Chapter 241 Win-win

Chapter 241 Win-win

Chapter 241 Win-win
When we came out of the Grand Hyatt Hotel, it was already late at night, almost dawn. However, An Rushong, who was sitting in the car, did not feel sleepy at all. On the contrary, he was in a state of excitement.

In this private meeting that just ended, Lee Min-bo has made his intention very clear, that is, he intends to make NGN Company and its NGN software a key support project in the information industry and software industry of the Republic of Korea during his presidency. In order to promote the development of this project, he will urge relevant departments to provide various forms of support to NGN Company.

An Rushong knew very well that the support Li Minbo was going to give to NGN was not personal, but policy-based. It was a well-known fact that any project support, as long as it was related to policy, would be like having wings. The support this project could get was not only financial, but also included benefits in all aspects.

For example, NGN plans to establish a branch in Singapore and also a data center. If NGN does this by itself, it will have to arrange personnel and negotiate with the Singapore government. In this process, the company needs to find various relationships and negotiate with various relevant departments, which is not only time-consuming but also time-consuming. If the investment amount is small, the other party will not pay attention to it.

But with the policy support from the South Korean government, everything is different. As Lee Min-bo said, the Korea Creative Content Agency has a branch in Singapore, which is an agency set up by the South Korean government in Singapore. In this case, if NGN becomes the key support target of the Korea Creative Content Agency, then when NGN goes to Singapore to open a branch and set up a data center, the Korea Creative Content Agency will help NGN negotiate with Singapore.

The connection between governments will always be more advantageous than the connection between enterprises and governments. It can be said that at that time, NGN Company only needs to send one or two negotiators to negotiate with Singapore together with the people from the Cultural Industry Promotion Agency. The highlight of the negotiations is at the government level, but the one who ultimately reaps the benefits is NGN Company.

In South Korea, as a key national support project, NGN companies can also enjoy preferential treatment at various levels, whether it is land use or taxation, and even the processing of various licenses, there are policy preferences.

Therefore, for An Rushong now, he just needs to be prepared. After Li Minbo officially takes office as president and completes the personnel appointments, NGN will rely on the support from the government to quickly complete the expansion in scale.

This is the reward that Li Minbo gave to An Rusong, or to NGN Company, and it was a fair and aboveboard reward without having to fear rumors.

Why is it called a fair return?

Because providing corresponding policy support to information technology companies and software companies was not a national policy finalized by Lee Min-bo, but a policy that was launched by then-President Kim Dae-jong as early as before 2000.

At that time, affected by the economic crisis, the Korean economy was completely bankrupt. Under desperation, the Korean government introduced the IMF's rescue loan and signed a package agreement with the IMF. At that time, in order to change South Korea's economic development model based on labor-intensive industries, the Kim Dae-jong government launched the so-called "cultural nation" initiative, and on this basis established a series of institutions and departments to promote cultural development. At the same time, it also set up a series of foundations.

The two departments and one fund mentioned by Li Minbo were established at that time, and their fundamental function was indeed to promote the development of related enterprises.

In today's South Korea, there are indeed several information technology companies and software companies with a larger market capitalization than NGN, but there is really no similar company with greater influence and better development prospects than NGN. After all, even KAKAO has not been established yet. As long as An Rushong is given more time, NGN will inevitably become the leading IT company in South Korea, and a multinational IT company at that.

From these two aspects, the policy support that Lee Min-bo gave to NGN is fully in line with the laws and regulations and relevant policies of the Republic of Korea. Neither he nor An Rusong have to worry about anyone picking on them and criticizing them.

Of course, the policy support that Li Minbo gave to NGN was not just a reward to An Rusong. He set NGN as an information technology company that he would focus on supporting during his tenure. Once NGN could achieve results in the next two to three years and become a multinational IT company with a certain influence in the world, then Li Minbo's own list of governing qualifications would be greatly enhanced.

In addition, the NGN software pop-up window has demonstrated its strong advantages in guiding public opinion. If the NGN software develops further in the future and the number of registered users expands further, the public opinion guiding effect of the NGN software pop-up window will undoubtedly become more powerful. At that time, Li Minbo will have a powerful public opinion guiding tool in his hands, which will definitely be a strong support for his governance.

From this perspective, Li Minbo's emphasis on An Rusong is not without reason, because keeping An Rusong by his side is a win-win situation for both of them. A political circle combined with business will be more vibrant and energetic, while a business circle combined with politics will have a broader prospect and a more solid foundation.

Therefore, An Rushong now hopes more than ever that President Lu can step down as soon as possible and Mr. Li Minbo can take office as soon as possible.

In late December, as the results of the presidential election were announced, South Korea's overall political atmosphere began to stabilize, and the entire society's attention shifted from various special investigation cases and corruption cases to the crude oil leak pollution in the Yellow Sea.

On December 12, the volunteer registration section on the volunteer action page of the NGN software pop-up window turned from green to gray, and the platform no longer accepted volunteer applications from any citizen. As of that day, the total number of volunteers who had completed the registration officially exceeded 23. For this reason, KBS TV station's "News 57" column played a thank-you video from Lee Min-bo to all volunteers that evening.

In this video, Lee Min-bo said that although the Yellow Sea oil spill was a "bone-piercing" painful disaster for the entire Republic of Korea, a positive "volunteer action" also added some glory to the disaster. The total number of 57 volunteers demonstrated the unity and patriotism of the Republic of Korea. As long as all citizens can always uphold this spirit, no disaster can defeat this country.

Li Minbo's video speech was inspiring, especially at this critical juncture. However, right after his video speech ended, the "News 9" program broadcast two experts' predictions on the Yellow Sea crude oil pollution problem.

The first expert prediction claims that the disaster area of ​​the Yellow Sea crude oil spill is estimated to exceed 10 square kilometers, and the subsequent environmental restoration work will include large-scale projects and last at least years.

Another professional forecast claims that once crude oil leaks into the ocean, no matter how good the initial clean-up work is, it will be difficult to restore the original ecological environment, because more than half of the leaked crude oil will sink to the bottom of the sea. Therefore, it will take more than 100 years to fully restore the ecological environment of the area.

Most importantly, due to the impact of the oil spill, the aquaculture and fishery industries in the entire Taean County will be completely wiped out, the local tourism industry will suffer a devastating blow, and the direct and indirect economic losses suffered by the local people may be as high as trillions of won. At the same time, the number of cancer patients in the polluted areas may increase significantly in the next few years or even decades. This is a collateral damage of pollution and is unavoidable.

Propaganda like the following dominated the news coverage of major media for a period of time. Interestingly, even the JoongAng Ilbo, which is owned by Samsung, did a lot of coverage on this topic. From this aspect alone, it can be seen that although Samsung Group still seems to be on the side of the progressives, its core controllers have actually jumped to the conservative side.

In fact, even An Rushong could see that the core leadership of Samsung Group was following the presidential transition and the major reshuffle of conservatives and progressives to achieve the handover of property between the old and new generations of corporate leaders.

An Rushong even suspected that whether it was the exposure of Samsung's large-scale bribery case or the occurrence of the original Huanghai leak, the Samsung Group was secretly standing on the side of the conservatives and stabbing the progressives in the back. Its ultimate goal was to obtain the protection of the progressives in the next few years, so as to transfer the dominance of Samsung from Chairman Lee to his son Lee Jae-yong by means of tax evasion.

In other words, Samsung Group seems to be still supporting the progressives led by President Roh, but in fact, it has long been in cahoots with the conservatives.

So, there is no such thing as clean politics. If it doesn't stink even if the wind blows for ten miles, it is already clean enough.

However, in the world of An Rusong's previous life, before Chairman Lee died, the progressives, led by President Moon, returned to the Blue House to settle old accounts, and the new generation of Samsung's head was inevitably sent to prison.

(End of this chapter)