Peninsula: You've been chosen here for producing girl groups.

Chapter 126 In Full Swing

"In the third week of April, the winner of this week's Music Bank title is: Han Seok!"

Amidst the fluttering ribbons, cheers thundered.

Han Seok won his third number one spot on Music Bank.

He raised the trophy high and gave his acceptance speech: "Thank you KBS for your kindness, thank you fans for your support, and thank you to my colleagues at Star Entertainment for your silent support —"

Following the girl group Jewelry's four-time consecutive win on Music Bank, Han Seok has now achieved a three-time consecutive win, and it may even be a four-time consecutive win. Many popular singers on the same stage looked like they were forcing a smile.

Kang Min-kyung is different.

She was smiling happily.

He looked completely pleased with his good friend's excellent results.

Her idea is simple.

With so many popular groups and singers competing at the same time, their group's chances of winning first place are slim even without Han Shuo.

Instead of clinging to unnecessary hope, it's better to simply take advantage of Han Shuo's screen time.

She gained popularity by appearing on music shows and promoting Han Shuo's songs, and she also covered "If You Love Me" with Han Shuo, which solidified her position as Han Shuo's second closest friend in the industry.

It has already brought her considerable attention.

Of course, there are many of Han Shuo's fans who hate her for being too close to Han Shuo and have chased after her and cursed her on various forums, but so what?

The more Han Shuo's female fans criticize her, the more it proves that she has chosen the right path.

If Han Shuo releases "If You Love Me" later and promotes it, she will definitely dance closely with him on the encore stage.

As promised, I managed to get a spot on the encore stage.

The two left together.

She used this as an excuse to ask Han Shuo to have a casual meal together.

"Let's make it another time," Han Shuo said, handing the trophy to Nazha who came up to him. "It's Jessica's birthday today, and she invited me to get together."

"I see. Then there's nothing we can do."

Jiang Minjing only regretted that she had hesitated and missed the opportunity.

She walked backward with her hands behind her back, her head slightly raised as she looked at Han Shuo, a shallow dimple appearing at the corner of her mouth: "I'm a little curious what kind of gift someone of your caliber would give."

"I'm rather lazy."

Han Shuo shrugged: "I prefer to be more direct than to go through the trouble of preparing a gift."

"Let's be direct?"

Kang Min-kyung expressed her confusion about the "direct method": "Should we just let people choose, or should we just—"

Han Shuo smiled faintly, "Just give them gold directly."

Kang Min-kyung: ? ? ? ?

She swallowed hard. "Tell me this is fake."

"It's fake."

Han Shuo thought to himself that there were too many women around him, and having to come up with unique gifts every time was enough to kill a lot of brain cells.

He could only resort to a shortcut: sending gold.

However, he does put some thought into the specific gold products.

Jiang Enhui loves to shop, so he gave her gold beans as a gift.

If she occasionally needs money, she can simply sell the gold coins.

Song Yoon-ah wasn't that materialistic, so she gave the other party a specially made gold coin.

The front is engraved with Song Yoon-ah's smiling face, and the back is a scarf with the date of their first meeting, making it a very meaningful keepsake.

In this way, it's a million times better than a heart-shaped stone.

Similar conversations also took place in Jessica Jung and Krystal Jung's apartment.

"Oh, oh ho."

Jessica Jung carefully held the coin-sized gold crown and examined it closely.

The word "Jessica" is also engraved on the inside of the crown.

"Is this pure gold?"

Han Shuo took a sip of milk: "You can have someone check it. If it's fake, I'll sue them and make them pay you three."

Wow!

Everyone was incredibly envious.

This is a pure gold crown.

It has both substance and value.

Krystal tried to touch it, but Jessica slapped her hand away, saying, "Your hands are oily, don't get them dirty."

"cut!"

Krystal pouted, "How many grams is this?"

10 grams.

"So many? No way, I want some too!" Krystal climbed up to Han Seok, took his arm, and used her charm to plead, "Oppa, Krystal wants some too~"

"It depends on how you do!"

"My zodiac sign is dog, and I want a dog."

Han Shuo neither confirmed nor denied it.

In Jung Soo-jung's view, this means tacit approval.

"Oppa, you must be very tired after a long day."

She fawned over Han Shuo, going behind him and massaging his shoulders: "Is the pressure okay?"

next to.

The group of women were eager and ready to try.

Han Seok's eyes met those of Lee Soon-kyu, who was diagonally opposite him: "What do you want?"

Sunny clasped her hands together and smiled ingratiatingly, "I feel I need to get closer to you as soon as possible, my birthday is next month."

"Me too."

Lim Yoona knelt down and said, "Anything is fine, I'm not picky."

Han Shuo laughed and said, "Don't just think about getting gifts from me. Wait until my birthday." He gestured with his hand.

They all need to be sent back.

"We don't have your ability to make money."

"Who said that?"

Han Shuo held up a banana milk bottle: "You guys are underestimating my creative abilities. With me handling the song production, I guarantee you'll be more popular than Wonder Girls."

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"Is that so?"

Even if it might just be a small fantasy, the children present were all immersed in the beauty of this moment.

Cheers!

Kim Tae-yeon had a late-night radio show scheduled, and she didn't arrive until 10:30.

Upon hearing about the gift Jessica Jung received, she clung to the table like a groundhog, staring longingly at the gold crown on it.

"If I had known you would be so generous, I should have invited you over for my birthday last time."

Han Seok said, "There are no gifts, but I have good news."

"What good news?"

All the members of Girls' Generation turned their attention to it.

"It was agreed beforehand that you must keep this strictly confidential and not tell anyone, including your agents and company executives." Sunny hesitated, then said, "Maybe you shouldn't tell anyone?"

"Speak."

Having dispelled any lingering resentment towards the company, Jessica Jung embracing everyone with a hand gesture: "I'll oversee everyone and make sure it doesn't leak out."

"Didn't I miss the stage performance this afternoon?"

Today's music video segment was pre-recorded; only the nine backup dancers were dancing in the studio. Han Seok was chatting with people from the Cultural Center at the time.

"I was received by public officials from your cultural institute."

"Cultural Center?"

Several members whispered among themselves.

Through their back-and-forth conversations, the functions and status of the Cultural Affairs Institute were gradually outlined: it is an agency under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, and is closely related to the entertainment industry.

What purpose did the public officials of this organization have in meeting with Han Shuo?

"It is said that Bilibili will be encouraged to increase its purchases of Korean dramas and variety shows, and some support policies will be provided to the website."

"But you should be clear that our copyright purchases require internal reputation assessment and prediction; we can't just buy them randomly."

"I thought it was perfect since Girls' Generation are the spokespersons for Bilibili. To support you as the spokespersons, we plan to purchase some of your variety shows from before and after your debut."

This is one of the mutually beneficial conditions for reaching an endorsement partnership with Girls' Generation, providing and prioritizing resources within the platform for Girls' Generation.

In this way, purchasing multiple Girls' Generation variety shows and pseudo-variety shows satisfied the requirements of the cultural institute, and also allowed them to continue to capitalize on Girls' Generation's popularity after their explosive rise to fame.

This is a perfect way to achieve three goals at once.

opposite.

The members of Girls' Generation were all incredibly excited.

Bilibili is investing more and more in the platform, and its influence in China is bound to grow. Being able to bring in multiple variety shows featuring them will definitely boost the group's popularity in China.

"Thanks!"

The members of Girls' Generation have already said enough things, similar to thanking Han Seok.

However, aside from expressing their gratitude repeatedly, they had no way to repay Han Shuo's kindness.

He wrote new songs for their group, secured drama roles for Yoona, provided OST opportunities for Taeyeon, and offered variety show and drama opportunities to the members.

They treat them even better than the company does.

Yoona was a little confused: "But isn't this a good thing? Why keep it a secret from the company?"

"This is for your own good."

Han Shuo said with a leisurely look in his eyes: "Your current popularity in China is far less than that of some of your predecessors."

"Do you think if your company knew that we would purchase the copyrights of Korean variety shows again, would you propose a resource exchange, exchanging a few variety shows for Super Junior and TVXQ?"

Several people thought it was quite possible.

Girls' Generation's earning power is far inferior to that of some of their senior boy groups.

In addition, China has always been a market that the company values, and they might transfer the variety show purchase quotas that belong to Super Junior to Super Junior in order to make up for the loss of Super Junior's fans recently.

They've gone to such lengths to consider their needs, what more is there to say?

We can only treat Han Shuo well.

During the event, everyone played social games, and Han Seok skipped through "If You Love" with Tiffany and Kwon Yuri respectively.

me.

Both of them are chubby, and when you hold their waists, it feels much better than when you hold Lim Yoona.

Kwon Yuri smiled broadly and said, "Then I'll record with you next time."

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"ah!"

Im Yoon-ah was not convinced.

I could only keep it to myself.

I'll eat more when I start filming and get a bit plumper.

The next day, Han Shuo met with the people from the Cultural Institute again.

He didn't want to be too closely tied to the Cultural Center, but he could use its name to access many resources in South Korea.

He took the opportunity to make three requests: "We have three collaborations that we hope your company can assist with. Once the collaborations are completed, they will help spread K-pop, Korean dramas, and Korean movies in China."

"Please speak."

"We hope your company can help us persuade several audio platforms, such as Melon, to provide data access for Bilibili's Ichart project."

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The Ichart project has successfully persuaded several audio platforms, including Mnet and CYworld, but has encountered setbacks with platforms such as Melon.

The Cultural Institute happened to be able to help.

"In other words, it only crawls data from two music charts on music streaming platforms and finally aggregates the ranking data of a song across all music streaming platforms."

This type of data request does not involve the website's core data and can effectively spread and promote Kpop in China.

The Cultural Center fully supports this: "We will meet with several music streaming platforms to discuss this. Anything else?"

"Secondly, we plan to produce 'The Show' in China next year, which combines elements of variety concerts and music show performances. We hope your company can help us solve the issue of singers' attendance."

In fact, with the current momentum of Fanxing Entertainment and Bilibili, they are already capable of supporting a small business.

However, large companies like JYP Entertainment, SM Entertainment, and YG Entertainment may not be so obedient, which is why the Cultural Affairs Bureau needs to tighten its grip on them.

The people from the cultural institute exchanged smiles.

You still dare to say that you're not a K-pop content platform?

Both K-pop charts like Ichart and variety shows like The Show provide platforms and stages for the spread of K-pop in China.

This is even more impressive than the combined achievements of our two offices in China over the past few years.

"Yes, but we hope Bilibili can give us a little more money in performance fees, since overseas performances are quite expensive for singers."

Han Shuo nodded, indicating that it was no problem: "If the singer needs to stay overnight due to scheduling issues, we will cover the accommodation expenses."

The people from the cultural center got brighter and brighter as they talked: "What else?"

This isn't a request; it's clearly a political achievement delivered to your doorstep.

"Thirdly, we hope your company can step in and help us negotiate the broadcasting rights and online rights for the three major film and television award ceremonies and the three major music award ceremonies for the next seven years."

"This...this...this—"

The people at the cultural institute liked Han Shuo more and more the more they looked at him.

I really want to apply for this year's cultural badge for Han Shuo, and it has to be the presidential cultural badge.

"You don't need us to help you negotiate with the three major ground platforms—"

He chuckled as he spoke, "I almost forgot you have a great relationship with the three major broadcasting stations. How about this, we'll secure the broadcasting and online rights for events like the Dream Concert for you, okay?"

"Then I'll accept it without hesitation," Han Shuo said with a smile. "I just hope the price can be a bit more favorable, since the operating costs of video websites are very high."

"no problem!"

The two sides then negotiated the details several more times.

With both parties present, Bilibili acquired SBS's long-running variety shows "Love Letter" and "X-Man" again on Sunday for 1.81 million won (approximately 134.5 million yuan).

The agreed fees must be settled by July 1st.

While he was actively working on it, the Cultural Institute was also making rapid progress.

All the problems with Ichart and The Show were resolved that very day.

The copyrights for many award ceremonies and concerts still need to be negotiated with the relevant organizing committees and broadcasting television stations, which will take some time.

The loan application is progressing well.

He secured an additional 1.5 billion on top of the original 1 billion loan.

What's this wave called?

When the time is right, heaven and earth will lend their strength.

Even more encouraging is the latest sales statistics updated this morning, showing that the album "LoveTrap" has sold over 90,000 copies!

He led the second-place Kim Dong-ryul by nearly 20,000 votes.

It's no exaggeration to say that he surpasses all other singers of his generation.

"This will definitely push our total sales for the year to over 100,000."

The fact that a newcomer's debut album can sell 100,000 copies, especially during a time of economic downturn in the record industry, speaks volumes about its significance.

Fans are rallying their support for their idol's account, hoping it will reach 100,000 followers as soon as possible.

However, to the dismay of some female fans, Haixing Entertainment officially released the full version of the practice video for "If You Love Me" on Bilibili that evening.

Han Suk-lee and Kang Han-na's physical contact and eye contact increased exponentially.

While female fans might be heartbroken, career-oriented fans are thrilled.

As the nine backup dancers have been performing with Han Shuo for four weeks, the exquisitely crafted "Nine People" group, resembling miniature figurines, has gained widespread popularity and each has their own fan base.

The song "If You Love Me" highlights the physical advantages of the backup dancers Kang Han-na, Ni Ni, and Kim Yoon-ji, making them stand out.

"Hannah Nunnard should debut right now!"

"I feel that Yoonji's movements are smoother, her figure is fuller, and she has a hot Latin woman feel when she twists her waist."

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"Ni Ni's tsk tsk — there is a kind of waist and hip curve beauty that does not belong to the Ugly Continent."