Friday, December 08, 2006
Rain Gets a Baby Shower
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The workaholic K-pop superstar Rain is participating in a photography exhibition to help children without families. The Love Photography Exhibition has been held annually since 2003 by the Social Welfare Society and photographer Cho Sei-hon to help children in government care and aims to match unfortunate children with loving adoptive parents. When Rain heard about the exhibition, he reportedly said, “If we can find a warm family for just one of the children, I’d be happy to be a part of it.” And when the time came, he was there to be a part of the shoot despite his tightly packed schedule.
But at the shoot, Rain was perplexed when he had to pose with a one-month-old baby in his arms. “I don’t really know how to hold a baby,” he said. When the shoot was nearly over, the infant suddenly had an “accident” all over the singer, making the crowd burst into laughter. “The new surroundings may have made the baby nervous, which lead to the discourtesy,” Cho says. “Rain’s clothes and hands were soaked in pee, but he wasn’t at all annoyed, and instead said baby urine is a ‘good thing.’” The event will run on Dec. 20-26 in the Insa Art Center in Insa-dong, Seoul, with entertainers including Rain, Kim Jeong-eun, who is a honorary PR ambassador for the Social Welfare Society, Kim Hye-soo, Sohn Ye-jin and SG Wannabe participating.
DATE 2006-11-10
Vengeance Trilogy Director Returns with Romantic Comedy Starring Rain
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Fresh from making hard-boiled thrillers, Korea's Park Chan-wook said Thursday (Nov. 9) that he wanted to deliver a romantic story that "smells like fruit" this time.
"I'm a Cyborg, But That's Okay," Park's seventh feature, is to debut in theaters next month, basking in the heightened attention for its male lead, star singer and actor Rain (called Bi in Korean). Dubbed "a kind of romantic comedy" by the director, the story of a young female mental patient who believes she is a cyborg and her male mate who chases after her marks the director's return, far from the Vengeance trilogy.
"Believe it or not, it's true that this is the movie I made," Park said in a press conference to announce the end of the production.
"It was good that I could cast young actors. Somehow I wanted to return to my childish dream. I wanted to make a movie that is as fresh as them and that smells like fruit. An age 12-rated movie that I can watch with my daughter."
Its female lead is Lim Soo-jung, who played a blameless heroine in the popular Korean television drama series, "Sorry, I Love You," which aired last year in eight Asian countries, including China, Japan, Singapore and Vietnam.
"The mental patients all have their own unique universe. It could be nothing more than an illusion in the eye of normal people. But it is an indispensable one, the only and very realistic world to that person. So if they talk to each other about their own universe, wouldn't that be a kind of what we call love?" he said in a Seoul hotel packed with hundreds of local and foreign journalists, where some scenes from the film were screened.
Making his screen debut with the established director, Rain said he saw the pristine state of humans from the wacky, disorderly mental hospital.
"I interpret this movie as a message of hope for the world. The patients in the hospital live with feelings of irritation and distance from the world, but I felt that they are very good natured and naive and more focused than any normal people," he said.
"I'm a Cyborg, But That's Okay" is to be released nationwide on Dec. 7.
DATE 2006-11-13
Song Hye-kyo Gets a Visit from her friend, Rain
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On Nov. 10,
Rain, a close friend of
Song Hye-kyo’s visited her at Korean Folk Village, bringing her some midnight snacks, which showed a sign of their close friendship.
Rain arrived late in the evening while the staff and actors of “Hwang Gini’, Song Hye-kyo’s new movie, were having dinner and gave Song some yummy snacks.
The women staff looked on a bit enviously as Song thanked Rain for his visit and saw him out to the parking lot.
Both born the same year, Rain and Song Hye-kyo, have developed a good friendship from a previous drama ‘Full House’ in which they both acted together as lovers. This drama had been popular not only domestically but also in other Asian countries.
Rain is now busily promoting his new album and new movie “I'm a Cyborg, But That's Okay”. However, it is been said that he stops by to see Song who has been preparing the transition of her acting style through this new upcoming movie.
The drama version of ‘Hang Gini’ starring Ha Ji-won is now being aired on KBS and gaining much popularity from television viewers, so many people wonder if a movie version will be as exciting as its drama. Song Hye-kyo has been filming this movie in Gyeonggi-do and Gangwon-do for 4 months without announcing the film locations and its scenes to the media, which brings more anticipation to her fans as well as the media.
DATE 2006-11-24
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