Chapter 2965 The sad Hong Shengcheng
Kim Yu-fan couldn't help but sigh with Hong Seung-sung's helplessness and a little aggrieved.
Everyone only sees Hong Shengcheng's success, but they can think of Hong Shengcheng's helplessness and various difficulties encountered. The key is that every difficulty is basically a fatal blow to Hong Shengcheng, forcing Hong Shengcheng to change his original plans and plans, or even fundamentally change. This is undoubtedly the most helpless thing.
After all, for a goal and plan, you may have to prepare carefully for several years, and after you are ready, you will have to spend a long time working hard to do it. If you are forced to give up your plan, it means that several years of careful preparation will be wasted, and several years of hard work will be in vain. This is undoubtedly a huge blow to anyone, and it can even cause some people with poor psychological endurance to suffer a huge blow and cannot recover.
Hong Shengcheng suffered not only once, not counting the huge crisis of MC this time, but four times. If MC does not survive this time, it would be five times. I have to say how sad Hong Shengcheng's fate is.
Kim Yu-fan is still very familiar with this. After all, in order to let Hong Seung-sung manage MC, in addition to trusting Hong Seung's strength and experience, he still needs to investigate Hong Seung-sung's character, especially to investigate and understand Hong Seung-sung's previous affairs. He must first determine what kind of person Hong Seung is, so that Kim Yu-fan can cooperate with Hong Seung-sung with confidence and hand over the MC company to Hong Seung-sung.
To be honest, no matter how strong Hong Seung-sung is, he has rich experience, and has great skills. But if Hong Seung-sung has a good personality, is not easy to get along with, is irritable, and has even had many negative events or even scandals, then Kim Yu-hwan would definitely not choose to cooperate with Hong Seung-sung, so as not to destroy Hong Seung-sung. Even if the MC is not destroyed, Hong Seung-sung's personality and temper will definitely not be able to cooperate with Kim Yu-hwan for a long time. It is destined to have conflicts between the two sides.
Kim Yu-hwan was able to hand over the MC to Hong Seung-sung with confidence, basically not doing anything, which means Kim Yu-hwan affirmed Hong Seung's ability and trusted Hong Seung's character more.
Because a long time ago, Kim Yu-fan asked someone to investigate Hong Seung-sung's past. He investigated all the things that could be investigated, no matter how big or small. It is not certain that many things are now, and Hong Seung-sung himself has forgotten them, but Kim Yu-fan knows them.
It is precisely because of this that Kim Yu-hwan knew how difficult it was for Hong Seung-sung and understood Hong Seung's helplessness just now. Kim Yu-hwan didn't know what to say for a while. It seemed that Hong Seung-sung's luck was indeed bad. It seemed to be smooth sailing in normal times, but several huge blows and encounters made Hong Seung-sung meet. Although it was a change of the times, it is undeniable that Hong Seung-sung was also one of the many people who were the first to be hit at that time, and it was really affected.
Let’s start with the beginning. Hong Shengcheng also took the artist assistant route to join the entertainment industry. Hong Shengcheng, who was still a pink and tender newcomer at that time, knew nothing about the entertainment industry and was not qualified to become an agent. Assistant is undoubtedly the best way.
When Hong Seung-sung first entered the Korean entertainment industry, it was the early 1980s, and it was the intersection and collision period between the decline of the Korean music scene and the rise of modern Korean pop music. The rise of modern Korean pop music was destined, but Trot, who had dominated the Korean music scene for more than 30 years, was obviously unwilling to be eliminated like this, which destined that the competition and collision in the Korean music scene at that time were very fierce.
After all, this is not a collision between modern Korean pop music and modern dance music today. After all, both sides are just modern pop music after all. But Trot is a traditional Korean pop music, which is different from modern Korean pop music today, one represents tradition and the other represents modern. This is completely different in nature and different concepts.
So, in the early 1980s, it was a collision between Trot and Korean modern pop music. The competition at that time was absolutely extremely fierce. It can even be said that every competition could be seen.
After all, if anyone loses, he will lose the market and the future. In the future, he will be unemployed, have no room for survival, and no source of economic income. This is completely cutting off his future and his income. To be serious, he will kill all the people and let them have no food to eat.
Although Trot cannot be outdated, even if there are still Trot singers nowadays, after all, there are very few awesome Trots that can withstand the impact of Korean modern pop music, and the remaining 99% of Trot singers will be crushed into pieces.
To put it seriously, this is entirely about the survival of Trot singers. Naturally, they fight to the death without hesitation. The rise of Korean modern pop music is the general trend, so they will naturally not be polite to Trot and must be suppressed.
So who, in the early 1980s, was the period when Trot slowly transformed into a Korean modern pop music. At that time, the competition and competition between Trot singers and the Korean modern pop singers at that time was very cruel and could even be called bloody. As long as you seize the opportunity, you will definitely do your best to kill you without any hesitation.
At that time, Hong Seung-sung joined the music industry and started as an assistant to a Trot singer who was in a state of anxiety. In the environment at that time, the Trot singer was strongly impacted by Korean modern pop music, and the Trot singer with Hong Seung-sung was also fatally affected. Seeing that his career was about to be lost, he was in a bad mood and became particularly irritable.
Therefore, when Hong Shengcheng didn't do anything well, he would be scolded by the followers of Trot singers, and even attacked him. This made Hong Shengcheng, who was still young and very simple at the time, very confused and could not understand why this happened. Can't the music industry be harmonious? Can't singers be gentle on their faces and why are they so irritable?
This also led to Hong Shengcheng's intent on creating his own entertainment empire when he can make decisions in the future. To ensure that the company is harmonious, artists must not be irritable. Anyone who dares to be irritable will suppress whoever dares to be irritable, and never talk about any sympathetic thoughts or ideas.
This led to the fact that JYP during Hong Seung-sung's period was the best-sported brokerage company among the Korean entertainment industry brokerage companies. Park Yu-eun dared to slap the table with Park Jin-eun and expressed dissatisfaction or approval. In addition to Park Jin-eun's own good temper and also from a singer, he understood Park Yu-eun's ideas and reactions more, Hong Seung-eun created the atmosphere inside JYP very well, and there was no situation like other brokerage companies with strict registration systems.
Similarly, in the JYP during Hong Seung-sung's period, the 2PM was not honest. Except for Park Jae-bang, someone who was playing tricks on the outside, there was basically nothing happening, and there was no negative news. However, once Hong Seung-sung left JYP, all kinds of negative news of 2PM appeared, and the members kept causing trouble, making Park Jin-yong physically and mentally exhausted. In the final analysis, in addition to Park Jin-yong's poor management, it was more because Park Jin-yong was not as decisive as Hong Seung-sung, and he would never be kind without hesitation, making JYP's artists honest and obedient.
It can be said that at first, Hong Seung-sung started as an artist assistant, which was absolutely tragic and had no dignity at all. Finally, the Trot period passed, and the period of modern Korean pop music came. Hong Seung-sung was able to survive and finally became an agent. Although the most outstanding and top solo singers of the 1980s, such as Lee Sun-ji, Park Nam-jin, Ren Zai-bang, Resurrection Band, Kim Wan-sun, and Kim Won-hyun, had nothing to do with Hong Seung-sung, and Hong Seung-sung did not have the fate to lead these top artists of the 1980s, he also survived.
Unfortunately, when Hong Shengcheng was about to show his skills, the second blow occurred, and this time it was the emergence of Xu Taizhi and the three-piece of children.
It is no exaggeration to say that the trio of Seo Tae-chi and the children has really changed the Korean music scene, including many big and small things, including many rules and various things. The appearance of Seo Tae-chi and the children is undoubtedly constantly impacting the dilapidated Korean music scene rules.
Hong Shengcheng suddenly realized sadly that he seemed to be unable to keep up with the times. Moreover, when Xu Taizhi and his children swept the Korean music scene, except for those top solo singers, other singers were forced to hide in the corner and struggle. In fact, even the top solo singers took advantage of the promotional period of Xu Taizhi and his children and jumped out to release albums when there was no activity. There was another fierce competition and battle.
Just kidding, Seo Tae-chi and the children were called the Cultural President by fans at that time. This is not a casual statement, but Seo Tae-chi and the children do have this popularity and influence, just like the president of the Korean entertainment industry.
At that time, many people said that if Seo Tae-chi and his children ran for president, they would simply decide the ownership of South Korean president or other senior officials based on their national support, then there was no doubt that Seo Tae-chi would definitely become president, Yang Hyun-soo would become prime minister, and Juno might become an official like the Minister of Finance.
At that time, Xu Taizhi and the children were able to completely change the culture of the Korean music scene with their terrifying popularity and influence, and dared to fight with the Public Performance Ethics Committee, and even took the lead in making the Korean music scene a situation that they did not give face to the TV station for the first time, and started a battle with the TV station.
This is how Seo Tae-chi and the children were able to do this in that special period, special background, terrifying popularity and influence. Except for Seo Tae-chi and the children, no singer can do this, and even Kim Yu-fan today cannot do this. After all, no matter how awesome Kim Yu-fan is, he cannot fight with the Public Performance Ethics Committee (Cultural, Sports and Tourism Department). He can not give the TV station a face or even fight and ban with the TV station.
Fortunately, Xu Taizhi and the children completely disbanded and disappeared due to various reasons. The media's suppression of Xu Taizhi completely and quickly eliminated the influence of Xu Taizhi and the children, which gave solo singers room and opportunity to breathe.
At this moment, Hong Seung-sung met Park Jin-young who had just debuted. The two hit it off. Hong Seung-sung did not serve as Park Jin-young's agent, but he was working as an agent and began to prepare to create JYP with Park Jin-young.
But it took a long time. At the peak of his career, Park Jin-young and other top ten groups such as HOT started the glorious era of the first generation of Korean groups, and made the mainstream of Korean modern pop music gradually become a dance music that only a group can achieve with a large number of people.
There is no doubt that the top ten groups such as HOT have opened the glorious period of the first generation of groups in the Korean music industry. Compared to Xu Taizhi and the children, there are always time to rest, the top ten groups such as HOT have basically been active from the beginning of the year to the end of the year, which has a great impact on solo singers.
Top solo singers like Shin Seung-hoon and Kim Jianmo also suffered a huge impact from the top ten combinations, and their popularity and influence dropped rapidly, let alone Park Jin-young. In fact, Park Jin-young was not really a top solo combination at that time.
The third blow did not make Hong Seung-sung fall. On the contrary, taking advantage of the last peak period of the top ten, the solo singers had no room for activity. Park Jin-young's free time increased greatly, Hong Seung-sung and Park Jin-young took this opportunity to create JYP.
After several years of patient waiting, with problems with S.M and DSP, the strength was greatly damaged, with the disbandment of HOT and SES of S.M, and the Myth collectively left. Before Dongfang Shenqi took the lead, he took advantage of the disbandment of the Crystal Boy and Fin.K.L's nameless death, he could no longer suppress JYP. JYP took the opportunity to launch Rain and began to rise.
Later, he launched three combinations of Wonder Girls, 2AM and 2PM in one go. This made JYP more and more influential, becoming one of the top brokerage companies in the Korean music industry. He can be on par with S.M and even completely suppress the DSP that cannot be turned over.
The development of JYP during Hong Shengcheng's period was definitely the fastest. JYP was suppressed by Hong Shengcheng, and the artists were also very obedient. The atmosphere inside was also very good. At least JYP would not have an inhumane requirement that S.M would prohibit the company's male and female artists, or even male and female trainees from contacting too much, and there would not be Crystal Boy and Fin.K.L would basically not meet in order to compete for company resources. Meeting was like seeing strangers, and even hostile to each other.
Unfortunately, in the end, Hong Seung-sung and Park Jin-young's ideas clashed. In anger, Hong Seung-sung chose to leave JYP, who had been working hard for many years. He brought a group of staff and trainees who volunteered to follow and founded a CUBE brokerage company, intending to build a harmonious and perfect brokerage company completely according to his own ideas and ideas.
Indeed, Hong Shengcheng has really done this. Although the establishment of CUBE brokerage is still very weak, under Hong Shengcheng's powerful skills, he introduced SidusHQ to invest, which instantly increased the strength of CUBE brokerage and greatly increased the channels and resources. Not only that, the key is that Hong Shengcheng can also suppress SidusHQ and prevent SidusHQ from interfering in CUBE's internal affairs too much. This has to be admitted that Hong Shengcheng is indeed very skillful and capable.
Subsequently, CUBE trained excellent solo singers like Kim Hyuna and Jung Yonghe, and also had 4Minute girls, Beast boy groups, CNBLUE bands, and even the limited group Hyuna and Jang Seung-hyun were all very popular.
It can be said that in just a few years, under the leadership of Hong Shengcheng, CUBE completed other brokerage companies for ten years, or even longer, and even more, what may not be possible, which made CUBE a top brokerage company in South Korea. At least it is also a quasi-top brokerage company. It only takes a few years to accumulate. No one would object to CUBE becoming a top brokerage company.
But at this time, Hong Shengcheng fell down first. The emergence of amyotrophic cervix was undoubtedly a fifth huge blow to Hong Shengcheng, and this time, it was probably the last time.
As Hong Shengcheng fell, CUBE felt like he had lost his backbone and became completely in chaos. SidusHQ began to seize power, 4Minute was disbanded, and Beast also left. Although CNBLUE was still developing well, it was far from comparable to Hong Shengcheng's period.
This time, Hong Seung-sung left JYP and did not create CUBE, but created MC with Kim Yu-hwan, which is much stronger than creating CUBE. At least with the efforts of the two, today's MC is definitely much stronger than CUBE, and it is many times more. South Korea's No. 1 brokerage company is not just a casual talk.
But now, the fifth huge blow has come, and it is the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, and there is even the shadow of the South Korean government behind it. If nothing unexpected happens, the MC will be difficult to resist. Even if he endures it, he will be greatly damaged. How can this not make Hong Seung-sung depressed and angry?
In response to this, Kim Yu-fan just smiled indifferently. Things have happened and nothing is useful now. The key is to find a way to solve the problem.
As for Hong Seung-sung's lament, Kim Yu-hwan didn't take it seriously, because in Kim Yu-hwan's opinion, Hong Seung-sung cooperated with him to create an MC company, which is also a good thing for Hong Seung-sung. No matter how you look at it, it is much better than Hong Seung simply creating CUBE.
First of all, MC companies are definitely not comparable to CUBE. Not to mention film and television, MC is much stronger than CUBE in terms of music, whether in terms of competitiveness, market share, or the number and quality of artists.
Secondly, even if MC falls, Hong Shengcheng can proudly say that he founded MC company himself, and is one of the founders of MC company and an absolute giant. He personally built the most powerful and top brokerage company in the history of the Korean entertainment industry. He is definitely unprecedented, and there is probably no one to come.
At least after experiencing such a MC company, whether it is the Culture, Sports and Tourism Department or other brokerage companies, I guess I will not tolerate the appearance of the second MC. Then an invincible brokerage company like MC is definitely a masterpiece.
Finally, in Kim Yu-fan's view, it is also the most critical and important point. That is, Hong Seung-sung cooperated with him to create MC, but did not create CUBE, which also changed Hong Seung-sung's fate. At least, Hong Seung-sung has not suffered from amyotrophic cervical disease again, which is completely equivalent to saving Hong Seung-sung's life, and this is the most important point.
No matter how smooth the agency develops and is strong, it cannot be compared with human life!
Chapter completed!