Chapter 420 Opportunity

Chapter 420 Opportunity

Chapter 420 Opportunity
Although he was curious about the whistle sound coming from the room, Bai Jinjun still knocked on the door as soon as possible. After all, there was a guard at the door. If he stayed outside the door for too long, he would be considered to be eavesdropping on the movements in the room.

Less than a minute after the knock on the door, the half-closed door was opened from the inside, and a slightly plump lady who looked like Mrs. Fu Fu appeared in the door. It was Li Minbo's wife Jin Runyu.

Seeing the first lady appear in front of him, Bai Jinjun hurriedly bowed and greeted her.

However, before Jin Runyu could respond, Li Minbo's voice came from the room: "Is that Jin Jun? Come in."

Jin Runyu smiled and made room at the door, allowing Bai Jinjun to see the situation inside the room clearly.

As the office of the First Lady, the furnishings of the Infinite Flower Room are not particularly luxurious. It is just a spacious rectangular room with an oversized wooden coffee table in the middle, and around this wooden coffee table, there are more than a dozen sofas.

At this time, Li Minbo, dressed in casual clothes, was sitting on the far right of the large coffee table, and his eyes were focused on a certain position on the left.

The position that Li Minbo was focusing on happened to be in the blind spot of Bai Jinjun's vision. However, it was not the latter's first time to come to the Infinite Flower Room, so he knew that the position that Li Minbo was focusing on was a large-screen TV embedded in the wall.

In other words, Li Minbo should be watching TV at this moment, and the sharp and piercing whistle sound came from the TV.

Bai Jinjun stepped into the room, stopped at the door again, and then bowed to Li Minbo from a distance.

Li Minbo's attention was back on the TV, so he didn't respond. Instead, Jin Runyu whispered, "Jin Jun, come over and sit down. I'll have someone prepare coffee for you."

Bai Jinjun didn't say anything, but bowed to the other party again, then quickly walked to a sofa next to Li Minbo, turned his head to watch the TV on the side, and sat down on the sofa.

What was being broadcast on TV should be the SBS TV news program, but what was shown on the screen was a helicopter aerial shot.

The camera shows a congested bridge with rows of vehicles on the bridge stuck in traffic. What is surprising is that the drivers of these vehicles seem to be honking their horns desperately. The continuous and shrill honking even covers up the roar of the helicopter's engine.

When Bai Jinjun sat down on the sofa, he happened to recognize that the bridge on the TV screen was the Jiangnan Bridge, not the Yongdong Bridge as he had guessed.

He turned his head to look at Li Minbo and wanted to say something, but saw that the President was still staring at the screen on TV without saying a word.

Seeing that the other party had no intention of speaking, Bai Jinjun could only turn his head again and look towards the TV.

At this moment, the overhead shot of the TV narrowed to the upper left corner of the screen. At the same time, the main camera entered the news broadcast room, and a news anchor with long hair and beautiful appearance appeared on the TV screen.

It was not until this time that Bai Jinjun noticed that the program being broadcast was SBS TV's news program "SBS News Parade", and the female host on the screen was named Jin Zhiyan.

Seeing this scene appear on TV, Bai Jinjun instinctively turned his head to look at Li Minbo, not for any other reason, but because the program "SBS News Parade" and the host of this program, Jin Zhiyan, are those progressive supporters with clear positions.

Over the past period of time, this news program first seized on certain problems in the Lee Min-bok government team and criticized it severely. Later, during the process of the Blue House's rectification of SBS TV station, this news program has been criticizing Lee Min-bok for trying to control news and public opinion and end South Korea's freedom of the press and speech.

Because of this, Lee Min-bo privately hates the program "SBS News Parade". Of course, Kim Ji-yeon, the host of the program, is also one of the people he hates. However, there are too many people in the three major mainstream TV stations in South Korea who are hated by Lee Min-bo, so this is nothing surprising.

However, the situation today was obviously a little different. When Li Minbo saw Kim Ji-yeon appear on the TV screen, the expression on his face was surprisingly calm.

"At present, the 'horn-honking protest' caused by the protesters blocking traffic has spread to all the main roads along the Han River," Jin Zhiyan has begun to report the news on TV. "We can see that the cross-river bridges including Gangnam Bridge, Yangjae Bridge, Yongdong Bridge, Songpa Bridge, Gangdong Bridge, etc., are all honking continuously."

"Honk the horn to protest?" Bai Jinjun was stunned for a moment, then his attention quickly shifted to the TV.

"And on the Internet, supporters and opponents of the march have also formed a sharp public opinion confrontation on the Yahoo forum," Jin Zhiyan's voice continued, "People who support the march." Just when Bai Jinjun wanted to continue watching with a hint of doubt, Li Minbo suddenly picked up the remote control and turned off the TV. At the same time, Jin Runyu personally came over with a tray and brought Bai Jinjun a cup of coffee.

Bai Jinjun could only put aside his doubts temporarily and bowed to Jin Runyu.

"Did you see the news just now?" After his wife left, Bai Jinjun sat back on the sofa. Li Minbo leaned back in the sofa and asked with a smile.

Bai Jinjun nodded, then shook his head and said, "I just heard something about 'honking a horn to protest', but I don't know the details yet."

Li Minbo smiled, turned sideways, took a tablet from the armrest of the sofa next to him, gently pushed it to Bai Jinjun's hand, and said, "Look, our President An has caused a big situation again."

"Oh?" With a hint of doubt, Bai Jinjun took the tablet in front of him and was about to click on the video on it to watch it when he heard someone knocking on the door not far away.

The person who opened the door was still Jin Runyu, and the person who walked in afterwards was a tall and handsome young man. Bai Jinjun also knew this man. He was the newly appointed chief propaganda secretary after Li Minbo took office in the Blue House. His name was Jin Douyu.

To put it bluntly, the so-called chief publicity secretary is responsible for external public relations and public opinion propaganda. When Lee Min-bo was running for president, Kim Doo-woo was the person in charge of publicity work in his campaign team, so he has relatively rich experience in this area.

Unfortunately, Lee Min-bo's relationship with the media and cultural circles has been tense in recent times. As a result, there have been many criticisms of Lee Min-bo in the public opinion, and the tone has been very high. Especially in the two days after the signing of the South Korea-US beef import agreement, the domestic criticism of Lee Min-bo was almost one-sided. In this regard, Kim Doo-woo can only say that he is powerless.

Precisely because of these troubles, Jin Douyu has been in a bad state in the past two days. A piece of gossip that Bai Jinjun learned was that this guy seemed to be planning to resign.

But what was surprising was that Jin Dou Yu, who walked into the Wuxian Flower Room at this time, seemed very excited. He could no longer hide the smile on his face, and the corners of his mouth were almost reaching his ears.

Like Bai Jinjun, Jin Douyu, who walked in from outside, first saluted Jin Runyu, then saluted Li Minbo from a distance, and then took big steps impatiently and walked straight towards the coffee table.

"Sir, this accident is a timely relief for us," Jin Douyu walked to the opposite side of Bai Jinjun and placed a document in his hand on the coffee table in front of him. Then, he nodded to Bai Jinjun and said to Li Minbo, "We must seize this opportunity to fight a counterattack in public opinion."

Li Minbo did not respond to him, but motioned for him to wait a moment, then made a gesture to Bai Jinjun, indicating that he should finish watching the video on the tablet.

The video on the tablet was a clip from a news program, and its general content was everything that happened on the Yongdong Bridge, including An Rusong's call for helicopter assistance, his subsequent accusations against Jin Chengyuan, and the appearance of horn-honking protests.

In the video, according to the information provided by the news program announcer, Kim Sung-won was confirmed to be a supervisor affiliated with the Agricultural Cooperative Federation and an important participant in the demonstration.

After watching the video, Bai Jinjun took a deep breath. He quickly reviewed the relevant information in his mind, then looked at Li Minbo and said, "Have the Agricultural Cooperative and the Korean Beef Association responded?"

Li Minbo didn't say anything, he turned his gaze to Jin Douyu on the other side.

"Not yet," Jin Douyu said immediately, "but according to my inference, the Agricultural Cooperative should respond soon. Well, if nothing unexpected happens, the response measures they take should be to actively communicate with the affected injured, and at the same time, arrange for Jin Chengyuan to come forward and apologize to the public."

Bai Jinjun nodded. Organizations like the Agricultural Cooperative Association and the Korean Beef Association are very similar to the various trade unions in South Korea. Because they often manipulate public opinion to interfere with government policies, they are very good at public relations and publicity, and they respond very quickly.

Just like what happened today, regardless of the purpose of the demonstration they organized, and regardless of whether the beef import agreement has any impact on the health of Koreans, at least they blocked traffic and prevented the injured from receiving timely medical treatment, which is untenable in terms of public morality. To some extent, they have angered the public. The car horns that echoed across the Han River were the public's protest against them.

In this situation, if the two associations do not want to be criticized by the public, they must stand up and make a statement to calm the public's resentment.

(End of this chapter)