South Korea's "XX-dong" is equivalent to the domestic "XX-street". Cheongdam-dong is located in the most prosperous and wealthy Gangnam District in South Korea, which is also regarded as the core of the Korean entertainment industry.
Famous entertainment agencies such as s.m.g, t-rf, reop, etc. are gathered here. Every year, a large number of professionally trained artists come out of Cheongdam-dong, Nonhyeon-dong, Apgujeong-dong and other places in Gangnam-gu to provide Korean entertainment services.
The entertainment industry continues to provide new blood. The headquarters of yg is in Cheongdam-dong, a 12-story high-rise building. yg is not the top Korean entertainment agency, and its strength and scale cannot be compared with S.M.G and others, but its history is quite
It has a long history, and this headquarters built in the early 1990s is the best proof.
When Lu Chen arrived at syg's headquarters, syg's president Li Zhenhao had already led many senior executives to greet him at the door.
Although Lu Chen had visited here a few days ago, the reception standard of SYG was even higher today. Several of SYG's major shareholders were even among the welcoming crowd.
Lu Chen stepped into the building surrounded by them.
"What a bad luck last time..."
Li Zhenhao said sincerely: "I was on a business trip in Thailand and couldn't make it back in time, so Mr. Lu Chen, please give me a chance to make up for it this time and have dinner together!"
The last time Lu Chen came here, the president of syg was not in South Korea, so he missed it. The first thing Li Zhenhao did after coming back was to extend a warm invitation to Lu Chen again.
In order to maintain the friendship with his partners, Lu Chen made a second visit to yg today, but this time he only brought his assistant.
Lu Xi and Filia Chen went shopping together in Myeongdong.
The three of them will return to China tomorrow, and their air tickets have been booked, so today is the last day in South Korea.
Lu Chen smiled and said: "President Li is too polite, then...it's better to be respectful than to obey!"
Li Zhenhao suddenly showed a bright smile.
The president of syg is in her thirties. She has studied in China for many years and is therefore proficient in Chinese language and culture. Not long after she returned to China, she took over her father's position and took charge of the entertainment agency.
It is precisely because of this origin that Li Jinhao attaches great importance to the Chinese market. He established an office in Beijing very early and actively recommended his contracted artists to expand the domestic market.
However, syg's strength was limited, and the development of several of its main promoted artists was not very satisfactory in China. It was not until they started cooperating with Lu Chen that the situation changed dramatically.
Relying on the good cooperation with Lu Chen, many of syg's artists participated in the filming of "Full House" and "Blue Life and Death" respectively, which quickly became popular in China and South Korea, and also brought huge financial resources to syg!
Li Zhenhao's importance to Lu Chen is naturally extraordinary.
While talking, the group took the elevator to the fifth floor of syg headquarters.
The third and fourth floors here are the practice rooms for trainees, while the fifth and sixth floors are the practice rooms and studios for debut artists.
The trainee system of Korean entertainment agencies has been around for a long time and is very strict. The elimination rate of trainees is quite high. Even though there is only one level between the top and the bottom, you don’t know how much sweat and tears it takes to go from the fourth floor to the fifth floor.
Have enough luck and talent.
South Korea's entertainment industry has long been a complete assembly line. There are a lot of artists debuting every year, which leads to extremely cruel competition. If you don't become popular within one or two years after your debut, you will basically be eliminated.
Of course, this kind of cruelty is not only between artists, but also among entertainment agencies.
Today, Li Jinhao warmly invited Lu Chen to come to SYG again. His main purpose was of course not to treat Lu Chen to a meal, but to ask him to mentor SYG's recently debuted girl group hgirl.
hgirl has a total of seven members. They are between 17 and 19 years old, and their height is no less than 1.70. They have all been trained by syg for more than three years. yg has invested a lot of resources in hgirl training, and also
We have high hopes that hgirl can join the ranks of South Korea's top girl groups and become a cash cow for the company.
But the ideal is beautiful, but the reality is cruel. The competition among Korean girl groups is already fierce. hgirl has just debuted, s.m.g launched kuro, reop launched Dawn Girls, which suppressed hgirl to the point where it can’t hold its head up at all. The market response is very
Cold. Of course, yg could not be willing to fail, so it did everything possible to invite Lu Chen, hoping to use Lu Chen's talent in music creation to make hgirl shine with its due glory.
There are a large number of Korean girl groups, and there is a serious homogeneity situation. The members of the girl groups are all young and beautiful, and can sing and dance well, so whether they have blockbuster and popular works has become an important key.
Whether it is kuro or Akebono Girls, there are master songwriters who have tailor-made special songs for them, and their first songs were very successful. In comparison, hgirl is far behind in this aspect.
"Hello, Teacher Lu Chen!"
In hgirl's exclusive practice room, seven young and beautiful girls, wearing tight-fitting practice skirts, revealing their long, white thighs, stood in a row and bowed to Lu Chen to say hello.
Still using correct Chinese characters!
Although Lu Chen had seen a lot, he couldn't help but feel a little dizzy. He nodded quickly and said, "Hello."
The accompanying hgirl agent quickly introduced Lu Chen: "Teacher Lu Chen, this is Song Yinghui..."
The girl whose name was called took a step forward and saluted again: "Hello, Teacher Lu Chen!"
Song Yinghui is the captain of hgirl and the tallest in the team. She has a rather bold personality. While saying hello to Lu Chen, she also cast a burning look at him.
In today's South Korea, Lu Chen is undoubtedly the most popular Chinese star, and his number of drama fans even exceeds that of many local first-line artists in South Korea.
The trilogy of "Blue Life", "Full House" and "My Love from the Star" has given Lu Chen an extraordinary status in the Korean entertainment industry. For a new artist like Song Yinghui who has just debuted, he has
A different kind of attraction.
The most important thing is that Lu Chen also holds the "key" to make people famous.
Lu Chen didn't pay too much attention because he had seen many similar looks from female fans and got to know all the members of hgirl one by one under the introduction of his manager.
I have to say that being surrounded by so many beautiful girls and treated with the attitude of fans toward idols is very exciting, but Lu Chen is not an ordinary person after all, and he has enough willpower.
After the introduction, he said bluntly: "Please perform a piece of music."
Not surprisingly, Lu Chen's request was quickly implemented. ——