “hundreds of billions in subsidies for free,” MBC President Park was very excited.

When Zhang Yuan raised his hand and pressed it.

"I know you're in a hurry, but don't worry yet."

It is impossible to give it away for free.

Now that I'm here, I won't leave empty-handed.

Wouldn't it be stupid to give away the film for free just to retaliate against the film and television companies that bullied you and your film?
This became the practice of "Rather befriend foreign nations than be domestic slaves" in the late Qing Dynasty.

Moreover, the mentality of the late Qing Dynasty was the same as that of the Yuan Dynasty. They never truly regarded China as their own country, and they knew in their hearts that this place would always belong to the Han people.

They are just temporary rulers, and they certainly have no psychological burden in selling your land assets to the Han people.

But I didn't borrow this movie, it's my own.

Not to mention giving it away for free, I wouldn't even want to sell it at a low price.

I chose to approach MBC because they also have what I want.

In addition to being strong in TV dramas, their station is also good at variety shows.

Or it should be said that among the three major TV stations in South Korea, except for KBS which has the airs of a "state-owned enterprise", the variety shows of the other two are very strong.

What has MBC alone come up with?
Going back further, there are "I Am a Singer", "Where Are We Going, Dad", "We Got Married", and "King of Masked Singer".

These programs, which later became extremely popular in China, were all produced by MBC and adapted and broadcast online by domestic TV stations.

However, these programs have not yet appeared.

What Zhang Yuan has his eyes on is another show.

"President Park, does your TV station have a variety show called "Saturday"?"

"Yes." Mr. Park was very confused as to why this Chinese man mentioned the variety show.

Aren't we talking about movies?

"Very good, I really like your show."

"Especially one part of it."

The segment that Zhang Yuan mentioned is called "Infinite Challenge".

It is the original version of "Extreme Challenge", which became famous in later generations and once dominated the ratings of variety shows in the country.

At the beginning, this show was just an outdoor challenge segment of the variety show "Saturday".

Audience submissions allow artists to complete projects that seem difficult or strange.

It was originally called "Reckless Challenge" and started in 05.

By the end of 05, it was renamed "Unreasonable Challenge".

The "irrationality" here should be the Japanese word for "irrationality", which means "unreasonable, difficult".

So it should be called "Impossible Challenge".

It was during this period that this segment became a little popular among the audience.

So in 06, MBC separated this segment and restructured it.

It became a challenging outdoor variety show with a different theme for each episode, and was officially renamed "Infinite Challenge".

But the real fire did not come until the beginning of 08.

An episode titled "Haha Guerrilla Concert" received a national viewership of over 30%, making the show an instant hit.

The format of this episode was later repeated in the domestic TV series "Extreme Challenge".

So at this time, this program had just been separated from "Saturday", their station's flagship variety show, and had not yet become popular.

This timing is very important.

Come early or late, it will be too late.

In just a few months, when the show achieves explosive ratings, it will be difficult to negotiate if I come again.

Zhang Yuan has always thought that the variety show "Extreme Challenge" refers to the first few seasons.

Proved one thing.

That's good work, it depends entirely on people.

From Sun Honglei, to Huang Bo, to Wang Xun, Huang Lei, and the program director, each of them is an expert in the industry.

Only when the director and actors are excellent can they bring about such amazing effects.

This is true for variety shows, movies and TV series as well.

Relying solely on capital operation may make you famous for a while by force-feeding shit, but it is ultimately a fake.

But capital is not unaware of the importance of talent.

But the problem is that talent is not replicable, is too difficult to control, and cannot be mass-produced.

Just like "Go Fighting", after the old hosts left, the quality of the show dropped drastically.

What capital wants is industrialized assembly line production, and this situation obviously does not meet their needs.

In any case, during its peak period, the revenue generated by each season of "Go Fighting" was in the billions!
If you get it early, you can make a lot of money in the future.

It can also avoid the dramatic scenes that occurred in later generations where CCTV and Shanghai TV competed for copyrights.

President Park understood.

This Chinese man intends to exchange the film copyright for his own variety show copyright.

But he didn't understand.

Because at this point in time, where does China’s copyright awareness come from?

Especially variety shows, they just copy them, I have never heard of buying the copyright.

Zhang Yuan always wants to be one step ahead of others.

Once everyone becomes aware of copyright and the copyright price goes up, it will be a huge loss.

Mr. Park thought to himself that if he did business like this.

This means that the station can obtain the copyright of a movie without spending a penny.

When the time comes and I sell it, I will have made a great contribution and I can also make some money from it.

Blood earned!
I feel it is very suitable, but the stick is so bad.

His face was still tense and he kept shaking his head.

"No, no, we have never conducted such a transaction."

“It needs to be carefully evaluated.”

Still evaluating, mushrooms are useless... Zhang Yuan cursed in his heart, but he knew the other party would be like this, so he was not annoyed.

It's nothing more than delaying in order to gain more benefits.

Who knows, he might even want me to pay for it.

"It's okay, please feel free to do as you please. I've been in Korea for the past few days."

"This is my phone number. You can contact me anytime when you need me."

"Okay, I'll ask my subordinates to prepare the dinner. Today I will treat you to our Bang country's state banquet."

Upon hearing this, the assistant beside him shook his head like a rattle.

You can't afford this state banquet...

Zhang Yuan also refused with a smile.

"Don't worry, I have something else to do today and I need to go somewhere else."

"Why don't we hold this banquet on the day we sign the contract?"

"it is good!"

After saying this, he escorted them out.

Looking through the glass, President Park showed a greedy expression.

"From what he said, he seems very interested in the deal."

"Since you want it so much, I must get some benefits."

Zhang Yuan breathed a sigh of relief after getting in the car.

"I finally escaped and don't have to eat kimchi again."

"Brother Zhang Yuan, is our work done?" The assistant has been feeling a little homesick since coming to South Korea these days because he couldn't get used to the food and the living conditions.

"Not yet." "Ah, don't you want their variety show?"

"Yeah, but it's not over yet." Zhang Yuan knocked on the front seat and called the translator: "Let's go to a western restaurant and have steak."

"it is good."

Anyway, as long as I don’t eat kimchi, I can eat anything.

Zhang Yuan hugged his shoulders and closed his eyes.

Drive away tigers and devour wolves.

There is no problem with this trick.

But another point, what should you do if the tiger turns around and wants to eat you?
Try not to play with the eagle, but end up being blinded by the eagle.

In order to restrain the major film and television companies, he approached MBC.

Well, now is the time to find someone else to restrain this tiger.

Before leaving China, Zhang Yuan not only visited Zhang Huali of Mango TV.

He even made a special trip to Shanghai to discuss something with Li Ruigang.

I went to Zhang Huali to ask him to help contact MBC.

The reason for looking for Li Ruigang was to ask him to help contact another company.

After eating steak, Zhang Yuan led his assistant and translator to a building in Yangcheon District, Seoul.

Located here is SBS, another of South Korea’s three major television stations.

If translated into Chinese, this place should be called Seoul Broadcasting Corporation.

KBS, SBS, and MBC are the three major TV stations, which are equivalent to CCTV, Mango TV, and Shanghai TV.

KBS is the most formal and official.

One of them is dedicated to serving the country and only broadcasts TV dramas occasionally, without even any commercial advertisements.

So it has the highest status.

As for the remaining two, they cannot compete with KBS at the official level.

So they are all competing for the market in TV dramas and variety entertainment.

At the same time, it also causes overlapping positioning and competition.

If you are afraid of being hurt by a tiger, just call the tiger's enemy together.

Just like Mango TV has cooperation with MBC, Shanghai TV also has a long-term cooperative relationship with SBS.

The later "My Love from the Star" is a masterpiece of SBS, and its domestic premiere was on Shanghai TV.

SBS TV dramas also often win awards at the Magnolia Awards.

If you don’t have any connections, who will give you the reward?

The characteristic of SBS is that it is more popular among young people. Compared with MBC's love of producing big-scale TV dramas, they prefer to produce works similar to idol dramas.

In addition to "My Love from the Star", there are also "The Heirs", "Doctor Stranger", "Pinocchio", "Paris Lovers" and so on.

Like MBC, the conglomerate behind SBS is not one of the five major conglomerates such as Samsung and Lotte.

For Tairong Real Estate.

Therefore, this company is both an enemy of MBC and a relative of those film and television companies.

Zhang Yuan looked for him because there was no one more suitable than him.

Besides this, there is another reason.

"Hello, President Li." Zhang Yuan greeted the other party's receptionist as he did before and exchanged pleasantries for a while.

It turned out that having connections made a difference. With the help of Li Ruigang, a deputy director was also found to receive him.

After explaining the purpose of the visit, we had a similar conversation as at MBC.

"free?"

"Give it to us?"

President Li also looked at Zhang Yuan with a confused look on his face.

Why are you American people all the same? You only think about good things.

Zhang Yuan was too lazy to complain, so he explained in detail to the other party.

"No, I want to make a deal with Gui Tai."

"Or rather, an exchange."

Peers are enemies.

SBS and MBC are both among the top three and are of course direct competitors.

And SBS is also shameless.

It was their reporter who leaked the information at the 04 Athens Olympics.

It was also their reporters who leaked information about the 08 Olympics, leading to the revision of the opening ceremony.

You know what their style is.

I don’t care about you!

As long as it can make money and attract attention, is there anything I can't do?
He acted recklessly towards outsiders and did not let his peers off at home either.

Seeing that MBC's variety show "Saturday" was popular, he created "Sunday is Great".

You can tell how harsh the beating was by looking at the similar names.

Then look at the popularity of "Saturday" spin-off program "Infinite Challenge".

He thought, no, I can’t have it, right?

An outdoor game challenge segment was derived from "Sunday is Great".

This segment was later separated into an independent segment and named "Running Man".

This is the original version of the domestic "Running Man".

In order to make this show popular, SBS even poached Yoo Jae-suk, the main host of "Infinite Challenge", as the main host of "Running Man".

Yoo Jae-suk also tries to have the best of both worlds by appearing on both shows, and because the two TV stations are competing so closely together he reaps all the benefits.

It can be said that these two families are "enemies within the same sky and two places, and hatred within three rivers and four seas."

I would be sorry to you if I don't take advantage of the conflict between your two families.

Moreover, during the peak period of "Go Fighting", it was a very popular show in the country.

The only variety show that can compete with it is "Running Man".

It can be said that these two programs have been popular from abroad to domestically, and from their predecessors to the present.

Old enemy.

Similarly, after losing its golden team and director group, "Running Man" also experienced a cliff-like decline like "Go Fighting".

But during their golden age, these two shows almost dominated the screens of the vast majority of variety show viewers across the country.

Whoever gets one of them will become a prince, whoever gets both will rule the world... That's the situation in the variety show industry.

The same thing is that after President Li learned about this, he felt that this deal was worth doing!

After all, it is simply a fantasy that someone in China is willing to buy the copyright of a variety show.

He showed a keen interest.

A banquet was also arranged to welcome Zhang Yuan and his party.

There's no way to escape this meal.

Instead of having a meal.

Several female hosts from the station were also invited to join the dinner.

In China, there are also female stars who serve drinking wine as companions, and it is very common.

But I have never seen anyone ripping open a shirt and pulling off underwear and shaking them around for fun at the table.

The key point is that these women were also laughing, as if they were used to it.

There is no decency at all, it's really crazy.

Can you wait till you finish your meal?

Or spend some money?

Spend a little, it won’t be much, even if it’s for prostitution?
I turned off the lights!
Zhang Yuan felt that they were all very dizzy, so after dinner he did not go to the next party and went straight back to the hotel to rest.

When the assistant saw this, he thought that his boss was at least a normal person.

Isn't it just sleeping with a few more beautiful girls?

Then everyone is willing to do so.

One key opens several locks; it is a master key.

But any key can open a lock, and any lock can adapt to the key. This is where the problem lies in the lock and key industry.

The assistant thought that Zhang Yuan was much better than the mess here.

The next day, nothing happened and I slept until noon.

And I was woken up by the ringing of my cell phone.

"Mr. Zhang, I heard that you went to SBS yesterday?"

President Park from MBC TV called and sounded anxious.

Ah!
Zhang Yuan rubbed his eyes and snapped his fingers.

You see, he's hooked.

When you guys are thinking about grabbing me, is it possible that I am also thinking about how to grab you? (End of this chapter)