Acrab headquarters in Yeoksam-dong, Gangnam-gu.
Acrab president Jiang Qizhi saw SK Entertainment president Ha Jiegui appearing in his company, and he immediately reacted and was fooled.
Jiang Qizhi is 28 years old and graduated from Seoul National University. After graduation, he ignored his parents' request that he continue his studies and entered the society. He first worked in the software development department of IBM Korea Branch for two years, then left to start a business, and directly targeted video games. development.
The previous years coincided with the hottest years of South Korea's economy, so everything went well.
Acrab is actually the second company founded by Jiang Qizhi.
The first company developed two stand-alone games, which were successfully launched on Nintendo consoles and Ygritte's game mall. Even if they didn't stir up much excitement, the sales were very good compared to the development cost.
However, due to differences with his partners, Jiang Qizhi cashed out two years ago and founded Acrab, forming a team to develop online games.
The first game is "Paradise", which is adapted from the comic of the same name by Korean cartoonist Shin Il-sook, and it has a certain degree of popularity.
Everything was going smoothly at first, but I didn't expect to hit the financial crisis.
When the team sent by Chen Qing launched an acquisition of Acrab, except for the confident Jiang Qizhi himself, other investors basically tended to sell the company and cash out. When the other party used the bank's method of forcing debt, Jiang Qizhi had to make a compromise, but In the end, he insisted on retaining 10% of the shares for himself. Another close partner also retained 10%, and the remaining partners all withdrew.
Initially I was quite satisfied with the result until I met the president of SK Entertainment.
loss!
This was Jiang Qizhi's first reaction.
If he had known that a super conglomerate like SK was interested in his small company, he would not have sold 80% of his shares for only 6 billion anyway.
Jiang Qizhi could only feel annoyed.
I actually understand in my heart that giants like SK obviously take their mentality into consideration before using shell companies to carry out acquisition operations. If it were him, he would do the same.
Later, when a woman who introduced herself as Chen Qing appeared, Jiang Qizhi regretted it even more.
Jiang Qizhi came from a very privileged political family. After Kim Dae-jung came to power, his father was transferred from the previously unpopular Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry to the core Ministry of Finance and Economics. Even though his position was not high, he was the one least likely to be affected by the change of leadership. Jiang Qizhi's grandfather He also once served as Park Chung-hee's deputy secretary general. He also held a low position but had real power.
Because of this background, Jiang Qizhi happened to know this woman Chen Qing.
Simon Westeros' Asian Affairs Assistant still seems to be an inconspicuous position, but now he can influence the direction of South Korea's economic policy. He has the same low position and weight, not to mention that this woman is also Simon Westeros's lover. , you can blow pillow wind.
Seeing the respectful look on SK Entertainment President Ha Jiekyu's face in front of him, Jiang Qizhi didn't doubt that it might be the same name.
Regret is regret, but Jiang Qizhi understands that he cannot afford to offend him.
Putting aside these negative emotions, Jiang Qizhi quickly thought that perhaps this was an opportunity for him personally and even for his family, an opportunity to establish a connection with the Westeros system.
People go to higher places.
The family has been a "little official" for several generations. Of course, it's not that they don't have the idea of further advancement, but they have never had the opportunity. Jiang Qizhi also didn't want to continue to follow his father and grandfather to climb up from ordinary civil servants step by step, so he came to do business.
Now, isn't this an opportunity
Therefore, after He Jiekui and Chen Qing had greeted each other, Jiang Qizhi stepped forward and bowed down involuntarily. He said in a very respectful manner: "Ms. Chen, I am Jiang Qizhi. It is an honor to meet you."
Chen Qing keenly noticed some subtexts in Jiang Qizhi's words, not knowing herself, but seeing herself, so she asked: "Do you know me?"
Jiang Qizhi straightened up slightly, nodded and said, "My father, Jiang Donggao, works in the Ministry of Finance and Economics."
Chen Qing responded, remembering the name, and said, "You can call me Mr. Chen."
Jiang Qizhi was stunned: "Chen... Zhong?"
Chen Qing ignored it and walked to the conference table to sit down. Lin Guili behind her explained to Jiang Qizhi that this was a Chinese title and helped Jiang Qizhi correct his accent.
The pronunciation of many words in Korean is actually similar to Chinese, which is easier for Jiang Qizhi to accept than Westerners.
Everyone sat down at the conference table and got to the point.
Chen Qing first announced that Acrab Online would be affiliated with SK Entertainment, which was already expected by Jiang Qizhi. Then he changed the name, and "Paradise" became "Legend of Paradise". These are also details.
Speaking of the global distribution plan, Jiang Qizhi felt distressed again.
At the beginning, he produced stand-alone games and distributed them globally, but that could only be regarded as a small workshop's slash-and-burn cultivation in the global market, and the results were only as good as the sky.
This time, since Simon Westeros’ Asia Affairs Assistant personally took action and Daenerys Entertainment, which produced “Counter-Strike Online” and “StarCraft” that are currently popular in South Korea, took over, it is obvious that he will not return A small fight.
After feeling distressed, it is inevitable to look forward to it.
After all, being in this circle, Jiang Qizhi knows very well that the global revenue of "Counter-Strike OL" has recently exceeded 1 billion US dollars, which is simply a money grab, and it is still stealing money.
The development cost of his own "Lineage" is 5 billion won. According to the current exchange rate, it is less than 3 million US dollars. Even if it can achieve one-tenth of the results of "Counter-Strike OL", his 10% share can bring huge benefits. income.
Therefore, when Chen Qing mentioned that she would establish an agency company in an overseas tax avoidance center, Jiang Qizhi immediately expressed objections. If you only have 10% of the profits left, you can't just take them away for yourself.
Chen Qing thought of this section in advance and did not waste time. She said that the agency company could be set up according to Acrab's shareholding ratio.
The main reason is to keep possible overseas earnings overseas. After all, transferring it back to South Korea is not in the interest of the Westeros system and requires paying taxes, which is very uneconomical.
In addition, the agency authorization details are also finalized directly this time.
Daenerys Entertainment acquired the global agency rights for "Legends of Paradise" except for mainland China and South Korea for US$800,000 plus a 30% share. The agreement lasts for three years. In China, Suzhou-based Jiangnan Interactive Entertainment obtained the agency rights in mainland China for US$200,000 plus a 30% share, with the same term of three years.
The agency fee of US$1 million will be directly transferred back to South Korea to be used for the subsequent development and improvement of "Legend of Paradise".
The last step is to develop improvement plans.
When Jiang Qizhi received Simon's experience in various online games, he came up with a series of modification ideas involving 'daily tasks', 'point system', 'trading system', etc., such as the 'equipment suit' plan, which made people suddenly enlightened. In addition to the idea, there were also terms such as 'opening boxes' and 'enhancement probability', which made Jiang Qizhi feel that this person was in great danger.
But just dare to think about it.
From Chen Qing's attitude and the details of someone who had previously seriously asked them to set up a test server connected to the United States, Jiang Qizhi roughly guessed that this plan probably came from the famous Simon Westeros.
Even if he guessed wrong, Jiang Qizhi understood the value of this plan. I even instinctively feel that many design ideas in the entire online game industry in the future may have to follow the thin proposal in hand, which is only a few pages long.