My girlfriend is an idol

"Shin Hyejin..."

After chanting the name over and over again, Song Jifan took out his mobile phone and found the phone number of Li Yuanmin, the representative of WM Entertainment, in the address book containing thousands of calls.

Recently, there are rumors in the circle that this company and Woollim are preparing to launch a new girl group. Since both companies are launching a girl group for the first time, it has attracted the attention of some small media.

In fact, there is no need to say hello. If Li Yuanmin knows that one of the trainees in his company has an uncle in his family who is the vice president of CJEM and the representative of the Mnet department, he will be included in the debut group even if he is not strong enough.

A small company like WM Entertainment is not enough in the eyes of a behemoth like CJEM.

"Would you like it? Yuanmin..."

Seoul City, Seocho District, Bangbae-dong, the third floor of a building, where WM Entertainment is located.

Among the surrounding buildings, WM Entertainment's building is just an unremarkable sign. Passing pedestrians will not stop and take out their mobile phones just because it is a brokerage company that has trained idols.

People who live nearby, or people who pass by here, have long been surprised at such a place.

But the factor is that WM Entertainment's reputation is not so great, so that at this time, there are only two or three squatting fans nearby, holding in their hands seemingly low-grade aids.

"How is the construction of the company's new building?"

At this moment, in the president's office at the end of the third floor, the president Li Yuanmin lowered his head to sign some daily documents, looked up at the secretary in front of him and asked.

"It's the finishing touch. Now you can move in only after the smell of formaldehyde inside has been purified."

"Yeah~ But I still have to keep an eye on it. This is the first new building our company has bought over the years. It is going to be moved to this place next year. It is very important."

Signing his name at the end of the document, Li Yuanmin took a deep breath.

This year, WM Entertainment bought a new independent building on the World Cup Road in Mangwon-dong, Mapo-gu. It plans to relocate here next year. The time for the relocation is getting closer and closer. Now that I think about it, I am really excited.

"Good president, I will implement it."

"Um~~ You go out first."

After dismissing the secretary, Li Yuanmin leaned back on the office chair and closed his eyes in thought.

Since the establishment of WM Entertainment in 2008 and the launch of its first boy group B1A4 in 2011, it took three years of hard work,

The company up and down all regard this new building as a new starting point for the company. Although it can't compare with the three major corporations in terms of efficiency each year, it can be regarded as a satisfactory answer among small and medium-sized companies.

Of course, the reason for the confidence to replace WM with the new building is that last year, B1A4 won the first place in MBC's music center with "What's GoingOn".

For a small company like them, this feeling is no less than the only athlete in a country who won the Olympic gold medal.

Since then, the second album "WhoAMI" released on B1A4 this year allowed them to win eight places in four hit shows including Inkigayo.

It was at that time that Li Yuanmin and other WM high-level officials decided to buy new land to build WM Entertainment's building, instead of living in the old dilapidated third floor.

As the president, Li Yuanmin not only personally participated in the design of the company building, in addition, the wall of the new company reads "Raw stones have their own different characteristics and personalities. This is the place where they exist in order to discover them and create gems."

Highlight his desire to discover talents and talents and become a star.

In Li Yuanmin's eyes, WM Entertainment's philosophy is to treat idols as ordinary people rather than commodities.

And position the brokerage company itself as a protective cover, trust each other through constant communication, and give idols support and cheer in a timely manner.

However, on the surface, it seems that WM Entertainment has risen in many small and medium-sized planning agencies in Seoul, but in fact, only he himself knows the internal crisis.

In fact, a year ago, regarding the fact that B1A4 could not get one and made a stand out in the men's team, many senior executives in the company wanted to give up this combination.

In the eyes of some people, during the three-year golden period for newcomers, if there is no breakthrough in popularity and influence during this period, this group will basically be a mess.

But after all, B1A4 is the company's first group. Before their debut, these people were all trainees who had followed Li Yuanmin all the way, even if they were a businessman, they were somewhat emotional.

Fortunately, this combination is quite competitive. With his two-tier identity as the president and the largest shareholder, B1A4 successfully won one of the major programs, and once became a "counterattack" story in the circle.

However, now no more than before, the idol group has won one place in the music chart show, which does not prove that the combination has taken off since then, nor does it mean that it can make a lot of money, and rest easy.

Compared with most men's groups in the same period, B1A4's style is more lyrical, which is a lyrical + dance style.

This is not the type that mainstream groups like in the current market. Those young female fans prefer EXO, BEAST, and Infinite knife dances.

Just a B1A4 has the ability to attract money, which is far from satisfying the funding gap of WM Entertainment.

When some shareholders began to suggest that Li Yuanmin seek foreign aid, sell part of the shares, and ease the company's financial tensions by injecting capital, Li Yuanmin refused.

Perhaps I think that the current WM has not yet reached the level where it must be acquired by other companies. Therefore, with the gradual start of B1A4 and the successive stimulation of the company’s employees, Li Yuanmin decided to prepare to launch the company’s first female employee. group.

After more than a year of selection, OhMyGirl is the name of the new WM girl group. Just hearing this name can imagine the style of this girl group.

"Old man, although your company was acquired by S..M, it just made you a little bit more money. Fundamentally, your Woollim is still the same. The internals are still poor. Now I want to see Is your Lovelyz strong or my OhMyGirl strong."

Lovelyz, this is Woollim's upcoming combination, the time of the combination's debut, and the list of members have been sent to Li Yuanmin's desk.

In November, Li Yuanmin looked at the date and laughed silently, as if it seemed to be tomorrow.

It seemed that his old friend was more anxious than he thought.

Generally, large companies will not choose to make their own newcomer groups debut at the end of the year. During this time, the pomp in the performing arts circle is no less than the idol collective return in summer.

Starting from the end of October or the beginning of November, many predecessors in the circle who failed to return in the second half of the year, or major idol groups, will choose to return one after another.

Others may be busy participating in the year-end song awards and award ceremonies of the nature like MAMA.

The public's attention is basically focused on the three major TV stations' performance awards, song awards, and variety awards. The major variety shows are busy launching year-end specials to grab ratings.

In such a busy period, who would pay attention to the new girl group launched by a small and medium-sized company.

Even if the quality of Lovelyz's debut song is good, it can only be run by the seniors, because it can't be when it comes back, will it hit the sound source one day.

It's just that whether it's Woollim or WM, the two seem to regard this new group as a competition, and the number of groups launched by both sides is ultimately set at eight people.