Becoming Rich with Daily Scavenging APP-Chapter 652: Construction Has Already Begun

Because the South Korean Great Commander was too confident in his statement, it made Saudi Arabia a bit nervous.

If South Korea really secured 70 votes, then Saudi Arabia's bid to host the World Expo would indeed be in jeopardy.

"Don't worry about it," Chen Yiyang comforted Kasim, "Recently, the Great Commander's domestic approval rating has been low, so they need some good news to boost morale."

"Let's hope that's true," Kasim said.

After finishing the call with Kasim, Chen Yiyang looked into South Korea's preparations for the World Expo.

Honestly, after finding out, he did understand why Kasim was worried.

Although the voting hasn't happened yet, all of South Korea is already acting as if Busan has won the right to host the World Expo.

Moreover, South Korea's confidence is not just in their promotion but has turned into action.

They have slogans up in Busan's subways, printed promotional quotes for the Busan World Expo on bottled water, and even completed the park design and mascot for the Expo.

Of course, all this can be understood as promotion for the World Expo.

But what's even more outrageous is that they've not only come up with a park design but also designated the park's location in Busan and started construction for the Expo.

This is what really panics Kasim.

After all, deploying the construction team costs real money.

If they weren't confident in securing the hosting rights for the World Expo, how could they have started construction directly?

Busan World Expo park design plan.

Chen Yiyang didn't know what Busan was thinking. Printing on bottled water, creating a mascot, and engaging in some promotion doesn't cost much.

And if it's not used this time, it can be used in the next election.

But directly starting construction, do they think it could be used next time?

The World Expo is held every five years; the next one would be in five years, and if they can't win the next election, even if they win the one after that,

ten years would have passed, the steel would have rusted, and they'd have to excavate and rebuild.

No wonder Kasim is scared; he would be scared if it were his problem too.

So, Chen Yiyang asked Schaefer to find out if Busan really received the commitment of 70 votes as their Great Commander claimed.

"Not at all." After checking around, Schaefer straightforwardly told Chen Yiyang, "That South Korean Great Commander went with his wife to a country, gave a jar of kimchi to the head of that state, and as soon as he heard that they would consider supporting South Korea, they counted it as a vote.

Aside from kimchi, they made no other commitments. With tactics like that, I estimate Busan currently has at most ten votes."

"That's good then." Chen Yiyang trusted Schaefer's judgment.

Anyway, with only a few weeks left until the World Expo city voting, the result will be clear soon enough.

After finishing the call with Schaefer, Chen Yiyang browsed some recent news.

Previously, because their ready-made dishes took a significant hit, resulting in a substantial drop in revenue, Hope is currently actively undergoing self-help.

However, their self-help method is somewhat abstract. It's unclear if CEO Jia fired the previous PR team and brought in a new inexperienced one.

The new PR team gathered a bunch of young beautiful women, having them act as Hope's employees to promote the company on short video platforms.

On the surface, it seems to have a good effect.

Many people's perceptions are driven more by appearances, with their smaller heads taking over their bigger heads in thinking.

On seeing the beauties, people said, if Hope had used this tactic sooner, they definitely wouldn't have joined Luo Yonghao in criticizing Hope back then.

However, the reason the effect remains only on the surface is because,

those who say such things are definitely not Hope's target customers.

Hope's high prices and food lacking stimulating flavors

make it the first choice for middle-aged people or families with children traveling. 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

The ones whose small heads override their big heads are young people.

Even if they want to support Hope, a glance at the prices would probably make them turn away immediately.

Even the rich wouldn't want to be taken for fools.

So, Hope used another tactic, posting promotional articles on its official site.

This promotional article is also very abstract.

It tells a story of a seven-year-old who, upon entering Hope, clung to a waiter's leg.

It turns out, after the kid's mom read articles online, she stopped taking him to eat at Hope's restaurant.

Having frequently dined there since he was two, the kid refused to go elsewhere, even with toys as bribes, insisting on eating at Hope.

Yeah.

This story is quite abstract.

Not only is its tone reminiscent of old official promotional articles,

but its meaning is even more abstract.

Did they really think the kid liked eating in the Northwest, leading the parents to bring them there?

Perhaps it's because the parents believed Hope was healthy, so they brought their child there.

But this abstract promotional article turned parents into antagonists, making them look like the bad guys.

Parents who might have originally considered supporting Hope, after seeing this article, likely won't bring their children again.

As Chen Yiyang pondered, he refreshed the article.

The article immediately disappeared, having been deleted by Hope's official channel itself.

Well, at least they weren't completely foolish.

Today's intel, Surgical Robots: A domestic surgical robot company seeks investors ready for a scoop.

Related contact details are on page two.

Surgical robots?

Waking up this morning, as he had breakfast, Chen Yiyang looked at today's scoop intel.

Such a long time had passed, and finally, there was a decent scoop intel.

Chen Yiyang was naturally quite interested.

But this surgical robot field was indeed one he'd never researched before.

So he asked his assistant to find some relevant materials, intending to understand the field before investing.

The assistant quickly sent over the documents.

Surgical robots already have a well-established commercial market.

However, what are known as surgical robots aren't machines that perform surgeries but are surgical support systems.

Similar to the way autonomous driving relates to cars, a human operator is still needed.

The industry's most famous surgical robot brand comes from North America, and their robots are known as the Da Vinci Surgical Robots.

This system is composed of three main sections: the surgeon console, patient-side robotic arms, and an imaging processing platform.

The method for using surgical robots is that the main surgeon sits at the console to control the instruments and camera, then operates the robotic arms to perform the surgery.

Compared to traditional surgery methods, surgical robots cause less trauma, result in less bleeding, and allow patients to recover more quickly post-operation.