Chapter 195 The Big Wrong
After returning home in the evening, Xu Liang took out his mobile phone and called Hideo Fukunaga, the president of Hongmeng Japan.
"President."
"There is something I want to ask."
"You said?"
"Recently, SNK, are you still paying attention?"
"Always paying attention."
Xu Liangliang was shocked, "Tell me about it."
After agreeing , Hideo Fukunaga organized the language.
“After accepting the acquisition of ARUZE from SNK, Kawasaki Eikichi proposed investing in South Korea. Due to the trust of ARUZE executives in SNK, the request was approved.
SNK secretly established a small company NEOGEOKOREA in South Korea. The person who serves as the president of the company is Jiro Nagano, the head of SNK's sales department.
Eikichi Kawasaki also transferred almost all of SNK's game copyrights, as well as character portrait rights, as well as the "NEOGEO" trademark rights, to this company. "
"Wait a minute, doesn't ARUZE know about this transfer of trademark rights and important company assets? Why not stop it? "Xu Liang couldn't help but ask.
It's incredible that ARUZE, the controlling party, turned a blind eye to such a matter involving major asset transfers.
"ARUZE acquires SNK, more It uses SNK's mature developers to develop new gambling games and expand its gambling revenue. SNK didn't attach much importance to its original arcade game business.
Moreover, ARUZE's boss, Okada Kazuo, is currently in a lawsuit with his wife, son, and daughter, fighting for control of ARUZE, and he no longer cares about SNK. ”
“That’s it. "
Xu Liang suddenly realized.
" Kawasaki Eikichi has so painstakingly planned the transfer of assets, so there should be further steps, right? "
"Yes. In March this year, SNK filed a "specific mediation application" with the Osaka District Court, with the purpose of discussing a new debt repayment plan with its original creditors.
As a major shareholder of SNK, ARUZE also agreed.
But just one month later, ARUZE regretted it.
Because the total debt disclosed by SNK to the outside world is close to 40 billion yen, far exceeding the amount they originally disclosed to ARUZE. "
Xu Liangliang was shocked and couldn't help but said: "So, the SNK 28 billion yen debt that Kawasaki Eikichi disclosed to us was also a lie? ”
“That’s right. ”
Hearing this, Xu Liang couldn't help but feel happy.
Fortunately, Kawasaki Eikichi was not the target of his betrayal, otherwise he would have been deceived.
"Has Eikichi Kawasaki bowed down to ARUZE President Kazuki Okada? Didn't you do due diligence before investing?"
"I'm not very clear about this, but the fact is that ARUZE did not discover SNK The true scale of debt.
I heard that SNK, under the control of Eikichi Kawasaki, is preparing to apply for "re-registration" with the Osaka District Court, hoping to re-register a new independent company under the name "SNK". Get rid of onerous debt once and for all.”
Xu Liang couldn't help laughing.
“Eikichi Kawasaki made a good plan. He re-registered and threw all his debts to ARUZE. Even if Kazuki Okada realized it later, he would never agree to such conditions.”
"It is true that Okada Kazuo will not agree, but I think if ARUZE refuses, Kawasaki Eikichi will apply to the court for "civil rehabilitation procedures", which is bankruptcy protection.
As long as the company goes bankrupt, the next step is Selling the company's assets to pay off debts.
He just used the company he established previously to buy back the assets he valued, so that SNK could leave all the burden to ARUZE and change his name to go into business lightly. "< br>
Xu Liang nodded.
The whole thing seems incredible to the outside world. ARUZE is like being taken advantage of and is at the mercy of Eikichi Kawasaki, but this is what happened.
It can only be said that Kawasaki Eikichi is cunning and cunning. Before the plan started, he chose an ARUZE that he knew well enough and was troubled. But if he changed the company, he would not be able to do so smoothly.
“Does SNK have assets that we can appreciate now?” Xu Liang asked.
“Very few. Now SNK only has hardware assets such as office buildings and theme parks. The copyrights of various games have been transferred to his new company in South Korea by Eikichi Kawasaki. I think we No need for office buildings and theme parks in Osaka ”
Xu Liang nodded.
“What a pity.”
Eikichi Kawasaki worked so hard to revive the company that it was impossible to sell it to him in a short time.
Dong dong….
“Come in.”
Sun Mingzhen walked in with a cup of coffee.
“Why haven’t you rested yet?” Xu Liang said.
“I can’t sleep, and there is something I want to discuss with you.” Sun Mingzhen said.
Xu Liang pointed to the seat next to him.
After the two sat down, Sun Mingzhen said: "I also want to sell the complete Hongmeng website in South Korea."
"It is indeed a trend for browsers to replace the website directory. However, without the website directory, Hongmeng South Korea will lose a publicity platform. It will be difficult to replace Pangu Browser in a short time."
In China, Hongmeng can use coverage Internet cafe management software with extremely high rates quickly promoted the browser, but the South Korean market obviously did not have this condition.
“I have thought about this. If we sell the website directory, we also have the Naver portal and the Hangame game portal, both of which are our promotion platforms.
Especially Naver The portal website is now second only to Yahoo in terms of market share in South Korea. It can replace the promotional role of the website encyclopedia. "
Xu Liang shook his head, "It is different. The website encyclopedia focuses on the promotion of individual websites. The portal website focuses on news advertising. Therefore, the website collection cannot be sold, at least until the Pangu browser is developed.
Even tens of millions of Huaxia coins are not as important as a powerful publicity channel. "
Sun Mingzhen nodded.
"Every country's situation is different. Don't apply the experience of the Chinese market to the South Korean market. "
"I understand. "
"Okay, let's not talk about these troublesome things. Go, wash up and go to bed. ”
He took Sun Mingzhen to the bedroom.
I came to the company again the next day. Xu Liang took out a piece of paper and wrote down all the business of Hongmeng South Korea.
Pan-entertainment business, currently mainly includes games and music, comics and novels are not involved.
The game business mainly consists of five games, "Legend", "Miracle", "Red Moon", "Millennium" and "Bubble Show", plus the game portal Hangame.
Music mainly comes from Hongmeng Music Network and several music companies it has invested in.
The next step is the film and television business.
Internet search business - Bing.
Basically no different from China’s Bing, it also includes four major sub-contents: information, encyclopedia, pictures, and knowledge.
Web Portal——Naver.
Includes email and blog.
The last is independent business, including Pangu Browser, Website Directory, and Hongmeng Payment.
As for Huaxia’s No. 1 store, in South Korea it mostly cooperates with other companies. Compared with China, South Korea's peripheral product development and sales system is more mature.
So, Hongmeng South Korea’s business is mainly divided into four parts.
Pan entertainment, Internet search, portal business and independent business.
What Hongmeng South Korea does best now is the game business and search. The portal business has a market share of nearly 35%, second only to Yahoo.
Xu Liang drew two circles on portal business and independent business.
These two are non-core businesses.
Can be sold and exchanged.
But first you need to get enough chips, and you also need to carefully look for opportunities.
Ding ding….
Xu Liang’s cell phone rang.
Looking at the caller ID, I was quite surprised.
After thinking for a moment, he pressed the answer button.
“Xu Sang, do you still remember me?”
"Of course. Mr. Kawasaki taught me a profound lesson, and I remember you very deeply."
Xu Liang did not expect that SNK President Eikichi Kawasaki would call him.
Listening to his pun, Kawasaki Eikichi smiled.
"Xu Sang, everything is over, we should move forward, right?"
"Listen to Mr. Kawasaki, do you want to cooperate with me again?"
"Hongmeng has excellent online game research and development capabilities, and SNK has many classic copyrights. We are the most suitable partner." Kawasaki Eikichi said.
After he came to South Korea, one of his goals was to introduce Korean capital, collect funds, and develop new games.
The other thing is to examine the hot online game market in South Korea.
Only when I got here did I discover that the list of the top online game R&D companies in the entire South Korean market actually includes Hongmeng.
This is also the reason why he called Xu Liang.
"Mr. Kawasaki, now SNK's debt is 40 billion yen, does it still have the capital to develop new games?" Xu Liang said.
"Xu Sang, please rest assured, we now have ARUZE's support, money will definitely not be a problem."
"Really? But how did I hear that ARUZE rejected SNK's debt restructuring plan? Have you been left to fend for yourself?" Xu Liang said with a smile.
The matter of SNK is not a secret in the Japanese business world. Xu Liangneng knows about it, and Kawasaki Eikichi is not surprised either.
“Xu Sang, I can assure you that as long as Hongmeng cooperates with SNK, there will definitely be no problem with funding.”
After Xu Liang thought for a while, he decided to explore the other party's details.
The conversation changed.
“I believe in Mr. Kawasaki’s guarantee, but I don’t know how Mr. Kawasaki wants to cooperate?”
Hearing him relent, Eikichi Kawasaki quickly said: “I couldn’t explain it clearly on the phone, why don’t we find someone? Let’s have a chat somewhere?”
“I’m not in Japan now”
"I know Mr. Xu is in South Korea."
"Oh, how does Mr. Kawasaki know my whereabouts?"
"Sang Xu, don't get me wrong. I just came to Yucheng Building to visit a client the day before yesterday. , saw Xu Sang. He wanted to go up and say hello, but he gave up because he was too far away. "
Xu Liang understood that he also saw Kawasaki Eikichi.
"In that case, Mr. Kawasaki, please come to Yucheng Building, the headquarters of Hongmeng South Korea. I will wait for you here."
"Okay, I'll be there in half an hour at most."
"Goodbye."
"Goodbye."
After hanging up the phone, Xu Liang pondered for a moment and picked up the The landline phone next to her called Sun Mingzhen.
"President, is something wrong?"
In the company, both of them maintained a superficial sense of decorum.
"Please contact the business investigation company and find out who SNK has met and cooperated with in South Korea?"
"Okay, I'll go right away."
Xu Liang hung up the phone.
As the saying goes, it is essential to be on guard against others.
Kawasaki Eikichi is an out-and-out old fox, and you have to be extremely vigilant when dealing with him.
(End of this chapter)