Text | Wang Zhenyi
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As South Korea's top chaebol, the Samsung family's every move is closely watched by the outside world. Now, with the death of Lee Kin Hee, the second generation of the Samsung family, the discussion about the Samsung family is still high.
However, today I am not talking to you about Lee Kin-hee's merits or demerits, nor is it his four children, Lee Jae-yong, Lee Fu-jin, Lee Su-hsien, and Lee Yin-xin. I'm talking about a woman who has been associated with the Samsung family, and her name is Gao Xianzhen.
Why talk about her?
Because she's legendary enough.
So where is the legend of Gao Xianzhen? And listen to me slowly.
Born in Seoul, South Korea in 1971, Ko Hyun-jeong's family is in good condition, and her family is considered to be a middle-class family in South Korea. Her parents also attached great importance to her education, and she did not disappoint her parents, and her academic performance was very good. She also has leadership skills, has served as a class president, and often organizes activities for her classmates.
At that time, Gao Xianzhen also had a dream, she wanted to become a geographer, and she also worked hard for this.
But no one thought that at the age of 18, the trajectory of Gao Xianzhen's fate changed.
This year, Gao Xianzhen, who has become a beautiful girl, has grown too long hair and is very troublesome to take care of, in order not to affect her studies, Gao Xianzhen decided to go to the beauty salon to trim.
When Gao Xianzhen appeared in the beauty salon, the director of the beauty salon seriously looked at Gao Xianzhen, and she felt that Gao Xianzhen was long and beautiful, especially suitable for participating in beauty contests.
She suggested that Gao Hyun-jeong go to the "Miss Korea" pageant.
Listening to the director of the beauty salon, Gao Hyunzhen also decided to try it, which made her the runner-up of "Miss Korea" in 1989, which also made her naturally enter the acting world.
In order to gain recognition in the acting industry, Gao Xianzhen also went to the film department of Dongguk University to study. While studying, she participated in TV series such as "Love Hanging on the Jujube Tree", "Eyes of Dawn", and "Woman's House". Among them, "Eyes of Dawn" when it was broadcast in 1991, it generated a rating of 58.4% and was deeply loved by Koreans.
However, what really made Gao Hyun-jeong popular in South Korea was the TV series "Hourglass" broadcast in 1995, in which she cooperated with Choi Min-so, Park Sang-won, and Lee Jung-jae as the heroine.
What Gao Xianzhen did not expect was that this TV series was even hotter than "Eyes of Dawn", creating a super high rating of 64.5%, and Gao Xianzhen became a well-deserved first-line actress in South Korea overnight.
However, just when everyone was looking forward to the new film and television works of Gao Xianzhen, she chose to quit the acting world.
Why did Gao Xianzhen give up the cause of Zheng Hong?
Because of a man.
In 1993, Gao Xianzhen and her mother went to See the musical Miss Saigon on Broadway in New York, but they were late, so when they entered the theater, the lights in the theater were extinguished, and they had to grope for their place.
Just as Gao Xianzhen and her mother were "struggling" to find their place, a man appeared, and the man led them to their place.
In order to thank the man for his help, Gao Xianzhen asked the other party to eat to express his gratitude. Slowly, the two became acquainted, and Gao Xianzhen found that the man was very funny and humorous, and they became boyfriend and girlfriend.
It's just that this man's identity is not simple, his name is Jung Yong-jin, he is the vice president of South Korea's New World Department Store Group, and his father
Jung Jae-eun is the chairman of Seoul's first Western-style hotel, the Chosun Hotel in Seoul. Her mother, Lee Myung-hee, is even more well-established, because her father is Lee Byung-chol, the founder of Samsung, her brother Lee Kin-hee is the second-generation head of the Samsung family, and she herself is the president of the New World Group, and she has become the richest woman in South Korea.
For such a Zheng Yongzhen, Gao Xianzhen at that time did not think too much about his family background, and she cared more about Zheng Yongzhen. Finally, after 2 years of falling in love, the two married in 1995.
However, for this relationship between Gao Xianzhen and Zheng Yongzhen, the outside world was not optimistic at that time, and many people said that Gao Xianzhen coveted Zheng Yongzhen's money and said that Zheng Yongzhen coveted Gao Xianzhen's beauty.
It's just that no matter what the outside world says, in the early days of marriage, they are happy. After marriage, Gao Xianzhen also gave birth to a son Zheng Haican and a daughter Zheng Haiyin for Zheng Yongzhen.
However, this happy day did not last long, and Gao Xianzhen lost his happiness among the giants.
Like most actresses who marry into the rich, Gao Xianzhen also chose to take the shadow, no longer show his face, teach his husband and children at home, and filial piety to his in-laws. However, the life of the giants is as deep as the sea, the harsh rules of the giants, the picky mother-in-law, the boring life, and the life of Gao Xianzhen have lost their luster. Even after getting married, the only few times she was photographed by the media, she was very haggard, completely unlike the original spirited female star.
For Gao Xianzhen's life, lin shiling, an actress who married three-star prince Lee Jae-yong, has the most feelings. She has been criticized by her in-laws for various small things, her husband is busy with his career and does not listen to her heart, she suggested that her husband move out and not live with his parents and was ruthlessly rejected by his husband. Her mother-in-law's family was still standing by, and finally in 2008, Lin Shiling chose to divorce, and she received 100 billion won (600 million yuan) of property from the Li family.
However, before Lin Shiling's divorce, Gao Xianzhen had already divorced, and on November 19, 2003, at 9 a.m., she proposed a divorce to Zheng Yongzhen, and the two lawyers immediately met, and it took only 2 hours from Gao Xianzhen's divorce to the formal divorce. The efficiency of divorce procedures far exceeded Gao Xianzhen's expectations.
Although the divorce process was quick, Gao Hyunzhen paid a great price, she lost custody and visitation rights to her two children, and she received only a meager 1.5 billion won (about 10 million yuan) in divorce property.
Therefore, at that time, Gao Hyun-jeong was called "a rich abandoned concubine" by many Korean people.
So will Gao Xianzhen always bear such a reputation?
No.
After Lin Shiling gave up the position of "three-star princess", she took the property divided from the divorce to help the elephant group whose mother's family was on the verge of bankruptcy, and eventually turned the elephant group into a profit and became a respected strong woman in the business world. And she regained her love, and the film emperor Lee Jeong-jae has been in love for five years, very affectionate, she has become a legend in Korea.
Like Lin Shiling, after leaving the giants, Gao Xianzhen also achieved a counterattack in life, and her legend did not lose Lin Shiling.
However, before Gao Xianzhen counterattacked, the first thing she had to do was to return to the acting world.
Gao Xianzhen's return to the acting world is not easy, she is 32 years old, she has to face the market environment of new talents, and she was also "banned" by her ex-husband's family, when the New World Group stipulated that promotional posters printed with Gao Xianzhen could not be posted in New World's department stores.
New World Group undoubtedly announced to Koreans in this way that Ko Hyun-jeong and the Samsung family had formed a bond, and given this relationship, many crews and advertisers did not dare to use Ko Hyun-jeong.
Fortunately, Gao Xianzhen killed a bloody road. In 2004, she collaborated with Ji Zhenxi and Zhao Yincheng on the romantic drama "Spring Day", in which she played a girl with aphasia, in which she conquered the audience with her superb acting skills. And her first ad after her comeback was a huge success, she received an ad for a landline phone, and when the ad aired, the landline sold nearly 200,000 units.
Gao Hyun-jeong used her acting skills and ability to carry goods to make the on-demand crew and advertisers choose to cooperate with her, and in 2004, Gao Hyun-jeong became the brand spokesperson of a communication company, and the endorsement fee reached 1 billion won.
By 2006, Gao Xianzhen had taken over many advertisements in the fields of real estate, cosmetics, and household appliances. In this year, she also defeated Jeon Ji-hyun, Lee Young-ae, and Kim Hee-sun, who were on fire at the time, and became the Queen of Korean Advertising selected by Korean magazines.
When the advertisement was soft, Gao Xianzhen did not put down the film and television drama.
In 2006, Gao Hyun-jeong starred in the romantic comedy "Woman by the Sea" directed by Hong Sang-so, for which she won the 43rd Korea Baeksang Arts Awards and the 44th Daejong Award for Best Newcomer Actress.
In 2009, she played the snake scorpion beauty "Mishi" in the TV series "Queen of Seondeok", and she played a villain so deeply that after Ko Hyun-jeong's role in the drama ended, the ratings of the drama immediately fell by 4.3%, and she was also nominated for the Best Actress Award at the 46th Korea Baeksang Arts Awards tv awards for this drama.
After that, she successively starred in film and television dramas such as "Actresses", "Big Thing", "Kitamura Direction", "Queen's Classroom", "Neighbor Lawyer Zhao Dehao 2" and so on, and she also constantly challenged herself to become a host and hosted the talk show "Go Show".
By this time, Ko Hyun-jeong had changed the way Koreans thought of her, but her story didn't end there.
She chose to enter the fashion field and founded her personal clothing brand Atti.k. As soon as Atti.k's products were launched, they sold 30.5 billion won (about 180 million yuan) in four months. She then launched the skincare brand Koy, which was also a huge success, with Koy's products reaching sales of 350 million won in three days on the market.
Like Lin Shiling, Gao Xianzhen also became a strong woman in the business world, and after leaving the giants, she lived herself into a giant.
And for her ex-husband, Gao Xianzhen did not hate. In 2011, Zheng Yongzhen married the flute player Han Jixi, and Korean media specially interviewed Gao Hyunzhen and asked her what she thought of Zheng Yongzhen's remarriage. Gao Xianzhen replied: "The past is over, after all, we know each other, I hope he has a good life." ”
Another media asked her, "If you go back to that time, will you still get married?" Gao Xianzhen said frankly: "Yes, just look at the words of his person, I really liked it very much..." She did not deny that she had ever loved Zheng Yongzhen deeply.
She accepted the past calmly and made herself more powerful, and such a High Xianzhen had to be said to be a legendary figure.