Lynch chairman of Chinese game company’Yuzhou’A 39-year-old businessman who is the legend of youth success in the Chinese game industry suddenly died.
Chinese public security suspects that the businessman was poisoned by a disgruntled colleague and is investigating, shocking Chinese society.
According to local media such as the financial industry on the 27th, the game company YooZoo, in a statement posted on the Internet on the 25th, said the company’s founder and largest shareholder, Chairman Lynch, without revealing details. He said he died in the hospital.
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 Xu, a male colleague of the same age, as a suspect, saying that it was suspected that President Lin was addicted to poison.
China Economic Week said that Xu Yao, CEO of Yuju’s film-making subsidiary, ‘Three-Wed Universe’, poisoned the chairman by poisoning drugs in a business dispute, without revealing the exact source of the information. Reported.
Although the details of the incident have not been revealed, Chinese media are paying attention to the possibility that the filmization of the science fiction novel’Three Body’, which has been attracting 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 to make it into a six-part film with 200 billion won. 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.
In addition, 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 by the Chinese buoyant, 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.
Yuju was also known as the maker of the game’Game of Thrones Winter Is Coming’ based on the popular American drama’Game of Thrones’.
In addition, along with Tencent, he is acting as a Chinese distributor of Supercell’s popular game, Brawl Stars.
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