"It started with Ji-hoon, but without realizing it, Rain has become the whole of my life. I will keep working hard, keep being humble, music is 50% of my life for me, and dance is the other 50% for me. For Jung Ji Hoon, for the name of Rain, and, for the very small, but precious happiness."
"It's amazing to remember now that I'm already a singer. Occasionally, if I find my own recordings among them when I'm organizing CDs, I'm secretly proud of them. Just as I was immersed in the song "Seo Tae Chee and the Children" to realize my dream of becoming a singer, there must be children like me somewhere listening to my songs and imitating my dances, and when I think of this, a warm current of happiness flows through my body.
When I was four years old, when my mom and dad came back from work, they suddenly realized that I was missing, so they reported it to the police, and they also mobilized their relatives and friends to help look for the child. As a result, they still couldn't find me, and 26 hours later, a call came from home that the police had found me on Jianghua Island. At that time, I was playing in front of my house and was curious to see a car parked in front of the entrance, so I got on the bus to Ganghwa Island with a sister-in-law without telling my children.
I live near Hongik University. My mother died in 2000 and I live with my father and sister. My sister, who is three years younger than me, is like me, a man of few words and an introvert, and throughout the day we only speak two or three words to each other, a personality that remained until I grew up. Now it takes me a long time to get close to someone, but if I get to know them well, I'm intimidated by how much I talk.
In elementary school, I didn't have much interest in learning, nor did I feel gifted at it, I just spent the whole day in silence without words. In this way, naturally, there will be no girls who like me, I remember that at that time, in addition to my taller this point of advantage, very few classmates will notice me. However, I have always been very quiet, I finally one day made a very surprising thing to everyone.
Remember that is the sixth grade, the school organized a field trip to the large-scale performance, the eye is about to our class performance, but no one is willing to step forward, I was in a hurry, put forward the stage to try to see the request, but the students did not reflect too well, "Why let him go? Why let him go? But the reaction from the students was not good, "Why let him go? How can he do it?", and this made me feel a sense of pride. Soon, it was my turn to go on stage, I slowly walked onto the stage, the music started, the stage was silent, I was determined to succeed. So I frantically danced on the stage like I had seen in movies, on TV, and in the streets. At the end of the performance, there was a round of applause from the stage. Instantly, an inexplicable feeling welled up in my heart, and a quick thought flashed through my mind: yes, it's dance."
There is no pleasure in a man walking, perhaps nothing more than a recluse by which he avoids exchanging pleasantries with strangers. Cold and quiet, he was doomed to youthful despondency, playing an insignificant supporting role until he realized that his body could "speak" better than his lips. Dance has been an important part of RAIN's life ever since.
"I had to hang out with those horrible brothers to learn to dance, but I promised my father that I would never smoke or do anything bad. That vow has lasted to this day.
Our dance team practiced so hard that we participated in a nationwide dance competition held at Jamsil Gymnasium in Seoul. I can't recall exactly what year it was, but I do remember that the host at the time was Pyo In Bong, who was a very influential host. There were five of us on our dance team***, and since I was the tallest, I was placed in the center, but unfortunately failed to get a place. Later after becoming a singer I heard from Inbong that Kang Ta also participated in that dance competition."
Rain formed the group fanclub with a few kids who also loved to dance.
High scores in an arts high school and a baton teacher?
"In 2nd grade in middle school, I was always interested in rugby as well, but I couldn't have both dance and sports, so I chose dance. When I was in 3rd grade, I agonized for a while about choosing a future, and finally chose an art high school. I didn't go to extracurricular cram schools, but just watched TV dramas at home while memorizing lines and then memorized them alone. When I entered Anyang Arts High School, I thought that acting, which was very interesting, was not to my liking at all as a subject. So, I did my first year's homework in a sloppy manner, and continued to dance around with my older brothers to get by. I didn't make a good impression on the seniors at school. My passion for dancing often caused me to miss group rehearsals, so the seniors hated me so much that they sometimes called me to a deserted part of the school and kicked and punched me, telling me not to dishonor the group. For this reason, I was also determined to put the performance before the dance. But the urge to suppress dancing could only be temporary, and finally one day I couldn't resist running out."
" The next day, the teacher in charge of teaching instruction prepared a wooden stick, and when he saw me when he entered the classroom, he handed the stick to me and said, 'Now, either you hit me with the stick or I'll take the stick and hit the other students'. Now, I was confused, all the students in the class together were my best friends, and many of them were female students. So, after freezing for half a day, I picked up a wooden stick and swung it at the teacher's butt, and to be honest, there was really nothing I could do about it at that time."
"Knowing that when I was about to graduate, the teacher confided in me that other arts high schools had used this method in their lectures, and as a result, in most cases, the kids would beg for mercy with a snotty nose, and the teacher didn't become an ocean of tears, and the teacher didn't even think that I could really hit him."
Fortunate to meet Park Jin-young
"In 2000, during my senior year of high school, I joined a dancing amateur group (fanclub) and ate and lived with a few of my older brothers.At that time, my family's situation was very poor, and my father, who was in the business, had a series of failures, and finally left a letter to his family, 'Come back when you've landed! ' in a letter, and left for Brazil, for which my mother, who had been suffering from diabetes, had to carry the burden for my father, which I didn't understand and didn't give any help to my mother, which, now that I think about it, was really unintelligent of me. The prejudice against my parents made me even more addicted to dancing. One day, I went to a humble office with my manager's brother, but I was surprised to find out that it was Park Jin Young's brother who came out of the office, which turned out to be the office of JYP Entertainment. When he saw me, he asked me what I was doing, and I nervously replied, "I'm a dancer. Brother Jin Young let me send him a tape of the program for auditioning, wow, did Park Jin Young, the producer who launched GOD, want me to become a singer? I was so happy at that moment."
Mother's death
"After I sent the demo, Jin-young came and arranged for me to make a record and took me on as his protégé, and I was so happy that I danced and practiced even more enthusiastically. While I was immersed in the dream of becoming a singer, my mother's condition became more and more serious. After my father returned to Korea, he was still traveling all over the country, and I was so used to seeing my mother sick since I was a child that I didn't see the seriousness of the situation, and there was no one at home to take care of my mother who was very sick. I told Jin-young about my mother, and Jin-young said, "I'll take care of your mother's hospitalization and fight against loneliness.
With my mother gone, I became more focused and practiced. In the office, there were moves and videotapes designed for choreography, so I followed the tapes for boring training. When brother Jin-young was free, he came to the practice room every Sunday to instruct me in dancing, but he never said that I danced well, although he often says 'beautiful, very good' now, but he used to say at that time, 'how can you dance like that? Simply forget it. Every time I said that I had no confidence at all, but that was his way of teaching.
After Jin-young left for the U.S. to work as a producer, I often wondered if everything was going to go wrong, but I continued to fight loneliness and train alone, and when Jin-young came back to Korea in March 2001, I pushed the production of my debut album back to August. In March 2001, Jin-young returned to Korea, so the production of my debut album was pushed to August. I started choreographing for Jin-young's songs, and also became my brother's dancer. Although this was a great opportunity for me to gain stage experience, it wasn't easy to follow my brother around every day. When my brother and my manager brother took a break from talking and laughing, they practiced on sight, and when my brother gestured, I automatically started singing. Every time, my brother would flick me in the head: I was out of tune again. Flicking the brain seems like nothing, but after you get it and then you get it again, you feel the pain."
The good thing about record production
"When I was a dancer for Jin-young, I sang the song 'Baby Baby' on my album like a hundred times, and as long as Jin-young waved his hand, I sang it endlessly, so I looked forward to the August release of my album day by day. So, day by day, I looked forward to August, the month when my album would be released. However, in August, the situation changed again, and I had to release my sister's album first, and my album was pushed back to November. In this way, my heart became more and more apprehensive, and after that, Brother Jin Young went to the United States, and I had to contact the empty one, sometimes thinking: after practicing for two years, am I not even able to release a record ah, and also thinking: as a song-and-dance type of singer, am I too old?"
"In February 2002, Jin-young came back to China and said, "This time, I'm really going to give you an album. Because the songs were written long ago, the recording operation ended quickly, and finally came the April 28th 'Bad Man' newcomer promotion TV show special. Although I wanted to show my two years of hard work to the audience, the result was not as good as I thought. Although I didn't make any mistakes, my body was a bit stiff due to nervousness, but I thought 'this is my last chance' and continued to communicate with my fans, and I slowly regained my self-confidence from it. "
------- "It's a bit too much to let people see the story of a young singer who has been on the road for 3 months."
The above is RAIN's debut experience. He was once asked in an interview: you debuted as an artist at such a young age for your own ideals and took a lot of pressure for it, while people of your age are studying, have you ever regretted your choice? Do you feel you are a "bad man" - as you sing in your songs?
Rain: I don't regret starting out at 16, I didn't make the wrong choice, and I don't think I'm a "bad boy" because I'm different from the average kid. Everyone has their own direction, and my dedication to music made me choose to be an artist. Of course, as an artist, I have to neglect my studies and my family, but I'm working hard to make up for that, and I hope that I can do well in my music, and at the same time make progress in my studies, and be able to spend more time with my family.
RAIN's debut album FIRST DROP
RAIN's debut album, which debuted on April 28 with the song "Bad Man," is full of funky, hip-hop, and R&B slow-burning songs, and features S.E.S.'s Sea's "Like You," as well as the song "Like You," which is sung by g.oo, one of the most popular R&B groups in Korea. The group also invited S.E.S's Sea to write and sing "Like You" and DANNY of Korean R&B group g.o.d to sing "What's Love", which was written by Park Syeong-young, his sister Sung, and DANNY, who sang in support of RAIN.
The music video for "Bad Man" is about a man who escapes from prison for his love, and was filmed in Seoul and Melbourne, Australia, with more than 150 crew members and extras. For the prison scene, the director led a team to a remote town in Melbourne to shoot the scene in a historical prison. This real-life scene does not only mean that the prison facilities and guards are real, but also because the prison has not yet been closed, so during the filming process, a number of felons in the prison were observing the scene. The movie is a great example of this. The movie was shot in the presence of a number of felons and murderers, and the scene was not only very chilling, but also very tense, as Rain had to dance and sing in front of the felons!
Rain's song "Handshake," which was voted by fans as the best lyrical song in the country, and "Instead of Saying Goodbye," which was chosen as the music for SK Telcom's TV commercials and RAIN's first ever SBS number one song, were both very popular with his fans because of its danceable rhythms and smiles. The song "Instead of Saying Goodbye" was chosen as the song for the SK Telcom TV commercial.
RAIN, who swept the charts with his powerful dance and cool image that matched his debut single 'Bad Man,' immediately signed commercials with familiar brands such as SK Telecom, Samsung Digital Camera, and Student Clothing Company with the kind of treatment that most Korean super idol singers receive, and his prolific advertising campaigns have helped him to become the 2002 Rookie King of Commercials.
In 2002, RAIN won all the newcomer awards at the 17th Korea Music Awards of MBC and SBS KBS KMTV m.net Music Video Awards.
Rain's charming smile in "Instead of Saying Goodbye" is the result of several years of hard work.
In addition to this, RAIN was also chosen as a model after Jang Dong Gun, Won Bin, Bae Yong Joon, Ahn Jae Wook, Cha Ren Watch, Ryu Sae Won, and Song Seung Heon by ANDRE KIM, a famous Korean fashion designer who is always talking about the casting of models.
rain's undertones are melancholic, as his name suggests, and when he first debuted, he always wore a somewhat melancholic smile and was shy and bashful, and at that time, the ring on his hand was in remembrance of his deceased mother.
Saw a conversational program of RAIN in 2003, where RAIN finally bought a house for his dad and said he was happy to be able to live with his family again.
, "I want to dedicate all the honors to my mother in heaven ......," were the words of Rain, who won the music award for three consecutive weeks on SBS's "Popular Ballad" on the 28th of this month, when he gave his acceptance speech, making all those in attendance This was the words of Rain when he gave his acceptance speech on the third consecutive week of SBS Popular Song Contest. Rain's mother passed away in 2000, and she said that it was hard for her not to show her success as a singer in time.
In 2003, Yu starred in the TV series 'Xiangdu (Sang-do), Let's Go to School' with Kong Hyo-jin. It was his first time to star in a drama, playing an unmarried father and as a "swallower" (a Korean term for a person who cheats rich wives of their money by dancing), such a role was very difficult for rain. He borrowed more than 70 movies and many comic books to analyze how other actors interpreted the role, and in September, KBS 2TV started airing the drama, and although it was his first time in TV, he showed his extraordinary charisma in the drama and captured the hearts of Korean viewers. He won the Best New Performer Award at the KBS year-end awards. After the airing of "Xiangdu, Let's Go to School", Yu's outstanding acting was widely recognized and "Xiangdu, Let's Go to School" became the No.1 keyword in the search on mega websites like Daum in Korea for 2 weeks in a row from the first day when KBS 2TV started to reflect the drama.
"Xiangdu (Sang-do), Let's Go to School":
Sang-do is kind, expressive, and feminine. I can imagine that RAIN must have some parts like Sang-do, the same dedication to love, the same willingness to do anything for the beloved woman, the same knowledge of responsibility, the same pain and refusal to say, the same love of pain but love is strong. After watching Sang-do, for the first time, I was so dumbfounded that I couldn't speak. Unlike romance, this time it wasn't a happy touch, it was a painful sinking in.
In the beginning, watching "Sang-do, go to school together" seemed to be a youth drama about school life, thinking to myself that maybe it's not as sweet as FH. After soaking in BBS for a few days, I began to be curious about RAIN's interpretation of this Choi Sang-do? This big boy, who always gives people a sense of amazement, his first drama role is a male publicist?
RAIN got a drunken scene in "Sang-do, go to school", and it is said that many boys have learned this action of touching his sideburns:
Sang-do ----------- is a father of a 7-year-old child, who seems to be still young, and he has a long memory of his first love, which has made him choose to go out of the original mode of life, and quietly wait by the side of the love of his life. ...... Regardless of whether Yinhuan still loves himself, he is only willing to be a guardian angel, as long as he can quietly stay around her, can see her happiness is very satisfied. Although, sometimes can not help but want to rush past, want to go back to the happy once upon a time ......
The story seems to be destined to be the regret of the 4 people, Sang-do's identity, the experience of the decision of the fairy tale of the tragedy of the end. The story of the 4 people seems to be doomed to regret, the identity of the 4 people, the experience decided to end the fairy tale in a tragic way.
rain said in an interview: every tear in the drama is from the heart, he experienced pain, when his mother left him, prayed for him to act well, his dream came true. Every time, he thinks of his mother, he sheds tears because of the pain that life has brought him, and he says that he misses his mother's cooking. Sang-doo's kind of heartfelt manliness is his own genuine emotion.
Tears have flowed again and again, wave after wave of sadness, but I do not regret, do not regret to have seen such a good show, to see such a man, so that I have not despaired of humanity. Sang-du is indeed a man who cannot leave behind his sense of responsibility.
After that, on October 16, 03, Rain's second album, "Ways to Hide from the Sun" was hotly anticipated, and its eponymous hit song, "Ways to Hide from the Sun" topped the Korean charts for three consecutive months, and the scenery was endless, with a lot of positive feedback in the meantime. The album even pushed Rain to the 'Best Popular Singer' of M.NET, 'Best Male Singer Award' of Seoul Song Awards and other Korean awards that have absolute power performance.
Rain's popularity in Korea is helicoptering, and his first scene in 'Sang-do, Going to School' made the town move, and the veteran actor (who played Sang-do's uncle in the drama) who worked with him said there were people everywhere. rain worked almost 24 hours a day, but he never complained about a word or anything like that.
Rain is very humble and polite offstage, even to the staff who hand him props on stage.
However, on stage, I believe no one can take their eyes off him.
001 Rain's second album's title track "Ways to Hide from the Sun" highlights a mature beauty
In this album Rain's other soft temperament gets a chance to show off. In his second album, Rain will show his sensual voice that was not seen in his first album, and he will give a unique dance using glasses and clothes as props.
Yu's second album **** has 13 songs: the modern tune "Why", a unique take on the best-selling book title "Man from Mars, Woman from Venus", and the Urban R&B-inspired tune "I've Become Famous, Do You Feel Good? ...... From these songs Rain once again gave everyone a taste of his highly appealing vocals.
And, this time the album also includes the hit theme song from last year's Rain-endorsed chocolate commercial, ""You to Me,"" and the first episode of the album's hit song, "Say Good-bye," which Rain reprised by changing it to a funky hip hop style. Special mention should be made of the song "Know", which was the interlude song of KBS 2TV's most popular 2003 hit series "Xiang Dou, Let's Go to School", where Xiang Dou was played by none other than Rain himself, and the song perfectly expresses Xiang Dou's inner world in the drama, and Rain's first success in television for his starring role as Xiang Dou has been widely watched and loved by the Korean viewers.
At the same time, as Rain's popularity continues to grow, he has been very busy with his albums and dramas, but he has been working very hard and even staying up late to prepare for his first stage promotional show in order to present his best songs to the audience.
The 03 show clothes highlight Rain's maturing beauty, with a variety of colors to express the beauty of male power as the tone, short jacket line and bone plate highlights the sexy male beauty to express the 70's drum line clothing and modern hiphop clothing mix to show the new fashion. There were also monochrome top line dresses, where large entic necklaces and golden sunglasses previewed the end of the year fashion trends.
In 2004, Korea's KBS TV station prepared to shoot a drama 'full house' based on a hit manga, and RAIN came out on top when Korean actors Lee Jung-jae, Jo In-sung, and RAIN auditioned for the lead role at the same time. He was paired with Song Hye-kyo.
But this pairing was not initially favored by many, and RAIN is still much taller than Song.
full house 'full house of romance' heroine Ji-eun, a hot-tempered girl who writes for a living, was framed by a friend for losing the beloved fullhouse left behind by her father, and the buyer just happened to be the big star Lee Young-jae, played by RAIN. When Young-jae, who has no other choice, agrees to let Ji-eun stay at the fullhouse, Young-jae is forced to do whatever he wants. Young-jae has a childhood friend, Hye-won, who he has loved for years, but Hye-won is secretly in love with someone else. After being chased by the media, Young-jae signs a marriage contract with Ji-eun so that she can have her fullhouse back in the event of a divorce after half a year, and the two of them begin to live together.
In fact, the story of the drama is not new, it's just a happy couple who end up having a love interest. Yet perhaps it's the two charismatic actors who inject a fresh kind of energy into the episodes.
"From initially hating each other, to having to rely on each other to take care of each other, to a love affair inspired by the little details of life, Young-jae and Ji-eun's love in the drama is like a farce; they are always at odds with each other in their mouths, and then, in other places, they realize each other's lovable qualities, so they gradually care for each other. While Ji-eun realizes her feelings early on, Young-jae is unable to face them, partly due to Hye-won's involvement and partly due to his machismo. Just like when he kissed Ji Eun in front of Hye Won in anger, which led to their fake marriage, he was so afraid of admitting his love that he ran away from it, but in his heart he relied on Ji Eun so much that he could only order Ji Eun to stay by his side with such a commanding tone, and couldn't learn to treat her gently. Ji-eun tries hard to protect Young-jae, but Young-jae hurts her again and again, finally Ji-eun can't take it anymore and she chooses to give up, she doesn't want herself to be sad again because of a man she can't be sure of her love. Luckily, in the end, Young Jae is still irritated and it's jealousy that makes him finally face his feelings, there's nowhere for him to run away from his love for Ji Eun anymore, but he's still a bit of a deadbeat and refuses to say he loves her even when he proposes. In fact, he must be very insecure, weak inside, afraid of getting hurt, afraid of being rejected, so he keeps running away, from Hye Won in the beginning to Ji Eun later on, and he's just a child who doesn't know how to love, but children do grow up eventually. It has to be the night at the camping trip, the night their happiness begins, when everything finally settles down. The way Lee Young Jae buried his head in the blanket and was shy after dawn was really cute, that's just the way he was."
In the drama RAIN plays Lee Young-jae, a popular Asian movie star. "That overbearing, don't give face, even make people hate the chauvinistic Lee Young Jae ah, he finally still give up the so-called self-respect, finally still choose to stay with their own women, no longer pretend to be angry all day long, no longer dead, no longer at all times to grant a hard shell to do people, it is the woman he loves so much to let him learn to love, learn to express love, Lee Young Jae finally in the love grew up."
Romance Full House is a rare comedy within the Korean dramas so far this year, drawing to a perfect conclusion after Song Hye-kyo as well as Rain become happy lovers.
And how many people felt heartfelt joy when they saw the two embracing each other at the end, that moment of happiness, joy, the more fleeting, the more people look forward to it.
"The prince and the princess have lived happily ever after in the castle", but it is just a hurried ending sentence of the fairy tale. Translated into "Romantic House", it is all condensed in the last 5 minutes. For those 5 minutes, the long agonizing wait was worth it.
He just smiled, the corners of his mouth lifting, his eyelashes fluttering, inciting delight.