The Uncrowned King of the Peninsula

Chapter 115: Twenty Years
Listening to Lin Bingxian's words, Pei Yongjun gradually understood his plan.

Compared with Seoul, where the media is crowded, the news industry in Gyeonggi Province is much weaker, and the competition for awards is fierce enough. Bae Young-joon's news here is extremely valuable.

"The Dong-A News Awards is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. In the past 20 years, no entertainment journalist has ever won the award. Winning it would be quite a feat."

Lin Bingxian became more and more excited as he spoke, and a longing light shone in his somewhat old eyes.

"President, regarding our entertainment news..." Pei Yongjun reminded.

"What's wrong with entertainment news?" Lin Bingxian glared. "We're entertainment reporters. They care about national affairs, war and peace, life and death. We're always in love or breaking up. Some people say we're not presentable."

“But everyone loves to watch it!”

"Then this is news! News is for readers, why exclude us?"

The significance of this award is not only a recognition of Bae Young-joon, but also of Hangang Sports and Lim Byung-hun.

Hanjiang Sports made him a lot of money. He had already lived a carefree life and was old. What he wanted was status and the realization of the value of his life's career.

And Pei Yongjun gave him this opportunity.

The three major news stories published by Pei Yongjun in a row, although still entertainment news, involved crimes and also had social attributes, which immediately made up for the shortcoming of the social significance that is the weakest part of entertainment news.

Coupled with the extremely high national attention, if you work hard, you might really have a chance to win an award.

"Thank you, President," Bae Young-jun stood up earnestly and bowed as he looked at Lim Byung-hun, whose eyes were shining with excitement. "Thank you for your training."

A few months ago, he was still trying hard to gain a living space for himself. As for winning awards, he really had no time to care about it and had never thought about it.

Lin Bingxian in front of him took the initiative to think of this.

He turned his gaze to Pei Yongjun, stared at him for a few seconds before continuing.

"Yongjun, you are an amazing talent. It's just a coincidence and bad luck that brought you here."

"Money, I won't treat you unfairly, but I know too well that money is not everything."

His tone became sighing and his eyes showed some sincerity.

"Someone should acknowledge these news items, and acknowledge you."

"I think you may have some difficult reasons for leaving KBS. It would be great if you could get this award."

"You should also let KBS see that they recognized the wrong person and lacked the ability to judge people."

The two looked at each other.

"Yongjun, I'm the one who should be thanking you."

"Without you, how could I dare to think about it?"

Lin Bingxian stood up and pushed Pei Yongjun back onto the sofa. "The prizes will be awarded at the end of December. Registration is open this week. Don't worry about anything else. I'll take care of it."

"Yongjun, the secretary-general of the Gyeonggi Provincial News Association and I were college classmates," Lin Bingxian said with a mysterious smile, "I will help you find a solution."

"It's been twenty years, it's our turn now."

He grinned and laughed happily.

"Yes, President! I will definitely work hard." Looking at Lin Bingxian who was smiling happily, Bae Yongjun said sincerely.

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"What? Dong-A News Award?" Editor-in-Chief Zhao Dongxu's expression changed slightly.

He looked at Lin Bingxian at the top, then looked at Pei Yongjun across from him, with a somewhat unpleasant expression on his face, "President..."

"Dongxu, is there any problem? This is also a good thing for our newspaper, isn't it?" Lin Bingxian looked at him.

This is the conference room of the newspaper. Lim Byung-hun invited the editors-in-chief of each group and the editor-in-chief Zhao Dongxu to come and announced that he would support Bae Young-jun in winning the Dong-A News Award.

After hearing this, everyone cast envious glances at Pei Yongjun. Although it was just an idea, for those present, winning such a prestigious journalism award was something they couldn't even imagine.

"Yes, that's a good thing! Then our newspaper will be proud of itself!" Zhang Jiyuan from the sports team immediately stood up to support Pei Yongjun, "President-nim, please let me know if you need anything!"

His gaze returned to Zhao Dongxu.

Facing everyone's gaze, Zhao Dongxu was angry but couldn't show it.

Ever since the last meeting, when he had tried every possible means, even resorting to such ruthless tactics as opening a skylight, but still failed to defeat Pei Yongjun, his position as the editor-in-chief had been getting worse day by day.

Although he is still called the editor-in-chief, people's hearts are gradually leaning towards Pei Yongjun.

Led by Zhang Jiyuan, all the editors-in-chief began to show their goodwill to Pei Yongjun to some extent.

This behavior is undoubtedly a betrayal for Zhao Dongxu.

But now Lin Bingxian's thoughts are inclined towards Pei Yongjun, so he can only endure it for the time being. However, what happened today made him unable to endure it any longer.

Otherwise, if the entire company joins forces to bring Pei Yongjun to the podium, then his tenure as editor-in-chief will be over.

We must show our strength to everyone, including Lim Byung-hun.

"President-nim, this is certainly a good thing." Zhao Dongxu pulled the corner of his mouth with a forced smile, "However, the current funding of the club..."

"I'm afraid that's the most important thing."

"Don't worry about this. Kakao will have news soon," said Lin Bingxian.

"Speaking of Kakao, I have some good news to tell you." Zhao Dongxu turned the topic back to his purpose.

"Kakao? What good news?" Lin Bingxian asked in surprise.

"The people from Kakao have been discussing cooperation with me these past two days. They said they want to place some advertisements. I think they have already reached an agreement within the past two days."

Lin Bingxian's expression changed slightly.

Zhao Dongxu has advertising resources from SK Telecom, which makes him quite wary, so he personally handles all contacts with Kakao and does not let Zhao Dongxu intervene.

How come Kakao emerged and is controlled by Zhao Dongxu?
His heart sank slightly.

"What's going on?" he asked. "How did you find us?"

"President, they came to us because they trust your reputation. Of course, everyone's hard work is also indispensable."

Zhao Dongxu didn't mention Pei Yongjun at all.

"Well, it would be best if we could make a deal." Lin Bingxian responded.

"Actually, President, if it's convenient for you, they will be here soon and we can talk on the spot."

"The news award is certainly important, but I think we should talk about it later."

The conference room fell silent for a moment.

Pei Yongjun's rise in status was largely due to the large Kakao News contract he secured for his sake. If Zhao Dongxu had snatched it away...

Everyone exchanged glances secretly and observed Pei Yongjun secretly.

Lin Bingxian frowned and was about to speak when Pei Yongjun stood up.

"What's wrong?" Lin Bingxian looked at him.

"Boss, let's focus on the important matters first. Let's discuss the advertising first."

He saluted and stepped out on his own initiative.

Zhao Dongxu raised the corners of his mouth.

(End of this chapter)