Chapter 372: Rich, Generous and Generous tvN

"Have you arrived?"

"We have arrived. It's time to greet them.

In Seoul, in an office building under the CJ Group, a group of middle-aged men in suits hurried to a VIP lounge on the top floor.

Before they entered the VIP lounge, they heard faint laughter coming from the room.

Standing at the door, several people adjusted their suits that were a little wrinkled from walking quickly, then knocked on the door and walked in.

"Director Wu Yuan, and colleagues from Light and Shadow Times, hello."

"I am the person in charge of tvN channel under CJ ENM Group. I am honored to work with Director Wu Yuan and Light and Shadow Times this time."

The leading staff member took the initiative to extend his hand to Wu Yuan, who was sitting in the middle of the lounge, and said with a little respect: "My name is Li Zhenghe. ”

Wu Yuan, who was chatting with Liu Yifei about where to go tomorrow, immediately stopped talking, stood up and shook hands with Li Zhenghe.

This Li Zhenghe is not simple. He is the person in charge of tvN TV series channel.

And tvN is a paid cable TV channel under the Korean CJ Group.

Although this paid channel was only launched in October 2006 and has only been online for more than two years, tvN is backed by one of the largest chaebols in Korea, and its future development will definitely not be bad.

"Nice to meet you." Wu Yuan smiled and nodded: "I don't need to introduce myself, right?"

Li Zhenghe hurriedly said: "Director Wu Yuan is the most powerful film director in Asia. I believe every Asian knows you."

"It's an honor to work with you this time. When we received your company's invitation to cooperate, we were very terrified. We didn't expect you to choose to cooperate with our newly established paid channel. This is really unexpected.

Wu Yuan's smile remained unchanged, but he complained in his heart.

Isn't it impossible to cooperate with the three major Korean TV stations? Otherwise, how could tvN have this opportunity?

The main reason is that the current three major Korean TV stations are very ambitious. In the past 10 years, they have exported many Korean dramas to Asia, and they have grasped 85% of the Korean TV ratings. They are very exclusive to outsiders like Guangying Times.

They are unwilling and have no interest in cooperating with a Chinese TV drama company on a Sino-Korean co-production, and they are even less interested in using the influence of their own TV stations to promote foreign dramas.

tvN is different. As a newly established paid TV channel, tvN is now too lacking in ratings and is eager to snatch the market from the three majors.

They don't care about the issue of introducing foreign aid. Being able to grab the market for their own TV channels is the most important thing.

At this time, Guangying Times came to the door and wanted to cooperate in Sino-Korean co-productions. The two sides hit it off.

tvN originally wanted to do the TV drama cake, but because it was a small family, any larger production company was unwilling to sell its dramas to them.

Compared with the three major Korean TV stations that account for more than 85% of the ratings, the ratings of paid channels such as tvN are too low, only 1%-3%.

If it had developed according to the original trajectory, tvn would have had to wait until after 2010 to start its own TV drama unit. It took a lot of hard work to buy a group of TV dramas shot by Korean third-tier actors and began to develop little by little.

But now the situation is different, and Light and Shadow Times has come to the door.

tvN is backed by CJ Group. Since the channel was launched, what it lacked was never money, but channels, production experience, and audience base.

Light and Shadow Times can just make up for their shortcomings in this regard.

So tvN is very positive about this cooperation. Not only did it contract half of the production costs with a wave of its hand, but as long as it had the exclusive TV broadcast rights, it would not touch the rest of the other income.

In other words, except for the need for tvN to broadcast this "Goblin" on their channel, no matter how Light and Shadow Times tosses and how much profit it generates, it will all belong to Light and Shadow Times.

Wu Yuan likes this kind of local tycoon, who has the style of a domestic coal boss.

All he needs to do is to let tvN insert some crew members, and then let CJ Entertainment insert some artists under its umbrella into the crew.

They have no objection to the fact that the male and female protagonists are not Korean, and there is only one Korean actor among the four main actors.

Wu Yuan was quite surprised at first, but later he figured it out.

This is the same as the mainland's cooperation with Hong Kong Island, Taiwan Island and Singapore in the late 1990s and early 2000s to produce TV series.

At that time, the mainland had to pay money and was responsible for opening up the relationship with the TV station's film purchasing department to ensure that the TV series could be broadcast normally on the mainland TV station, but it had no right to determine the starring role of these co-produced dramas.

At that time, a large number of dramas that emerged were co-produced with Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore, and the starring actors were all Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singaporean actors, and the mainland partners did not dare to say a word.

To put it bluntly, in order to introduce advanced TV production concepts and levels, they can only be humble and small.

The current tvN is the same.

It’s not that the production level of Korean TV series is not as good as that of Chinese TV series. On the contrary, Korean TV series have a much greater influence than mainland TV series. Only Taiwanese idol dramas can compete with Korean TV series.

But who says tvN is a paid channel!

Nowadays, the three major free wireless TV stations with strong production level of Korean TV series are KBS, MBC, and SBS. All Korean dramas that are popular in Asia are produced by these three TV stations.

Excellent pay TV stations that have emerged later, such as tvN, JTBC, and OCN, have either just been established, or they haven't even scratched the surface yet.

Even though tvN was established relatively early, it cannot integrate into the circles of the three major companies. The three major companies have no interest in cultivating enemies for themselves. The crew on hand or the film and television production companies they often cooperate with will not have contact with tvN.

There are no "teachers" at all in China, so we can only rely on tvN, which throws money and recklessness. Now that there is an era of light and shadow that is willing to be a teacher, of course I am overjoyed.

I'm lucky enough to be able to cooperate. I don't dare to ask for casting rights at all. I just want to pay tuition.

Highlight an image of being bold and generous with money.

Anyway, Wu Yuan looked at Li Zhenghe as if he were looking at a boy giving away money, and he smiled brightly.

With a wave of its hand, CJ Group gave 40 million yuan, which accounted for half of the production cost of "Goblin", but it only wanted the exclusive rights to broadcast Korean television. This kind of advantage cannot be found even with a lantern.

"Minister Li, your channel's crew should be ready, right?" Wu Yuan said with a smile: "Don't worry, our crew in the Light and Shadow Era is the best in Asia."

"In order to complete the "Ghost" project this time, many staff members were transferred from the film crew."

"You may not know that many of the film crew trained by our company followed me in Hollywood and participated in the filming of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series."

"The crew of your channel, if they can learn with us this time, will definitely be able to cultivate a team that is not inferior to the three major ones in South Korea."

"At that time, tvN will be able to produce its own TV series. It will not be a dream to catch up with the big three one day."

Wu Yuan was not bragging.

Just by throwing money at it, tvN was able to produce or buy blockbusters such as "Queen In-hyun's Man", "Signal", "Reply Series" and "Hotel Del Luna" after 2012 after four or five consecutive years. Drama.

"Goblin" is also a drama produced by tvN with a lot of money.

With the cooperation of Light and Shadow Era this time, and it is expected that the cooperation will continue in the future, the development of tvN will be put on a rocket, and it will be more brilliant and brilliant than the original trajectory.

Of course, the era of light and shadow is not bad either.

Using tvN's money to make "Korean dramas" for yourself, and then harvesting the Korean market in turn, is called a bloody profit!

As a paid channel, tvN’s influence is very limited, and it is impossible to outperform the free TV show in the early stage. The majority of the Korean market will still be made by QBS.

Not to mention that there is a wider mainland market that Light and Shadow Era can exclusively enjoy.

tvN, which contributes half of the production cost, may actually share only a little more than 10% of the profits.

tvN aims more at cultivating its own production team through cooperation.

Of course, Wu Yuan has no intention of hiding it, and will indeed train a team of TV drama production teams for tvN. After all, this real money tuition fee will be provided.

It can only be said that tvN is not losing money, it is profitable in the light and shadow era, and both parties are satisfied.

"Then let me borrow Director Wu's auspicious words and wish our cooperation a smooth and successful success!"

Li Zhenghe and Wu Yuan both had happy smiles on their faces and held each other's hands tightly.

“Happy to work with!”

"Happy cooperation!" (End of chapter)