The Chaebol Who Flies From Space - Chapter 67



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67. Entering a new business (4)

After thinking about it carefully, I realized there was a good person around me with whom I could consult about this matter.

“Oh, what do you think, Team Leader? Is there anyone who could be of use?”

Green is the same color, so the fastest way to meet people related to information is to ask for it from colleagues who do similar work.

Since I decided to blow up the trash, I had to get information.

No matter how hard Valentina tries, Hollywood is still a mess.

They are all the same, so they are the ones who have been fooled and are preventing the information from being made public.

Why would that guy go around behaving however he wants because he’s so great?

They install it and walk around with it because they are confident that the information will not spread.

Team Leader Oh, who had been racking his brain over my words, advised me that it would be fastest and safest to leave this type of work to someone working locally.

“I think it would be a good idea to get information from a local LA detective who is a former police officer and well-versed in Hollywood affairs. The US is a place where the detective industry is developed. A local detective would be good at getting information.”

“Since they are local, wouldn’t they be able to communicate with each other? It’s common for local police to collude with local influential figures.”

Team Leader Oh smiled bitterly at my worries.

“Life is the same everywhere. But here, the market is so big that there will be unconnected detectives.”

“Team Leader Oh, please look into it.”

Team Leader Oh nodded obediently at my request.

Team Leader Oh was quite stressed out by the fact that I was stuck at home making something without being busy moving around. It wasn’t a bad idea to prove my worth at a time like this.

When the detectives introduced by Team Leader Oh opened the door, dust came pouring down instead of just puffing.

The house that looked fancy on the outside turned out to be a haunted house haunted by ghosts. Anyway, I could tell at a glance that it was a son of a bitch, but when I had someone dig around, I found that son of a bitch.

Dominic Heller, who created the material, was a longtime veteran of the Hollywood Police Department.

As a veteran, he quickly figured out how to obtain the requested information, tracked down the victim, and obtained the information.

The victims were initially afraid of being approached by a stranger, but after hearing the reason for their visit, they soon poured out their pent-up anger.

Gossiping about actresses who flatly refuse offers and preventing them from appearing in other works is not even considered a bad thing.

When you look at the records that come out one after another, the words “what a son of a bitch” just come out of your mouth.

Not all of the actresses who claimed to have been sexually assaulted were unknown.

I was shocked when I saw who had been subjected to such absurd things, as many famous actresses had been subjected to such absurd things. How could such an actress have been subjected to such absurd things?

“Is this information correct? It doesn’t make sense.”

“That’s because you don’t understand Hollywood filmmaking. Hollywood productions are completely centered around connections. Once someone like Harvey has you, anyone can be affected. Even world-famous actors have limited roles they want to play. Even famous actors have the fear that they might be pushed out at any moment. As time goes by, they get older and there are more than one or two actors who are rising from the bottom.”

I had nothing to say.

“He was also very clever in that he was able to avoid being caught for a long time by acting so thoroughly that no one would hear about him. It’s hard to ask anyone about relationships between men and women.”

“You’re annoyingly smart.”

“He may be a bit of a tempered person, but he’s basically a smart person because he wants to sleep with pretty girls like a horny dog. If you look at the movies produced by Miramax, there are many movies that are both good and successful.”

“He’s a worse guy because he uses his good brain to commit crimes.”

Originally, there were many people who were very smart among those who did bad things.

So I spent a long time checking the data Dominic brought.

“So where should I send this information?”

[LA local media won’t do. They won’t publish the article because they are close friends with the people above. The victims filed a complaint, but it was useless. Even the reporters they knew before tended to ignore them. If they claim that this is a vague, consensual relationship with the parties involved, it will be difficult to punish them.]

Ariel’s worries were justified.

“It doesn’t have to be a head-on confrontation. If the obstacle in your way is too high, you can just go around to the side.”

[Turn sideways?]

“So, do I really need to come out and hit that hyena myself? If I throw this at him, there are more than a few hyenas ready to tear him apart.”

[Who are you talking about?]

“Who is this? If you throw this to News Corporation, they’ll come running and say, ‘Wow!’”

[You mean throw it to Murdoch?]

News Corporation is a huge media company owned by Murdoch.

Starting in Australia, the company expanded to the UK, and from the 1980s onwards, it expanded its business by acquiring newspapers and broadcasting companies in the US.

The British newspapers owned by Murdoch were representative of yellow journalism and had an outstanding control over the media. It was so much so that it was said that only someone close to him could become the British Prime Minister.

It was the same even after coming to America.

One by one, they swallowed up newspapers and broadcasts, and came to have enormous influence on the Republican Party.

“If you throw this information at Fox, they’ll go crazy. They’re the kind of guys who make up and sell false information, and they’ll be all over the place with clear evidence that a big-name Hollywood producer is a criminal.”

[Murdoch doesn’t hate the Master either. Is there a need to throw scoop information at him?]

That’s why Ariel is still a young AI.

“You don’t know what you’re talking about, but bad guys are the best at catching bad guys. If you throw this kind of incident at guys who pretend to be decent, it won’t have much explosive power. Those who come out and call themselves yellow journalism will do anything to blow up the incident, and that’s how the newspaper sells well.”

[As expected, the Master knows everything.]

Ariel’s words strangely grated my nerves.

“What do you really mean by what you are saying now?”

[Could that be? I was just praising the Master.]

“You’ve been strangely rebellious lately.”

[How could that be? I’m just an artificial intelligence.]

“Good job. If you keep acting like this, I’ll lock your AI’s personality settings.”

[……]

For this guy, locking his personality settings is like a punishment that confines him to a small cage.

I have never been one to place many restrictions on artificial intelligence. The only life form on Earth that understands me properly is Ariel.

Iriel’s presence is a great help in overcoming homesickness. If you use personality lock on Iriel, you will be the one who gets tired the most.

It was a pointless threat, but it worked.

Anyway, I made Iriel, who had been acting rebellious for a while, into a good AI again and carefully got to work.

He had people send material to News Corporation affiliated newspapers and broadcasters.

Even though time passed and I sent the data, these guys didn’t move as expected.

“That’s strange. I threw a piece of meat that was clearly delicious, and they just sat there? What did they eat wrong?”

I looked closely at the newspapers of News Corporation affiliates, but they were quiet.

[It will take time to investigate and verify the information you sent.]

Interview? If these guys had gone through the process of verifying that the information was that certain, there would have been no way they would have heard the hyena’s voice.

If you were to compile just the outrageous false information that News Corporation’s New York Post has written, it would fill dozens of truckloads.

He was the type of person who would write it down first and then say, “If it doesn’t work out, don’t do it later.”

The truth was not important to these guys. All they cared about was whether the article they published would grab the public’s attention, sell more newspapers, and increase TV ratings.

While I was grumbling and swearing at him for being so slow to respond, the hot flame I had been waiting for finally lit up.

First it came from a small newspaper in New Jersey, then the New York Post, and soon even Fox News, and the whole country was on fire.

More and more people came forward to testify about Harvey’s sexual crimes, and even retired actresses appeared on TV to share their experiences with Harvey, adding fuel to the fire.

At first, Harvey tried to ignore the revelations as nonsense, but when the witness appeared on TV and started talking, he started running around like a calf with its butt on fire, trying to put out the flames.

He tried to put out the fire by mobilizing all his influence, but it wasn’t enough.

People’s interest gradually shifted to which actress had been offered the part by Harvey.

Fox News took the opportunity to show its deceit by bringing victims on air.

The public’s anger boiled over when a pretty actress came forward and tearfully revealed that he had threatened to stop appearing in her films unless she slept with him.

The way he took out his anger on the actress who rejected his offer was also reported in detail in newspapers and on TV.

“It rides well.”

What would you do if the house next door that you are on bad terms with caught fire? Just watch happily as the fire burns well if you work hard to keep it burning.

A director who was friendly with Harvey was interviewed by a TV station and revealed how Harvey interfered with the casting of actors.

The director also explained in detail why the casting fell through, perhaps because he did not want to be lumped in with Harvey.

“He’s a really smart guy. He advised me that the actress had a bad personality and would mess up the set?”

If any director heard that, he would have stopped casting her immediately. There were many other actresses of similar caliber, so there was no reason to cast an actress who had so many bad reviews.

[News Corporation is really doing a good job of systematically knocking.]

“I told you, bad guys know bad guys. No matter how much money and power a guy has, he keeps you from complaining by fanning the flames and even pushing in circumstantial evidence, so there’s no way to deal with it.”

Before, dark stories like the invasion of Iraq were the main topics of newspapers and broadcasts, but now Harvey’s story is the main topic of newspapers and broadcasts.

Other newspapers and broadcasters followed suit, but they were no match for News Corporation, which had already made all preparations and was running.

As public outrage spread to Miramax, where Harvey was president, major shareholder Disney took action.

Not only was Harvey suddenly ousted from his position as CEO of Miramax, but from now on, he had to go to court to stand trial instead of making movies.

The criminal charges were so clear that the prison sentence was certain, and the key question was how many years he would be sentenced.

Goodbye Harvey, it was dirty meeting you and let’s not see each other again.

The Harvey cleanup operation that dared to block my sister’s path was over.

My Greek Wedding continued to do well at the box office after its release while the whole of America was in an uproar over the Harvey incident.

Because Hollywood was shrinking due to the Harvey scandal, there were no competing works, so the initial momentum was not good.

The film’s box office success showed no sign of dying down as word of mouth from those who saw it praised it as a well-made family film.

Jeongyeon, who moved with Valentina, also traveled across the United States.

When going to a small city, it is difficult to get on board due to runway problems, but when moving to a big city, he committed the atrocity of taking away my private plane.

It’s good for many people to move together or something.

I told him to do so because I don’t have any reason to fly for the time being.

My only interest was in finding the berries that go into energy drinks.

My job was to take out a huge plant guide and compare each one to see if they matched the plants in my memory.

“This is so hard work because the database isn’t set up.”

[It will take time to create a database of plants as it costs a lot of money.]

Different plants grew in different regions around the world.

There were numerous varieties and many plants still unknown to people.

For the work, I first collected plant guides published throughout the country.

Although there are some countries that do not have plant guides, we have collected as much information as possible.

And he checked each plant one by one to see if it matched the one in his memory. If he found a similar tree fruit, he sent someone to bring it over.

Even though I drank an energy drink made from the fruit of the tree I found this time, it didn’t taste like what I wanted.

I was annoyed because I thought I had failed this time too.

While I was getting angry on my own, Ariel told me to get ready because it was time for our meeting.

I was stuck in my studio in a corner of my mansion in Bel Air, LA, and I didn’t even realize how time passed.

As the seasons changed, a cold wind began to blow.

My Greek Wedding, which broke the North American box office record of 240 million dollars, is now showing in fewer theaters.

It was a huge box office hit for a film with a small production budget of 20 million dollars.

I’m looking forward to the release date not only in North America but also around the world, and while the box office performance in the global market was negative in my opinion, there was no need to pour cold water on those who had high expectations.

Anyway, I was invited to a party celebrating the movie’s success.

I didn’t want to go, but I had to pretend to give in to my sister’s threats that she would take care of things if I didn’t come.