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— Written by: Stephe Thornton, Managing Editor ^@@^ 4:10 am EST

(cap courtesy of Rainstorm, Japan)

Well, about an hour and a half ago from the time in this post, dear fans, I finished listening to 96.7 Friends FM radio’s broadcast of the live Reservist Day 44th year special, where Park HyoShin and other soldiers entertained ROK reserve army members and Rain briefly showed his face. It was really, really cool. HyoShin straight up showed out and sang up a storm, as did all the singers. The MC kept the show going at a good pace. Rain’s chat with the MC, which came in the first 15 minutes or so after a couple of HyoShin songs, was brief, but boy, did the man sound good.

At first we (me, CloudUSAer Marisara, and Cloud Unite) weren’t quite sure if we were listening to the right program, but then we heard “world star…” and “Jung JiHoon… 비!” The troops started hollering. That smooth, familiar voice identified itself and began talking with the MC. And that was all she wrote. I was good for the night. LOL!

The whole show lasted around 90+ minutes. Here is an audio clip of Rain’s short chat with the host.

(Source: Friends FM / courtesy of ratoka @YT)

[English translation by 화니]

– Friends FM – 2시의휴게실 (The Lounge At 2:00PM) –

0:13~0:35
MC : We welcome a PR soldier who serves his duty of national defense in Defense Agency for Public Information Services, and he is a world-famous star and Korea’s lusty young man. His name is pfc ‘Jung Ji Hoon’ serving in Defense Agency for Public Information Services. Please welcome? Bi (Rain).

0:39~43
Rain : [Loyalty! ^@@^] This is Pfc ‘Jung Ji Hoon’ (Rain) Thank you.

0:45~1:05
MC : Since he is present, I lose my nerve and cannot approach him.
I think I’m a great favorite with the older generations, but I feel small in front of him. He looks more manly here. How do you feel when you stand here?

1:06~1:13
Rain : Thank you for inviting me to such a great event by having big seniors attend, and I feel honored to be here.

1:14~1:15
MC : I’ve heard you don’t feel well recently.

1:16~1:32
Rain : No, I mean.. I participated in a concert in Vietnam last time, which was followed another performance after that, and my legs, meanwhile, hurt a bit. So, it looks like performing this time will [would ^@@^] be difficult. I tried [wanted ^@@^] to show you wonderful stage performances today, but I’m afraid I have to take a rain check [A “rain check”… heheh!  Plenty of those on the blog, right, Terri? ^@@^]. I’ll give a great performance next time.

1:33~
MC : Do you understand the position he is in?
People : Yeah!

1:36~46
MC : How are you going to serve in the military?

1:47~2:12
Rain : I’ll work hard so that I won’t regret it afterwards, and thank the chief of Defense Agency for Public Information Services for treating his soldiers well. I’ll do my best in everything I do to be an inspiration to a lot of people. Thank you.

2;13~28
MC : You are very eloquent indeed. I’m afraid he has to go now. I’d like to invite him again if there is a chance. (People are clamoring to prevent him from going)

2:29
Rain : Thank you.

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As we understand it, Rain and a few of his fellow soldiers are scheduled for a guest appearance on military radio show radiojumam on the 9th at 8 pm KST (which should be 7 am EST here in Atlanta). So if you’re interested in having a listen, I can tell you that the broadcast I listened to was as clear as crystal without one second of buffering. It felt like I was in Seoul. Quite surprising.

Just as surprising was that I downloaded and installed the StarCandy/Friends FM player in less than two minutes from the Korean Forces Network, watched the thing open up on my desktop, and listened right in. (Cloud Unite posted instructions on Twitter HERE.) I can’t guarantee that it’ll do the same for you, but it was so easy that I will say it’s definitely worth a shot.

Cloud Unite also suggested two other ways to listen to Friends FM that did not involve downloading the StarCandy player: 1) Open an Internet Explorer browser, enter mms://222.122.215.225/R2 as the web address you want to go to, and a player should open up for you, OR 2) use your IE browser to go to http://www.dema.mil.kr/, allow popups and activeXcontrol, and click radio. The radio should load for you then.

I experimented and tried additional suggestion #1 as well, and RealPlayer immediately opened up and let me listen to the show. Not only that, but I could record it.

(See? My StarCandy Player up in the corner, and RealPlayer blaring away in the center. All I had to do was mute one of them.)

Huge thanks to Cloud Unite and their sources for sharing this information and helping more Clouds listen to Friends FM. The Korean Forces Network will be JiHoon’s home away from home for the next year and three months. This will make it that much simpler to cheer him and his fellow entertainment soldiers on.

— Stephe @cloudusa.wordpress.com / CloudUSA.org

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~ by Cloud USA on April 7, 2012.

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