Ooopps! ~ Another Identity Mix-Up for RAIN
KOREANS UPSET AT RAIN BEING NAMED AS JAPANESE POP MEGASTAR
COOLSMURF WORDPRESS
By: Coolsmurf
Korean megastar Rain plays Taejo Togokhan in Speed Racer and because it’s a Japanese name, he has been mistaken to be a Japanese instead of Korean.
Rain was in England recently to promote his debut Hollywood movie and this was what was wrote about his role in the movie: "Japanese pop megastar Rain appears as Taejo, a competing racer. The film will, undoubtedly, do well in Japan as a result."
Koreans who learnt of this was furious and said that the person writing the review was not knowledgable enough and hurt their pride.
Although Rain is exceptionally popular in Asia, he’s just only getting starting in Europe and America. The movie review by British website, “Den of Geek” has led to cries by Koreans saying, “Rain is Korean!”.
Article by Den of Geek ( below )
Corrected caption, photo released by Reuters ( below )
I find this incident rather funny. Well, first off, its very careless of “Den of Geek” to write an article about the movie without proper research. The said article was written by Russell Clark. But really, I can't blame them much right now since Rain is still a very new name to them. Like what happened at Los Angeles, when Rain's name was mixed-up with his character's name, and was introduced to the public as Taejo Togokhan instead of his real name Jung Ji-hoon. That's really quite embarrassing.
And now heres another episode, almost like Rain has a whole lot of identity crisis. Though it's not a major article, its still an unforgivable mistake for someone who's just introducing his name to Hollywood. Yeah well, mistakes happen and its unfortunate for Rain. At least, there’s always the erratum section though. But its funny enough that “Den of Geek” hasn’t updated the said article which was posted 29/04/08. I’m sure Rain’s fans (especially his very angry die hard Korean fans) could take care of it themselves. Must be a pain for “Den of Geek” to get so much hate mails from extreme fans.
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