I went to Tokyo. I went there and came back the same day.

Meet Chen Dong.

When it comes to developing the Korean market, the previous target fell on Kim Beom-soo, one of the founders of Nhn Group who later left.

In order to show his sincerity, Chen Dong made a special trip to South Korea.

Previously, Chen Dong's Korean younger brother named Kim Jong Hyuk had already started an e-commerce business in South Korea, and Kim Jong Hyuk's father was the director and vice president of Hyundai Group and held a high position of authority.

With this kind of relationship, many things will be easier to handle.

After meeting Chen Dong, Zhou Buqi got straight to the point, "Jin Fanxiu agreed?"

Chen Dong said with a smile: "He is now a househusband, and he is almost idle. He dreams of starting a business again, but he lacks a suitable direction. After leaving NHS, he made several small web games, but they were not successful in the local market.

I was very unsuccessful when I arrived in the United States."

"What did you say?"

"I told him that traffic is king. According to our country's Internet experience, as long as there is traffic, the success rate of new games will be greatly improved. Whether it is QQ or Helo, they are all following this path."

"He accepted it?"

"I'm still understanding it, but my intention to cooperate is very clear." Chen Dong smiled and said, "I can't believe it. I'll probably make up my mind after the iPhone version of helo is launched."

Zhou Buqi said: "I heard from Zhou Shaoning that the Korean market has opened up. This year's iPhones, including Aster2, can enter the Korean market. The opportunity has come."

Samsung has officially announced that their Android phone will be released in June this year. LG’s Android phone will also be launched in July.

South Korea will officially enter the smartphone era.

South Korea's Internet infrastructure has always been among the best in the world. As long as terminal products keep up, it can enter the mobile Internet era ahead of Japan.

Firstly, South Korea has a small area and small population, so it is easy to transform; secondly, Japanese users have too strong habit attributes, and young Koreans prefer to pursue new things, which is related to national character.

Chen Dong was full of confidence in Boss Zhou's judgment and said with a smile: "Yes, I have talked with Jin Fanxiu and he has great ideas, and... he has the charm of a successful person. I think he can do it. I just choose

I have decided to work with him to develop the mobile Internet market in South Korea. When are you free to talk to him? Or should I take him to see you?"

"I'll go and check out the market in South Korea. Let's go there together after the Spring Festival."

"OK."

"However, it's still a bit early. When smartphones from Samsung, LG, Apple, BlackBerry, and Asda go on sale in South Korea, it might be September, and there's still more than half a year left."

Chen Dong heard something in his words, "Boss Zhou, do you have any new ideas?"

Zhou Buqi said: "Mobile Internet is the general trend, but within two or three years, PC Internet will still be the key development direction. If South Korea's business only focuses on the mobile phone side and ignores the computer side, it will be difficult to form a linkage effect. Or

Just like the Japanese business, the computer and mobile phone must be synchronized."

"Well, we can do yikyak first."

"Actually, I recently made a new discovery, a new technology."

"What technology?"

"Image processing, resolution conversion."

"Um?"

Chen Dong didn't understand what he meant.

Zhou Buqi said: "If you have good technology, it must be applied. If it cannot be transformed into the market, it will not generate value. What I am talking about is a technology from the Hong Kong Multimedia Laboratory, which can convert the resolution of a picture into

Improve. Pictures are OK, and videos are also OK.”

"Video?" Chen Dong smiled, "You want to start in this direction?"

Zhou Buqi said: "To be precise, it's a live video broadcast."

“Isn’t it possible in China?”

Chen Dong’s wife and children are all in China, and they often video chat with other people in China, so the experience is very bad. He is in Tokyo, so there is not much of a problem here. The problem is that in China, the Internet speed is too slow, so that the picture there is blurry.

, and often freezes.

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "China is not mature yet, but Korea and Japan can do it. I read a report saying that the current Internet speed in Korea is as high as 10m/s download speed."

Chen Dongdao: "Well, the live broadcasting industry has been in South Korea for six or seven years, but... ahem, their live broadcasts are mostly content that is prohibited under the 18th Eighteenth Anniversary."

"No, I've checked. Nowadays, regular live broadcast platforms have appeared, and they are doing quite well. For example, Afreecatv, the most female anchors can do is squeeze into a ditch, expose her navel, wear a short skirt, and expose her underwear.

It’s quite formal. There are live broadcasts of games and even mukbang, which is quite interesting.”

Zhou Buqi is quite familiar with this business.

The live broadcast industry will be an important outlet in the future. Domestic live video broadcasts are ranked first in the world. However, 99% of the gameplay and creativity of domestic video websites come from South Korea. Some live broadcast platforms even package Korean women.

The anchors have all been poached to China.

South Korea's population base is too small, and live video services are free and mainly rely on traffic to make money. The country's large population has natural advantages.

Chen Dong sighed, "Actually, Japan's live broadcast industry is also quite good. All infrastructures are very good, and the number of netizens far exceeds that of South Korea. But the Japanese are too stingy. They don't like to show their faces or expose themselves during live broadcasts.

.”

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "This is what I call computer vision processing technology."

"hehe."

Chen Dong was embarrassed to ridicule him and said to himself, Boss Zhou, stop pretending, you know shit about computer vision.

Zhou Buqi said seriously: "Japanese people don't like to show their faces. It's easy. You can use face-changing surgery to change your face into a watermelon, cartoon character or something. This shouldn't be difficult to achieve. I'm talking about a higher level of difficulty.

It's resolution optimization. South Korea's Internet speed can accept higher resolutions, but the host's camera is not

We must be able to shoot such a high-resolution picture. This can be done by using the fixed-point magnification technology of the image. Well, it means to locate the points on the human face in real time and accurately, and then enlarge it in multiple episodes. Each episode will be enlarged a little bit.

Position it again, then zoom in a little, position it again, and finally complete the resolution enhancement effect."

Chen Dong was slightly startled, "Isn't it difficult to achieve?"

"Technology is changing quickly. This is definitely a general direction." Zhou Buqi waved his hand, "Video live streaming is an emerging industry with great development prospects in the future, especially for young people. PCs in the Korean market

The Internet is almost monopolized by the NHS, and it may be difficult for several major traditional industries to enter. It is better to use live video as a breakthrough."

Chen Dong smiled and said: "Let the anchors recommend new applications for smartphones?"

"This idea can have a linkage effect of traffic. The PC side must divert traffic to the mobile side in the early stage, and the mobile side will divert traffic to the PC side in the later stage."

"Well, then...then build a live video website in South Korea first?"

"We need to do it." Zhou Buqi nodded, "It's only January now, and smartphones won't be widely available until at least September. Let's build a live broadcast website first. And there's no need to start from scratch. The afreecatv I just mentioned

, seems to be the most popular right now. The model mainly relies on selling advertising, brand promotion and giving gifts, and it is not worth a lot of money. Let’s discuss with Jin Beomxiu, why not just buy this website directly.”

Live video streaming is an emerging industry, and large companies have not paid attention to it.

In South Korea, due to the emergence of a large number of 18-ban live video websites in the past, this industry has given everyone a general impression of unhealthy and indecent content.

This is an opportunity.

Others look down on it, so Ziweixing has a chance to seize the market.

afreecatv is very popular among young people, but the company is too small and has no backing. It is better to acquire it directly, and then carry out ecological linkage, first combine it with yikyak, and do PC Internet business. In the second half of the year

, and then work together to enter the mobile Internet.

For Ziweixing, live video broadcasting is a brand new industry, and it is a bit risky to start a new industry in an emerging market.

But there is no way, Japan's cultural background is not good, and the domestic infrastructure is not good.

Either wait a few more years for the domestic Internet infrastructure to be further upgraded before developing the live broadcast business. Or enter South Korea first and use the Korean market as a test field.

Domestically...we still have to adapt to the general situation and start with voice!

For example, the yy version of helo.

The name of the software is "yy version helo".

Duowan Company has confirmed that the software has launched a beta version on the 1st of this month, and has issued trial invitations to Advertising yy users.

After the user logs in to the "yy version of helo", he can bind the helo account and the yy account, and then two friend lists will appear, one is helo's friends and the other is yy's friends.

It is equivalent to having the functions of helo and yy at the same time through this software.

For senior users of yy, the biggest attribute of yy is voice, not only voice communication with the team when playing games, but also voice shows in yy entertainment shows.

Some anchors are telling ghost stories, some are telling dirty jokes, and some are shouting, singing, and cross-chatting, which has formed a voice entertainment space.

The only drawback is that there are too few people.

yy is just a niche software that relies on "World of Warcraft" players to form teams and play dungeons together. But it is different after it is linked with helo. Yy anchors can invite all helo friends to join their show.

This immediately opened up the market.

Moreover, if the user is listening to the voice program of the YY show, the account status will be displayed, and all the helo friends will be informed of their updates, which can create a viral effect and spread the word to tens and hundreds, attracting more people.

people join.

Duowan Company attaches great importance to this product. Combined with helo, it has the opportunity to push yy to new heights. During the Spring Festival, people all over the country are resting at home. It is a good opportunity for yy voice show to conquer the city and grab territory.

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On January 20, the official version of "yy version helo" will be launched.

Ziweixing has also been paying attention to this matter, which is related to the next development plan of the "Magic Reform Helo Project". Previously, Ziweixing had completed financing for Duowan, spending US$59 million and taking 40% of the investment.
Chapter completed!