Actress Kang Hye-jeong is set to become the latest Korean star to join the Hollywood bandwagon. No details about the movie is released yet, but if everything is going as planned, she will be joining the filming in late 2008.
Korean pop star Rain has made his Hollywood debut a couple of months ago with Speed Racer. Other Korean stars that are set to make their Hollywood debut include Jang Dong-gun, Lee Byung-hun and Jun Ji-hyun etc.
Korean star Rain released a photo on his official website of him doing weight training in Berlin to prepare for the filming of Ninja Assassin…
Korean pop star Rain is making his Hollywood debut in May with big budget movie Speed Racer, starring as Taejo Togokhan, an Asian racer that is forced to defend his family name when they are threatened by evil empire, the Royalton Industries.
The Stareastasia team was given the chance to phone-interview the star on April 25 during the world premiere of the Speed Racer in Los Angeles.
The obvious question is… how good is his English? Well, the interview was done via an interpreter, so we can safely assume that his English still needs some improvement.
Korean pop star Rain will begin his world tour to promote his Hollywood debut movie, Speed Racer, starting from Korea on April 20.
Rain will then promote the film in Hong Kong on April 23 before moving to Los Angeles, where he will join producer Joel Silver, actors Emile Hirsch and Matthew Fox for the premiere. Rain is also scheduled for a Japan appearance in June.
At USD300 million for its production and USD80 million in marketing costs, Speed Racer is a hefty blockbuster about the best racers around the world battling in cars equipped with cutting-edge technology.
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Korean pop star Rain is in Shanghai over the weekend to sign an endorsement contract for cake product. A contract signing ceremony was held with the attendance of press and some fans.
Rain will stay in China for another couple of days; he will be performing in a special concert from China Central Television (CCTV) to celebrate the mid-autumn festival on Tuesday (September 24).
Korean star Rain will take part in a campaign to fight against anti human trafficking. Rain will be the Korean narrator of a documentary produced by global music network MTV.
The documentary is named MTV’s EXIT (EXIT for End Exploitation and Trafficking) and will be presented in 8 languages. It is scheduled to air in MTV channels in September.
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KBS has announced the making of season 2 for popular Korean drama Full House.
Full House was released in 2004 and is one of the most popular Korean drama ever; and made the already famous cast, Rain and Song Hye-kyo, to the new height of their career.
It is reported that the script of the sequel is in progress, but the director and the main cast have not been decided yet.
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Korean pop star Rain has some really supportive fans in Hong Kong… the fans from fanclub Rainhk.com have joint hands to publish an advertisement on 2 major local newspapers to show their support for their idol who is facing some troubles lately.
The advertisement is written in 3 languages (Chinese, English and Korean) and came with a price of HK$30,000 (around USD4,000).
Note that the image is a draft from the fanclub and not an actual scan of the newspaper (Image credits to rainhk.com)
Korean pop star Rain and his agencies are being sued for committing fraud.
“Click”, the agency that organized Rain’s Hawaii concert (which was cancelled) has filed a lawsuit against the singer, his management agency and his world tour organizer.
According to Click’s spokesman, Rain (and other parties) announced the USA concert tour in order to push up their companies’ share market price and profit from it… Rain and his agencies have no real intention to perform in USA.
Click also claimed that Rain’s agencies have given false information to the Korean press and market, and have committed a few other cheats and frauds to make profit.
Rain has already cancelled 2 of his 5 scheduled USA concerts, and has postponed the other 3. He is facing similar problem in China as well, especially the troublesome Shanghai concert.
I won’t say that it was Rain’s fault, or that his agencies have committed any fraud… but his agencies are surely doing some lousy job and building a bad reputation for Rain in the West.
I hope the lawsuit will be settled fair and square; I doubt that Rain (and others) will sacrifice bigger prospect of successful concerts for the short term benefit from share market… this is probably an action taken by Click to seek compensation for the cancelled Hawaii’s concert, and rightly so.
