Remember Samsung's eldest princess? It is the one who married the bodyguard for love and finally got divorced.
In fact, Li Fuzhen is not the eldest princess, she just flew up the branch because her father Li Jianxi won the family succession battle.
Born in 1958, Li Meijing is the real eldest princess of Samsung.
It was only the victory that the king lost, and she followed her defeated father and became the outcast of the family.
Lee Mei-kyung's father, Lee Meng-hee, was the eldest son of Lee Byung-cheol, the founder of Samsung.
Li Mengxi was a bit muddy and could not support the wall, and he hollowed out the road of the prince himself, but he met a third brother Li Jianxi, who had a lot of cunning and ability, and could only be kicked out of the family circle.
However, although Li Bingzhe did not give the eldest son half of the family property, he gave the eldest daughter-in-law Sun Funan a part of the shares of sugar company and Samsung Insurance.
Li Meijing's greatest blessing is to have such a capable mother.
The deposed crown princess Sun Funan and a pair of children gradually took control of the sugar company in a panic, on the condition that the part of Samsung's shares be sold.
At this point, they had nothing to do with Samsung, and the sugar company was changed to CJ Group, which later became the world's top 500.
Lee Mei-kyung's younger brother, Lee Jeong-hyun, took the presidency.
It is precisely with the strong support of the CJ Group that Li Meijing will turn around and become the godmother of the Hallyu.
A while ago, at the 75th Cannes Film Festival, Korean films were out of the limelight.
A "Determination to Break Up" won Park Chan-wook the Best Director Award, and a "Broker" promoted South Korean actor Song Kang-ho to the position of Best Actor.
Of course, the one that most attracts the attention of our people is Tang Wei.
In "The Determination to Break Up", she is the big heroine, although she did not win back the personal award in the end, but walking the red carpet with such a work is enough to brush her to a new height.
The big guy behind these two films is Li Meijing.
Li Mei is far from being a big beauty like Li Fuzhen, but she is a proper school bully. When her grandfather, father, and uncles were stirring up bloody storms for the sake of family assets, she was studying.
Seoul National University, Harvard, and Fudan all pocketed.
It was also her experience, especially at Harvard, where she saw that Korean language courses were not popular, and the idea of promoting Korean culture took root in her heart.
After graduation, she initially worked in the United States, where she was responsible for cultural projects at her third uncle, Lee Kin-hee's Samsung American Company. During that time, she did not take korean movies to sell to the giants of Hollywood.
Li Meijing's enthusiasm for movies is influenced by her wasted prince father.
Don't look at the family business, Li Mengxi is very researched on art. Since he was a child, Li Meijing has followed his father to enjoy excellent movies and music from various countries.
Hollywood can reject her fanaticism with Korean films, but it cannot reject the investment of capital.
When Spielberg was preparing for DreamWorks, she finally stopped eating behind closed doors.
Perhaps because of the bowl of rice of the third uncle Li Jianxi, she sincerely tied the line for Li Jianxi, but the painting style was seriously deviated, and the Samsung boss, who has always been shrewd, talked about the semiconductor business with a movie maker, and closed the door for himself.
Lee Mei-kyung, who has done his best to be benevolent, is no longer polite and directly pulls Spielberg to South Korea and introduces him to CJ.
That year was 1995, and CJ Entertainment, a subsidiary of CJ Group, was founded with CJ's capital injection into DreamWorks.
Relying on her brother's $300 million investment, Lee Mei-kyung represented The Distribution of DreamWorks in Asia and officially entered the film and television industry, which is the starting point for Korean films to connect with the world and the starting point of Lee Mei-kyung's K-pop godmother.
After directly sitting on an equal footing with Hollywood tycoons, Li Meijing ushered in the journey of her struggle to go high and high in the history of struggle, in addition to film and television, radio and television, music, games and other industries multi-pronged, each of which is still very successful.
Lee Mi Kyung won the World Business Award for her great contribution to the export of Korean culture, and she is the first among Asian women. Angry or not?
To be precise, it is the people on the Samsung side who are angry.
The family was separated, and the eldest son of the concubine was also deposed by the family, but the open struggle continued. Unless Li Meijing's sister and brother really became fallen people.
In 2013, Lee Mei-kyung's younger brother, CJ President Lee Jeong-hyun, was jailed for embezzlement, tax evasion, and dereliction of duty.
Park Geun-hye launched the "investigation of the chaebol monopoly industry" action, only investigated and punished the food and entertainment giant CJ Group, you pin.
Next is Lee Mi-kyung, who single-handedly created the Hallyu scene, and was forced by Park Geun-hye to resign and go to the United States to recuperate, because her variety show was suspected of satirizing politicians.
Sister Park is not happy, she wants you to look good.
The turning point of things came in 2016, when Samsung really burned the wrong incense.
First of all, Li Jianxi, who is in his 70s, was revealed to have repeatedly let women come to the door between 2011 and 2013. It is said that the whistleblower is a former employee of CJ, and you re-taste.
Then there is the new head, whose son Lee Jae-yong was implicated in the famous girlfriend's door and arrested in 2017.
Park Geun-hye stepped down, and Lee Mi-kyung finally stopped dormant. Re-emerging from the jianghu, she led the team to win the Cannes Palme d'Or in 2020 with a "Parasite" and then won the Oscar for Best Picture.
As a producer, when she spoke as a representative, she unusually told fans that the batch should be approved, and the scolding should be scolded, so that Korean films can continue to break through the limit.
It is indeed the pattern and realm of the big heroine.
At that time, Li Meijing smashed 58 million yuan to help "Parasite" open the US market.
This time for "The Determination to Break Up" is also the same big stroke, especially for the heroine Tang Wei.
Posters of Tang Wei can be seen everywhere in Cannes, and the CJ booth is even bigger than the charter.
The film's distribution range exceeds that of Parasite, reaching more than 190 countries and regions.
In terms of wealth, CJ is not as good as Samsung, but who remembers Samsung Entertainment now? Li Meijing led CJ through the crisis to open a new situation, and the backhand gave his third uncle a beautiful counterattack.
Therefore, What Li Meijing should remember most is the label of her K-pop godmother, not the three generations of the Samsung family and chaebols.
These were too weak compared to her life.