Chapter 074: Similarities between China and South Korea
Jiang Feng hadn't opened his mouth yet, but Li Yinxin on the side was furious.
"Gu Guangmo, I warn you, I don't care what you do to other people, if you dare to use your subordinate methods on my friends Li Yinxin, I will make you unable to eat and walk around!"
Gu Guangmo opened his mouth, but when he saw Li Yinxin's angry appearance, he still swallowed back the words that came to his mouth, glared at Jiang Feng hatefully, gritted his teeth and said, "The surname is Jiang, let's see!" Don't think that you are sorry to have Yin Xin covering you, tell you, my father is Gu Benmao! After speaking, Gu Guangmo turned his head and left.
Jiang Feng looked at Gu Guangmo who left with some dumbfounded, especially after listening to his last sentence, he couldn't help but think of the popular Chinese words in his previous life: "My dad is Li Gang!" β
It seems that the practices of the rich N generations of gentlemen all over the world are similar.
Gu Meixi smiled at Jiang Feng embarrassedly and said, "Brother Jiang Feng, I'm sorry, my brother is that stinky temper." β
Jiang Feng waved his hand and said, "It's okay. β
Gu Meixi smiled apologetically at Jiang Feng again, and then walked towards Gu Guangmo.
Jiang Feng looked at Li Yinxin and said with a smile: "Miss Li, it seems that your fiancΓ© is very hostile to me!" β
Li Yinxin looked at the Gu brothers and sisters who left, and said apologetically to Jiang Feng: "Jiang Feng, I'm sorry, I'm sorry to cause you trouble again." β
Jiang Feng said disapprenously: "It's nothing. β
Li Yinxin said with some solemnity: "Jiang Feng, don't underestimate Gu Guangmo, he is the son of Gu Benmao, the president of LG Group, and the future heir of LG Group. β
Jiang Feng was stunned, although he had already guessed the identity of Gu Guangmo, but getting Li Yinxin's proof still caused some shock to Jiang Feng.
As one of the five largest conglomerates in South Korea, LG Group's strength is not much inferior to that of Lee Yoon-xin's Samsung Group. Founded in 1947, LG Group has annual sales of more than US$40 billion and employs more than 100,000 people.
LG Group currently has nearly 300 overseas offices in more than 150 countries and regions. The business covers six fields: chemical energy, electrical and electronics, machinery and metals, trade services, finance, public welfare undertakings, and sports. LG Electronics is the largest subsidiary of the LG Group.
Jiang Feng couldn't help but be surprised by the calculations of the elders of the Li family.
As the largest enterprise in South Korea, Samsung Group is also a multinational conglomerate, Samsung Group includes many international subsidiaries, its subsidiaries are: Samsung Electronics, Samsung C&T, Samsung Life, Samsung Airlines, etc., and its business involves electronics, finance, machinery, chemistry and many other fields. It is one of the world's top 500 companies selected by Fortune magazine in the United States. Samsung Electronics, its largest subsidiary, is now the world's second-largest mobile phone manufacturer and the world's largest electronics company by revenue, with total assets of $200 billion. The Samsung Group is a family business, the Lee family is hereditary, and each of its Samsung properties is family owned and managed by other members of the family.
If the children of these two supergiants can reach a marriage, it will inevitably create a global supergiant alliance, making them more competitive in the global competition.
However, Jiang Feng also knows that such an alliance is definitely not something that other forces in South Korea and even other forces in the world do not want to see. If this news spreads, it will definitely encounter a lot of resistance, not to mention that it can be seen from Li Yinxin's words that she herself hates this marriage, and this marriage is destined to be difficult. And from Jiang Feng's memory, this marriage did not come true, Li Yinxin finally escaped by extreme means such as suicide, and Gu Guangmo's marriage was also the product of marriage, but the object became the daughter of the CEO of a Korean medium-sized company.
Looking at Li Yinxin in front of him, thinking of the Gu Guangmo brothers and sisters who had just left, Jiang Feng couldn't help but feel a little unbalanced in his heart.
We are all young people of the same age, but we are in very different situations. If it weren't for the fact that he accidentally obtained the Spirit Rhino Ring and was reborn, Jiang Feng at this time was still struggling to survive. Even with today's superior conditions, he has only achieved a little bit after a series of means. But the children of rich families like Li Yinxin are billionaires with a net worth of hundreds of millions of dollars.
There are too many social and cultural similarities between China and South Korea, including the issue of the second generation of the rich and the third generation of the rich.
In South Korea, family conglomerates, also known as chaebols, are the backbone of the national economy. According to the Bank of Korea, the country's 30 largest chaebol companies control almost 40 percent of the economy. The main management of chaebol companies is almost always hereditary, and the CEOs are mostly dictators, who have absolutely nothing to say about the business decisions of their respective enterprises.
The founders of the company are called the chaebol generation (I), such as Lee Byung-cheol, the founder of Samsung Group, and Zheng Zhouyong, the founder of Hyundai Group. At present, the presidents of Samsung Group (sometimes called chairman in Korea) Lee Kun-hee, Hyundai Motor Group chairman Chung Mong-koo, and Hyundai Heavy Industries chairman Chung Mong-joon can be counted as chaebol II (chaebol II). In the future, Lee Jae-yong, who will be promoted to president of Samsung Electronics Corporation (the flagship subsidiary of Samsung Group), and Jae Xuan, vice president of Hyundai Motor Group, represent this group of entrepreneurs of the middle generation in their thirties and forties, who are the third generation (or third generation) of the chaebol.
In addition, there are also a large number of strong women of the chaebol III active in the Korean industry, such as the two sisters of Li Yinxin in front of her.
These rich second and third generations have received mixed reviews in Korea and abroad.
Jiang Feng remembered that there was once an issue of the American "Newsweek" when commenting on Lee Jae-yong and ** Xuan and others, saying that the third chaebol was "very different from his father (II)." Most of the chaebol III studied modern business and business management in the United States, and he can speak fluent English. They preferred a modern, Westernized way of doing business rather than some of the pre-modern ways of doing business, such as gangism, nepotism, and respect for business practices.
In South Korean public opinion, there are also positive comments that "if the chaebol III is capable, the management power and wealth of the hereditary father are not necessarily a bad thing."
Of course, there are still many negative evaluations in South Korea about the traditional way of inheriting wealth from sons to their fathers. It is believed that they are the second generation of the rich or the third generation of the rich born with a "golden spoon". A South Korean TV station once broadcast a realistic program called "Rich Dad", which vividly depicted the lives of the three generations and the four generations of the rich: the rich second generation in the program spends 20 million won (about 120,000 yuan) of pocket money every month, spends 200 million (1.2 million yuan) won on a purchase, and only drinks foreign wine for 30 years. The show was forced to stop broadcasting amid protests from viewers.
Some viewers angrily asked: Did the rich three generations pay taxes? It is important to know that in South Korea, if you give more than 30 million won to your children in 10 years without paying inheritance gift tax, it is tax evasion.
The South Korean media also often reports on the arrogant misdeeds of the rich three generations. For example, the third generation of Cui, a rich man, used a baseball bat to beat an employee who was protesting over the renewal of an employment contract. The rich third-generation said that "one stick will pay 1 million yuan (won), a total of 20 sticks", and beat the demonstrator employees all over their bodies. "This is a crime caused by a sense of privilege that thinks 'anything can be solved with money,'" the police said. Cui's misdeeds sparked public outrage.
South Korea's wealthy people are most concerned about the inheritance of their property, and the news of evading inheritance gift tax has been reported in South Korean newspapers. According to a survey by Chosun Ilbo, billionaires with billions of won in assets are more concerned about the inheritance or gift of property than about the development of their businesses.
What is particularly dissatisfying to the South Korean public is that the boss's children and their relatives are always promoted faster than ordinary employees. According to the "chaebol network", they have analyzed the promotion of the children of the bosses of 51 consortium enterprises (34 sons of bosses, 10 daughters, and 7 sons-in-law) who are actually engaged in work. The results show that the boss's children are much faster in terms of promotion. It takes an average of 4 years for the average person to be promoted to a level, while it only takes 2.2 years for them.
It seems that the idea of hating the rich is not only purely in China.
Jiang Feng shook his head and said to Li Yinxin: "Thank you Miss Li for your concern, but it's nothing, let's not say that Miss Li and I are just ordinary friends, and Mr. Gu has no reason to do anything to me." Besides, I'm Chinese, not Korean. LG Group is a behemoth, but it doesn't have much deterrent effect on me. Besides, I, Jiang Feng, am not a person who allows others to pinch flats and circles. β
"In that case, then it's my heart. Jiang Feng, I'm going back, goodbye! Li Yinxin said to Jiang Feng.
Jiang Feng also waved his hand at Li Yinxin and said, "Goodbye, Miss Li!" β
After Li Yinxin left, Jiang Feng and Nan Xiangmei were in no mood to go shopping after what happened just now, and they took the elevator to the first floor, and walked out of the door through the many counters of cosmetics.
The two got into the car, and Lingxi No. 3 drove in the direction of Holiday Inn.
"Jiang Feng, you are really powerful, you can handle so many people just now, and you are not afraid of danger." Nan Xiangmei looked at Jiang Feng, her beautiful face was full of envy and admiration, "I really haven't seen a boy as powerful as you, just now those are the children of our Korean super family, you are so amazing." β
"Actually, I'm just bluffing." Jiang Feng shrugged his shoulders and said modestly, "It's also our luck that we can easily deal with the past." Did what just happen scare you? If you want to blame that light model, it's really a little confusing. β
Nan Xiangmei glanced at Jiang Feng and whispered, "You, do you like that Li Yinxin?" β
"Me? What do I like about Li Yinxin? Hahaha...... It's really laughing at me......" Jiang Feng couldn't help but laugh, "Miss Nan Xiangmei, although I have a lot of money, I still think that I am far from being able to compare with a behemoth like Samsung Group, let alone pursue the little princess of Samsung Group." β