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Rain’s Nate News Interview, 10/10/2011
비 “인생 1막 끝..군대서 2막 시작” (Rain “Life’s 1st scene finished..2nd scene starts in the Army”)
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Chinese to English by: huhuhuhu
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Article: http://news.nate.com/view/20111010n23280
A telephone interview a day before he enters the army…”A big test when he became independent of JYP”
(Seoul=Yonhap news) reporter Li Enjeong = “Now the first scene of the life of “Rain” has finished. The second scene of my life will start in the army. If until now I have been like a solid pine tree, when I come out of the army, I would change to become a flexible bamboo tree, haha.”
A day before he entered the army, we had a telephone interview with Rain (Jung Jihoon) on 10 October. We asked him about his mood, and he conducted the interview with his usual cheerful voice.
The interview was conducted when Rain had just said goodbye to his mother at her graveyard, and was on his way back to Seoul.
“I was praying for an hour, and had a lot to talk to my mother. I will serve the army diligently just like I have been as a singer. And I will take care of my father and sister just like I have been doing before.”
On 9th October Rain gave a free concert at Yeongdong Road outside Samseong Dong as his final stage before he entered the army.
Rain “was deeply touched seeing the over 20,000 audience”. He told us his feelings. “As I sang each song, the memories of my 10 years since my debut were brought back in rapid succession. The songs brought back the nostalgia. Tears were in my eyes but I told myself not to cry.”
“When I am in the army, I would like to organize my 10 years story between times, and I hope to publish a book called <20s, let’s triumph> in future”. He laughed as he told us this.
The following is our Q&A with Rain about his entering the No. 306 army on 11 October:
Q: How did you spend your time after the date of entering the army had been confirmed?
A: After the news came out, I received dozens of calls “let’s have a meal, let’s have a drink”. I was in Pusan a few days ago with the “Fly Up” movie crew for a press conference at the PIFF and met brother Go Su, sister Kim Soon ah and we had a drink together. I also talked to Director Gang Jeh Keuk who sat at the next table. Also, yesterday JYP came to the after concert celebration party. He encouraged me that there will be many better pieces when I come back from the army. Most of the good friends around me thought “I should live well” haha. Now I am on my way to edit yesterday’s concert for broadcast. Today, I am still spending my time on work.
Q: We saw that you had already cut your hair short at the concert.
A: I wanted to show my fans first how I looked with my hair cut. So I cut it short myself, then I went to the beauty saloon for treatment. If I don’t put on hair styling products I think my hair style would look like that of an elementary student.
Q: What’s your feeling at the last concert before you enter the army?
A: When the stage started, the memories of my 10 years after my debut flashed back in succession. The audition with JYP; the dancer period for JYP and Park Ji Yoon; the release of the 1st album clashing with the world cup, but getting to No. 1 with “Instead of Goodbye”; the release of the 3rd album and winning the grand award; the two times nomination of Times 100; the MTV movie award. They all came up and I was filled with emotions. When I sang “How to avoid the Sun”, “It’s Raining” and all the other songs, they brought back the treasured memories. I promised myself I would not cry at the concert, so I had been holding it all the time.
Q: If you have to choose 5 most meaningful consequences in your past 10 years..
A: Through the drama “Full House” the name of the singer Rain was known throughout Asia; with my popularity in the Asian base I was able to be on Times 100; chosen together with Brad Pitt as one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world by People Magazine; meeting the audience on the stage at the theatre in Hollywood during the premiere of my first major movie “Ninja Assassin” in the USA; the moment I received the MTV movie award with the same movie. All these were unforgettable memories to me.
Q: You had endured many ordeals. When was the most critical trial?
A: When I became independent of JYP in 2007. All the attention from home and abroad was “can Jung Jihoon break away from JYP”. Such attention gave me a lot of mental pressure. Actually I worked in perfect harmony with JYP as partners. He took care of the whole album process in terms of composing, recording, mixing, mastering etc. I looked after the choreography, stage costumes and broadcast strategies. We had good division of labour. However since I stood alone I had to decide everything, from A to Z and there was a lot of stress. I therefore had great attachment to the my first album “Rainism” since I became independent. Luckily the songs “Rainism” and “Love Story” in the album achieved good results on music charts.
Q: Don’t you have the thoughts of putting down your own challenges in a book? Can you tell us beforehand the title of your book?
A: I had the thought of writing a book on the first scene of my life up to now, but this was delayed because I wanted to write it myself. When I am in the army, I plan to organize my stories in memo form in between times. I knew nothing when I was a teenager. However in my 20s, I realized it was a formidable society, and that compared to academic ability, a person having ground breaking ideas will be more successful. I want to write about such thoughts and how I overcome the times of my frustrations. If I have to conceive the title of my book in advance, then it would be “20s, let’s triumph” hahaha
Q: How do you want Rain’s next 10 years to be like?
A: Up to now I have been like a solid pine tree. When I am discharged, I want to change to a flexible bamboo tree. All this time I don’t bend to things and choose the standard frontal attack. I wish to be like when the wind blows, I could move with the wind and keep my composure. Also I want to invest more in myself. Recently I want to do calligraphy and to learn about calligraphy. I like the countryside more and more, so who knows, may be when I am old I could be doing farming work.
Q: Have you not seriously thought about raising a family in your 30s?
A: All people work hard for a happy life. To me, the greatest happiness is the time you spend with your family. I wish to have a family but it is not easy for me. I had girl friend but with my work, I couldn’t devote a lot of attention to her, and it became difficult to each other. Perhaps all people have such experience. Mutual understanding is necessary. If I get married, in order to focus on my family I will have to fold up a lot of activities. At that time, may be just an album and/or a movie in 1 year.
Q: Please say something to MBLAQ whom you personally trained.
A: It would be a very good thing if the kids raised by me could become tiger cubs and give big attacks. It would be good if MBLAQ could do even better than me. I want to say to MBLAQ “work hard constantly. The career of an artist is momentary. You have to be strongly determined as you may not know when the risk will come and your career may be interrupted.” I have been living with the attitude that if I have to start from the very bottom again, I will be able to do it. I wish to emphasize this again.
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