Rain Bi

Rain, is that really you?

jinny in a bottle in News on May 12, 2008 - 12:01 AM  –  11053 Views  –  130 Comments
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Imagine yourself in Rain's shoes right now: Your first debut in an American film (Speed Racer Failure) is currently the laughing stock of all movies, and the "Engrish" you've studied oh-so-hard for completely failed you. Nothing else could go wrong, right? Wrong! Celebrity magazine, People, tried to shed some light on the Korean singer-turned-actor by adding a interview with the 26-year-old in their latest issue, except the main picture of Rain is not really him. In fact, the picture was of Karl Yune (brother of Rick Yune) - both included in our Korean Presence Increasing in Hollywood article.

What the hell was People Magazine thinking? Is this People's mockery of saying that all Asians look alike? Or, is this People's hidden message that Rain was and always will be a nobody? You tell me.

Rain Bi

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1.  chibie
May 12, 2008 - 08:16 AM

are they blind orr blind!! ><
stupid!! DX

2.  swt_turtle
May 12, 2008 - 09:19 AM
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Ahahaha that must suck >< I would be pissed off if I were him.

3.  boshi noi
May 12, 2008 - 09:20 AM
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that’s is so wrong on so many levels, how sterotypical

4.  annaified
May 12, 2008 - 09:29 AM
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lol

POOR RAIN.

5.  Hiroshi
May 12, 2008 - 09:31 AM

I feel bad for him.  Ok I lied.  I don’t.  ROTFLMAO.  This is precious.  Hahahahahaha.

6.  singlemom0511
May 12, 2008 - 10:10 AM
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they didn’t even resemble each other!!so sad for rain...what we’re they thinking??

7.  tazanya
May 12, 2008 - 10:33 AM

This may be a blessing in disguise for Rain.  Maybe People will be so guilt-ridden (and get sooo much Cloud hate mail) that they will do a bigger feature on him next month the clear up the confusion.

8.  junsufan (Unregistered User)
May 12, 2008 - 10:34 AM

I’m supposed to feel bad for him..but..

ROFLMAO!

9.  crystal199187
May 12, 2008 - 10:38 AM

buahahhahaha...i nearly laughed my head reading about dis…
i wanna sympathize him but i couldn’t after looking at his pic...hahaha
it’s like adding salt to his wounds… raspberry
it’s de third mistake so far...i wonder how many more is coming...lol
i still think Se7en will achieve better than him in US...kekeke

10.  onliadreamer
May 12, 2008 - 12:08 PM

I don’t know whether to laugh my ass off or be offended.  The interview is very laughable, his English is really awkward.  The really sad thing is I doubt People will bother to apologize and make up for the mistake.  I wonder how many fans are going to complain about this.

11.  ghozt22
May 12, 2008 - 01:16 PM

omg.T_T poor rain....
if they asked me 4 some pic of rain i was going 2 give them ^_6
but from where did the get this pic and wrote that he is rain....
and i want 2 know did rain do something 4 this or what?
T_T

12.  reina
May 12, 2008 - 02:03 PM
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WTF? these people is stupid or what

13.  valski
May 12, 2008 - 02:46 PM
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wow. that ninja assassin training really changed him.

14.  ch0sshi
May 12, 2008 - 03:12 PM
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pwned. LOL But seriously, dude’s a joke; who the hell’s gonna care that it’s not really Rain (other than a bunch of psycho fan)?

The more I look at that dude, the more he looks like a rip off of Patrick Swayze.. NO idea why, but I keep getting that vibe. o_O

15.  maryx3
May 12, 2008 - 03:22 PM
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what the hell? how do you get someone mixed up THAT bad?! alexis chiu, you are a dumbass.

17.  Bluecat
May 12, 2008 - 03:38 PM
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Rain got owned.

18.  running24 (Unregistered User)
May 12, 2008 - 03:39 PM

This is the BEST news for Karl Yune! Free publicity for his career on behalf of RAIN. Now he’ll be known as “The artist formerly known as Rain”.

19.  Taejus
May 12, 2008 - 03:56 PM
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my friend says the exact thing-- “all asians look the same and its true!” and I’m like “then what are you?"…

Yeah, that shuts him up good.

20.  Taejus
May 12, 2008 - 03:57 PM
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@ maryx3

Took the words right out my mouth!!

hah!

21.  Icecreamsoda93
May 12, 2008 - 04:18 PM
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lmaooo.
This sucks =(
Rain is much better looking.
but this is funny too xDD

22.  HOLEYxxSMOKES
May 12, 2008 - 04:25 PM

this is so funny to read after a boring day of school. i hope no one shows rain this haha :]

23.  cardinaltree
May 12, 2008 - 04:26 PM
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This is just so sad. Really shameful.

24.  sowhat (Unregistered User)
May 12, 2008 - 05:06 PM

so freakin what...magazines make errors all the time and post corrections in future editions...he got mentioned as an “up and comer” so all the fangirls should just shut it...ur shrimp-eyed idol will live on…

25.  xmizzzy
May 12, 2008 - 05:32 PM
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ROFL! alexis chiu just made my day =D

26.  Zaonlesca
May 12, 2008 - 06:01 PM

Rain looks way better than that guy

27.  ninak711
May 12, 2008 - 06:17 PM
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HAHA thats funny...although i do feel srry for him!
i wonder wut rain thinks of this article...hmm=)

28.  Kevin (Unregistered User)
May 12, 2008 - 06:17 PM

Yeah this sucks, but don’t blame it on Alexis Chiu. She’s just the writer, not the photo editor or designer. They are the ones who made the mistake with the art/layout.

29.  lev (Unregistered User)
May 12, 2008 - 07:19 PM

Practically everyone in every race looks the same. >> PEOPLE is just retarded. It’s called check yo’ shat twice before letting it out or else you end up lookin’ like a stupid fuk.

30.  james (Unregistered User)
May 12, 2008 - 07:28 PM

last time I checked american media is run by jews.  people magazine is also run by jews.  they don’t have any respect nor regard for minorities, and can be some of the most racist, condescending, and success-impeding people.

I remember rain’s name was also misread during some kind of speed racer opening show.

31.  Shawn (Unregistered User)
May 12, 2008 - 07:29 PM

The worst part of this all is that the author or person who wrote this side report is asian.  Alexis Chiu, an asian can’t even distinguish one asian from another.  She must be either an idiot or just not into Asian guys if she can’t get this right, or another theory is People magazine did this on purpose and mask it by having an Asian person’s name to throw you off so not to make people think it’s not racist....haha

32.  James stupid (Unregistered User)
May 12, 2008 - 07:53 PM

Last time I checked, People Magazine wasn’t run by jews. A lot of media companies have jews running them but People Magazine isn’t one of them. Also last time I checked, the author of the article just submits it to the editor and a different graphics department selects the picture.

33.  jinheex
May 12, 2008 - 09:05 PM
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Ah right, to the person that wondered what Rain thought of this article…
I doubt he even knows about this article.
If he does, I doubt he can read it.
If he can read it, I doubt he can understand it.
Get my drift?
Although Speed Racer was bad for teenagers + (or so they say), it has a a lot of popularity with the younger kids.
My friend had to see it with her brother and said that Rain looked hot in the movie. :/
Speed Racer was better publicity for Rain, bad or not.
It’s better than Se7en who has appeared in nothing except for some songs.

34.  voyager
May 12, 2008 - 09:23 PM

XD It’s funny.

But I kinda feel bad for him… And its sort of discriminatory…

35.  Charlotte M Guymon (Unregistered User)
May 12, 2008 - 09:44 PM

Why is everyone so excited....they didn’t do it on purpose. They could get fired making those kinds of mistakes. It had NOTHING to do with him being an Asian. Stop being so paranoid! He was lucky to have a small article about him in the magazine since this is his first American movie.

As far as Speed Racer is concerned it is too bad if they can’t get their money back for making it, but Rain is still getting plenty of PR from this movie, so it is all good for him especially since it got him the leading role in another movie. “Ninja Assassin” is not going to be a big movie so don’t get excited if it isn’t one of the biggest movies of 2009. It is a beginning for Rain....did you think he was going to go to America and immediately be a top star? No..it will take him some time, and he will at the same time be working on his music, and don’t expect for him to go right up to the top in that career either. Entertainers work for years to become stars in America.

Rain is very fortunate to be able to do the things he is doing in America...don’t ruin it by thinking there is some kind of conspiracy against him, or that he is through in America just because his first movie wasn’t #1 at the box office.

36.  chuchu
May 12, 2008 - 09:56 PM

Charlotte M Guymon, I totally agree with you.  This movie has been great publicity for Rain.  I have a feeling this is just the beginning for Rain.  He is a star in Asia and now he’s got to almost start over again in proving himself western directors, movie studios and audiences.  I think he has the skills and the drive to do.

37.  Shawn (Unregistered User)
May 12, 2008 - 11:23 PM

Charlotte M Guymon, why is Rain fortunate to be able to do things like this in America?  You sound a bit condescending don’t you?  Oh how lucky a non-Anglo-Saxon is able to be pictured, or by god have an article written about him.  Wow, a colored foreigner appeared in our white magazine, how amazing.  Please, this would never have happened if it was a white actor.  I mean how hard is it to have a picture of the correct actor in your magazine?  I mean you are a highly publicized, money making magazine, what’s wrong with a some checks and verification before it is released?  Not like this is a local, small-time magazine.  Rain has been on the Colbert show all this time and people recgonize him and know of him.  Just cause he’s asian doesn’t mean he looks like every other asian.  Please stop with your ridiculous excuses.

38.  kchan21
May 13, 2008 - 12:07 AM

@Shawn

If you have taken time to really read Charlotte’s comment, you would know that she meant Rain is lucky to be able to star in a U.S. movie especially when he’s a relatively unknown star in the U.S.  It’s hard to get any kind of breakthrough for anybody especially when they are foreign born to land their 1st role in what is supposed to be a big budgeted hollywood blockbuster.  And People magazine did an honest mistake but all of rain fans want to turn it into some kind of conspiracy against Asians in general and turning something small into something dramatically large.  And what do you mean Rain has been on the Colbert show all this time.  He was in an episode of Colbert’s show and had less than 3 minutes of screen time.  Colbert show is on daily on cable from Monday through Thursday almost every week and unless Rain is a co-anchor on his show, barely anybody’s gonna remember him.  Lastly, no the majority of Americans do not recognize and know him.  That’s just in the dreams of Rain’s fans.

39.  baka-chan (Unregistered User)
May 13, 2008 - 03:02 AM

wtf?! that’s was hilarious! hehehe....

40.  rainie
May 13, 2008 - 04:13 AM

i feel sad for rain…
but...speed racer was a good movie..i guess..^_^

41.  jamm (Unregistered User)
May 13, 2008 - 05:00 AM

It was a honest mistake? An accident? uh.. this is the kind of mistakes that happen only to asians? What are they going to do about it to make it up? Don’t hold your breath, i don’t really think they care?

42.  jamm (Unregistered User)
May 13, 2008 - 05:06 AM

/sorry, should be an ! instead of ? after asian.

43.  jkos
May 13, 2008 - 06:44 AM
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lmao if some guy mistook my face for this guys face id be dang pissed

44.  rainonmebi
May 13, 2008 - 09:02 AM

aw....this makes me very sad. considering that I can clearly tell the difference. What an insult to rain…

love you oppa!!!

45.  Yunha
May 13, 2008 - 10:06 AM
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i feel sorry for him ,he is a great actor actually (if you’ve watched a love to kill ,im a cyborg but that’s okay and full house of course) but why are they always putting him down like this?
first with they mistook him for a japanese actor and now with this? are not they kinda professional ? -__-

46.  Valensi101
May 13, 2008 - 10:10 AM
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Wow that is sick haha XD

47.  iluvkyuhyunnie
May 13, 2008 - 11:23 AM
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hahah… that’s really funny, because rain looks better than that ahhaha…

49.  James (Unregistered User)
May 13, 2008 - 04:43 PM

To commenter #32 JamesStupid who wrote “Last time I checked, People Magazine wasn’t run by jews. A lot of media companies have jews running them but People Magazine isn’t one of them. Also last time I checked, the author of the article just submits it to the editor and a different graphics department selects the picture.”

Um, are you dumb?  People Magazine is owned and run by Time Warner which is the world’s largest and JEWISH media conglomerate.  Anything having to do with American mainstream tv, movies, music, etc. is controlled by jews.  You should know that.  Unless of course you are a jew yourself trying to distort the reality to misdirect negative feelings away from jews.

PEOPLE please be able to distinguish between “white” (anglo-saxon) people and JEWS (who may be of various different ethnicities and races).  I am actually very fond and respectful of the original, traditional american white people and the traditional american values.  I just think it’s the jews that are destroying and dehumanizing everything in this nation, from culture, race-relations, religion-relations, economy, etc.

50.  jew (Unregistered User)
May 13, 2008 - 04:58 PM

^^^GREAT.... now in addition to avoiding KKK anti-semites I now have to avoid Asian(?) k-pop loving anti-semites. The world of anti-semitism is wide and growing! 

Hey ignorant numbskull a.k.a. James I happen to know from sources (since I am a proud member of the World Zionest Media Conspiracy I have this info) that this whole thing was a copy editing / photo wire mis-labeling issue and not, as your kike-hating heart hoped, a Hollywood Jewish conspiracy to wreck the image of the greatest dancer/singer since.... errrrr… Se7en?

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