Tweets abound: An interview with Sergeant Jung JiHoon and a Consolatory Train.

•June 20, 2013 • 1 Comment

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(Source credit: the official DEMA Twitter, 6/20/2013. English translation by 화니)
“An interview with sergeant ‘Jung Ji-Hoon’ talking about his discharge from the military that many people have been asking about, will be posted on blog Oulimnuri (Harmony) in the first week of July.”

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(Source credit: the official Korean Forces Network Twitter, 6/20/2013. English translation by 화니)

-Military broadcast ‘Consolatory Train’ scheduled for June 21th-

Time : 19:00~2100 // Location : the 2nd Army Division // Guest performers :
Z.HERA, Crayon Pop, Gilmy, Dalshabet, Kyunwoo, Kim Kyung-Hyun [The Cross], KCM, Seven, Mighty Mouth, and Rain//This concert is open to public.

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[fan cams][official images] More Rain at the 50th Army Division Consolatory Train. (6/18)

•June 20, 2013 • 4 Comments

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[Fan cam] “Instead of Saying Goodbye” and some of the good stuff afterwards. Aw, too bad Rain couldn’t give them an “Encore! Encore! Encore! Encore!” 🙂 I’ll bet you he thumped KCM and Sangchu both on the head later for not tipping him off about his standard issue tee shirt doing a peek-a-boo the whole time, heheh. Man, something really kicked up his allergies when the show was over—probably everybody herding up on stage like cattle for pictures and kicking up dust. The mark of a professional—doing a quick, discreet mic check to be sure the stuff you might say during the photo op isn’t broadcast around the venue. 😉 ^@@^

(Cam credit: Shari Mong @YT.)

» When the girls were swooning on stage for Rain, from a different point of view. PLEASE DO NOT UPLOAD THIS TO YOUTUBE, PER 비탈 ‘S REQUEST. Thank you!

LINK: After the show photo op, partial. Video credit: 비탈 @Pandora TV.

(Images source credit: DEMA.mil.kr)

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[image] Soldier check.

•June 19, 2013 • 4 Comments

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When this picture was taken and who with has not been plainly disclosed. What a shame! That’s a good looking pic. 🙂 If anyone runs across this guy’s name, please let us know so that we can credit him properly if he is not the poster. (Felt to me as I looked over the Hangeul and the other pics that the poster may be female…)

(Image credit: 도모세 @ DC Inside Rain Gallery 6/19/2013. ***PLEASE NOTE: Follow the link at your own risk. In Chrome and Firefox, a malware page pops up first, but I.E. goes straight there without detecting anything malicious. I personally have never had any trouble with DC, so I think it’s just a false alarm, but I don’t know for sure, so make your own decision. Thanks. ^@@^)

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There was a Fugitive running around KBSWorld today…

•June 19, 2013 • 1 Comment

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Episode 17… only three episodes and a “making of” Special left on KBSWorld TV! Are you watching in your part of the world?

(Source credit: KBSWorld @Facebook)

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[fan cams][images] Rain at the 50th Army Division Consolatory Train. (6/18)

•June 19, 2013 • 3 Comments

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Ahhhhh, summer. It always means SHORTER SLEEVES. 🙂

» “Hip Song” credit: 비탈 @Pandora

LINK: http://en.channel.pandora.tv/channel/video.ptv?ref=em_nom&ch_userid=pdbaa&prgid=48377889

» “Instead of Saying Goodbye” and a moment with Sergeant Jung JiHoon credit: 비탈 @Pandora

LINK: http://en.channel.pandora.tv/channel/video.ptv?ref=em_nom&ch_userid=pdbaa&prgid=48377969

[Fan cam] Hip Song and Instead of Saying Goodbye. (Fan cam credit: 비탈 @Pandora / courtesy of ratoka @YT.)

[Quick cam] After the show… the girls were SWOONING like they’d WON THE LOTTERY when you-know-who came down to stand beside them. Don’t hurt ’em, Rain. Bless their hearts! kekekeke ^@@^ (Credit: Shari Mong @YT.)

(Image Source credits: @94hjmR / @mongshari / mongshari.blog.me/100190245210 / DC)

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[Cloud USA video][greetings] Happy Birthday, Rain, from all of your World Clouds.

•June 18, 2013 • 20 Comments

An early present from your global fans in 24 countries, heartfelt messages to you for June 25, your special day… ♥ ^@@^

Bi, Rain -This I Promise You- on your 32nd Birthday (Credit and edit: JJ @Cloud USA / Jess MK / rainthetreasure / CloudUSAChannel @YT. Music: NSync, “This I Promise You”)

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Blast from the past #210: “I’m your mannnnn…”

•June 18, 2013 • 2 Comments

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This might have been a Blast waaay back some, I’m not sure. All I know is that it is a long-time favorite with a lot of us and I’m having a hankering for it right now, and so here it is. 🙂

Enjoy Rain and Crew in a “Bad Guy” groove at the 40th Bak Sang Movie Awards in March 2004.

(Image courtesy of RainAngel)

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Cloudy Day: Fan art, inspired by Rain.

•June 18, 2013 • 5 Comments

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“You Can Kiss Me Soon” Rain by Cerine @RAIN Fanart. 🙂

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“Why yes, I’d be more than happy to.” (make your dream come true)

•June 17, 2013 • 2 Comments

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(Pantech wallpaper 1024 x 768 of Rain & Chinese actress Sun Li. » See the making of “Shou Ji” CF HERE.)

[info] There are no legally sanctioned tours or products concerning Rain’s military discharge.

•June 17, 2013 • 4 Comments

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WARNING to all Clouds and Rain fans:

According to RAINY Entertainment on Rain’s Official Cloud Fan Community (rain-cloud.co.kr), although there appear to be several sites selling tours and such for meeting Rain at his July 10 military discharge, there are NO SUCH TRIPS OR PRODUCTS that have been legally sanctioned by Rain or his management. They are as follows, as posted by RAINY on The Cloud on 6/10:

① Rain Discharge Tour to greet him scheduled for July 10th when he will be discharged from the military.

http://www.lcktour.com/japanese/viewforum.php?f=583

② Lee Family

http://www.tabi104.net/tour/core.php?mode=view&cid=209&caid=10&uid=863&page=1

Please avoid these websites and others like them, as they may not be the only ones. These particular sellers have been warned to stop their activities, and RAINY is prepared to take legal action if necessary.

Rain’s good standing with the military and the public is being compromised here. Please do not compromise your money. Do not compromise Rain, who has worked too hard for people to make money off of his name illegally.

Thank you. ^@@^

Rain, Mighty Mouth, KCM, and Se7en set for the 2nd Army Corps Consolatory Train. (6/21)

•June 17, 2013 • Leave a Comment

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Looks like Sangchu will be doing double-duty, hosting and performing with partner Shorry (as Mighty Mouth/마이티 마우스). With the five of them, it’s going to be an awesome show, and one of Rain’s last for the troops. His time is drawing to a close! 🙂

(Source credit: DEMA.mil.kr)

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[ad][CF links] The latest Rain for MENtholatum Skincare.

•June 15, 2013 • 2 Comments

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According to the latest post on the official Mentholatum China micro-blog, on 6/13, their anti-blackhead face wash “lava” is still flowing, haha. They are advising their male readers to let Rain be their guide in getting rid of nasty blackheads this month and they could win a shopping spree. 🙂 (Image credit: mentholatum001 @weibo)

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And, in connection with this new ad, here is a fresh commercial spot from this past April, where Mentholatum retooled an earlier Rain CF and worked their magic. WOW. It’s worth a triple-take, just click the links.

» VIDEO: Mentholatum blackhead cleanser, Mandarin version 15 seconds, 4/25/2013 on Youku.

» You can also see this CF where it’s posted at the top of the Mentholatum China micro-blog today.

(Caps by Cloud USA)

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[MV][learning Korean] MBLAQ check: Smoky Girl (스모키걸).

•June 15, 2013 • 19 Comments

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The Boys’ newest creation. Yes, we are digging it! NICE.

Here’s an interesting tidbit for English speakers: As you know, there are hundreds of English words that are regularly adopted into the Korean language, like “dress” (드레스, pronounced deu-reh-seu, the kind you wear) and “star” (스타, seu-tah), “camera” (카메라, kah-meh-lah), and “bikini” (비키니, pronounced exactly the same), to name a few. For this song, just as they have done for most of them in the past, MBLAQ is using the English words “smoky girl” rather than Korean. 스모키걸 is pronounced seu-mo-ki geol. Very cool. 🙂 ^@@^

(Source credit: J.Tune Camp / jtunecamp @YT.)

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From Stephe’s desk: Under the weather, and because of the weather. (Plus birthday/discharge activities.)

•June 15, 2013 • 17 Comments

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Dear Cloud sisters and Rain fans:

I apologize for blog posts being so scarce the last few days, but I developed some kind of Super Bird Flu Bug Virus this week which has kept me feverish and semiconscious in LaLa Land. It’s not that I think I’m sick (haha, BigBang), I AM SICK.

Not to mention, did you see those destructive super cells and thunderstorms that uprooted trees across Atlanta the other day, in the news? I was one of the 200,000 people across the state without power, for a l-o-n-g time. By the time they got to my street the next day, there were 96,000 still out.

Thank Chuck my electricity has been restored, but this super virus is being a real bitch. So, please bear with me.

I’ll do my very best to chime in when I’m lucid and can breathe. (Jim, Terri, and everyone is staying far away from me. I am that contagious.)

— Stephe ^@@^

P.S.: Concerning activities for Rain’s discharge on July 10… we are planning to have a Cloud USA banner and flower garland there for him, when he comes out of the gate. We are in the middle of working everything out with The Cloud and sister fan sites, as quickly as we can. You can imagine the difficulty of trying to do this over the distance, so please bear with us. We’ll let y’all know how you can contribute as soon as possible. With Rain’s birthday and discharge dates so closely together, it simply wasn’t possible for us (at Cloud USA) to do a separate huge project for June 25, thus the call for you all to get your birthday cards to him pronto. The Cloud (and those of us who are 8th Cloud members) will indeed make certain Rain gets birthday gifts representative of the fandom, and might possibly be making another donation to charity as he really appreciated the last project. So, never fear, all of you will be repped on Rain’s birthday regardless.

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Rain, KCM, Se7en, and fellow artists to ride the 50th Army Division Consolatory Train. (6/18)

•June 12, 2013 • 5 Comments

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Holy Toledo.  Rain and Se7en on the SAME SHOW. Soldiers, fasten your seat belts! (Source credit: DEMA.mil.kr)

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[English translation by 화니]

The guest list for ‘Consolatory Train’ at the 50th Army Division scheduled for June 18th (Tue):

MCs : Lee Sang-Cheol (Sangchu) & Yun Sung Kyung

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Kim Kyung-Hyun (The Cross);
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Cloudy Day: Fan art, inspired by Rain.

•June 11, 2013 • 3 Comments

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‘Love Song Rain” by SakuTori.

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[Cloud USA video] Chicken-fried. :)

•June 10, 2013 • 7 Comments

Well, he does like fried chicken and beer, so… 😀 ^@@^ Rain,bi – Chicken fried – To celebrate the anniversary of Rain in 2013 (Credit and edit: Naoko [harudoful] @Cloud USA / CloudUSAChannel @YT. Music: Zac Brown Band, “Chicken Fried”)

Blast from the past #209.

•June 10, 2013 • 4 Comments

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{*Edited to add: The dancer is Star Auditioner Choi JungGil. I love his ‘fro. 🙂 }

A year after his debut, Rain helps a young dancer with “Instead of Saying Goodbye” choreography on a KBS challenge segment.

(Courtesy of hung vincet @YT.)

Random Rain Goodness.

•June 10, 2013 • 5 Comments

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RRG from across the Rainiverse this past weekend. Thanks to all the fans who were kind in their sharing! Can you name the Rain projects in each one? 🙂

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(courtesy of RainAngel, credited as tagged)

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Rain check: Rain and MBLAQ in Peruvian newspaper Asia Al Dia #43. (6/5)

•June 10, 2013 • 3 Comments

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Rain included in the 12 sexiest K-Pop singers in the June 5 edition of Asia Al Dia (Asia Daily) out of Lima, Peru. Cover translation: They’re your favorites… Meet them all. SPECIAL REPORT. 12 Sexiest of K-Pop Also reported: The explosive return of MBLAQ. ^@@^ (Cover and Source credit: Asia al dia @Facebook / Caps by Cloud USA)

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K-Drama Encore: The Fugitive Plan B (도망자 Plan B) now airing on KBSWorld TV, English-subbed.

•June 8, 2013 • 6 Comments

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Rain’s 20-episode romantic spy comedy and melodrama The Fugitive: Plan B, the last television work he did before enlisting in the R.O.K Army, premiered on KBS TV 2 across Korea and Asia back on September 29, 2010. In the three years since, it has premiered on cable and satellite TV networks in many countries around the planet.

Ladies and gentlemen, this past May 22, JiWoo came full circle. KBSWorld TV is now airing The Fugitive: Plan B with English subtitles every Monday through Thursday, Korean Standard Time.

So, wherever you are in the world, if you have KBSWorld on your television, check your local provider for the times in your area and revisit the Man of a Thousand Faces and a most excellent cast.

Thanks for the encore, KBSWorld!

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

The Fugitive: Plan B preview, posted May 13. (Source credit: kbsworld @YT.)

(Images source credit: KBSWorld @Facebook)

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KBSWorld regularly promotes Fugitive episodes on their Twitter, an excellent way for old and new viewers to keep up to speed!  ^@@^

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Everyone knows what June 25 is, right?

•June 7, 2013 • 5 Comments

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Our baby-faced you-know-who will be 31 years old in International Age on that day. He already turned 32 in Korean age this past January 2013 with the New Year. Confused? Read this, from 2010. 🙂

» How old is Jung Ji-Hoon? (What is Korean age?)

» Sergeant Jung JiHoon’s military address at the Defense Agency for Public Information Services.

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[topic thread][spoilers] What Clouds are watching right now. (6/7 — 12/4/13)

•June 7, 2013 • 123 Comments

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REAR. END. COLLISION. Terri’s Scream Caps from The Fugitive: Plan B Episode 6.

» You can find the previous thread (1/31 – 6/6/13) HERE. ^@@^

Wallpaper! Get your Rain calendar wallpaper for June.

•June 6, 2013 • 5 Comments

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This month’s themes are: Raizo’d Rain, SixToFive, Harper’s Bazaar, Nature Republic, Sergeant Jung JiHoon “raining”, The BEST Show Seoul, Lotte Duty Free, and Rain at the Incheon Korean Music Wave Festival. Please enjoy! 🙂

(1500 x 930. Cloud USA. Smaller sizes are in the Gallery below. Best displayed “centered” rather than “stretched”, but of course, feel free to display it however you like!)

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Continue reading ‘Wallpaper! Get your Rain calendar wallpaper for June.’

DramaFever: The Guys of Summer K-Pop and K-Drama Edition.

•June 6, 2013 • Leave a Comment

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Remember this photo, treasured by Clouds everywhere? I knew that you would.

On June 4, Rain was included in the DramaFever Blog post, The Guys of Summer K-Pop and K-Drama Edition. And you should see the other specimens and eye candy that are keeping him company. Run on over and check it out!

» You can visit and comment on this post on the DramaFever Blog by clicking HERE.

(Source credit: DramaFever @Facebook, 6.4.2013)

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Blast from the past #208.

•June 6, 2013 • Leave a Comment

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I must admit, Rain[eare]’s fan made June 2013 calendar made me start hankering for some Rain at the 2009 Incheon Korean Music Wave Festival (you know, where his black suit was vampire-sparkly and amazingly stretchy—gotta love Spandex products, just sayin’). He had just started the Legend of Rainism tour, and was in the middle of Ninja Assassin promotions. Talk about one busy dude.

And so here we go with a few fan cams from that event. Yussssssss. 🙂

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Conversation. (courtesy of expatkerri)

Commenter EzraPounded translated him as partially saying: “I’m honored, and thankful. I’m grateful that many fans….have come. Before the next number, I have another concert on Oct. 9, 10. Ninja Assassin is coming to theater on 10th, and I look forward to your support.”

It’s Raining. Love Story. (courtesy of jjhclio)

(Image credit: ayan0114 @ raincloudhk)

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To the best friend in the whole wide world: Happy Birthday, Stephe.

•June 4, 2013 • 27 Comments

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~ Cloud Cover by Terri :-}, Managing Editor

I mean every single word.  Happy, Happy Birthday, my dearest friend.

Love, Terri :-}

P.S.  Looking forward to partying Saturday night.  Woo hoo!  😛

[ads] RAINtholatum check.

•June 4, 2013 • 3 Comments

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The latest posts on the official Mentholatum China micro-blog on Weibo. I’ll say the Mentholatum concept store at Guangzhou City U. is doing pretty darned well. Their members are voting on their favorite products and are eligible for special prices this month. 🙂

(Source credit: mentholatum001 @weibo, 6/3/2013)

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[images] Rain and Sangchu in the Arirang World Peace Festival brochure. (5/8)

•June 2, 2013 • 1 Comment

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Big thanks to CloudUSAer Gee, who got a great picture with Rain after the Arirang World Peace Festival in Washington D.C., for sending me and Terri brochures from the May 8 show.

You’re so sweet! 🙂

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Cloudy Day: Fan art, inspired by Rain.

•June 2, 2013 • 6 Comments

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“Debut year 비” and “Consolatory Train/Yeosu EXPO Rain”, as penciled by artist Nao. Posted by Raimy @The Cloud Photo Board.

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