Friday, September 18, 2026

'10-Billion-Won CEO' Song Eun-i: Employees Testify, "She Said We Left Her Behind When We Went to Eat Together ... I Thought It Was the Communist Party"

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2026-09-18 08:18:29
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2026-09-18 08:18:29
/Photo: Screenshot from the YouTube channel 'VIVO TV'

[Financial News] Broadcaster and CEO Song Eun-i looked back on the past with her employees and had a candid conversation with them.
On the 17th, the YouTube channel 'VIVO TV' uploaded a video titled 'Employees' Betrayal: Everyone from VIVO CEO Song Eun-i, the Old-School Boss, to the Young-Generation Bosses Turns Up! VIVO's "Back in My Day"~.'
In the video, Song Eun-i told employees working late, "I just had a great idea. Let's talk while eating late-night snacks with the employees working overtime. I wonder how many people will come up," then worried, "Am I going to be the only one who comes up?" However, four employees gathered.
Manager Lee, a seven-year veteran PD who was the newest hire among them, revealed, "March 1st Independence Movement Day was my first day at work. The CEO called me in because there was a meeting." Song Eun-i recalled, "There were no employees back then. You were my first regular employee covered by the four mandatory social insurance programs. It's unbelievable that I worked here for 10 years, but it's just as unbelievable that you've stayed for 10 years."
When Writer Noh responded, "You're such an old-school boss," Manager Lee took aim at Song Eun-i and Writer Noh, saying, "Even so, I always get overshadowed because the two of you are here."
Song Eun-i protested, "I'm not an old-school boss, am I?" But Manager Noh amused everyone by revealing, "There was a time when the CEO swallowed her extreme anger. She said, 'How could you all leave me behind when you went to eat? How could not even one of you ask me?' So I told her, 'Ask the others to take you with them.' She said, 'Oh, then that's what I should do,' and calmed down right away."
Song Eun-i recalled, "I think it was because we used to eat together as a group back then. The employees said, 'We didn't know you were there.' In the past, more than 10 of us would all eat together." Writer Noh added, "We could have waited at the entrance and eaten separately, but we insisted on waiting," while PD Han joked, "When I first joined, I said, 'Isn't this the Communist Party?'"
When Song Eun-i explained, "I wasn't the one who suggested it," Writer Noh laughed and said, "There was no freedom to choose the menu. Compared with that, now nobody wants to eat together."
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