The Peninsula chaebol started by rescuing Samsung's little princess.

Chapter 115 The Dimensional Reduction Attack of Martian Music

As she exited Cheongdam Station on Line 7, before sunset, Lee Juri pulled her hat down slightly and walked briskly forward.

It's another 800 meters to FNC company from here.

With the completion of the investment by Lee Ho-young's Golden Star Entertainment, Lee Qri officially signed a trainee contract with FNC Entertainment, becoming one of the millions of trainees on the peninsula.

To be honest, for Lee Qri to be a trainee at her age is definitely considered "old," since most girl group members have already debuted for several years by the time they are 20.

Fortunately, Li Juli didn't want to learn singing and dancing, but rather to learn a musical instrument.

Although she ran all the way to the company, she was still the last one to arrive.

There was no other way; unlike other full-time trainees, she not only had to go to school but also work!

Lee Ho-young had also discussed with her the idea of ​​quitting her job and focusing on her studies and becoming a trainee, but Lee Qri refused.

In her view, perhaps her job was given to her by Li Haorong, but she had still put in the effort.

If I don't go to work and just take money from Li Haorong, then I'll really be considered a kept woman!

For the sake of her remaining self-esteem, Lee Juri was willing to transform into a time management master, keeping herself extremely busy every day.

Seeing this, Li Haorong didn't know what to say and could only let her do as she pleased.

For Lee Ho-young, it didn't matter whether Lee Qri became a trainee, debuted, or even graduated from university, because he could afford to support her anyway.

He could afford to support not just one Lee Juri, but a hundred.

Unfortunately, his kidneys limited his limits!

"Sorry I'm late!"

As soon as she entered the company gate, Li Juli hurriedly apologized.

"It's alright, Sister Curie, we've only been practicing for a short time!"

FTIsland's lead singer, Lee Hong-ki, quickly waved to Lee Qri.

The others followed suit.

Although they are Lee Qri's seniors from the perspective of trainees, all the boys are born in the 90s, and the oldest is almost four years younger than Lee Qri.

Even so, Li Juli still felt that her younger brothers were being far too polite.

What classes are we having today?

"We're practicing an instrument today, and the teacher won't be here until 7 o'clock! What do you want to practice, Ju-ri-unnie?"

The other person's words made Li Juli blush.

Although her dream is to be a rock singer, she has only studied guitar for a few days and piano for a period of time when she was a child. It would be too much to ask her to practice on her own.

Lee Hong-ki seemed to notice Lee Qri's embarrassment, so he asked, "Qri unnie, if you don't mind, we can teach you?"

"Won't this be too much trouble for you?"

"No, no!"

Several people shook their heads repeatedly.

Just kidding, this member of the royal family is someone the president personally instructed to treat with utmost care!

Whether the company can avoid bankruptcy, and whether these guys can debut, all depends on the person behind that girl!

"Which instrument should I start learning?"

Lee Hong-ki's eyes lit up, and he quickly asked, "Can you play the guitar?"

"I know a little!"

Lee Juri answered honestly.

"What about the keyboard?"

"I've studied piano!"

"What about bass?"

"I haven't learned this!"

"Okay, then we'll teach this!"

Upon hearing this, everyone except Lee Hong-ki was stunned and looked at him in surprise.

"Our level is only good enough to teach you the basics; we can't teach anything too advanced!"

Lee Hong-ki's words made the others realize something instantly. That's right, they could teach him the most basic techniques like fingering and strumming.

If it's really difficult, and the auntie isn't satisfied, they'll be the ones who suffer!

"Oh well!"

Seeing the group talking amongst themselves, Li Juli agreed.

"Jin, you're the bassist, so the task of teaching Sister Qri is entrusted to you!"

"Huh? Me?"

Stirred up by the crowd, Lee Jae-jin couldn't help but point at himself, looking at everyone blankly.

However, before Lee Ju-ri could even begin learning the bass, Han Seung-ho returned from outside.

"Juri's here? Perfect timing, could you please come to my office?"

Strangely enough, despite being the president of the company, Han Seung-ho's tone was still very polite.

"Inside!"

For Lee Qri, this atmosphere seemed quite different from the trainee life she had imagined.

Upon arriving at the president's office, Han Seung-ho asked, "Quri, how are you finding the company? Are you adjusting well?"

"Uh, it's alright!"

However, Lee Juri was thinking to herself:

This is only my first day here, and I haven't even had a chance to adjust yet!

"Feel free to tell me what you need, and I'll do my best to resolve it for you!"

Then, Han Shenghao continued.

"Yes, I don't have any requests!"

"Then just tell me if you need anything later!" Han Shenghao seemed afraid that Li Juli wouldn't make a request, so he added, "Also, these kids outside are still quite young. If they offend you in any way, you must tell me!"

"No, they're all fine!"

"I mean, if they do anything out of line—you know what I mean?"

Seeing Han Seung-ho gesturing wildly while seemingly about to speak, Lee Juri finally realized what he was trying to say and quickly blushed, saying, "Yes!"

"That's good, that's good!"

Seeing that Lee Juri finally understood what he meant, Han Seung-ho breathed a sigh of relief.

Judging from Li Haorong and Li Juli's behavior that day, even a fool would know what kind of relationship they had.

Although he had warned the group of kids repeatedly, he couldn't resist the fact that Lee Juri was just too beautiful. If any of them got carried away and did something like confessing their feelings to her, they wouldn't even know how they died!

"As for other internal company matters, I prefer we resolve them internally. Could you please tell me what's on your mind first?"

Han Shenghao added another sentence, clearly worried that Li Juli would tell Li Haorong about it.

"Don't worry, I know what to do. I don't usually want to bother him!"

"That's good!"

Hearing Lee Juri's assurance, Han Seung-ho finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"I've already hired your private tutor, and she'll be starting soon to give you lessons."

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"Private tutor?"

"Yes, because the company's current capabilities are limited, we need to launch a male band first before considering the issue of a female band debuting."

Of course, we are also trying to find some teammates who are a good fit for you, and once we find them, you can train together.

But you know, this takes time!

"I see!"

After finally calming Lee Juri down, Han Seung-ho breathed a sigh of relief and let her leave.

As Han Shenghao left his office, he found several members of FTIsland gathered around a computer.

"What are you doing?"

The group was startled by the voice, but breathed a sigh of relief when they realized it was Lee Juri.

"We were looking for songs online, and Mars Music is actually quite useful!"

Upon hearing Lee Hong-ki's answer, Lee Qri suddenly remembered that today was the official launch day of Mars Video and Mars Music.

Having used the beta version, she was curious about user feedback on the public beta, so she asked, "Really? What's so great about it?"

Lee Hong-ki then remembered that this woman came from Mars Technology, and quickly said, "The music player has a complete selection of domestic and international music, and most importantly, it's free!"

In the internet wars, the most important tactic was: free!

Given the situation on the Korean Peninsula, it's impossible for music to be free!

Mars Music certainly can't disrupt the market, but Mars Music has something disgusting about it: Mars Coin!

What was originally game currency has now become a universal currency on MarsNet.

You can buy game cards and equipment in the game, as well as personal items and decorations in the personal space shop. Now you can even buy memberships to Mars Music and Mars Video!

During holidays, MarsNet gives away large amounts of Mars Coins, allowing many users to listen to music for free.

Currently, among the three major music platforms on the Korean Peninsula, MeIOn requires a monthly payment of 5000 Korean won to listen to music, and has over 100 million users in less than two years.

Bugs is the oldest platform with a huge music library, but it's almost 2000 won more expensive than MeI0n.

As for the remaining players such as Mnet and ollehmusic, they are not only more expensive, but also have complicated registration and payment processes.

In contrast, Mars Music allows users to log in with a Mars.net account with a single click, saving time and effort.

In addition, Mars Coin cards are available all over the peninsula, and topping up is very simple, plus they have many uses.

Therefore, when Mars.net, with 1500 million users, launched Mars Music and Mars Video, both apps surpassed 100 million users in just one day, achieving what the MeI0n platform had accomplished in a year and a half.

This overwhelming and devastating attack has caused the financial giants behind many music platforms to cry out, "The wolf is coming!"

"Ashiba, what's the deal with this Mars technology?"

Inside the chairman's office of the SK Group, Chairman Choi Tae-won was furiously yelling at the presidents of SK Telecom and MeIOn!

SK Group was founded in 1953 by Choi Jong-gun and is now in the hands of its third chairman, Choi Tae-won.

Although he shouldn't have been the one to inherit according to the order of succession, he had a good wife!

In 1988, Choi Tae-won married Roh So-young, the daughter of then-President Roh Baek-ma, and relied on the power of the presidency to...

The group is expanding rapidly.

Although Lu Baima and the young general were later tried together, SK Group was not harmed and continued to grow and expand.

Today, its energy and chemical (SK Innovation) and telecommunications (SK Telecom) sectors each hold over 50% of the domestic market share, making it the third largest conglomerate on the Korean Peninsula, after Samsung and Hyundai.

As a giant in the telecommunications industry, SK Group has a natural advantage in investing in the Internet.

However, first Naver emerged out of nowhere, and now Mars Technology has risen to prominence.

Last year, Choi Tae-won originally wanted to defeat Mars.net on social networking sites and take a slice of the pie, but now Daum dating site doesn't even have a 5% market share and could close down at any time.

Less than a year later, MarsNet launched a major offensive against SK's territory on the Internet.

Video websites are still in their infancy due to internet speed limitations, but music websites like MeIOn are SK Group's strongest product on the internet.

MelOn later became the largest music streaming website on the peninsula, and many music chart programs used MelOn's music rankings as a reference.

Unfortunately, the emergence of Mars Music has led to a rapid erosion of their market share.

Ultimately, the internet is a winner-takes-all place; if you can't be number one, you could very well disappear from the entire industry.

"They stole our concept of renting and listening to music, and at the same time, they can do it completely for free. The reason why their user base has grown so fast is partly because MarsNet has a large user base and a high conversion rate, and partly because they use money to buy users —"

The president of Mel0n explained to Choi Tae-won.

"What measures are they taking? They're burning money, so why shouldn't we? Do you think they have as much money as we do?"

Choi Tae-won said with dissatisfaction.

Although Mars Technology is backed by Samsung, its shareholders are only two daughters, so Mars Technology cannot rely on Samsung's main support.

In contrast, MelOn belongs to SK Telecom, which is a subsidiary of the SK Group, making their financial strength vastly different.

"Their Mars Coin is actually a game coin, a virtual currency. They can issue as much as they want, and the only cost they ultimately pay is the copyright revenue share to music companies."

However, this share is not given immediately; there is a certain lag.

So they can leverage levers tens or even hundreds of times larger—”

"So what? We're just going to keep taking the beatings without fighting back? Until your MeI0n ends up like Daum?"

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Faced with Choi Tae-won's question, the president of MeI0n Company chose to remain silent.

"I don't care what methods you use, you must stop this situation for me, or hand in your resignations and I'll find someone else to do the job!"

Upon hearing Choi Tae-won's threat, the two nodded repeatedly in agreement.

But in their hearts, they cursed Choi Tae-won a thousand times. If it were that easy to stop, then why don't you give us some ideas?

To be honest, although Choi Tae-won is a scumbag, he does have some business acumen.

The problem is that, coming from a wealthy family, he also naturally doesn't understand the internet.

He could use some underhanded methods to deal with other people, but the other party was Samsung's prospective son-in-law, so he couldn't use those methods at all!

Thinking about this made him even angrier.

"Knock knock knock!"

Just then, there was a knock on the door of the chairman's office. The only person who would dare to enter at this moment, when Choi Tae-won was in the heat of the moment, was his mistress, Kim Hee-young.

"My subordinates are incompetent; it's better to raise a bunch of pigs than to keep them!"

"Don't get angry, they can't compare to you! Let me calm you down!"

Kim Hee-young, worthy of being called "the strongest mistress on earth" and the future "Lady of Hannam-dong," immediately tied up her hair and slowly squatted down in front of Choi Tae-won.

"ah----"

With a deep sigh, Choi Tae-won's anger did indeed subside considerably.

Once his intelligence returned to its peak, Choi Tae-won began to have a plan in mind!