Chapter 153 Variety Show Invitation
While Jiang Shu and Li Xiuman were conversing, JYP Entertainment also welcomed a guest.
Chairman’s Office.
Park Jin-young was in a lot of trouble.
He had rushed into the European and American market with a lot of enthusiasm, only to lose everything, and more than half of the company's foundation evaporated along with it.
The current JYP completely had the name of one of the Three Greats, but had lost the corresponding foundation.
It wouldn't die, but delisting could happen at any time.
To prevent the company from declaring GG, the company was accelerating the production of the boy group Stray Kids and the boy band Day6, attempting to arrange their debut as soon as possible to recover funds.
There were also ideas for girl groups, but JYP was a bit confused about the market now; they had many female trainees, but what kind of concept should they use for their debut?
Just as Park Jin-young was at a loss, DM Entertainment contacted him.
Park Jin-young looked at Li Duohui, who was wearing a women's suit and smiling, and felt very emotional.
He hadn't expected that during JYP's time of crisis, a new force company like this would come to their aid.
Knock, knock, knock.
Soon, Park Jin-young's secretary came over, holding a stack of documents.
“These are all the female trainees our company currently has, President Li, please take a look,” Park Jin-young said with a smile.
“Okay,” Li Duohui nodded with a smile, taking the documents and quickly flipping through them.
Coming to JYP this time was Jiang Shu's idea. Although YG Alliance promised not to cause trouble anymore, even without YG Alliance, there would be S.M. Alliance and JYP Alliance.
Since that was the case, they might as well cooperate with them!
Jiang Shu went to talk with S.M. personally, while Li Duohui came to talk with JYP.
However, Jiang Shu also gave Li Duohui a heads-up: the cooperation he was discussing with S.M. was for him to join the S.M. board of directors, so he would be more confident about the group he offered. As for the cooperation with JYP, it was purely to help them in their time of need while also buying a protective charm for DM Entertainment.
With this group, JYP would at least not easily make a move against them, but in terms of group value, it was far inferior to S.M.’s.
Thinking this, Li Duohui quickly flipped through the documents in her hand.
She remembered the names and basic information of the trainees Jiang Shu asked her to find very clearly, so she looked through them quickly.
But Park Jin-young on the opposite side was a bit confused. With such a fast browsing speed, besides seeing what they looked like and what their names were, what else could you see?
However, he was not familiar with Li Duohui, so it was not easy to speak, and moreover, they still needed DM Entertainment's help now.
DM Entertainment, which had successively cultivated IVE, Red Velvet, and ITZY within half a year, was undoubtedly a true industry expert in girl group management.
Soon, Li Duohui began to select people.
She pulled out one card, and Park Jin-young took one to look at.
Wu Haiyuan, Bae Jin-sol, Kim Ji-woo, and… Jang Gyu-jin?
Park Jin-young looked at Li Duohui in surprise.
“Kim Ji-woo and Jang Gyu-jin are fourteen and thirteen years old respectively, aren't they too young?”
“Kim Garam was only thirteen when she debuted, and besides, they might not debut this year,” Li Duohui said, casually placing the documents aside.
“Are these four people forming a group?” Park Jin-young asked, looking at the four forms.
“No, we have two more.” With that, Li Duohui handed the documents in her hand to Park Jin-young.
The first person he saw was Lily.
He had a deep impression of this IVE main vocalist; her vocal skills were very strong, but unfortunately, no matter how strong she was in IVE, her light was overshadowed by the twin stars.
Lily's vocals and Xu Suizhen's dancing could stand alone in other groups, but it was a pity that they were in IVE, and in IVE, only Karina and Zhang Yuanying had names.
The second one…
Park Jin-young's eyes lit up.
What a beautiful girl!
She wasn't like Karina and Zhang Yuanying; she was very pure and beautiful, but he couldn't describe that feeling, in short, she was very beautiful.
Xue Lun'e, this girl could completely be the group's visual; as long as there weren't super-popular members like IVE's twin stars in the team, her position as the visual would be very stable.
“These six people,” Li Duohui said, looking at Park Jin-young. Jiang Shu had originally planned to sell Choi Yunjin to JYP, but with her meddling, Jiang Shu was too lazy to help her anymore; she could fend for herself.
“Okay,” Park Jin-young nodded. “How will it be operated?”
“JYP will be responsible. DM Entertainment will only provide suggestions. Member contracts will remain with their respective companies, but profit distribution will be fifty-fifty,” Li Duohui said.
“Okay.”
When Park Jin-young heard that the decision-making power was in their hands, he agreed very readily.
Li Duohui was stunned. No, he didn't even bargain?
The bottom line Jiang Shu gave her was 35%, which was three and a half tenths, but because negotiations were a give-and-take, Li Duohui directly started with fifty percent, but who would have thought that Park Jin-young would agree directly?
Bro?
You really don't bargain.
Since Park Jin-young didn't bargain, Li Duohui certainly wouldn't offer concessions proactively.
“Since that’s the case, then…” Li Duohui took out another document and handed it to Park Jin-young.
“Our chairman said that if JYP agrees to cooperate, then this variety show proposal can be given to you.”
Park Jin-young took the proposal and began to read it.
About five minutes later, Park Jin-young continued to look at the proposal, but his voice sounded in Li Duohui's ear.
“How many trainees will participate in this audition variety show?”
The proposal in his hand was the finalized document for an audition variety show, which included the process and content of the show.
“Our company will have around twenty people participating. S.M. is unsure, but they should also send some trainees to run alongside them.”
Park Jin-young nodded upon hearing this. It couldn't be that everyone who came would debut. For example, out of the twenty people from DM Entertainment, after removing Xue Lun'e and Lily, there were eighteen left. It's not like all of them would debut, right?
What kind of group could debut so many people?
“Then all our JYP trainees will go,” Park Jin-young replied after a slight thought.
“Okay,” Li Duohui immediately agreed. She wished for as many people as possible.
“How many debut slots are there for so many people?” Park Jin-young asked.
“Uncertain, but there are three groups: one will be independently operated by our DM Entertainment, and the other two, one will be co-operated with S.M. and one with JYP,” Li Duohui did not hide anything from Park Jin-young. Anyway, it wouldn't be a secret when Jiang Shu joined the S.M. board of directors.
Park Jin-young's ape-like brain obviously didn't realize the intention of DM Entertainment's hedging, and even if he did, he wouldn't care.
His damn company was almost delisted, so why would he care about these messy things?
“Three groups… that should be around fifteen people,” Park Jin-young said. The number of debut slots was not small, and even proportionally, it was quite high.
Li Duohui nodded in agreement.
Currently, the girl group with the most members was Rainbow Girls. The S.M. collaborative group had four members, the JYP one had six, so how many more could their own company's group have?
It couldn't possibly be a double-digit number, could it?