A 39-year-old businessman who is the legend of youth success in the Chinese game industry was suddenly killed in question and shocked Chinese society.
The Chinese public security is investigating suspected that the entrepreneur was poisoned by a disgruntled colleague.
In a statement posted on the Internet on the 25th, Chinese game company YOOZOO said that the company’s founder and largest shareholder, Chairman Lynch, died in a hospital without revealing details.
President Lynch was born in 1981, and in 2009, he established a game company, Yuju, and achieved great success.
On the 24th, just before Mr. Lin’s death, the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau pointed out a male colleague of the same age as Xu Mo, saying it was suspected of being poisoned by poison.
The Chinese Economic Week estimated that Xu Yao, the chief executive officer of the film-making subsidiary in Yuju, “Three-Chain Universe” (三体宇宙), would have poisoned Chairman Lin, as a reason for a business dispute.
Although the details of the incident have not yet been clarified, Chinese media are paying attention to the possibility that the filmization problem of the science fiction novel’Three Body’, which has attracted great interest in China, has been the cause.
The Three Chess is a science fiction work that attracted great attention because it was read on vacation by former US President Barack Obama while in office, and author Ryu Tsushin was the first Asian to receive the Hugo Prize, a prestigious science fiction literary award.
Game company Yuju had an ambitious plan to secure the right to produce a film for’Three Body’ and to make it into a six-part film with 200 billion won, but there has been little progress in recent years.
Xu Yao, who is suspected of being poisoned, is known to be the director of the three-body filmmaker.
In China, due to this incident, there are also observations that the prospect of the three-body filmmaking has become darker.
Chinese business media reported that President Lin Suum Jin owns 24% of Yuzhou’s shares, and his fortune is estimated at USD 1 billion and our money is KRW 1.1 trillion.
Yuju, a rare Chinese game company, earned almost half of its sales in the first half of this year outside of China.
It was also known as the production company of the game’Game of Thrones: Winter Is Coming’ based on the popular American drama’Game of Thrones’.
(Photo = Yuju website capture, Yonhap News)