Chapter 224 The Law of Endeavor
If someone like Congressman Kong were to stand up and run for president against Lee Min-bo, he would definitely not be his opponent, because his influence throughout Korea is far greater than that of Lee Min-bo. Not as big as Li Minbo.
South Korea’s presidential election is a direct election by the people. If a presidential candidate wants to win, he must get enough support from voters nationwide, and Representative Kong is elected from a small constituency. As a member of Congress, he has a solid position within his base and no one can threaten his position. But nationwide, his public support cannot compete with Li Minbo.
However, Congressman Kong has been involved in Korean politics for many years, and his personal connections and seniority within the conservative faction are not comparable to those of Li Minbo.
It is said that the world is not about fighting and killing, but about worldliness. The same is true for politics. In this circle, worldliness is also at the forefront. Therefore, Councilor Kong, who is equally experienced in qualifications and experience, is He has many resources that Li Minbo does not have.
Just like the people at today's luncheon, Sun Bingdou represents Li Minbo, Nan Xuyu represents Congressman Kong, and the remaining four people, including An Rusong, should all be considered resources in Congressman Kong's hands. . Just like Jeon Byung-ha, he represents Representative Kong's connections in the "Joongang Ilbo", while Goo Kyung-yong represents Representative Kong's connections in the "Chosun Ilbo". As for Woo Jin-jung, he represents Lee Soo-bin Came here.
The resources represented by these people may not be enough to push one person to the throne of president, but they can still do a lot of things. Especially under the current situation, Lee Min-bo, who represents the conservatives, and Chung Dong-yong, who represents the progressives and has the support of President Roh, have already become obsessed with running for president. Both sides are eager to kill each other. When he died, Li Minbo was in great need of support from all aspects, especially in the fields of public opinion and media.
In the current South Korea, the struggle between progressives and conservatives is becoming more and more intense, and the division is becoming more and more serious. In order to compete for the position of president and suppress the other side, the two sides are becoming more and more hostile. The more unscrupulous.
Currently, the progressives are clinging to the "BBK Fraud Case" and are trying every possible means to push the presidential candidates elected by the conservatives into the mud, while the conservatives are taking advantage of the "Samsung Bribery Case" As a means of counterattack, they are vigorously pouring dirty water on the progressives. Moreover, this dirty water is not just being poured on one person. Its target is almost all progressive bureaucrats in the prosecutorial and anti-corruption agencies.
Of course, the conservatives do not really want to unseat certain people from the progressive camp through a "Samsung bribery case". Their real purpose is to divert public attention and weaken the "BBK fraud case" The impact of the case” on the candidate Li Minbo.
This luncheon was actually a briefing. Nan Xuyu came forward to summon these people, including An Rusong, and then Sun Bingdou assigned the task to use the media resources in their hands in the next period of time. , publicize the "Samsung Bribery Case" as much as possible, create news hot spots, and divert public attention from the "BBK Fraud Case".
In the restaurant, after Nan Xuyu told everyone present the real purpose of today’s luncheon, Sun Bingdou said a few words on behalf of candidate Li Minbo. During this period, he also stood up and addressed everyone He bowed to express candidate Li Minbo’s favor to the big guys.
The last person to speak up was Ha Jingya, who serves on the situation analysis team of the Li Minbo election committee. She listed several directions for publicity and guidance, such as Samsung Everland The issue of shares, another example is the issue of the Yellow Sea crude oil spill, etc. Not to mention other propaganda and guidance directions, these two issues are obviously intended to amplify the public's antipathy towards Samsung Group, thereby further promoting the impact of the "Samsung Bribery Case".
Among these two issues, it goes without saying that the Yellow Sea crude oil leakage incident was not mentioned. As for the issue of Samsung Everland shares, An Rusong also knew something about it. The general content is that last year, Samsung Chairman Lee promised the public that he and his children would donate 800 billion won to social funds to express his apology to the public due to issues such as the "X-Files".
At the beginning of this year, Chairman Lee began to implement this donation. However, the donation he made was not cash, but shares, the majority of which were shares of Samsung Everland.
Don’t think that Samsung Everland is an amusement park. It is actually an important controlling shareholder of the entire Samsung Group and one of the important tools used by the Li family to control the entire Samsung Group. Its status is the same as Samsung C&T and Samsung Life. Even more important.
At the beginning of this year, when Chairman Lee began to fulfill his donation agreement, he first donated 4.12% of Samsung Everland shares to the Samsung Fair Chance Scholarship Foundation, which is actually controlled by his son Lee Jae-young. Immediately afterwards, it was announced that it would donate 4.25% of Samsung Everland shares to the Ministry of Education.
However, in order to prevent the Ministry of Education from selling these shares to potential business rivals of Samsung Group, or third parties within the group who are not members of the Li family, these shares will not be directly handed over to the Ministry of Education, but It will be handed over to the public "Academic Promotion Foundation", which will sell it to the public. Finally, the cash from the sale will be transferred to the Ministry of Education.
In fact, when Chairman Li made the donation, some people in the society questioned his behavior, thinking that his donation was fake. In fact, he intended to transfer assets to his son Li Zairong in this way. And in this way, you can avoid inheritance tax. However, such doubts did not attract much attention. Until five months ago, in July, the South Korean government promoted the revision of the "Inheritance and Gift Tax Law." After that, the Ministry of Education suddenly stopped the Academic Promotion Foundation's plan to sell shares of Samsung Everland. Immediately afterwards, news broke that the Ministry of Education was trying to transfer Everland shares in the hands of the Academic Promotion Foundation to the Samsung Fair Chance Scholarship Foundation through a change of "management entity."
If this news is accurate, then Chairman Li has transferred nearly 10% of Everland's shares in his hands to the government in the name of charity, and finally another The money was handed over to his son Li Zaiying. Not only did he avoid the 800 billion won donation he had promised before, but he was also exempted from the inheritance tax he should pay.
There is no doubt that such a saucy operation would not have been possible without the cooperation of President Lu. Therefore, the situation analysis team of Li Minbo’s election support committee took this matter to the next level. The publicity is, on the one hand, to further bind Samsung Group with the progressive faction supported by President Roh, and on the other hand, it is still to divert public attention.
“Everyone, there are less than ten days until the results of the presidential election are finalized,” He Jingya bowed to everyone present after describing several main propaganda and guidance directions. Said, "This period will be the most critical stage, so please do your best to spread the relevant topics."
After saying this, she closed the documents in her hands and bent Sitting back on the chair.
As she finished speaking, the scene fell into silence for a moment. Nan Xuyu looked at Sun Bingdou who was sitting in the main seat, exchanged glances with him, then faced the crowd and said, "Do you have anything else to ask?"
Quan Pingxia and Gu Qingyong came together and muttered a few words without any intention of raising questions. In fact, for them, this matter was not complicated. After all, they were not the principals of their respective newspapers. The ones who can make decisions are the newspaper bosses behind them.
Especially the JoongAng Ilbo, where Quan Byeong-ha works, although this newspaper is on the conservative side, it is still an industry owned by Samsung. To be honest, without the acquiescence of Samsung executives, How could there be news that is unfavorable to Samsung Group in the newspapers?
Therefore, in the face of Ha Jingya's request, Quan Pingha and Gu Qingyong will definitely not raise objections, and they are not afraid that the progressive party will jump out to deal with them.
But An Rusong is different. He himself is the chairman of NGN. Although he has always been on the side of Councilor Kong, before that, he and his NGN company had never had any relationship. He has made his political stance public, at least he has not directly ended up acting as Li Minbo's thug. Therefore, the progressives will not focus on him.
But the situation is obviously different now. Once NGN uses the pop-up function to directly push news that is obviously unfavorable to the progressives and President Lu, the other party will probably target him immediately. Only God knows what the results will be when the time comes.
Don't forget, the person sitting at the Blue House is still President Roh. Even if Lee Min-bo wins the election, it will still be more than two months before he actually takes office. In the past two months, if President Lu really focused on NGN, he would be enough to make An Rusong drink a pot if he did something slightly.
So, if there is a choice, An Rusong still hopes to be as obscene as possible and continue to develop secretly for a while. The best result is to be able to please candidate Li Minbo while not directly offending President Lu.
However, this kind of best-of-both-worlds option is not so easy to find, so when Nan Xuyu spoke, An Rusong could only remain silent.
"Okay, since everyone has no questions, let's prepare relevant news reports as soon as possible after we return." After waiting for a while, when no one expressed their opinions, Nan Xuyu said, "At the latest The first round of reports will have to come out the day after tomorrow, and I hope that by this time tomorrow, I can see the content of the first report in advance.”
(End of this chapter)