Chapter 258
Jinhon and Angela lived in Arica all sumr thanks to the soaring popularity of their new song I’m Not Lonely, which surpassed Duckling Fly.
Though they released other hit songs, they were put in the shade by I’m Not Lonely in terms of popularity. It was ranked the top song on the Billboard chart for more than six weeks.
Thanks to the popularity of that song, a campaign was launched to find Angela’s father in Arica.
But her father didn’t appear yet. He didn’t show himself through the fall when the song enjoyed the top ranking in the Billboard chart.
Nonetheless, Angela didn’t feel lonely because Jinhon stood beside her strongly.
That song’s ranking fell around September, but Jinhon’s third song was still inside the top five on the chart. It was called Flower Girl. He made it with Angela in mind.
Because of his popularity, Jinhon had to delay his return to Korea. Though he was determined to enjoy Korean Thanksgiving Holiday with his family, he could not take ti out at all.
That’s why his family visited Arica to spend ti with him.
It was unthinkable a year ago. He would envy anybody a lot who could spend Korean Thanksgiving holiday with his or her family in Arica.
But Jinhon changed his mind when he made hundreds of billions won through his music activities. He missed his hotown and wanted to have more free ti than money.
Hyunwoo felt the sa way.
He tried to erase the word ‘money’ from his head these days. As early as spring he used to count the monthly revenues, thinking about sothing like ‘this month I had this much in profits. Let set the profits higher next month.’
But that was aningless now.
Last month KOVE’s net profits amounted to 60 billion won mainly because of a reduction in mbership fees. If it had maintained its previous fees, the profits would have been 90 billion won.
The fee reduction was inevitable to KOVE DREAM. As its mber companies rode high, lots of large companies imitated the business model of KOVE and established their own companies.
Accordingly, there was fierce competition not only in China, India and Indonesia but also in Vietnam where KOVE established itself as the dominant player.
As a result, its mber companies asked for fee reduction. Hyunwoo felt their demands were legitimate and lowered the sales fee to that of rival companies.
Fee reduction encouraged more companies to join KOVE DREAM. Currently, there was a total of 46 companies that joined KOVE DREAM.
Among them were Vietnase companies that included several top companies.
In the past, it took lots of ti to test and certify the technical skills of hopeful companies, but KOVE solved the problem completely thanks to Korea Quality Certification Association. They found the test experts and paid 50% of the test costs in subsidies.
The sales of the existing mbers increased drastically. With the bold expansion of facilities, they could process the rush of orders from Korea, Arica and Japan.
So companies received large investnts on the condition that they transfer so of their company stakes to Hyunwoo.
Nonetheless, there were not sufficient enough facilities. They could not process orders on ti in China, Europe, and Southeast Asia.
KOVE DREAM Blue also began to grow in size. When the perception spread among the companies that any products under KOVE DREAM Blue would be sold well, many of them hoped to apply for mbership when their technical skills t the criteria.
As they had to deal with the rush of orders on ti, KOVE DREAM had to hire more and more, and its employees now reached more than 900. The office staff of KOVE DREAM headquarters was 50, those assigned to the warehouses numbering over 700 and the truck drivers over 100.
83 delivery trucks of KOVE DREAM were in full operation any day across the country.
As for the warehouses, Hyunwoo secured two more in Incheon and Pusan respectively.
Ani & Funny also continued to make a success in business. In particular, the short animated stories selected through the open contest played a crucial role.
Sales in paper books were pretty big, too, thanks to the foreign language editions of the animated books.
But the increase in Hyunwoo’s wealth was not necessarily caused by profits.
In fact, it was the return on his investnts in many companies like DF Technology and Sungsin Co.
In particular, DF Technology enjoyed the fastest growth among Vietnase companies. Sungjun’s boast of its best technology in the world was far from an exaggeration.
Whenever Hyunwoo found a high-potential company, he made a bold investnt. So far, he made investnts in as many as 27 companies, with his investnt totaling 200 billion won.
On such occasions he acquired the stakes of the companies. Sotis he acquired 20%, and sotis over 80%.
But he kept two principles in doing so. First, he promised he would never intervene in the managent and its authority on human resources. Secondly, he promised to transfer his stakes to the company managent when the president stood on his own feet confidently.
In fact, money didn’t matter that much to Hyunwoo. Even if he made 10 trillion won, his life would be still the sa. For he would put on the sa clothes, live in the sa house and eat the sa food.
What was more important to him was who he would spend ti with now.
Whenever he thought about that, he kept recalling Yu Zuung’s face.
She was still as busy as ever because she participated in the next song Girlfriend as a dance.
She even participated as a vocal this ti. Though she could not make a high-pitched tone, she rapped on the song with her misty voice.
Hyunwoo was opposed to her continued participation. Basically, he wished she stopped entertainnt activities.
He wanted to keep her beside him, above all. For he couldn’t see her often as she was busier every day.
But she wanted to continue her entertainnt activities so much. Obviously, she seed happy when she got people’s attention. He could not force her to stop it just for his own selfish desire.
Girlfriend was as popular as Temptation. Though it didn’t make a hit in the US market, it hit gold in the Asian market, with the rush of requests from many countries for their appearances on TV shows.
Thanks to that explosive popularity, Yu Zuung was now in Japan. After she was done in Japan, she was supposed to go to Vietnam, and then Hong Kong and China before returning to Korea in about two months.
The fact that he couldn’t et her at least two months made Hyunwoo sad.
Of course, when he could find free ti, he flew to the country she was performing, and stayed three days to spend ti with her.
But it was only two or three tis per month that he visited overseas to see her.
Damn it. Can I be her manager, forgetting about all my work here?
He really wanted to do so if he could have his way.
But there were too many business projects that he had initiated. The most urgent one now was that Ani & Funny’s preparing to et a new goal.
Originally, Ani & Funny was to open a second office near its headquarters in Bonodong in Ansan.
But they couldn’t find a good office no matter how long they searched. So, they felt it would be much better to find one in a totally different place.
What they found was in the vicinity of Seoul. Fortunately, there was a three-story building on sale. Though it was expensive, it was in a good location with a lot of space. Hyunwoo purchased it without hesitation.
And he hired 40 new staff mbers.
Most of the new hires were from the mbers of the internet cafe run by Ani & Funny.
Another goal of Ani & Funny was to open the Animoon website, which Hyunwoo wanted to grow as the Story cca of animation. The opening of the website was tid with Seoul Broadcasting’s airing the special program about Ani & Funny.
In fact, Animoon should have opened eight months ago but kept delaying for various reasons.
In the anti, there were many changes in Ani & Funny.
Initially, the main target of Ani & Funny was children and kids, but over ti they felt they didn’t need to avoid teens and adults.
So, the website created a separate space for them. They also prepared animation learning based on the ages of the consurs.
The results were a trendous success. As the works of Ani & Funny were popular around the world, most of the fans beca Animoon’s fans, too.
Those studying animation had their heyday like a fish in water. Not only Ani & Funny students but also lots of students in the world tried their best to make the best animations.
Lastly, Ani & Funny’s goal of producing an animated movie was also achieved.
The title of the movie was Super Kenny. It was the favorite of the students when all the entries of the story contest were submitted. Yenam Noh reacted to it enthusiastically.
Of course, it was made for TV, not a movie theater. Thanks to that, Hyunwoo only spent 2.1 billion won in producing the movie despite its 80-minute running ti.
The animated movie ‘Super Kenny’ was released through Animoon. Ani & Funny inserted a 30-second ad in it and aggressively promoted it on YouTube.
In fact, it didn’t generate good of a response as Hyunwoo expected.
The main culprit of that seed to be the viewing fee of 1,000 won. For 1,000 won, they could not download it. The fee was only for a week-long viewing right. After one week, they had to pay another 1,000 won to get access to it.
It was natural that the public could not easily watch the movie.
But in about two weeks the situation began to change a bit as those who watched it spread good reviews of it.
“Very interesting. It’s the best movie I’ve seen recently.”
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