Chapter 187 Emoticon Pack
In the NGN Chairman's Office, An Rusong sat behind his desk, browsing the latest news reports on the computer monitor.
This report is about Naver’s industrial layout in mainland China. It focuses on Naver’s investment ideas for Lianzhong Games. According to the report, as of this month, Naver has acquired According to the plan revealed by its company, Naver hopes to open the entrance to the Chinese game market through its layout in Lianzhong.
In fact, Naver’s investment in Lianzhong began in 2004 and has lasted for three years now.
The reason An Rusong pays attention to Naver is because South Korea’s largest search engine service provider is itself the biggest threat to NGN. In the world of An Rusong’s previous life, South Korea, Japan, Even in some countries and regions in Asia except mainland China, the most popular instant messaging software is "Line" launched by this company.
Moreover, Naver's search engine technology is very good. In the Korean market, even Google can't compete with it. In South Korea, it is a super monster that combines Baidu, NetEase, and Tencent. Therefore, it cannot be relaxed. Not alert to its presence.
However, for now, there are obviously problems with Naver's development strategy. Its decision-makers seem to have seen the proliferation of "Korean Wave" in the mainland Chinese market, so they are also determined to seize this scale. A huge and exciting market.
How should I put it? Naver’s idea is good, but it cannot see the situation clearly. It does not realize that in the mainland China market, the development status of the IT industry and the development status of the entertainment industry, It is completely different. In that vast market, there may be room for Korean entertainment in the short term, but there is no chance of survival for the Korean Internet industry.
The most important thing is that Naver has chosen the wrong partner. Although Lianzhong has 100 million registered users, its development has reached a state of decline. The expert who is best at imitating has long ago Just focus on it. Lianzhong itself is not safe, so how can it still be able to provide assistance for Naver's expansion in the Chinese mainland market?
But for now, An Rusong still hopes that Naver can put more energy into the market in mainland China so that NGN can get more development time.
Currently, An Rusong is planning to set up four branches in Jakarta, Tokyo, Singapore and Frog Island to comprehensively promote NGN software. Rather than completing the global layout, he hopes to proceed step by step and first expand Asia, especially East Asia. , Let’s talk about occupying the market in Southeast Asia.
According to An Rusong’s financing and investment plan, this round of financing from DFJ and Apple will last until at least May next year. After May, NGN will seek a second Therefore, although the first round of financing received a full US$75 million, it was actually not very abundant if it was really used.
If during this process, Naver Company launches the instant messaging software "Line" in advance and uses it to compete with NGN Company, then the time for the second round of financing will definitely be advanced. . Moreover, in the face of strong competition, the effect of the second round of financing may not be optimal.
“Dong dong dong!”
Just when the whole news was about to come to the end, there was a knock on the door.
Moving his eyes away from the monitor screen, An Rusong glanced in the direction of the door.
The person standing outside the glass door is Cui Jinnai, the director of the company's art department. She holds a thick stack of documents in her arms.
“Come in,” An Rusong closed the browser page and raised his voice.
In the previous stage, the art department of NGN Company was still a very rudimentary department. Counting the person in charge, Cui Jinnai, there were only three people in total. Moreover, the work of these three people was not the same. .
But in less than half a month, the art and design department has been gradually improving. There are nearly 20 artists, original painters, etc. in the entire department. The earliest people to enter Cui Jinnai of the company has naturally become the director. Judging from the current administrative structure of the entire company, she can be regarded as an absolute top executive.
"President, the first version of the emoticon pack has been designed," Cui Jinnai said as he opened the door of the office, "Do you want to take a look now?"
An Rusong didn't speak, he just nodded, Then he raised his hand and pointed towards the sofa in front of his desk, which meant to tell the other party to sit down and talk.
Cui Jinnai walked over quickly. She first put the documents in her arms on the coffee table in front of the sofa. Just as she was about to say something else, she heard An Rusong's cell phone on the table ring.
Swallowing the words that came to her lips, Cui Jinnai pointed in the direction of the door, which meant that she would go out for the time being and come back after An Rusong's call was finished.
An Rusong first looked at the caller ID and saw that the call was from Nan Xuyu, then he nodded towards Cui Jinnai.
"Chief Nan," when Cui Jinnai left the door, An Rusong pressed the answer button on the phone and took the lead in greeting, "I am Rusong." "Do you have time now?" Nan Xuyu asked on the phone .
Hearing him ask this, An Rusong felt a little touched. You must know that from the first time they met until now, every time this old guy called him, he told him directly. When and where I went, or asked him to do something, I never asked him what he was doing or whether he had time.
But this time, the old guy actually knew to ask him if he had time. Is this the old guy coming to visit his aunt, or did he hear wrongly?
"What's the matter? Isn't it convenient to talk?" Nan Xuyu asked again when he heard An Rusong didn't say anything on the phone.
"Ah, no, I have time," An Rusong came back to his senses and said quickly.
"Very good," Nan Xuyu said, "Then you come to Tiffany Hotel, or go directly to the underground parking lot, C3 parking area."
"Now?" An Rusong He glanced in the direction of the door and asked.
"Yes, right now," Nan Xuyu said.
"Okay, I'll rush over right now," An Rusong said.
The call was quickly hung up, An Rusong breathed a sigh of relief and waved to Cui Jinnai, who was still standing outside the office door.
The latter had been paying attention to him. When he saw him waving, he opened the door directly and walked in. While walking towards the sofa, he said: "President, there are six original designs of the emoticon pack. We have made the design plan, please see if it is the effect you want."
An Rusong stood up from the chair, put his cell phone in his pocket, and walked around the phone in front of him. desk, walked to the nearest sofa and sat down.
Cui Jinnai pushed the pile of documents in front of him, separated them one by one, and introduced at the same time: "The six design plans we have made now are Capibara and Self-Mocking Bear. , Kanahela, Cute Chicken, Cute Cat and Panda Panda are all drawn and extended according to the basic draft you provided."
As she said this, she added. He opened the documents one by one and showed An Rusong the drawings inside.
These design plans were all proposed by An Rusong. Initially, he gave a total of fourteen different emoticon pack design plans to the Art and Design Department. Of course, these emoticon packs were not designed by himself, but based on The memories of past lives are simply drawn, and each design scheme comes from the paid emoticon packs provided by Line, and they are all very popular styles.
Emoji packs, each design cannot be just one picture, but a whole album, or even a dynamic album. What An Rusong provided was just a first draft, which was a prototype of an animal or character, which was then extended and expanded by the designers of the Art and Design Department, eventually forming a large atlas.
What Cui Jinnai brought this time was six large picture albums extended from six designs, which can be regarded as six series of emoticon packs.
An Rusong is busy now. Of course, he cannot look at every design in detail. He just browsed it briefly, and then said to Cui Jinnai: "I feel pretty good, so Well, you put the first draft here first. I still have things to do now. I will take a closer look when I come back. "
"Okay, President," Cui Jinnai nodded. As a professional original painter, she quite admired An Rusong's ability, because so far, the company has produced many pattern designs , all were first drafts provided by the young president, and the designers in the art and design department actually didn’t do much work.
In addition, NGN does not discriminate against female employees. Both male and female employees have their salaries set according to the same standards. This is extremely rare in the workplace in the Republic of Korea. This is one of the reasons why Choi Jinnai is optimistic about An Rusong. .
After sending Minister Cui Jinnai away, An Rusong put away all the design manuscripts on the table and locked them in the safe. After confessing to Jiang Xiuyuan, he hurried downstairs and left.
An Rusong had already been to Tiffany Hotel once before. Although he was not very familiar with it, he was still familiar with it. He rushed there all the way from the company, and when he parked the car in the C3 area, he was just It only took more than twenty minutes.
Same as last time, there were several young people waiting in the parking area of C3. When An Rusong's car drove past, a young man followed him. After parking the car, the young man led him directly to the elevator. However, what was different from the previous time was that this time he went to the 15th floor.
When the elevator stopped on the 15th floor, An Rusong, led by the young man, walked out of the elevator door and bumped into the skinny Director Lin, who seemed to have been waiting for the elevator. At the door of the room, he saw An Rusong coming out of the elevator. He waved to the young man leading the way, and then said to An Rusong: "Come with me, Rusong."
(End of this chapter)