[images][quick cam] Rain check.

•June 9, 2014 • Leave a Comment

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A nice fan cam from the Amway Event at the Yeosu Expo. (sizukahuang @Instagram)

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» And a LINK: Dear Mama Don’t Cry at the Amway Event @Yeosu Expo, on Tudou. Credit: emma20111214. Courtesy of HCYANG0115.

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A pretty image of Rain at the Amway British Youth Festival in Busan. (Image credit: 凌小赖fly @tieba.baidu.com)

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A few more images from the Amway event at the Yeosu Expo. (Image credit: 凌小赖fly @tieba.baidu.com)

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Looks like Mr. Rain is one of the celebs who’ve had a good, hearty meal at 깐부치킨 (Kkanbu Chicken), and at 통영식도락 (Gourmet Tong) in Hangnam-dong. (Images credit: as tagged)

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[tutorial] How to pre-order Rain Effect (Taiwan limited version) album on 5music.com.tw

•June 9, 2014 • Leave a Comment

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Huge thanks to @scorpiola for her hard work, and for sharing this with Clouds and fans. 🙂


Posted by: Scorpiola @The Cloud English Talk Board, 6/6

Rain’s 6th Album Rain Effect (Taiwan Version) that will officially release on June 10th is now available for pre-order on 5music.com.tw. 5music is available to ship worldwide but the site is in Chinese only, so here is a tutorial for overseas Rain fans who want to order this album online.

FYI: The first press limited edition of Rain Effect (Taiwan Version) comes with two 悠遊卡 (Easy Card) stickers and a free Rain poster (as shown on 5music webpage).

To start, please go to http://www.5music.com.tw/CDList-C.asp?cdno=435435678515 and follow the 10 steps from picture 1 in this album.

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After your payment is processed, please check your email for an invoice of you order, then you are all set!!

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[press release] International celebrities line up for SIFF’s star-studded Red Carpet. (6/14)

•June 7, 2014 • Leave a Comment

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SIFF.com / News (Shanghai International Film Festival) 6/4/2014 —

International Celebrities Line-up for SIFF’s Star-studded Red Carpet

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A stellar collection of international movie celebrities are expected to attend this year’s Shanghai International Film Festival’s red carpet ceremonies. The Organizing Committee has announced that Nicole Kidman, Hugh Grant, Hayden Christensen, Rain, Song Seung Heon and Park Shin Hye will grace the red carpet at the opening ceremony (June 14).

The closing ceremony red carpet (June 22) will be equally as star-studded with Natalie Portman and Son Tae-Yeong, among others, on parade.

SIFF’s opening night is renowned for attracting the strongest array of “red carpet” stars of any festival in Asia. In recent years it has hosted Halle Berry, Adrien Brody, John Paul Cusack, Sharon Stone, Clive Owen, and Susan Sarandon.

The stand-out feature this year is the pair of Best Actress Oscar-winning stars, Nicole Kidman and Natalie Portman, headlining SIFF’s grandest lineup of overseas film celebrities.
British heartthrob Hugh Grant will be making his debut visit to Shanghai to promote his new work The Rewrite and Hayden Christensen, who played Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars, will attend to support his new film Outcast. The movie is a China-US co-production co-starring China’s Liu Yifei and Andy On.

The presence of many well-known Korean stars on the red carpet this year reflects the surging popularity of Korean TV series and films in Asia and around the world.

Rain will attend with Liu Yifei to promote Difficult Love, a film by director Gao Xixi. Song Seung Heon will bring his new film Obsessed. Son Tae-yeong will hit the closing ceremony red carpet for her co-starring work in a Chinese film.

As the only A-accredited film festival in China, SIFF has gained a reputation over the years for its strong line-up of guest international celebrities on the red carpet and in other festival activities.

Since last year’s glittering festival appearances by Helen Mirren (The Queen), Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty), and Henry Cavill (Man of Steel) there has been strong interest in who will attend this year.

Kidman’s latest movie, Grace of Monaco, will be screened at SIFF in the film premiere section, giving Shanghai audiences an opportunity to see it before general release in China.
The movie opened the Cannes Film Festival program in May and is relatively unknown by Chinese movie fans. Hollywood sweetheart Kidman will attend the Shanghai screening as part of her first visit to the city in a movie promotion role.

The visiting stars will also participate in a range of other film industry activities during the festival.

China has rapidly grown into the second most important box office battlefield after the U.S in the increasingly competitive world cinema market. As one of the most important exchange platforms for Chinese and foreign films, SIFF has won increasing recognition and support at home and abroad for its integrated promotion, marketing and distribution activities.

American and European producers are highly aware of the promotion opportunities provided by SIFF. More and more Chinese and overseas film companies consider participation in the festival in June as an essential opportunity to premiere and promote films to be released during summer holidays.

SIFF provides an important promotion and marketing platform for those films. The festival opens the door for overseas filmmakers into the Chinese market and serves as an important stage for displaying the latest productions.

At the same time, these key filmmakers draw worldwide attention to China.

With the world’s media feasting on the star-studded opening and closing ceremonies and , the festival’s strong program, SIFF and the Chinese industry’s unique style and elegant demeanor are prominently showcased.


 

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» [poster][movie info] 露水红颜 (Roots of Dew): Preliminary info on Rain’s upcoming Chinese film. Movie working titles: 露水红颜 / Lu Shui Hong Yan / Roots of Dew / Dew Roots / Difficult Love.

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Wallpaper! Get your Rain calendar wallpaper for June.

•June 7, 2014 • Leave a Comment

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This month’s themes are H & M/Harper’s Bazaar, the Rain Effect MV, the Back To The Basic press conference, and MENtholatum China. Enjoy! 🙂

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[images] Rain check. (And some RRG. Yeah, you heard me.)

•June 7, 2014 • Leave a Comment

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Random Rain Goodness: Modeling winter wear back in the day. Yowza! (Images credit: Rainstorm)

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Rain at the Amway event at Yeosu Expo, on 6/3. Man’s got legs for days and DAYS. 🙂 (Image credited as tagged)

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An advertisement for the 中国梦•金华情演唱会 / China Dream Jinhua Love Concert (coming up on 7/1) in the Jinhua Daily News yesterday. ^@@^ (Source credit: jhnews)

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阿里-娱乐宝 (pronounced Ali Yu Le Bao, which means Ali “Entertainment Treasure”) has posted promotions for Rain and Liu Yifei’s Chinese movie, Roots of Dew/Difficult Love, on its Weibo. As far as I can tell, Ali Entertainment Treasure is a part of the massive E-commerce giant Alibaba Group, and its customers/users can actually invest their money (by smartphone) in the films, TV programs, and online gaming they get. Both images are invitations to invest in the movie and to enter event sweepstakes the second week of June. ^@@^ (Image credit: 阿里-娱乐宝 @weibo)

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Rain sent flowers to the 6/5 grand opening of Kim JaeJoong’s (of JYJ) new venture in Bupyeong Rodeo-Incheon, Cafe J Holic. How nice. 🙂 ^@@^ (Images credit: flower9504 @Twitter)

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A Chinese article about the upcoming SIFF (Shanghai Int’l Film Festival), posted on OWL-TV2XQ’s Weibo recently. ^@@^

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[fan cams] Rain at the 2014 Amway British Youth Festival in Busan. (6/1)

•June 7, 2014 • Leave a Comment

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[images] Instagrams abound: What have the Fabulous Ones been up to lately?

•June 7, 2014 • 2 Comments

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Looking hella-HANDSOME out in public, what else! *jaw-dropped* *swoon* ♥ ♥ ♥ (6/4)

Chillin’ and fishin’ in Yeosu because they and Rain had a show to do. (6/5, 6/6, 6/7)

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[FYI] Our Hawai’ian Cloud sisters are having a 비 Birthday Celebration. (6/28)

•June 7, 2014 • 1 Comment

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If you’re going to be in the Islands and want to get on a good foot with the Hawaiian Cloud, RSVP and let them know!

They are a fun bunch of wonderful ladies, take it from us. 🙂

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Happy Birthday, Stephe!

•June 5, 2014 • 14 Comments

Happy birthday, Stephe.

I think Lance says it best, but I still have to chime in.  Everyone should have a best friend like you.  Really.  You are absolutely the best.

I hope 2014 and beyond are amazing for you.  ♥

Terri :-}

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[info][from Dot] Cloud USA’s Birthday Wishes Cake for Rain.

•June 4, 2014 • 41 Comments

PLEASE READ THIS NOTICE CAREFULLY, IN ITS ENTIRETY. THANKS!

JJH_MessageCake2Hello, Cloud sisters (and brothers, if you’re out there!). This is Dot, Cloud USA’s Activities Director.

It’s that time of year again, less than a month to RAIN’s Birthday (June 25)… YAY!!! Stephe and Terri asked me if I had any ideas for a birthday project, and one instantly popped into my head.

I recently saw a photo of a “money cake” (← see the picture example to your left), where each individual bill is rolled and they’re all stacked together to create the “layers” of the cake. So, I thought instead of money (because he’s got lots already) how about individual messages from his Clouds? Cloud messages, each the exact same size, rolled up and tied together with ribbon. (Black and silver would be best, I think.)

So, that’s the plan!

If you want to participate and have your birthday wishes to Rain as part of our “cake”, please make your personal message or special quote to fit a 2.75 inches by 6 inches sized piece of paper. Below ( ↓ ) is a blank template, and some examples of what can be done. It can be as elaborate or as simple as you like.

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BUT WAIT! Not feeling crafty, or in a rush? No problem. Send me your message OR post your message in this thread, and I’ll make one up for you using a simple background and a nice font. REMEMBER to add your name and location (and maybe your phone number because you never know 😛 hee hee *just kidding!*) in the message so Rain knows where it comes from. Want to say more? No problem. Send multiple messages and they will be included. The more the merrier!

I will print everything on photo paper to get the best results.

Here’s your mission, should you choose to accept it: WHAT: Send me a message or up to 10 different messages all wishing Jung JiHoon a wonderful birthday.

WHO: Anyone in our extended community here or overseas, no matter your location.

WHERE: Email those images or personal messages to dotk@cloudusa.org. If you’re not very crafty, never fear, leave the messages you’d like me to make for you in the thread under this post.

DEADLINE: June 19, 2014

Once I have everything done, I’ll take a bunch of pictures of our finished creation and maybe even a little video showing all the messages that are in the cake, before shipping it off to RAINY Entertainment and hopefully into Rain’s hands.

Okay, everybody, let’s get on the ball. We’ve got a 30 Sexy world star with a birthday coming up, and no time to waste!

Thanks. 🙂

— Dot @CloudUSA.org

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[Rain message] Rain Effect limited Taiwan edition to be released on June 10.

•June 4, 2014 • Leave a Comment

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On behalf of Sony Music Taiwan, Rain says hello to his fans in Taiwan and tells them about their limited Rain Effect album. Cool! 🙂 ^@@^

(Source credit: Sony Music Taiwan @YT.)

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[ArirangTV][English] Showbiz Korea episode 846: Rain included in celebrities with sexy, daring fashion styles…

•June 4, 2014 • 3 Comments

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…who aren’t afraid to show some skin.

Yessir, if ever there was a list Rain needed to be on, it’s THIS one. Showbiz Korea, we salute you. 😀

The full episode also includes a terrific writeup on duo Fly To The Sky coming back after a five-year hiatus. Good stuff! ^@@^

In Style segment. (Source credit: ARIRANG KPOP @YT.)

Full 24-min episode. Rain at 6:36 minute marker. (Source credit: ARIRANG @yt.)

(Caps by Cloud USA)

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[images][quick cams] Rain at the Amway event at Yeosu Expo. (6/3)

•June 4, 2014 • 1 Comment

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“How to Avoid the Sun? Rain solves that” #Yeosu #Rain #JungJiHoon #Rainism #HowToAvoidTheSun #30Sexy #LaSong #ItsRaining)

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[images] Rain about town: “LA Song” at an LGTV Electronics display, in Hong Kong.

•June 4, 2014 • 1 Comment

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As you may recall, Rain teamed up once again this year with past sponsor LG Electronics to globally promote his music in a unique way.

Past posts:

» Rain Ad campaign of the day: LG Personal Computer Catalogue, 2006. (8/2011)

» Rain Ad campaign of the day: LG XNote (do X) PC, 2006-2008. (11/2012)

Well, a fan found the music video for “LA Song” (off of Rain’s most recent album, Rain Effect) playing in the LGTV section of an electronics store in Hong Kong yesterday. Just as LG said it would be.

Great pictures. Very happy she shared them! Hopefully Rain Effect will be found on more LG displays across the world.

No matter where you live, be looking out for it, everybody! 🙂 ^@@^

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[article] Oscar winners to grace Shanghai’s film festival.

•June 4, 2014 • Leave a Comment

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Oscar-winning actresses Nicole Kidman and Natalie Portman will attend the 17th Shanghai International Film Festival, to be held from June 14 to 22, officials said yesterday.

Kidman will walk the red carpet at the opening ceremony, and her latest offering “Grace of Monaco” will be screened.

Portman, on her first visit to Shanghai, will attend the festival’s Golden Goblet awards ceremony on June 22.

Other international stars taking part in the festival include Britain’s Hugh Grant and Hayden Christensen from Canada. Grant will bring his new romantic film “The Rewrite”  while Christensen will be promoting the wartime epic “Outcast.” The Sino-US co-production also stars Nicolas Cage.

South Korean heartthrobs Rain, Song Seung-heon and actresses Son Tae-young and Park Shin-hye will also attend the festival’s major events.

The organizing committee said the steady growth of annual box office receipts has made China the world’s second-largest film market and that is what is attracting many international filmmakers to promote and debut their new productions in Shanghai.


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[images] Monday Morning Rain Spam.

•June 2, 2014 • 2 Comments

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Because, let’s face it, we can never get enough of Mr. Naughty-So-And-So in Guangzhou on 5/24, can we?

Nope. 🙂

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[article] In Asia, Men’s Skin Care Takes Off.

•June 2, 2014 • 1 Comment

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The Wall Street Journal: Business 5/28/2014 — by Jason Chow in Hong Kong and Nadya Masidlover in Paris

In Asia, Men’s Skin Care Takes Off

Business Is Booming in China, Hong Kong and South Korea; ‘Boys Want to Feel Good, Too’

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The most enthusiastic adoption, by far, is in South Korea, where male celebrities, like singer and actor Rain, have long endorsed skin care in billboards and television ads, paving the way for broader acceptance. South Korean men spent US$25.30 per capita on skin care in 2013—more than three times second-place Denmark. Asian countries account for five of the top 10 countries in per capita spending….

» You can read this detailed article in its entirety on The Wall Street Journal online HERE.

[images/cam] Rain at the 2014 安利青英盛典 (2014 Amway British Youth Festival) at Busan Cinema Center. (6/1)

•June 2, 2014 • 3 Comments

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Rain’s message on behalf of the Amway British Youth Festival, on May 24.

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[article] He’s finally had enough: Rain files defamation lawsuit against previous tenant.

•June 2, 2014 • 6 Comments

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ShizuneMeme1This 60-year-old woman’s (yes, you heard me right, woman, Ms. Park) been asking for her ass to be handed to her on a silver platter for a long, long time.

After the courts told her time and time again that she can’t legally skip out on paying her rent (to Rain), she went and lost her ever-loving mind, even resorting to the low-down tactic of publicly claiming and putting up signs that Rain had raped and robbed her while he was in the military a year and a half ago.

The courts dismissed that ridiculous countersuit last July 2013 and fined her heavily for making false accusations that could really damage an innocent person. And so now, she’s standing in front of the Seoul Prosecutor’s office yelling more accusations and holding up an “Arrest Rain Immediately” sign, and filing more things to take up the courts’ time.

Rain has obviously HAD ENOUGH.

Dang, lady, why don’t you just pay your damn rent? It’s been five years. ROFL

» From Stephe’s desk: The wheels in those neti-brains may be turning, but… (7/9/2013)

» [article] From Stephe’s desk: Of 2013 ZEPP Tour songs and the latest (stupid) lawsuit news. (11/21/2013)

Pay your rent and go get your life, seriously. No one lives on or sets up shop on anyone’s property for free, and the little time we have on earth is way too short for this kind of tomfoolery.

Stephe @cloudusa.wordpress.com / CloudUSA.org


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Rain files lawsuit against a designer for defamation

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International star Rain filed a lawsuit against a designer, named Mr. Park, for libel on the 30th of May.

At the trial, Rain allegedly expressed that Mr. Park had been constantly defaming Rain’s reputation, causing him a lot of stress and pain.

Rain owned a building in Seoul’s Chungdam-dong, in which he leased the building to Mr. Park from August of 2009 until March of 2011 with a deposit of 100 million won and a monthly rate of 4 million won.

However, Mr. Park had reportedly not paid the monthly rate since September of 2010, and he did not leave the building even after the contract had expired.

Furthermore, due to Mr. Park’s negligence of the building, water had leaked through the walls, causing up to 200 million won’s worth of damage, in which he refused to be evicted or to pay the lease fees, and instead brought up a counteraction.

Upon being evicted and sued, Mr. Park counteracted and tried to sue Rain for not repairing the building, which caused the water to leak from the walls, damaging Mr. Park’s drawings. Furthermore, he also argued that Rain had allegedly forged the contract and deceived Mr. Park several times.

However the justice department sided with Rain and explained that there was no cause-and-effect-relationship with Rain’s duty to repair the walls of the building, as it was an issue that could have, and should have been handled by the leaser.

Currently, Mr. Park is protesting alone infront of the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office with a placard that reads “Arrest Rain immediately”, along with defamatory statements about Rain, which ultimately led to Rain filing this lawsuit against Mr. Park for defamation.

Last July, Mr. Park received a summary indictment fee of 3 million won, however Mr. Park has decided to appeal for no-suspension by applying for a formal trial.

Upon hearing this, Rain expressed that, “I was willing to forgive him before but it looks like he is showing no signs of accepting his faults, and he is defaming my image even now. I’ve decided that I can’t overlook this problem anymore.”

Thus, Rain has decided to continue on with the lawsuit, in which the date of adjudication regarding Rain and Mr. Park will be on the 4th of July.

Source: Star News

[images] Rain check.

•June 2, 2014 • Leave a Comment

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Rain at the DIOMM multi-branded menswear store in Seoul. S-w-e-e-t pics. Handsome is as handsome does. 🙂 (Images credited below ↓ )

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Rain and Grand Kempinski Hotel Executive Asst. Manager Istvan Kovacs at the hotel in Shanghai, during a Roots of Dew movie shooting earlier this year. FYI: In the movie, Rain plays “徐承勋”(Xu Chengxun), the sole heir of the largest companies in Southeast Asia and a passionate, talented young artist hopelessly in love with the character played by his co-star, Liu Yifei. (Images credit: NEEU.com/News)

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More MENtholatum Rain in Beijing subway trains, taken and posted by a fan. (Images credit: Jung-JiHoon家的超仔)

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Dancer choreographer Soulme lurves her autographed Rain Effect album. 🙂 (Image credit: Soulmelee @Instagram)

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You’re looking at a pretty doggone happy guy back in January 2014 on his successful Rain Effect comeback trail, almost near tears. We feel ya, Rain! ♥ (Images credit: RAIN(ピ)LOVE2)

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[articles] What’s up with CUBE Entertainment.

•June 2, 2014 • 1 Comment

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SOOMPI News 5/29/2014 — by Sylphid

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G.NA Shows off Her Candid and Playful Side in First Episode of United Cube TV

Cube Entertainment has recently revealed the first episode of United Cube TV through their YouTube channel.

Subtitled in English, a new episode is expected to be released every week.

G.NA is featured in the first episode as she is approached to be the host and must come up with ideas for the show.

She talks about how she is different when speaking Korean and English. “Since I am not fluent in Korea, I try to act cute to cover my mistakes… When I speak in English, it’s less cute.”

During the episode she goes on to call 4Minute‘s Jihyun, BEAST‘s Junhyung and BTOB‘s Changsub to ask them to appear on the show.

Watch the first episode below!

For future episodes, we will see other Cube Entertainment artists such as 4Minute, Beast, BTOB, Kim Kiri, Oh Yeri, Na Jongchang, and Cho Seoha, along with Cube DC artists Rain, Roh Jihoon, Shin Jihoon, and Kwak Seungnam. Sadly, it seems like A Cube artists A Pink and Huh Gak will not be a part of the new show.


Koreaboo 5/29/2014 —

Cube Entertainment merges with iHQ; lists company on KOSDAQ

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Cube Entertainment, the company in charge of 4minute, B2ST, G.NA, BTOB, and Rain, will now be listed on the Korean stock exchange.

Last year, Cube Entertainment made a strategic alliance with iHQ, one of the leading entertainment management agencies in Korea. They have announced today that they will officially merge the two companies and will now list Cube Entertainment stocks on KOSDAQ, which they hope will help expand their company globally.

Park Choongmin, the CEO of Cube Entertainment, stated, “To adapt to the changing entertainment business, we have decided on the merger to help the company grow. By allowing Cube to enter the stock exchange, Cube will be able to soon have a place between global businesses like Samsung and LG.”

Founded in 2006, Cube Entertainment, along with SM Entertainment, YG Entertainment, and JYP Entertainment, are being called the “KPOP’s 4 Biggest Global Brands”.

As the Hallyu crazy has been spreading throughout the world, more and more attention has been focused on these companies to see how they will continue to expand their businesses globally.

Source: StarNews

Instagrams abound: What have you done now, General?

•June 2, 2014 • 5 Comments

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Long time no see, 장군이! What a little cutie-patootie you are, still. ♥  🙂

(Or is it Rain who needs to be forgiven? ho ho ho~)

(Image credit: RAIN / 30rain @Instagram, 6/1/2014)

“용서하마…” (Forgive you…)

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[clip][images] The 2014 Rain Effect Show in Guangzhou on Sudden+ Weekly. (5/30)

•June 2, 2014 • Leave a Comment

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[images][fan cams] More of the 2014 Rain Effect Show in Guangzhou. (5/24)

•June 2, 2014 • Leave a Comment

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[images] Rain check.

•May 28, 2014 • 1 Comment

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More of Rain back when he left Korea for China and his RE Show in Guangzhou on 5/23. (Images credit: media, as tagged)

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A few images at the RE Guangzhou official after party, 5/24. Or I should say 5/25, seeing as, as we understand it, Rain got there around 1:30 A.M.ish. Thanks for that tidbit, Tammy. ^@@^ (Images credit: as tagged)

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[images] Rain on the Roots of Dew/LuShuiHongYan/Difficult Love movie set. (4/5)

•May 28, 2014 • Leave a Comment

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» You can revisit preliminary information about Roots of Dew HERE in my previous post.

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“You want me to walk off this stage? I said SCREAM.” :)

•May 27, 2014 • 6 Comments

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[interview] Rain has a sit-down in China on iQiyi. (5/26)

•May 27, 2014 • Leave a Comment

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Remember back around May 1, when Rain was included in the ending/preview montage of mainland Chinese talk show 我爱大牌之 (which seems to roughly translate to, “I Love Big Names”)?

Now, that show has shared a sit-down interview with Rain when he was there for an RE showcase. The moderator is Ran Yang Yifei, and from what I can tell, some of the interview may be about Rain’s charm and maturity as an attractive 30-something-year-old man, his favorite and fans’ favorite Rain hair style, his modeling, favorite images, and things like that. Around the 23rd, there was also a short interview preview released that asked viewers to guess Rain’s favorite hair style, and it looks like there might have been an interactive prize included.

It is in Chinese (Mandarin?) and Korean, so if an English translation becomes available, I’ll bring that to you here.

Stephe @cloudusa.wordpress.com / CloudUSA.org

(Source credit: iQiyi.com / courtesy of ratoka)

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[teaser] A second reminder that United CUBE TV is coming soon.

•May 27, 2014 • Leave a Comment

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As you may recall, back on the 22nd (a few days ago) Cube Entertainment announced on their Twitter that they would be launching a new venture, United CUBE TV, in connection with their YouTube channel shortly.

Now, they have graced waiting fans with a teaser. And a nice little teaser at that! 🙂

(Source credit: United Cube @YT.)

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[fan cams] More of Rain at the 2014 Rain Effect Show in Guangzhou. (5/24)

•May 27, 2014 • 1 Comment

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Touch Ya.

30 Sexy, U, and How To Avoid The Sun.

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From the team at Rain’s Little Cloud:

“Please maintain the credit as given here and do not remove the original uploader’s logo or add your own to it if you re-upload this video. Credit remains with rainalu. Video at Youku is not always accessible to all countries. By sharing this video it is our hope that all who wish to view these videos will be able to do so.”

 

[images] Rain check.

•May 27, 2014 • Leave a Comment

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A different version of f. Vodka distributor andywan_hk’s photo of himself and Rain that he posted on his Weibo a few days ago, during the whole RE Guangzhou shindig. Handsomeness abounds! (Rain and Andy picture source credit: Andywan_hk @Weibo. Courtesy of: as tagged)

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A little more of Rain departing the area at Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, 5/25. (Images credit: as tagged)

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[fan cams][images] Immerse yourself in The 2014 Rain Effect Show in Guangzhou. (5/24)

•May 25, 2014 • Leave a Comment

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Rain in the sky…

•May 25, 2014 • 3 Comments

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[images] After his new album showcase, Rain leaves Guangzhou, China. (5/25)

•May 25, 2014 • Leave a Comment

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Pandemonium as he leaves his hotel. (Images credit: Ceciliasai @Sina)

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At Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport. (Images credit: as tagged)

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