[글로벌체크]Colleagues poisoned? Chinese society shocked by sudden death of star CEO of Chinese game company

Lynch chairman of game company’Yooju’ dies… Public Security “Suspicious of Poisoning”

“Conflict with Representatives of Filmmaking Subsidiaries”

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Chinese society was shocked as it was said that a 30-year-old businessman in the Chinese game industry, who earned a fortune of 1 trillion won, was poisoned by a colleague.

According to local media on the 27th, in a statement posted on the Internet on the 25th, the game company Yoozoo revealed that the company founder and largest shareholder, Chairman Lynch, died in the hospital without revealing details.

In China, rumors have circulated that President Lin was suddenly admitted to a hospital for treatment from the 16th. At the time, the company said that Chairman Lin was hospitalized due to discomfort, but his condition was stable.

On the 24th, just before President Lin’s death, the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau pointed out a male colleague Xu Mo as a suspect, saying that it was suspected that President Lin was addicted to poison.

The Chinese Economic Week reported that Xu Yao, the chief executive officer of the three-body space, a subsidiary of Yuju’s filmmaking subsidiary, poisoned Chairman Lin after poisoning medicine in a business dispute.

Although the details of the incident are unknown, Chinese media are paying attention to the possibility that the filmization of the science fiction novel’Three Body’, which has attracted great interest in China, may have been the background of this incident.

Yuju had an ambitious plan to secure the production rights for the three-body novel of Liu Tsu-shin, a writer who gained great popularity both inside and outside China, and spend 200 billion won to produce it as a six-part film. However, over the years the project has been sluggish.

The Three Chess is a work that received great attention for being read on vacation by former US President Barack Obama while in office. Writer Ryu Tsu-shin won the Hugo Prize, the first prestigious science fiction literature award in Asia for this work.

Xu Yao, suspected of being a perpetrator, is said to have been pursuing a business related to the filmization of three bodies. In China, there are also observations that the expectation of the three-body filmization has become darker due to this incident.

Chinese society is astonished that it is possible that a successful young businessman was killed in a terrible way.

Lynch, born in 1981, achieved great success by establishing a game company Yuju in 2009, and emerged as a young entrepreneur representing the Chinese game industry.

According to Hurun, a report from China’s buoyancy, Chairman Lin, who owns a 24% stake in Yuju, is estimated to be about 1 billion dollars (about 1.1 trillion won).

Yuju, a rare Chinese game company, is also a company that has actively engaged in overseas sales outside of China. Almost half of sales in the first half of this year came from outside China. It is also known as the production company of the game’Game of Thrones Winter Is Coming’ based on the popular American drama’Game of Thrones’.

Along with Tencent, he is also a Chinese distributor of Supercell’s popular game, Brawl Stars.
/ Reporter Maeng Joon-ho [email protected]

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