The real estate game of the billion-view “tycoon” who owns Rap Viet and Masked Singer

With the strong development of media over the past 10 years, reality television programs (game shows) have become indispensable content for television stations. A series of popular game shows were born such as Rap Viet, Masked Singer, Who is That Person. These programs bring in millions of views for each episode broadcast on VieON’s Youtube channel.

VieON is the media platform of VieON Joint Stock Company – a member unit of the Joint Stock Company. part of DatViet VAC Group Holdings (Dat Viet VAC Group). Up to now, this corporation is considered biggest enterprise in the game of television game show production.

The predecessor of Dat Viet VAC Group was Mr. Dinh Ba Thanh (born in 1957). established in 1994. The 3 companies that are the pillars of this group are DatViet Media (media company), DatViet OOH (outdoor advertising company) and DDB Advertising (affiliated media company).

In 1998, Mr. Thanh’s group launched the first television program production company in Vietnam called Dong Tay Promotion.

Later, Dat Viet VAC expanded to more units. members such as M&T Pictures (television film production company)TK-L (television copyright supplier)Nomad MGMT VietNam (international model management company)Song Minh (post-production company)Karisma Looks (artist management company)DatViet VAC ME Joint Stock Company.

By 2018, the business will transform from a media company into an entertainment technology ecosystem.

The real estate game of the billion-view

Group of companies belonging to the Dat Viet VAC ecosystem (Chart: Moc An).

According to the National Information Portal on Business Registration, DatViet VAC Group Holdings Joint Stock Company was established in June 2019. After 7 changes in business registration, the enterprise has a charter capital of 64,923 billion VND. Head office at 222 Pasteur, Vo Thi Sau Ward, District 3, Ho Chi Minh City. Mr. Dinh Ba Thanh is the General Director and legal representative.

Initially the company had a charter capital of 5 billion VND, of which Mr. Dinh Ba Thanh contributed 549% of the capital and Mr. Dao Van Kinh contributed 351% of the capital. Hoang Trong Khai contributes 10% of the capital.

Mr. Kinh is currently the legal representative of Dat Viet Media Joint Stock Company. And Mr. Khai is the representative of many other companies such as Dat Viet OOH Joint Stock Company, VieOn Joint Stock Company, Datviet VAC M&E Joint Stock Company… These companies all have addresses at the headquarters of Dat Viet Group. VAC.

In the ecosystem of this group, Song Minh Art Joint Stock Company is led by Ms. Nguyen Thi Ngoc Diep (born in 1962) as the legal representative. Ms. Diep is also a representative of Thi Nam Phuong Joint Stock Company and The Nam Khang Joint Stock Company.

According to the National Information Portal on Business Registration, The Nam Khang Joint Stock Company was established in September March 2007. This enterprise operates in the real estate sector with a charter capital of 58,811 billion VND. Ms. Nguyen Thi Ngoc Diep is currently the Director. This company’s headquarters coincides with the headquarters of Dat Viet VAC Group. And Mr. Thanh is Chairman of the Board of Directors.

This company is the investor project The Nam Khang Resort Residences (now Mandarin Oriental Da Nang). The project is located on the 30km southern coastline adjacent to Hoi An ancient town, including 69 resort villas, 18 3-bedroom villas designed with private space.

In 2021, this project was mentioned by the People’s Committee of Da Nang City. reminders in some projects that have not been implemented or are delayed in implementation. In February 2021, some information said that the Mandarin Oriental Da Nang project will begin operating in 2024.

And Thi Nam Phuong Joint Stock Company is the investor of the Princess Nam Building project. Phuong at 222 Pasteur, Ward 6, District 3, Ho Chi Minh City. This is also the “headquarters” of Dat Viet VAC Group.

Information from the Business Registration Certificate shows that Mr. Thanh and Ms. Diep currently have the same residential address.