Korean TV series: King of Peninsula 1997

Chapter 305 Spread
This year's Grand Bell Awards will be held on November 11th and has already arrived amidst the hustle and bustle.

Since Li You learned in advance from the Secretary-General and the Minister of Culture and Entertainment that the President had personally nominated the Grand Bell Awards for "The Crucible", he naturally took the opportunity to do some public relations for the Grand Bell Awards when the award ceremony was approaching.

Golden Gate Entertainment only has one film this year, "The Crucible", but this one is enough. Not to mention that "The Crucible" has been nominated for most of the Grand Bell Awards and Blue Dragon Awards. The Grand Bell Awards are a film award with some political factors, and the award has already been won by "The Crucible". The only one that really has some competition is the Blue Dragon Awards.

As for the Blue Dragon Awards, there may only be some nominations, and at most "The Crucible" will be given some small awards. In order to divide the film industry's pie, those major awards such as Best Actor will still be awarded to other crews.

In fact, everyone in the entire film industry knows that when the two film awards are divided in a year, it is natural that they will not favor one company. From the past to the present, it is difficult for anyone to achieve good results in two film awards at the same time, and they can only choose to focus on one of them.

If we try to take over everything, we will indeed make many enemies and affect future cooperation.

What's more, "The Crucible" is not the only one that dominates the market. There will be a movie that can rival "The Crucible" in the second half of the year.

The name of this movie is "Joint Security Area".

However, everyone in the "The Crucible" crew, including actors, directors, etc., are already very satisfied with winning something at the Grand Bell Awards.

The Blue Dragon Awards were announced earlier, and the Blue Dragon Film Festival started on November 11th.

Everyone from the "The Crucible" crew, including the young actors, also attended the Blue Dragon Film Festival.

The Blue Dragon Awards organizers were also very considerate and eventually gave some awards to "The Crucible", although this was met with a lot of criticism, after all, "The Crucible" was indeed very popular.

But the award ceremony is there to divide the cake. Ordinary people can just curse. It won’t have much impact on them. After all, the other movie is not simple either.

In today's situation, the movie "Joint Security Area" is actually more suitable for the Daejong Awards than "The Crucible". After all, it tells a case of cooperation between North and South Korea, which is very consistent with Kim Min-joong's Sunshine Policy.

However, when "The Crucible" was released, President Kim Min-jung personally nominated the Grand Bell Award for "The Crucible".

If we follow the timeline of Lee Woo's previous life, without "The Crucible", "Joint Security Area" would have indeed swept both the Grand Bell Awards and the Blue Dragon Awards. After all, the pie should be divided among the good works.

On November 17th, Lee Woo and Mou Hyun-min attended the Grand Bell Awards ceremony. He also received news in advance that President Kim Min-jung would also be at the Grand Bell Awards ceremony.

There was nothing wrong with the award ceremony. The crew of "Joint Security Area", which reaped great rewards at the Blue Dragon Film Festival, only received some small consolation awards at the Daejong Film Festival.

In fact, everyone knows the truth, but they still pretend to be ignorant, sad and regretful, and they act very realistically.

However, their sadness was fake sadness, but the crew of "The Crucible" was truly happy.

As the chairman of the Kinmen Group, Li You is naturally happy. The Grand Bell Awards are still very valuable, and when Kinmen Entertainment continues to release movies in the future, the attention it will receive will increase a lot.

After the award ceremony, there was a celebration dinner held by the award presenters in the evening. Although the nominal protagonists were the crews of "The Crucible" and "Joint Security Area", these two crews knew their own limits. Whoever really regarded himself as the protagonist would be really fed up with life.

After the host of the event gave a eloquent speech, he specially invited President Kim Min-jung to the stage to congratulate them.

Next, it is the social occasion that the powerful and wealthy love to attend.

Previous movie kings also come here, trying to communicate with directors or bosses of entertainment companies.

Li You finished the remaining wine in the glass in his hand, put it on the waiter's tray, and gently reminded Mou Xianmin, "I will go to see President Jin. If you are late, you can go back first."

Mou Xianmin nodded, "I understand."

Li You slowly stood up, with a polite smile on his face, he greeted the acquaintances he met along the way, and walked step by step towards a door of the celebration banquet hall.

Secretary-General Quan had already been waiting in the passage behind the door. Li You quietly walked to Secretary-General Quan's side. Seeing Li You approaching him, Secretary-General Quan smiled and said, "President Li, it's been a long time since we last met. You are still as charming as ever."

Li You still had the same smile he wore in front of others. He smiled and shook his head, "Secretary-General Quan, thank you for your compliment."

"That's not an exaggeration," Secretary-General Quan said admiringly, "President Li is very talented, and even your opponents agree with that."

"..." Li You did not answer, but just smiled.

Secretary-General Quan pointed inside and said, "Mr. President is already waiting for Chairman Li inside. Let's talk while we walk."

"Please trouble Secretary-General Quan to lead the way," Li You said.

The two walked on the road, and Secretary-General Quan still smiled and said, "Mr. President is very satisfied with what Chairman Li has done these days."

"It would be great if Mr. President could tell me directly when he needs me to do something in the future," Li You said calmly, "otherwise, I'd always be a knife in someone else's hands, and I'd feel uneasy even if I benefited from it."

Secretary-General Quan smiled and said, "It's a win-win situation for both parties. The main reason is that a big event is coming. Mr. President is indeed not convenient to say it clearly, but I still hope that Chairman Li will understand. Mr. President is also very grateful for what Chairman Li has done."

Kim Min-jung had secretly asked Lee Woo to send people to Pocheon City to carry out a joint assistance mission, and also suggested that Lee Woo could take the opportunity to take down the Cheonmyeong Group in Pocheon City. Naturally, this was to get rid of Kim Yong-soo who might bring disgrace to Kim Min-jung.

The president is the president after all, and too many people are watching him. He cannot deal with Kim Yong-soo through unconventional means. However, because he is a member of a faction, Kim Min-jung cannot investigate Kim Yong-soo openly and can only get rid of him indirectly through Lee Woo.

He didn't have to pay a price for doing this. Many people in Kim Min-jung's faction became hostile to Lee Woo. Although they didn't know who killed Kim Yong-soo, they were sure that Lee Woo was the biggest beneficiary after Kim Yong-soo's death.

"Besides," Secretary-General Quan said secretly, "The reason why the President met with you this time was to reasonably compensate Chairman Li."

"When Chairman Li arrives, he can also make some requests to the President. I believe that the President will agree to reasonable requests."

Li You then smiled and nodded, "That couldn't be better."

Li You followed Secretary-General Quan and walked steadily through the red-carpeted corridor.

The murals and chandeliers on both sides of the corridor were unattractive decorations, and the footsteps of the two people made a dull sound on the carpet.

"President Li, I'd like to ask you something," said the restless Secretary-General Quan, "For the World Cup New Town next year, has President Li reached some cooperation with President Jin of Tianxia Group?"

"President Jin?" Li You looked at Secretary-General Quan with some surprise, somewhat curious about how he knew.

"Isn't this the first person the President met just now? It was Chairman Jin," Secretary-General Quan looked at his watch, "Calculating the time, he should have just left."

Li You narrowed his eyes. Kim Gun-young of the Tianxia Group supported Cho Tae-seop, who was also from Li Lianchang's faction. When he came into contact with President Kim Min-jung, he remembered what happened before.

"Is the North-South Joint Development Zone going to be established?" Li You raised his eyebrows, "So soon?"

"Yes," Secretary-General Quan said, noting that Li You was interested, "The Kaesong Industrial Park will soon break ground." "In the first phase of development, a demonstration park with an area of ​​about 90,000 square meters will be built. The companies that have been confirmed to move in are all labor-intensive small and medium-sized enterprises, which will employ workers from North Korea. A Korean bank, a Korean hospital and a food store will also be opened in the demonstration park."

Li You understood that this meant sending those small businesses to give it a try.

The two chatted along the way and soon arrived at the door of a suite. The bodyguards in front of the door were still strictly carrying out the security check procedures, but they had simplified some of the procedures. At least they only used metal detectors and no manual checks.

Li You accepted the inspection calmly. As the door slowly opened, Secretary-General Quan led Li You through the porch with ease and came to a reception room with soft light.

The scene inside the suite came into Li You's sight. The heavy curtains were closed, blocking out the light outside.

Jin Minzhong was already waiting there, sitting on a large sofa, with a calm smile on his face and a peaceful look in his eyes.

Li You walked slowly towards Jin Minzhong, and their eyes met in the air. Jin Minzhong stood up, stretched out his hand, and shook hands with Li You politely.

Secretary-General Quan quietly stepped aside, leaving them enough space to conduct the next important conversation.

"Chairman Li," Jin Minzhong spoke first, and without beating around the bush as before, he said directly, "Thank you very much for this time."

Li You raised his eyebrows, "This is the first time I've seen Mr. President be so polite."

Jin Minzhong was not angry when Li You said some sarcastic words, but just regarded it as the sharpness of young people.

He smiled and said, "Aren't we going to invite President Li to come over and discuss how to repay President Li?"

Kim Min-joong winked at Lee Woo, "This conversation is very private, Chairman Lee, you can speak boldly."

Li You looked at the surroundings. They were all people belonging to President Kim Min-jung. Who knew if he had set a trap? Li You didn't want to leave any evidence behind.

He shook his head slowly, "Why don't you talk first, Mr. President?"

Jin Minzhong was stunned for a moment, then smiled and shook his head, "How much is left for Gyeonggi Province?"

He thought about it for a while, and then asked himself, "There should be three or four more cities with underground forces?"

Jin Minzhong poured a cup of tea for Li You without caring much, "President Li, you can do whatever you want. I guarantee that the governments of these cities will not take any extreme measures."

Li You was a little surprised. "President Kim trusts me so much? Then this is the entire Gyeonggi Province."

"What's there to worry about?" Jin Minzhong smiled. "I can probably guess what Chairman Li is thinking."

"But Chairman Lee may not have paid attention to this," Kim Min-jung took a sip of tea, "Since Chairman Lee moved from Seoul to Gyeonggi Province, the crime rates in these places have dropped."

He put down his teacup, spread his hands and said, "Chairman Li, don't you know the frequency of crime on the Korean Peninsula when I first took office?"

Li You did know something at that time. At that time, the financial crisis on the Korean Peninsula had just ended and there were a terrifying number of criminals. Jiangnan Industry at that time was able to attract a lot of people.

"Chairman Lee has made a lot of contributions in this regard," Kim Min-jung said with a smile, "From Seoul to Gyeonggi Province, once Chairman Lee took over these places, the crime rate dropped a lot."

“Although I don’t know how Chairman Li did it, it is indeed the credit of Chairman Li and the Golden Gate Group.”

Li You had a calm face, but he wanted to laugh inside. Those dangerous criminals or those who might commit crimes were all popular targets in the eyes of Kinmen Security, and most of them were taken to Kinmen Security for training.

Those who are looked down upon by Kinmen security are not brave enough to commit crimes, so it would be strange if these places are not safe.

Li You finally smiled, and there was some sincerity in his smile, "I also know a little about what President Kim said."

"President Li, would you mind telling me the secret?"

Li You shrugged his shoulders. "Those who are prone to committing crimes are quite suitable for security work."

Jin Minzhong also understood what Li You meant. He laughed and said, "I didn't expect Chairman Li to recruit people in this way."

Although this would lay a landmine for the future president, Kim Min-jung is already halfway through his term and has no time to worry about it.

Jin Minzhong smiled and did not hide it at all. "In the beginning, President Park supported Sunyang and other chaebol groups in order to support the economy of the Korean Peninsula. Does Chairman Lee think he succeeded?"

Li You was silent for a while, then he knew who he was talking about, and nodded, "It worked."

"President Park was indeed successful, but he didn't finish his work," Kim Min-jung said with a serious face, "which is why chaebol groups like Sunyang started to grow and become what they are today."

To put it simply, President Park, who supported chaebol groups such as Sunyang, was able to control them and even ushered in an economic miracle, but there were some people behind him whom he could not control.

"Having said so much," Jin Minzhong returned to his smiling face, "I invited Chairman Li to come here just to express my opinion. Chairman Li doesn't need to worry so much, just do it."

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After Li You left, Secretary General Quan asked Jin Minzhong with some doubt, "President Nim, is it really okay to do this?"

He frowned, “I always feel like if this goes on, he’ll be very much like a human being.”

"Who?" Jin Minzhong raised his eyebrows, "General Jeon?"

"Yes," Secretary-General Quan lowered his head, "Chairman Li's personality is really a bit like my uncle's."

"Li You can't do that," Jin Minzhong waved his hand, "Where is General Quan now? If Li You acts recklessly, I'm afraid he will end up in the same situation as him."

Secretary Quan sighed in his heart. Although Li You was not as violent as Chun Doo-hwan, Chun Doo-hwan was not as rich as him.

What's more, what Li You is doing now is clearly strengthening his own violent group.

However, seeing that Kim Min-jung was confident, Secretary-General Jeon smiled and nodded. Being the president's secretary, one must know the current affairs and not just persuade people blindly.

"By the way," Jin Minzhong said, "Regarding Li You's matter, please inform those city governments on my behalf and let them know that I tacitly agreed to this."

"I understand," Secretary-General Quan nodded. "Also, the Peace Prize award ceremony is coming soon, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is also coordinating President Nim's travel."

(End of this chapter)