Rain to take action against 8 million dollar reparation judgment

"Will take action step by step."

Top star Rain announced that he will "take action step by step" regarding lawsuit on 2007 World Tour cancellation. On 20th of March, Rain and his previous agency JYP Entertainment (a.k.a JYP) was charged 8,086,000 dollars from Hawaii Federal Court regarding the cancellation of Hawaii concert.

The 8 million dollars worth of reparation includes 2.4 million from Rain and JYP each which adds up to 4.8 million, 1 million of compensation, and 2.28 million regarding contract violation.

If the federal judge accepts this decision puts it into effect, the plaintiff will take hold of the right to seize the revenues Rain produces in U.S and JYP’s domestic asset. But the federal judge can turn the tides if he or she thinks the decision was unfair. For this, Rain's agency said that they will "take firm yet steady actions".

'Jo Dong-Won', CEO of Rain’s agency J.Tune Entertainment, said regarding Hawaii Federal Court's decision that "it doesn’t make sense that the Federal Court would charge 8million dollars for a case that has been cleared of suspicion in Korea. We will take legal actions."

The reason for Rain's agency taking such firm actions instead of coming to an agreement is to stop the case from spreading and getting into Rain's plans of international schedules this year.

Rain is looking forward to his first Hollywood movie 'Ninja Assassin', album release in U.S, as well as major concerts in Asia. It is possible that his first step towards the international stage as a singer and an actor can be interfered by the legal dispute. In addition, other than the Hawaii concert cancellation awaits a 30 million dollar lawsuit from Andrew Kim, the domestic promoter for the cancelled concert that was supposed to take place on June 30th, 2007 in LA.

Regarding the LA promoter’s lawsuit, J.Tune once announced that they are willing to "take firm legal actions against legal disputes that have no proof and damages the artist’s honor."

Meanwhile, on the 20th when Rain was charged 8 million dollars from the court, he was named once again as a candidate of the most influential 100 people in the world through on-line vote by American news weekly 'The Time Magazine', that was conspicuous.

Source: Sports Donga
Brief translation credit: rain bird@rain-eu.com