Saturday, February 28, 2009

'KBS Ent News' raises issues for insulting Rain

'KBS Ent News' has stirred up a problem for their broadcast that seemed to insult Rain.

Last 14th in 'Up and Down Corner' of 'KBS Ent News', they said that "Rain has failed to be in the 1411 Hollywood actors that could be big money which was researched by Forbes" with the reporter adding "as the weather is clear, there will be no rain".

In this process, a laughing sound that seemed to laugh at Rain was inserted which wasn’t appropriate, and the viewers are demanding a formal apology for the broadcast that aired 2 weeks ago.

Viewers pointed out that the program left out many researches and journals that ranked Rain's movie at the top and gave compliments, and that it was biased for talking about one specific research. Looking at it that way, all the Korean stars that went overseas including Rain, and the famous Hollywood stars that didn’t put their names on the list, are 'down'.

Rain has already recently appeared in the world renowned documentary channel Discovery, put his name on the 'Top 24 Hotties in the World', a research done by 'Entertainment Weekly', and his movie 'Ninja Assassin' has been nominated as 'Top 10 most looked forward movies by Examiner' and top 25 of Film School Reject movie webzine. His music has topped the Asian channel ‘V Countdown’ for 5 consecutive weeks.

This broadcast also mentioned that the Hawaiian court has finalized the trial by jury regarding Rain's world tour cancellation, which is another reason for Rain's down. But viewers point out that it is still in the early stages of the trial to say anything about it.

'KBS Ent News' also added "Rain is positioning himself as a world stay by appearing in Hollywood movies Speed Racer and Ninja Assassin, and put his name in one of the 100 most influential people in the world research done by Times magazine", but Rain was nominated in the Times magazine even before appearing in the movies.

'KBS Ent News' insulting Rain was pointed out in the February KBS viewer board of trustees general meeting and also ‘TV Criticism Viewer Desk’ which aired on the 28th.

Regarding this issue KBS 'Ou Se-Young' head of entertainment production said "there was no intention of insulting Rain. We wanted to raise the question why Rain didn't make it in the Forbes research but the message must have been handed out in the wrong direction" which is an unsatisfactory explanation.

Source: Herald news
Brief translation credit: rain bird@rain-eu.com

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