The famous Korean host Liu Zaishi recently became a shareholder of KAKAO Entertainment through a paid capital increase.
According to the relevant staff of KAKAO Entertainment, Liu Zaishi and Liu Xilie purchased the company's shares in the latest paid capital increase and became shareholders of KAKAO Entertainment. Liu Xilie previously sold the company to KAKAO Entertainment for 13.9 billion won, and this time he reinvested more than 7 billion won in KAKAO Entertainment and obtained 27,438 shares of KAKAO Entertainment, while the specific amount of Liu Zaishi's investment was not disclosed.
According to the relevant staff of KAKAO Entertainment, Liu Zaishi made the decision to invest in KAKAO Entertainment based on his sense of responsibility as a company's artist and his partnership with Liu Xilie.
Kakao Company Background:
Scale: Korea's third largest market capitalization industry group (based on the 2021.11.4 benchmark, including subsidiaries in the listed IPO), the first is Samsung, and the second is SK.
For three consecutive years, Korean university graduates have ranked first in the polls of the most wanted companies.
First, the parent company Kakao overview
President: Kim Fan-so, South Korea's new richest man, is worth $13.5 billion, surpassing Samsung President Lee Jae-yong ($12.4 billion).
Entrepreneurial career: During his studies at Seoul National University, he was fascinated by the Internet from engineering major to IT major, entered Samsung's IT department after graduation, left his job to set up an online game company after 5 years, and co-founded NHN (naver parent company, one of the two major Internet giants in South Korea) with his former colleague Lee Hae-jin. After Defeating Google to become Korea's first search engine five years later, Naver resigned as CEO of Naver because he felt too comfortable: "Although we are already the leading boss in South Korea (search engine), we still miss the feeling of fighting on the battlefield in the past." ”
Kim Fan Soo, who left Naver, liquidated Naver stock, re-found the enthusiasm for entrepreneurship, and launched the kakao talk software in 2009.
In the past 10 years, KakaoTalk has greatly changed the way koreans live, and many businesses based on Kakao Talk have become independent, and their tentacles have reached out to advertising, e-commerce, games, financial services, culture, taxis, artificial intelligence and other fields. (Just as China's domestic Tencent is based on QQ and WeChat, it has become the leader in the Internet, culture and entertainment fields one by one).
In the past 10 years, Kakao has expanded wildly in South Korea, and like Tencent in China, it has entered a new industry and become an industry leader, leaving the original industry practitioners with no way out.
For example, in the financial field, Kakao bank is already the largest market capitalization commercial bank in South Korea, the size exceeds the sum of the 2nd and 3rd largest banks in South Korea, and the market value of Kakao Pay listed on November 4 is comparable to that of Kakao Bank, which means that in the Korean financial field, the two largest financial group companies in South Korea's market value are far ahead of other opponents, both are Kakao subsidiaries, and whether it is Kakao Bank or Kakao Pay, Both are twice the size of South Korea's other largest banks.
Today, Kakao has gone out of South Korea, in the overseas attack, Kakao's companies, if you add companies in the listing process, the total market value has exceeded the old chaebol Hyundai and LG, and next year kakao mobile, kakao entertainment, kakao jap and other subsidiaries have been listed, the total market value will likely exceed SK, second only to the global electronics giant Samsung in South Korea.
In terms of cultural entertainment, it has also recently acquired The North American webcom platform Tapas and the online fiction platform Radish for $950 million, and Kakao's Kakao Entertainment aims to become a global large cultural entertainment group.
In September 2021, Kakao's platform business was blocked due to the huge anti-monopoly voice of the South Korean authorities and private people, and its external expansion came to a temporary end.
But in any case, the legend of President Kakao's life is that, to make an analogy, it is like in China, someone built Ali, then quit, and then started from scratch and made a Tencent story.
Second, Kakao subsidiary Kakao Entertainment Overview
Kakao Entertainment, which currently has an IPO valuation of $18 billion (115 billion yuan), is on its way to an IPO, and the general market capitalization of Korean entertainment companies after going public is double the valuation of ipOs. It surpasses Hibe (81 billion yuan), which currently ranks 1st among Korean entertainment companies, and CJ Entertainment, which ranks 2nd, (20 billion yuan).
Kakao Entertainment owns:
Sound source platform melon, kakao music, video platform kakao TV, awards ceremony MMA.
8 film and television production companies, 4 artist agencies (creker merged into playM), 6 actor agencies, 1 ost production company, intend to acquire artist agency SM.
include:
Film and television production companies: Mega monster, logos film, moonlight, story & picture media, manhood, wind pictures, baram pictures, zip cinema
Artist agencies: High up (stayc), Edam (IU), PlayM (apink), Starship (sistar monstaX), creker (the boyz)
Actor Agency:
BH (Lee Byung-hyun, Yoo Ji-tae, Han Hyo-joo, Han Jae-jin, Kim Ko-young, Park Bo-young, Park Jin-young), SOOP (Jeon Do-yeon, Kong Liu, Kong Hyo-jin, Soo-ji, Jeong Yoo-mi, Seo Hyun-jin), kingkong (Song Seung-hyun, Yoo Seok-yeon, Lee Kwang-so, Lee Dong-wook, Lim So-kyung), jwide (Lee Sang-yoon, Kim Tae-ri, Lee Bo-young, Kim So-yeon), awesome ent (Park Su-joon, Lee Young-woo), Vast (Hyun-bin)
ost production company flexM.