{*Edited to Add 9/9: I forgot to include in my post that DramaFever is making attempts to get additional licensing so that overseas fans can also use their service, but for now they are only available in North America (the U.S. and Canada). Sincere apologies for the oversight! ^@@^}
Rain’s and Song HyeKyo’s massive 2004 romantic comedy hit and major boost to the Hallyu wave Full House (풀 하우스, Pul Hauseu) is now available English subbed and in crystal clarity on DramaFever. For many of you, these sixteen episodes were the reason you ran into Rain in the first place and fell madly in love with his silly self. Let’s face it, he truly shined and made an impact as that character. As he often said during that time, he loved playing YoungJae, a fact that really came through in his portrayal of him.
Terri—and who knows how many other people—has been requesting Full House (and all of Rain’s dramas) on DramaFever for about a year, and so it’s wonderful to see it here now for all of us to enjoy online over and over and over again. Cheers!
Actor ‘Jang Geun Seok’ said on MBC TV’s show program ‘Golden Fishery’ aired last 7th that he had done a dance battle with singer Rain.
‘Jang Geun Seok’ went to Rain’s concert in Busan with Jang’s friend who is a huge fan of Rain, and met Rain for the first time in ten years after appearing in a situation comedy with Rain during Jang’s rookie season.
“Rain arranged the best positions for us that day. At the end of his concert, ‘Shuffle Dance’ music was pounding out from the band, so I started dancing to the music, jumping up out of the chair before anyone else.
When I was dancing in a sweat, a concert official came to me and offered to go on stage, so I did so without hesitation. I wonder how I dared to dance ‘Shuffle Dance’ in the presence of international ‘dancing king’ Rain, inwardly screaming ‘It is I who am just the king of Shuffle Dance.’ At that time Rain told me, “I can’t catch up with you”. In fact, my strength is that I’m younger than him.”
Looks like one of Rain’s live charity concerts, specifically the one on 9/15, will be held at World Memorial Hall in Kobe. Thanks to Hana in Japan for this information! I ran across this while browsing my blog links, and thought this might be of interest to English speakers in the area or our Japanese sisters who didn’t yet have the info. — Stephe ^@@^ 🙂 (Images credit: Hanamaru Rain Diary)
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BEAUTIFUL Raizo fan art from mica.jp, perhaps to celebrate the premiere of Ninja Assassin in Japan back in early 2010. 🙂
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Have yourself some GORGEOUS Rain wallpaper courtesy of RainLove2! 🙂
Please see the English notice (of the Board’s original Korean notice) below, posted on The Cloud today. Thanks to 화니 (Hwani) for providing it. Good heavens, I would certainly hope that Rain fans wouldn’t just get up and leave once the “Rain part” is over. How embarrassing would that be for him? Yikes!
[notice] Rain shall attend The 2011 Festival of the Handicapped’s Art and Culture — 9/8/11
Hi, we’re 8th term Cloud executive board.
It is decided that Rain shall attend The 2011 Festival of the Handicapped’s Art and Culture. (We’ve called ahead and asked, just to make sure.)
* Title : The 2011 Festival of the Handicapped’s Art and Culture
* Date : 09/29 (Thur) 18:30~21: 30.
* Location : A specially prepared stage in Seoul City Hall public square (you can get off at City Hall station on subway line one, two)
* Seating capacity : 5,000 seats.
* The object : People without exception is to gather together and celebrate the festival.
★ Application for Fan seats ★
1. Both Cloud members and nonmembers can apply for Fan seats
2. 500 Fan seats have been allotted to fans (There could be extra allocations)
3. Please place your request via e-mail rain0929bi@hotmail.com
4. Email message :
-Email title : The representative’s name (in the case of overseas fans, please write their own English names) + The total number of applicants + The representative’s contact number.
-Email contents : The applicants’ names, contact numbers.
Example : Email title : 정지순, 3명, 010-123-4567
Email contents : 정지순, 010-123-4567
정지영, 010-789-4321
정지돌, 010-852-8520
5: Application period : for 10 days, from 09/08(Thur) to 09/17(Sat)
6. You can sit anywhere you like.
★ We need to say a few words ★
Please keep rank in such a public place, and don’t go AWOL in the middle of the concert and just enjoy it to the end even after Rain’s performance.
As I mentioned in this week’s Open Thread post, Rain will be doing a live charity concert in Tokyo and Kobe in order to raise more disaster aid for Japan, a wonderful thing indeed. Please see below his personal message posted on the Korean side of his website today. Sounds like the shows will be televised so that a lot more people can watch and participate in the event, a great idea. Thumbs up!
It’s a very great pleasure to meet many of you in each region every weekend these days.
And, I have good news.
I’ll be giving a benefit performance in a fan meeting form in Japan on September 13, 15.
Now at last I have an opportunity to give a hand and bring cheer to many of Japanese fans having a hard time by a severe natural disaster, after pondering upon it long enough.
I hope that there are many of you who will be inspired to participate in this very significant event which is also a fan meeting as it’s not easy for me to find time.
Hope this concert will encourage the Japanese earthquake victims, and thank many of you (to watch the concert) in advance for your support.^^
Chuseok (like Thanksgiving) is coming up soon.
Happy Chuseok, every fan both at home and abroad..
(Rain’s Nature Republic Collagen Dream 80 campaign, 2008. Beauty personified… NR was a very smart cookie. CLICK on the images for their actual size. You won’t be sorry.)
[2011 RAIN Korea Tour Schedule/ all concert times from InterPark] August 13, 14 (Sat, Sun) – Busan BEXCO • 7 PM Sat/5 PM Sun Sat 27 August – Daegu EXCO Priest • 7 PM Sat, September 3 – Jeju Convention Center • 7 PM Sat, September 17 – Gwangju (Yeomju Gymnasium) • 7 PM Sun September 18 – Daejeon (KOTRA Trade Exhibition Center) • 7 PM September 24 and 25 (Saturday, Sunday) – Seoul Olympic Park Stadium • 5 PM both days
With Flight filming finished, and no Best concert for two weeks, JiHoon should have a little time to breathe away from the public, get a few days R & R, and continue tying up loose ends on projects that have been percolating. Before Gwangju and Daejeon next weekend, though, he looks to have a charity concert in Tokyo and Kobe, Japan on the 13th and 15th. Not a bad idea, seeing as Japan is still in dire need of aid after the earthquake/tsunami/nuclear power plant disaster back in the spring.
If he can help them in any way, that’s a good thing. I say thumbs up.
Please keep your thoughts of health and strength going to him full force, Clouds!
Do link this post if you wish to share it, but PLEASE DO NOT put this article on other sites without getting permission from The Jeju Weekly first. Thanks, everyone!
HUGE thanks to The Jeju Weekly editor-in-chief Todd Thacker for letting us post their exclusive article for our readers. And thanks to Sarah Delroy for this write-up and for her personal pictures of Rain at his Best Jeju concert stop. (On a personal note, it’s difficult to hear Ninja Assassin and flop in the same sentence, but the truth of it is that words only have the power you give them. The movie did not do as well as we hoped it would, that is the plain truth. What it did do was finish well into the black, introduce Rain to Hollywood and show his amazing skills, make him a nice chunk of change, and give great enjoyment to many martial arts fans and Rain fans alike. So let’s not rag on Sarah—she’s written a really solid, complimentary piece about Rain here, and again, we thank her.)
K-pop superstar Rain entertained Jeju last Saturday on his ‘Best Show Tour’
Written by: Sarah Delroy, contributor @jejuweekly.com
(Image credit: Sarah Delroy @Jeju Weekly)
What is it about Rain?
He’s more than a triple-threat singer/dancer/actor. He is a known force in Korea and outside of it. As Ailbhe O’Donnell, a Jeju English teacher, puts it, his name is not simply Rain. It is “The International Pop Superstar Rain.”
What is it about him that makes professed feminists scream in high-pitched voices to rip his shirt off during concerts? How did a Korean pop star make it onto Time’s 100 most influential people who shape our world in 2006, top of the list in 2007 and again this year? How has he managed to stay around in a music industry that is famous for it’s two-year turn over? How, with his music and movies and television shows, and touring, and production company and clothing company, does he ever sleep?
All these questions jettisoned out of mind on Saturday at his concert in Seogwipo when the lights went down. The bass began thumping so loudly my body became a drum. The curtain dropped and the crowd collectively gasped, then screamed at top volume.
Co-founder Terri hasn’t completely changed the FP page, because she knows that many of your favorites are on it. Rather, she has freshened it up very nicely with images that will tickle your fancy and that make the page feel sparkly and new.
Warning: Our Favorite Pics Page is not to introduce you to Rain, or to educate you about Rain (although it might just do that in spite of itself), or to merely entice you with Rain. Its sole purpose is to KILL YOU. To stop your heart. To make you flat-line. So be sure to have your wits about you—not to mention some hand towels, bibs, a cold-water hose, a defibrillator or two, and other helpful paraphernalia—as you open it and let it load. Terri can be quite relentless. 😉
The visuals in these are l-o-v-e-l-y indeed! But do turn down the sound a bit because of the hard bass. You know what concert speakers do to fan cams, unfortunately. *ouch* We’re glad this fan cammer shared them anyway, though. Thanks much! 🙂
And let me say this: The Men were killing it. The band was killing it. (Anyone know the name of that drummer?) WOW.
This week’s episode of KBS World’s K-Wave Station takes us all to the VIP premiere of actress Shin SeKyung’s highly anticipated movie, Blue Salt. As you know, SeKyung is Rain’s co-star and love interest in his upcoming blockbuster Flight: Close To The Sun (비상 [飛上]: 태양가까이), and so this is a really nice opportunity to get to know her a little before Flight is released. K-Wave was also fortunate enough to catch Rain at the premiere, and included a few brief thoughts from him about the movie twice in this segment.
This K-Wave News segment starts at minute marker 2:49. Do enjoy it.
Also in this week’s episode: The latest on G-Dragon, I.U., idol group DNT, a hanbok fashion show by Park SulNyeo, and many other tidbits of interest. Good show!
[K-WAVE STATION] ep12_11.09.02. (Credit: KBS World / kbsworld @YT)
I love the over-sized sun visor look, quite frankly. 🙂 And seems JiHoon had better luck with this than “YoungJae” had at FantasyLand in Full House, thank heavens. LOL!
(Rain and Ronnie Yang images and Tweet credits: Ronnie Yang / noniboy23 @yfrog, 9.5.11 / English translation by rain bird @rain.eu.)
오늘 내 평생 처음으로 에버랜드에 와봤쥐~ 썬캡은 역쉬 차단 효과가 어마무지혀~ ㅋㅋㅋ
I went to Everland for the first time today~ Sun cap definitely helps to close over his face from people~ kekeke
— Written by: Stephe Thornton, Managing Editor ^@@^
Asia broadcast 9/3.
Last week, we left off with Rain and Jan Vogler’s rehearsal for their Classic Meets Pop joint concert at the Semper Opera House, during the Dresden Music Festival last May 2011, one of the most interesting episodes of RAINY DAY to date (in my opinion, anyway.) This week, rehearsal is done, Rain and Crew amuse themselves backstage waiting for Zero Hour, the clock ticks down, and…
It’s show time. The Real Deal. The audience swells, and Jan and JiHoon go to work. 🙂
Nice audience shots during “Rainism” really show those of you, who haven’t seen images from inside the Semperoper yet, just how deep and wide and high up the people were in that place. It was a packed house, which really came as no surprise with those two powerhouse names on the marquee! As Mr. Charisma and his Dangerous Crew headed into “It’s Raining”, the audience of Rain fans AND Vogler fans AND DMF-goers didn’t hesitate to amp up the volume. Haha. They just couldn’t help it. Rain fans dominated, of course, but that’s what we do. 🙂
One of my favorite parts of this episode (and any fan cam from this event) is when Rain and Jan are on stage together, chitter-chattering with each other and the audience and being downright giggly about their collab. RAIN: “Okay! We just do it!” That was when the two handsome maestros headed on into another one of my absolute favorite things from that night—a beautifully cello’d “Escaping The Sun.” OMG. Without me having to find a fan cam that shows Vogler along with Rain during the number, which was the point of the whole performance, by the way, thank you very much. OMG.
Check out Jan silently grooving to the Rain beat until it’s time to play his cello in the downpour. So cool.
And then we’re right into cello’d “Love Song”! *in heaven* Oh, how I would love if there was an official release of this version. As it is, my fingers are crossed that an official DVD of the whole joint concert, along with the entire DMF Europe/Asia sharing of cultures, will come available.
Nice touch, RAINY DAY, letting us see “Love Song” from JiHoon’s point of view, letting us see some of what he saw as it happened. He and Jan knew, after “Love Song”, just what a special, historical thing they had done on that stage. It was written all over their faces.
Uh-oh. The amazing, emotional, being-a-part-of-history moment I was experiencing has just been completely dissipated by Rain killing “Hip Song” from the side at minute marker 9:10. Good gravy! @__@ LOL That “Hip Song” was certainly one for Rain’s record books, too. And after all the accolades, some autographs, and a peace-out from Rain, we are done.
Big thanks to our German, Asian, and global sisters who were there at the DMF to give The Man and the Men so much love. Thanks to all the Dresden Music Festival-goers who supported Classics Meets Pop and helped make the concert so successful; because of the diverse audience in the Semper Opera House that night, no one can say that “only Rain’s fans” appreciated his performance. Any naysayers can stick that in their pipes and smoke it.
And thanks to the German media for giving Rain’s European debut the press it deserved.
Rain as Lt. Jung TaeHoon on the tarmac with his special Red Muffler war bird… Isn’t this just heavenly? And unlike some of the other images that were lifted from MC Mag a while back, this one isn’t doing any spoiling.
Beautiful! Cannot wait for the movie! Thank goodness it’s in post-production!
(image credit: Military Culture Magazine / image source: DC, The Cloud Photo Board)
{*NOTE: For our global friends, that is U.S. slang for successfully getting something done the way you intended, and VERY well. In this case, Rain got fans in the crowd pretty riled up, and quickly, which was definitely his intention. Ha. I was just thinking that that phrase would come out really funky in a translator. 🙂 }
He had to be. It’s common knowledge that gas stoves get much hotter than electric stoves and it’s easier to control the heat levels. 🙂
Mmmmmmmm. Enjoy this, my fine peeps who may not have seen it yet, Rain’s “I Love You Again” from his Best concert a few weeks ago in Daegu (대구). Those who have already seen it, I’m sure you won’t be complaining.
My LORD, somebody sure was feeling their wild oats that night. Part way through the video, either security got too close or the fan cammer went unconscious/catatonic, and it took her a bit to get sorted out again. I can’t blame her. By the end of this thing, every blood vessel in my head was pounding. @____________@
Holy Cannoli!
[fancam] 20110827 Rain The Best Show (대구) RAIN(비)_난 또 니가 좋은거야. “I Love You Again.” (credit: rainist327 @YT)
Lordy, don’t hurt us, Rain! Don’t hurt us, Man! ♥ — ^@@^ BI Rain “the best show” in Jeju 03.09.2011 “Love Story” by wildrabbit. (courtesy of wawa2009100 @YT)
Pictures are beginning to trickle in now. We’re going to start with these, and we’ll bring you any more that are spazz- and/or flail-worthy. *wants one of those t-shirts!*
Oh, the suffering they must be going through! (the shakes, blurred vision, tinnitus, palpitations, shortness of breath, catatonia, the works) Hang in there, Taiwanese sisters! 😀 ^__^
(Rain for MENtholatum Taiwan. Captures: ratoka @The Cloud Photo Board)
Behind every Cloud is a silver lining. His name is RAIN.
Cloud USA (EST. January 21, 2010) is a promotional/fan site where all English-speaking Rain Clouds of every age and ethnicity around the globe can share in their love of JI-HOON JUNG, the talented Korean artist known the world over as RAIN [비] (Bi). We want to provide a comprehensive introduction of Rain to those who may not know much about him, as well as help increase his presence in North America.
We also would like to further the popularity of Korean art and culture in the United States.
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