$16 million apartment, no big deal: Singaporean businessman David Yong flaunts his wealth on Netflix’s Super Rich in Korea, Entertainment News

Four-story villa in Singapore with private elevator, 11 cars in four different countries, traveling by private jet to save time.

That’s what local businessman David Yong flaunted in Netflix’s new six-episode reality show, Super Rich in Korea.

“I graduated from the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom and am a lawyer by profession,” he said. “My family has been doing business in Asia for more than three generations, from lumber to real estate to finance.

“For my part, I run an investment company.”

The 37-year-old added that he came to South Korea three years ago to invest in the entertainment scene, including S$10.2 million in entertainment agency Attrakt, which held auditions for his girl group Fifty Fifty in Singapore in March.

David is also no stranger to the spotlight, having released his first K-pop single In My Pocket in 2022, then Maybe Love featuring K-pop girl group Mamamoo’s Moonbyul last April and the dancefloor Dripping featuring South Korean artist DJ Soda. last August.

His company, Evergreen Group Holdings, is also a co-organizer of Waterbomb Singapore.

David has been living in the luxury hotel and residential building Signiel Seoul and took the cameras, and his friend, Italian Teodoro Marani or Teo, on a tour of his apartment.

“The deposit is 500 million won (S$500,000) and the rent is 20 million won,” he said. “It’s not much, it’s not a big deal.”

While Teo, son of luxury line CEO Henry Beguelin, said David was a “great guy, a great friend”, he showed displeasure that he had a money counting machine in the living room, while the hosts of Got7’s show BamBam, Cho Sae-ho, and former Oh My Girl member Mimi were taken aback when David ordered room service where eggs cost 19,000 won.

“I’m really surprised how David doesn’t seem to care,” Sae-ho, 41, said.

Mimi, 29, said: “He said he travels by private jet to save time. Wouldn’t it be quicker to make an egg himself instead of waiting for room service?”

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David and Teo’s friendship appears to be one where David is spontaneous and Teo is more frugal and thoughtful, which was shown in episodes two and three when David, who considered his apartment to be too small, went to see a place in La Terrasse Hannam, where a real estate agent said that Blackpink’s Jennie also owns an apartment.

With David’s budget of 16 billion won and the apartment at that price, he was ready to give the real estate agent his black card and buy it right away, but Teo stopped him.

“It’s ridiculous,” Teo said of the cost of the apartment in an interview, while David didn’t consider it a “bad price.”

David also reviewed a penthouse at Raemian One Bailey Apartments, and again Teo had to stop him from making an immediate purchase, while flirtatiously giving the estate agent his business card and asking him to contact him if David bought it too hastily. .

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‘That Chanel brooch was looking at me instead of him’

The difference in personality between David and Teo was evident once again in the fourth episode when they went on double-blind dates.

Although Teo said he was there to support David, who “needs to find a good girl”, it was he who charmed the two women, Georgian Sally and Korean Hyun-ji.

David arrived late and his friend, model Lee Sa-bi, who introduced the men to the women and helped David get dressed for the date, asked him to “hand her her Chanel brooch.”

The bling didn’t seem to win over the women at the date either, as Hyun-ji said in an interview: “When I looked at David, I felt like the Chanel brooch was looking at me instead of him.”

Teo ended up charming Hyun-ji into a second date, saying he liked smart girls instead of sexy and cute, and pouring wine for the women.

However, David missed out despite sharing that he runs an investment business, sings and is a lawyer and tells women that Singaporean men are “very good to their girlfriends”.

“Teo is someone who has central air conditioning,” David said in an interview. “He was nice to the real estate agent, he was nice to the girls on the blind date, he’ll probably be nice to the older women who work in restaurants.

“That’s what playboys do.”

“I’m sorry, David,” Teo said in a separate interview.

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Viewers of Super Rich in Korea, which was ranked second on Singapore’s top 10 TV shows list at the time of writing, were divided in their opinion of David.

“David is very vulgar and has no game. Money doesn’t buy class,” said one Redditor.

“Old money that behaves like new money,” said one X user. “It needs urgent intervention because its current style is quite striking.”

Another X user wrote: “That guy David is really hard to watch.”

However, some were sympathetic and found it entertaining.

“David is using money to hide his vulnerability in social situations and hopes success will help him make friends,” one Redditor wrote. “He seems sweet but lacks self-awareness and confidence.”

“To be honest, Teo puts me off,” wrote one X user. “At first I didn’t like David, but over the course of the show I’ve grown to like him.”

Another posted: “David will definitely be my favorite character. I love him.”

In addition to David and Teo, the show also features Aren Yoo, a customer ambassador for luxury brands in South Korea, Anna Kim, CEO of a business company and Pakistani noblewoman, and Noor Naim, an Iraqi-American businesswoman and creator of content with over 50 million combined followers on social media.

Super Rich in Korea is streaming on Netflix.

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