Hollywood Hunter

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Inside a golf club hotel in the eastern part of Martha's Vineyard Island that is contracted by the Westeros Corporation.

Nine o'clock in the morning.

Chen Qing opened the door with an assistant and entered a meeting room in the hotel. All the heads of Korean chaebols who came to North America this time have arrived. Seeing that only Chen Qing appeared, all the big Korean chaebols at the scene were a little surprised and dissatisfaction.

In the first two days, Chen Qing and James Raybould received the reception together, and Raybould was the main one.

Even if they knew the position of this woman in Westeros, for the Koreans who are used to patriarchal patriarchy, today should have been a more important meeting. The absence of Raybould made them feel a little angry that they were underestimated.

Wearing a pair of black-rimmed tortoiseshell glasses, Jin Yuzhong, the founder of Daewoo Group with gray hair, waited for Chen Qing to sit down, then looked at the door of the conference room, and seeing that no one was coming in, he asked, "Miss Chen, Mr. Will you be there?"

Chen Qing slowly put a Nokia mobile phone at hand, put a blue folder in front of her body, and finally put her hands and fingers on the large conference table, nodded and said with a smile: "The past two days During the three meetings, our mutual attitudes have been clear. Now, all kinds of bad news are constantly coming from your country. I don’t think everyone is in the mood to continue the talks. Therefore, according to the instructions of my boss, the talks are temporarily suspended, everyone. You can deal with more pressing matters."

Stop talking? !

Confirming that I heard correctly, some people in the conference room almost stood up and slapped the table.

You know, after close consultations in private, they have already planned to make some appropriate concessions in order to obtain assistance from the Westeros system.

Now, suddenly they don't talk about it, so how can they talk about it?

After a moment of silence, Jin Yuzhong from Daewoo Group spoke again: "Miss Chen, are you sure this is Mr. Westeros' decision?"

Chen Qing nodded: "That's right."

Hearing this, Jin Yuzhong's expression was cloudy for a moment, he glanced at the other people sitting there, and finally got up first, and walked out with his secretary without saying a word.

Afterwards, Zheng Mengjiu of Hyundai Group got up and left the meeting room.

The top and second chaebol leaders in the country got up and left, and the remaining five big bosses of the chaebol, such as Samsung, LG, and SK, looked at each other, and saw that Chen Qing was sitting on the ground at the conference table. Follow-up said, they followed out of the meeting room.

When there was no one else in the conference room, Chen Qing finally opened a file folder she had just brought in, and took out a Walkman, put on the earphones, looked through the files while listening, and occasionally raised her pen to write down something. It took a few minutes before she said to Lily Favel who was standing behind her all the time: "Lily, guess how many of the seven chaebol bosses will contact us privately?"

Lily Favel was very curious about what Chen Qing was listening to. Hearing this, she thought for a while and said with a smile, "Two or three. In the last few meetings, SK has been the most active. It must be one of them. In addition, I think there will be more lg, because these two companies are not large in business such as semiconductors and LCD screens that we are looking at, so it doesn’t matter if they give up.”

Chen Qing nodded: "Smart."

Lily Favel smiled, and changed her body sitting on the secretary's seat behind Chen Qing, leaning forward a little, and said: "However, this must not meet your expectations."

"Yes," Chen Qing said, "Also, didn't you just say two or three, and guess one more?"

Lily Favel thought for a moment, and said: "I think it should be one of Hyundai and Samsung. Hyundai mainly focuses on automobiles. Although the electronic industry is also large in scale, it is not the core. It is nothing to give up. As for Samsung , the electronics business has the heaviest share, which will instead become the company’s weakness, and if it doesn’t cooperate with us, it may go bankrupt in the next few years.”

Chen Qing made an admiring voice again, and said, "Lily, you are enough to be an assistant to the boss."

Lily Favel did not take up this topic. In theory, Chen Qing is actually equivalent to Simon's assistant, responsible for helping the high-ranking man take care of various affairs in Asia. She was only assigned to Chen Qing and Lin Su at first. The waitress beside her is already lucky to be the assistant of Simon Westeros' assistant.

So I changed the subject: "Miss Chen, I remember you and I said a Chinese idiom, called to kill a chicken to show the monkey, I think Daewoo is very suitable to be a monkey."

"One more point."

As Chen Qing was speaking, she heard a wiretapped conversation between Daewoo Group's Jin Yuzhong and the head of LG, Gu Benmoo, on the Walkman, and wrote a few Chinese characters on the Korean document in front of her, which happened to be what Lili said.

Kill chickens to make an example to monkeys.

After finishing writing, the corners of Chen Qing's mouth curled into a sneer.

Those guys are probably used to being local snakes in South Korea. There are no tigers in the mountains, and monkeys are called kings, so they didn't really understand what the name Simon Westeros meant.

Even South Korea's number one Hyundai chaebol, according to the information in Chen Qing's hands, even if the exchange rate of Korean won to US dollar was 800 to 1 before the crisis broke out, the total scale of all businesses such as automobiles, steel, machinery, electronics, etc. More than 30 billion U.S. dollars, less than one-tenth of Igret, which ranks first in the market value of the Westeros system.

Let alone now.

According to the controlled exchange rate of 2,000 to 1 Korean won against the US dollar announced by the South Korean government, the Korean won has depreciated by as much as 60%. Similarly, the market value of Hyundai Group, calculated in US dollars, is only a little over 10 billion US dollars.

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In fact, if there is no Westeros system, which can be called an unusual behemoth, the modern group with a volume of tens of billions of dollars is indeed among the top corporate giants of this era.

And therein lies the problem.

My boss has taken a fancy to the small plate of South Korea. For Chen Qing, it is really a bit of a slasher, and it is better to make more arrangements in China.

China has great growth potential.

After a little development in these years, the volume has easily surpassed that of South Korea, and it will only be far behind in the future. South Korea, on the other hand, is really too small. Not only is it in an awkward zone between China and Japan, but it is also controlled by the United States, and it has to accept its fate.

Therefore, who is qualified to make decisions here?

After waiting for a while, the Nokia mobile phone that Chen Qing had put on the conference table on purpose to hint after entering the door really rang.

Pick up, answer.

As Lily Favel expected, the first one was sk.

Whether it is the situation of the SK Group itself in South Korea, or the attitude of Cui Zhongxian, the head of SK in the three meetings in the past two days, it means that this chaebol urgently needs the support of the Westeros system.

SK first started as a textile company, and later rose through the petrochemical industry. In the 1980s, it created the second pillar business of the group in the communication field. Korea's first digital signal cdma communication network was built by SK Communications.

Similarly, influenced by the Korean semiconductor trend of 'a box of chips for a ship of ore' in the 1970s and 1980s, SK, like many other chaebols, got together and participated in electronic businesses such as semiconductors, but this aspect is very weak, far from being able to compete with Hyundai Compared with the size of Samsung's semiconductor business.

Then there are these years.

Because of the relatives of the children of the Cui family, former South Korean President Roh Tae-woo was investigated by the Kim Young-sam government and was finally sentenced to 17 years in prison. SK was also suppressed. The petrochemical industry, one of the core businesses, almost encountered Hyundai, Daewoo, and Samsung. The all-round encirclement and suppression campaign was retreating steadily. The communication industry, which is under strict state control, has also been set up with many obstacles by the Kim Young-sam government in recent years.

Now, yet another economic crisis has hit South Korea.

If it cannot get strong foreign aid, it is hard to say whether SK can survive the next few years. Since they are looking for a backer, turning to the Westeros system is definitely the best choice for SK.

subsequently.

The second, modern.

The third one is Samsung.

Lily Favel guessed one wrong, lg.

In the wiretapping recordings that Chen Qing obtained against the heads of South Korean chaebols in the past few days, Gu Benmo of LG and Jin Yuzhong of Daewoo Group had their own abacus.

After making separate appointments with the heads of the three chaebols of Hyundai, Samsung, and SK, Chen Qing silently listened to the wiretapping recording again before leaving the meeting room with Lily Favel.

The next meeting is scheduled for tomorrow. Before that, Chen Qing still needs to communicate with her boss.

Returning by car to a property owned by her boss in the northern part of Martha's Vineyard, she came to a study room, and Chen Qing quickly connected her boss's video call.

It was just over six o'clock in the morning in Los Angeles.

The video was switched on, and in the screen, Simon was jogging on a treadmill in sportswear.

Looking greedily at the chest and abdomen muscles under the vest of her boss, Chen Qing asked with a smile: "Boss, have you read the wiretap recordings I compiled?"

Simon slowed down the speed of the treadmill again, didn't look at the camera, just nodded: "I've seen it."

A group of chaebols from South Korea settled in the golf club hotel on Martha's Vineyard. Although they will not be completely defenseless, with the eavesdropping capabilities of the Westeros family's private intelligence team, let alone their own home, those people will certainly not be able to escape. .

Simon has no moral burden for this either.

Business competition has never been tender, let alone at his current level.

With Chen Qing's temperament, she was even more excited about this, feeling like "Mission: Impossible", she raised three fingers and said, "I just sent those people away, and then I received three calls. Guess the boss, where are they?" Three?"

Simon knew more inside information than Lily Favrell, so he guessed more accurately, casually said: "Samsung, Hyundai, sk."

Chen Qing frowned: "It seems that the boss values ​​Samsung very much."

Speaking of Korean chaebols, people’s first reaction is basically the Samsung Group, which accounts for 20% of South Korea’s GDP, but in fact, in this era, Hyundai is the boss, the second is the Daewoo Group, and Samsung can only rank third, even because last year Semiconductor prices plummeted, revenue and profits plummeted, and there was a trend of being overtaken by the fourth-ranked LG.

In this meeting, counting the fifth-ranked SK, all the top five chaebols in South Korea are here, and there are two other companies, both of which are also in the top ten. They are the seventh-ranked Hanjin Group and The ninth place is Hanwha Group, which operates petrochemical machinery.

The last two say they are just making up the number, but they are not counting as making up the number.

Because the two electronic businesses related to the topic of this meeting are dispensable. However, Simon is very interested in the two companies themselves, whether it is shipping, aviation or mechanized petrochemicals, especially the shipping that Hanjin is mainly engaged in, and the business that Hanwha is involved in. Machinery is the focus of the Westeros system's next layout in Asia.

This time it is the first touch.

Chen Qing can sort it out from her own mouth

Seeing his emphasis on Samsung, Simon was not surprised, but he did not admit or deny it, and directly began to order: "The next point of negotiation between you and these three companies is for Hyundai, buy out Hyundai's electronics business, and integrate with SK At the same time, lobbying SK to cooperate with America Online, the model is similar to that of AOL and China Telecom. As for Samsung, isn’t South Korea always competing for Kia? You can promise to help Samsung win Kia, on the condition that we get at least half of Samsung Electronics At the same time, we guarantee that we will not interfere with Samsung's auto business at all in the future, and only supervise the electronic business to a certain extent, but the control will still belong to the Li family."

Buying out Hyundai's electronic business and integrating it with SK is tantamount to building the later SK Hynix in advance.

SK's cooperation with AOL is naturally to advance into the Korean ISP field.

Speaking of which, South Korea’s Internet speed ranked among the top in the world, but at this stage, even though the first wave of Internet bubbles in North America has burst, the mainstream use of 64k Internet speeds connected by modems in South Korea is mainly due to the regulation of the telecommunications industry in South Korea.

South Korea has entered the ranks of developed countries with a per capita GDP of 10,000 US dollars in the 1990s. This is true, but in fact, many aspects are still very closed, such as movies, such as finance, such as telecommunications, etc., these were all closed after 1997. Forced to fully open. In the end, except for the prosperity of the film industry, many other fields have become colonies of overseas capital.

Chen Qing could understand her boss's arrangement about Hyundai and SK, but when she heard Samsung's question, she didn't react for a while: "Boss, aren't you optimistic about the traditional auto industry? Why did you let Samsung win Kia?"

Simon said: "It is precisely because I am not optimistic that Samsung won Kia, so that Li Kunxi's energy can be contained in the car business."

Once Samsung, the biggest mistake in decision-making in the 1990s was to forcibly enter the Korean auto industry, which has been divided by more than 80% of the market by Hyundai, Daewoo and Kia. In the end, it ended up with a loss of more than 3 billion US dollars, and the subsequent negative impact has been entangled. I have been with the Samsung Li family for many years.

This time, since Li Jianxi likes cars so much, of course Simon has to help and let the other party play a little bigger.

However, winning Kia, which has many years of experience in the automotive industry, may allow Samsung to make certain achievements in the automotive sector this time.

But Simon doesn't care.

The core is to compete for more control of Samsung Electronics.

As for all, Simon is actually able to get it, because according to the recent stock price of Samsung Electronics and the exchange rate of Korean won to US dollar, the company’s market value is only about 3.9 billion US dollars, which is less than 20 years later. The peak market value of more than 500 billion per cent One, with the capital strength of the Westeros system, it is no problem to eat it all in one go.

The problem is that Simon doesn't have the energy to take care of it himself, and he doesn't have a suitable team at hand. Of course, the Samsung Li family will manage it by themselves.

Simon only intends to stand behind the scenes and be a laborer.

Of course, in order to prevent the Li family from completely controlling Samsung Electronics, give another car business to divide the other party's energy to facilitate the penetration of the Westeros system. As for the integration of Korean chaebols, the automobile business will inevitably have a related impact on the electronics business. Since it has been seen in advance, Simon can certainly take relevant preventive measures.

Chen Qing understood and confirmed again that her boss really valued Samsung more than she imagined. It seems that I will spend more time in the future.

After thinking about it, Chen Qing finally asked: "Boss, Daewoo and LG, what should we do?"

Simon said: "Daewoo is used to scare chickens and monkeys, lg, and then suppress them until they take the initiative to come to the door, and then they will be included."

Chen Qing laughed, flipped through the document in front of her in the conference room of the club hotel, and showed it to Simon: "Boss, we have thought of one."

Seeing Chen Qing holding up the four Chinese characters 'kill chickens to warn monkeys' in the blank space of the document, Simon smiled and said, "Smart."

I didn't say much.

In fact, there is still a difference between the two.

Simon happened to remember that the Daewoo Group was the worst chaebol in this crisis, ranking second in South Korea, but finally collapsed completely, worse than Kia, which ranked seventh. Kia was later acquired by Hyundai, and the brand has continued and recovered. But Daewoo completely dissipated. The head of Daewoo, Jin Yuzhong, absconded before the collapse of the consortium. He was wanted all over the world because of his suspicion of large-scale financial fraud. He finally returned to China at the age of seventy to stand trial and died in depression.

Compared with the chaebol giants that have been passed down for several generations in South Korea, Daewoo Group is one of the rare large chaebols that has gone through the entire process of creation, prosperity, decline, and demise directly in the hands of the founder.

After finalizing the general framework, the two discussed some other details, and Chen Qing reluctantly ended the video call. With all the excitement surrounding South Korea in recent days, she has a lot of things to do.