Extras: Chapter 073 The Immobile ACE
The agent must have more knowledge than the artists he is responsible for, which is a must.
Later, she talked about the events in the Chinese and Korean entertainment circles. Even if Lee Hyun-cheol did not remind her to correct her, she would treat political issues that cannot be encountered, just like many people with lack of knowledge, and make very shallow political mistakes that Chinese people cannot tolerate.
In addition, there is no consideration in this regard whether there is any "letting AKB develop in depth in other countries".
Despite facing Lee Hyun-cheol's doubts, Yoko Sato's reply was "The planning of these things has always been the responsibility of the operation. The agent only needs to execute orders and coordinate the itinerary of the artists he brought."
Lee Hyun-chul has a deeper understanding of RB people's execution ability in their work and only does not ask.
Not questioning has become a major feature of the agent circle in Yoko Sato.
To put it nicely, this kind of person has extremely high loyalty.
But to put it bluntly, it is just rigid and doesn't know how to adapt.
However, if the agent makes decisions independently and bypasses the firm behind it, such a person will eventually be unable to escape the end of being fired and banned.
"It seems that if you want to have a deep understanding of the current situation in the RB entertainment industry, an agent is indeed a good way to start."
After making up his mind, Lee Hyun-cheol pursed his lips and fell into deep thought.
In fact, he has always thought that this is a common problem for many RB artists and even firms when it comes to entering overseas.
For a long time, RB's entertainment industry has been deeply trapped in a situation of self-sufficiency. There are many RB artists with extremely high popularity overseas, but they have never thought about it and have plans to enter the overseas market in the past.
It seems that they feel that they can support themselves only in their own country. There are risks in overseas markets and should not be planned in depth.
This is a wrong idea.
Even with a relatively complete copyright system and system, overseas markets are a treasure land that cannot be given up.
For example, China in neighboring countries.
Because I know the popularity and influence of these girl groups created by Akimoto Yasushi have in China.
Lee Hyun-cheol believes that Yoko Sato should be properly instilled with some knowledge on the importance of overseas markets.
At least, the sister group of AKB48 was born from China, and the domestic market where SNH48 is located can be seen.
Chinese fans can be said to be very tolerant. Some of them like Korean groups and some like Japanese groups.
Some like European and American artists, some even like them all, and are willing to pay for them.
This just gave him the opportunity to raise topics so that the atmosphere of getting along with each other would not be too stiff and unlucky.
In his opinion, AKB48's trip to the United States will gain something.
But from the perspective of the operator, the profits generated cannot generate much revenue.
On the contrary, Asia is a good target for good guides.
South Korea is not good. Although Korean pop culture cannot completely capture the RB market, it also focuses on different RB idol cultures. When it comes to South Korea, it will only be worthless. The aesthetics of the two countries treat idols are also huge.
This creates a very strange phenomenon. People from Zhongyi Korean Group will be greatly challenged when they look at the Japanese group from the perspective of the Korean group. People from Zhongyi Japanese Group will feel that the Korean Group only focuses on gorgeousness and no inner cultivation.
So you can try the Korean market. On the contrary, the larger Chinese market will be a good second market.
"Boss, you... seem to have a lot of ideas about the members' planning."
Yoko Sato looked at Lee Hyun-cheol who suddenly calmed down and took a deep breath.
"To be honest, I haven't heard from some of your plans even with Mr. Akimoto Yasushi.
Now I finally understand why the teacher will change to a respectful expression whenever he mentions you in private."
A person who can convince Akimoto Yasumi, but how old is he...
Yoko Sato thought that Lee Hyun-cheol had not revealed her actual age, and seemed to have made up her mind.
"Some things I didn't want to tell you about, but after hearing you talk so much about this meal today, I suddenly wanted to say them."
"Hmm?" Lee Hyun-cheol slowly stepped on the brakes, slowing down the driving speed so that he could have enough energy to listen carefully to what Yoko Sato was going to say next.
"What are you going to say?"
"I don't know... Boss, what do you think about Ah Jiang's desire to graduate?"
Yoko Sato hesitated and asked again and again.
At present, even Akimoto Yasushi knows about this. Only a few members of the veteran Team, including Takahashi Minami, know about it in the entire AKB.
The reason why Yoko Sato chose to say it was because she knew that when Maeda Atsuko mentioned this, her own thoughts were not so strong.
In other words, she is considering graduation, but not immediately.
The girl with aura brought by AKB must have thought about persisting for a while.
However, once a small flame pops up in the heart of graduation, it will only burn more and more vigorously, which is impossible to suppress.
Therefore, taking this opportunity to speak out directly is better than suppressing it.
Because she knew that even if Akimoto Yasushi learned about the news, her reaction would definitely not be worse than Lee Hyun-cheol.
But what will be done later is a bit intriguing. As an agent, Yoko Sato has prepared a set of rhetoric and is waiting for Lee Hyun-cheol to ask questions.
"Ah Jiang is going to graduate?"
Ah Jiang...Maeda Atsuko?
Lee Hyun-chul immediately stepped on the brakes to the bottom!
Have the storm caused by the butterfly effect begun to come true in many things in advance?
Lee Hyun-cheol was undoubtedly shocked when he heard this news from Yoko Sato's mouth.
No matter how much he knows about RB's entertainment industry, no matter how he delegates power to Akimoto Yasushi.
In addition to the provision of funds and planning of some things in general, he knew what status Maeda Atsuko had for the entire AKB48 and the entire RB idol girl group history.
But now, the situation is, if Yoko Sato said the truth.
Even if the word "graduation" is just an idea that has just emerged for Atsuko Maeda, it is four years ahead of his impression of graduation time.
From August 2012 to 2008, the more I thought about it, the more I always felt something was wrong.
AKB48 has been in the army in 2005 and has just gone through four years.
In the past four years, they have successfully completed the transformation from underground idols to aboveground idols, and are working hard to charge towards the top of the RB National Idol Girls Group.
It can be said that regardless of whether he has the promotion and support behind him, this year has been a crucial year for AKB48.
Why choose to graduate at this time? There are few resources?
Impossible, Maeda Atsuko has always been known as "unmoving ACE".
Chapter completed!