RAIN KRÓNIKA: 2009.12.10.

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[German Mag] On set of NA (ger & engl)


found something at the homepage of the most famous german movie magazin "Cinema", eventhough
there is nothing in their dec issue ... at least at the homepage
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"On Set of Ninja Assassin"

translated by freya1507/sexybi
note: i just translated the part about Rain .... the other thing is about plot and shooting

[...]As "Ninja Assassin" the southkorean pop-mega-star Rain will give his international debut as a maincharacter of a movie. On his way to the make-up trailer 27 year old Rain focused to appear cool but never the less beeing a very pleasant person, he laughingly told us, how he did prepare for this movie: "For 6 month i trained different martial arts techniques every day and while this time i just eat chickenbreast with steamed vegetables - it was horrible!"[...]

[...]Als "Ninja Assassin" wird der südkoreanische Pop-Megastar Rain sein internationales Hauptrollen-Debüt geben. Auf dem Weg in die Maske gibt der trotz betont zur Schau gestellter Lässigkeit höchst sympathische 27-Jährige lachend zu Protokoll, wie er sich auf den Film vorbereitet hat: "Ich habe 6 Monate lang jeden Tag verschiedene Martial-Arts-Techniken trainiert und in dieser Zeit nur Hähnchenbrust mit gedünstetem Gemüse gegessen - es war furchtbar!"[...]

source: cinema
http://www.cinema.de/kino/news-und-specials/artikel/ninja-assassin-exklusiv-am-set,4000122,ApplicationArticle.html

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i like the part ... that he tries to act cool but end up beeing nice and friendly to the ppl ^^





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end of the year fan project

just an invite to fans to participate in "Thank you Rain for a great 2009" project.   details and deadline can be found at rainlisting.blogspot.com




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<12월 둘째주> 금주의 극장가 소식 

 
 
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비, 日오사카서 앵콜 콘서트 확정…亞투어 내년까지



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[Dec-10-2009] Rain's close friend Baekga who has a brain tumor, is to decide whether to discharge from service due to illness after the final test results.

Rain's close friend and 3 member group Coyote's rapper Backga has been diagnosed with brain tumor.

Backga has served as a guard member in Seoul prosecutor's office since he entered Nonsan army training camp for recruits last October 15th, he was recently injured in a minor traffic accident and visited a medical clinic for a close diagnosis, and he has now requested his medical leave after he was diagnosed with brain tumor. He'll set his further plan after watching the final test results.

He thanked his friends, who have been worried about his health, on his own mini homepage last 9th.

credit to Star news http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=106&oid=108&aid=0002010730

Brief translation by rain bird.

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[Dec-10-2009] Rain is to hold his encore concert in Japan in January next year.

Singer and actor Rain's decided to hold his encore concert in Osaka, Japan.

Rain's agency J.Tune entertainment informed of the news through his official home page last 8th.

According to J.Tune, Rain'll hold his concert in Osaka Jo Hall, Japan, on January 23rd and 24th next year.

Earlier, starting with Japan's Super Arena last August 29th and 30th, Rain successfully hold his Asia Tour 'Legend of Rainism' concert in Seoul last October 9th and 10th, and Hong Kong last November 28th and 29th, and in Indonesia's Jakarta last December 3rd, respectively.

Meanwhile, Rain'll progress his mini fan meeting in Cheongdamdong, Seoul, upcoming 17th. after this, he is to leave for America and hold his single concert in Las Vegas's Caesars Coliseum Hotel for both days of the 24th and 25th.

credit to Star news http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=106&oid=108&aid=0002010748

Brief translation by rain bird@Rain-EU

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Ninja Assassin Boxoffice Estimates by 12/08

source: boxofficemojo & the-numbers

                                   Daily               Total
Wednesday 11/25  $3,318,146    $3,318,146
Thursday     11/26  $4,559,261     $7,877,407
Firday          11/27  $5,639,793     $13,517,200
Saturday      11/28  $4,869,935     $18,387,135
Sunday        11/29  $2,806,430     $21,193,565
Monday       11/30   $937,232       $22,130,797
Tuesday      12/01   $997,183       $23,127,980
Wednesday  12/02   $824,320       $23,952,300
Thursday     12/03   $808,197       $24,760,497
Firday          12/04   $1,647,124     $26,407,621
Saturday      12/05   $2,014,530     $28,422,151
Sunday        12/06   $1,399,845     $29,821,996
Monday        12/07   $468,419       $30,290,415
Tuesday       12/08   $484,159       $30,774,574

Oversea boxoffice by 12/06,  $12,400,000

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James McTeigue Interview, Ninja Assassin - moviesonline


source: http://www.moviesonline.ca/movienews_17515.html

We sat down recently with director James McTeigue to talk about his new film, “Ninja Assassin,” based on a screenplay by Matthew Sand and J. Michael Straczynski, and starring Korean pop star Rain, Naomie Harris, Ben Miles, Rick Yune and legendary martial arts performer Sho Kosugi.

As a boy in Sydney, McTeigue was exposed to a variety of world cinema and television and was heavily influenced by ninja television shows like "Shintaro" and "Phantom Agents," and by films such as "Shinobi No Mono." He graduated from Sydney University, where he studied art and film.

McTeigue made his directorial debut helming the iconoclastic screen adaptation of the graphic novel "V for Vendetta." He came to the project through his relationship with the Wachowski brothers, for whom he served as the assistant director on all three "Matrix" films. His other previous film credits as an assistant director include "Speed Racer" and "Dark City." He is next set to direct "The Raven," a fictionalized account of Edgar Allen Poe's final days.

Here’s what James had to tell us about “Ninja Assassin,” working with Rain, the physical challenges of shooting such an intense action film, and the possibility of a sequel. He also reveals details about his upcoming project, “The Raven.”

MoviesOnline: Can you talk about casting the movie and how Rain became involved?

JM: I did some second unit on Speed Racer and I worked with Rain on that. We’d always been talking about doing a ninja movie, breathing life into that genre, and we thought, if there was ever going to be anyone who’d be perfect for the role, it was Rain. So we decided to basically make it a vehicle for him and then we went ahead and did it.  Naomie Harris, [who] plays Mika in the film, was one of the actresses who really understood what the movie was or what I was trying to do with the movie, and so she came on board. The casting came together pretty quickly actually.

MoviesOnline: How did you know Rain could do all the ninja stuff? It seems like it’s a lot of him doing his stunts or did you cut in other people?

JM: No, it’s a lot of him actually. The way it started off was you always do storyboards and then you bring the fight choreographers in and then you start to flesh it out and then you bring the actor in to see how many of the moves that they could do, and [with] Rain, through his dance background and his singing background, I think there’s muscle memory, the way dancers count off and all that, he just kept getting better. So, we kept giving him more, because at some point you stop and go, ‘Okay, bring the stunt guy in.’ But he just kept doing it. So we just kept giving him more and more complicated choreography, which is good. It’s not usually like that, let me tell you. You get actors hitting people in the head with swords.

MoviesOnline: There’s a lot in the press kit about bringing the ninja mythology into the 21st century. What was the change that you hoped to make in your movie?

JM: Well, I think ultimately what happens when your budget is limited, or you’re trying to make something really cheaply, which was how those ninja movies in the eighties were made, they sort of become cheesy just because of what you have available to you, and so you end up with a B genre. What I wanted to do – because I kind of like the idea of a ninja movie, and kids like ninjas, ask a kid and they’ll say, ‘Oh, I love ninjas,’ -- was to try and bring other genres into the ninja genre, like bring some gaming into it, bring some anime, bring some horror, film noir, and try and to give it the affectation of an Asianer. That’s what I was hoping to do.

MoviesOnline: Is this the first type of movie like this that you’ve done?

JM: It is. It’s like the first time I’ve done a straight out genre piece. I did V for Vendetta, that crosses genres, and V for Vendetta was like two hours of talking and maybe 10 minutes of action. There’s a lot of action in this, so I think when you have a movie like this, you want to keep the story pretty straightforward. You want to have the characterizations so you understand the people enough that you care about what happens to them.

MoviesOnline: I made a joke that this made Kill Bill look like a PG-13. When you started this, did you discuss how far you wanted to go with the violence?

JM: I guess I wanted to set it up so it was in no way that it wasn’t real. In the first scene in the tattoo parlor, I set those guys up as super bad guys, so when all that stuff starts happening to them it’s kind of funny.  That was the aesthetic I was going for from the outset. You get with the storyboard artist and I’ve had a long relationship with Steve Skroce. I said, ‘Hey Steve, what about this?’ And then he comes back and it’s a little bit more and it’s like, ‘Oh, that could be cool,’ and then I go, ‘Oh, what about that?’ You end up being very inventive in the way that people die.

MoviesOnline: When it came to the props, what were you most afraid of, the chains or the swords?

JM: That chain with the blade on the end of it, that thing (points to the poster). Obviously you don’t swing that around on set, and it was his kind of weapon. That was kind of the fun thing to do with it.

MoviesOnline: What was the biggest challenge to shoot – you had people running over cars down the street, that was real, right?

JM: Yeah, that was all real

MoviesOnline: What was the biggest physical challenge in shooting this?

JM: That was a challenge. That was a lot of nights and you have to be very precise. By the time you get to set, you have that all mapped out. There’s this complete laborious process where you’re mapping all the cars out and where everyone’s running. You want to keep it spontaneous so there’s always that element that something could happen and I could put Rain in the middle of the traffic, so you do, and you don’t want to put digitized cars in it. It was all real so that was a pretty hard one.

MoviesOnline: So there’s no digital in that whole sequence? That’s impressive.

JM: Except for when the guy leaps, there’s a car that wipes him – he does a somersault like this. There’s a car that goes past, but all those guys that are chasing him running down the street are parkour guys or like free running guys. We were shooting and I just said, ‘Can you leap up over that car?’ And he goes, ‘Oh, how fast is the car going?’ ‘I don’t know, 20 miles an hour, 30 miles an hour.’ He goes, ‘Oh yeah, 30’s fine.’ I’m like, ‘Really? You know they’re coming at you, right?’ And they just run and they leap and he did a somersault. I didn’t even ask him to do the somersault. He just ran. ‘Can you do it again?’

MoviesOnline: I actually liked the story – all the stunts were great but the story was good, and I wondered if getting the relationships between the actors was important to you?

JM: Yeah, it was important. I think talking about ninja movies in the eighties, they didn’t have much of a story and it was important to me to hang the film on a story. I guess I dared to give you the history of the Ozunu clan, and what set him on his path of rejection or revenge, or why he wanted to kill his brother and his father. I thought it was important to have a strong narrative that you could hang all the action on, but also like characterizations from – so that Rain’s character, Raizo, I thought was – he’s like in that sort of Clint Eastwood mode. It’s all in the expression. He doesn’t say much. It’s in the expression of his face but then his actions speak. I wanted to make sure the Mika character, who’s played by Naomie Harris, and the Maslow character, who is played by Ben Miles, they were all talking about what was happening, you’re going from A to B, because ultimately the story is like - there is someone in the ninja world, there’s someone investigating the ninja world, and that world collides to become one world and then they’re on the run.

MoviesOnline: What kind of star/director relationship do you have with Rain? Is he very collaborative, or does he want to do his own thing? Do you guys talk out a scene? How does that work?

JM: No, he’s super collaborative. I think [that’s] the good thing about him and why he’s such a huge star in Asia is he keeps always pushing himself, like going to the next level. His English is pretty good. You’ll get to talk with him soon. But then he learned a lot of stuff phonetically, but his understanding of what you want – when you have English as a second language, at some point you understand a lot more than you can actually express, and I think he was at that point. I could give him very nuanced direction and he would get it.

MoviesOnline: Did you ever consider adding a love scene with Mika?

JM: Yes, tempted. They did have good chemistry and there was one scene that was a funny scene that I cut out that wasn’t a love scene but it was kind of like an awkward sexy scene together. Maybe that will be in the next one.

MoviesOnline: That will be on the DVD?

JM: Yeah, I know. Don’t worry, I’ve got it in the wings there.

MoviesOnline: This could certainly be a franchise. Are you hoping for a sequel?

JM: Yeah, I guess it could. At this point you just wait for it to come out, see how it does and then take it from there. I’d like to work with Rain again, and Joel Silver and the Wachowskis and Grant Hill, all the producers, we have a long history together. I like making films with them, so yeah, I’d like to work with everyone again.

MoviesOnline: How was your relationship with them on the set?

JM: It’s always good. We’ve known each other for such a long time now. It’s like this dysfunctional family. We all get together every now and then, not every now and then, I guess the past 10 years now actually starting with the first Matrix film. Yeah, it’s good experience. They’re all great and unique at what they do. Joel is like a Barnum and Bailey producer, which is kind of fun, and Larry and Andy Wachowski, they’re like great creative producers.

MoviesOnline: How could you think up killing anybody in any other way?

JM: Well, in the film if you listen, they talk about the nine clans. He’s destroyed one, so he’s got another eight to go, right? I’m sure he’s plotting somewhere new and inventive ways to seek revenge on the others.

MoviesOnline: They’ll give him a different weapon this time.

JM: Yeah, that would be a fun thing to invent.

MoviesOnline: What style of kung fu does he use in the film?

JM: It’s a mix. We taught a mixture of styles to Rain -- kung fu, jujitsu, taekwondo. There was a whole bunch that he ends up using in the film at some point. We gave him weapons training, so he trained with that, he trained with two swords, he trained with single katana. We got him to throw shurikens, all that stuff.

MoviesOnline: Isn’t Taekwondo Korean?

JM: That’s what he started with. When he was a kid, he learned that, and then it was kind of like a refresher course.

MoviesOnline: Can you talk about The Raven? Is it a biography of Edgar Allen Poe’s later life?

JM: No, it’s not a biography actually. He disappeared for the last five days of his life, that’s the true part of it. They found him drunk in a bar in not very good shape. This movie is like a cross between Seven and a series of Edgar Allen Poe stories. There’s a serial killer loose in 1950s Baltimore (means 1850s – Poe died in 1849) Baltimore and he uses Poe’s stories as his methodology to kill people. And he kidnaps Poe’s fiancée and says, ‘I’m going to keep killing people and leave a clue at each killing that I do which will eventually lead to where your fiancée is, if you get there in time.’ That’s the basic premise of it.

MoviesOnline: Have you cast anybody in it yet?

JM: I’m in the middle of that. I’ve just come back from Europe. I was just scouting some locations over there, so I might make it there or hopefully I could make it in the U.S. I’ve been thinking about a couple of places in the U. S. that it would be possible to make.

MoviesOnline: Who would you want to play the killer? Do you have anybody in mind?

JM: I do, but I don’t want to – I’m superstitious about it, because I’m right in the middle of it. It’s dangerous.

MoviesOnline: Have you always had a fascination with Poe or was it the story of this?

JM: I’ve always read Poe, but then this script was given to me by the producer, Aaron Ryder, who did Memento, The Prestige and Donnie Darko, did a lot of really interesting movies and Poe’s stories are fantastic. I guess it’s sort of ubiquitous in this country, too. A lot of kids read Poe at school. It was such a unique blend of thriller with the very inventive psychotic way that Poe wrote about things. It was nice to have a film that has The Tell-Tale Heart in it and Murders in the Rue Morgue, Premature Burial, all those things that fed into this. They were woven into this story. It’s cool. It was a good idea.

MoviesOnline: Do you have any ideas yet about the look of the film and how you want to set it up visually?

JM: Yeah, I’ve just started the storyboarding process which is great, with the same guy who did Ninja Assassin, Steve. Yes, I do. I think it will be – I like the way for example that you talk about a similar movie. It’s like a modern day Seven, really created like the world, you didn’t know if it was New York or whether it was L.A. or whether it was Gotham. I think the thing about this is I’d like to do this in 1850s Baltimore, but ultimately it’s Poe’s world. It’s like the way that he’s seeing the world. So I think I’ll shoot it through with that.

MoviesOnline: So Poe’s involved looking for the killer?

JM: Yeah, he is.

MoviesOnline: In terms of casting, what about Johnny Depp? Of course I’d say him for anything.

JM: Yeah, so would I actually if I had 50 million more dollars and I could shoot it in 2018 when he becomes available. Unless you’re Tim Burton, there’s not much of a chance these days actually.

MoviesOnline: What Poe stories are included in the killings?

JM: There’s a lot. There’s the Tell-Tale Heart, Murders in the Rue Morgue, Premature Burial, and a bunch of others. It’s a cool concept.

MoviesOnline: When do you start shooting?

JM: Hopefully I would start shooting by spring next year, probably sort of late winter into spring -- whenever Johnny’s available. I like that idea. Could you just put that in your article?

MoviesOnline: What genre haven’t you tackled that you’d like to do? – I don’t think you’re the rom-com guy.

JM: No, well, never say never, right? You’re probably right, romantic comedy, am I going to do that? I don’t know. Me and Jennifer Aniston? I think as a filmmaker you always want to keep expanding and moving into different genres. I think I’d like to do anything. There’s always genres that you’d like to make movies about. Because I grew up on westerns, I would like to make a western, but nobody wants to make a western anymore.

MoviesOnline: I was surprised 3:10 to Yuma didn’t change that.

JM: Yeah, I guess you could go back into it, but the last one that really did anything was the Clint [Eastwood] one, The Unforgiven. I know Kevin Costner tries a lot. There’s a really great story that I’d like to do called Altered Carbon, about this guy called Richard Morgan that I’ve spoken over the years about. Joel Silver has the property. So, maybe that. I’d like to do lots of different genres if I could. I guess the musical is dead, but I can’t see myself doing that.

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[10-Dec-09][allkpop]Rain failed 18 auditions to get into JYP Entertainment?


Park Jin Young is definitely all over the place these days including a cable show titled, O'live Season 3. In this feature, JY Park talked about Rain, who was scouted out by JYP Entertainment way back in the day.

He said,

When you look at Rain, you'd think he's always been a star but that's not the case. He actually failed 18 auditions. Jihoon (Rain's real name) seems like he has a certain amount of talent but he always surprises me. I was so surprised (about Ninja Assassin). While watching it, I didn't think about him as the dongsaeng I know. It was an action movie but he was really good.

JYP continued,

We've gone separate ways and that's been working better for us. We see each other more to talk and drink.

Though he complimented Rain a lot, he didn't seem to forget his other artists. He talked about what the JYP family shares in common:

The first, second and third step is to find the person's charm. You have to find someone who has a certain type of charm and then think about what their charm really is. That's how I cast people. g.o.d, Wonder Girls, 2PM, etc all share in common somethings. They are all a big shy and innocent. None of them seemed like the type to make it that big at first. Out of those teams, I really worked hard with g.o.d. Back then, we had no company and all we did was make music.


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[10-Dec-09][popseoul]JYP dishes on Rain

Producer and sometimes pop act, JYP dished about pop act turned producer Rain.

JYP revealed that Rain auditioned 18 times before he was picked up as a trainee for JYP Entertainment on the cable channel program, “Olive Show” on December 10th.  JYP admires Rain’s strong work ethic and knew that it would get him far. However, he was surprised that that hard work would land Rain in a leading role in a Hollywood movie.
And now that they have gone their separate ways, they call each other and drink together more often than before-probably because Rain wants to ask for advice.
JYP also revealed what he looks for in a potential trainee? that special something something. After he finds someone who has “it” quality, then producer thinks about what makes them so special. The common thread that runs through his successful pop acts such as G.O.D, Rain, Wondergirls, 2PM are that they are shy and innocent. Is that an attractive quality?
With his new track, “No love, no more,” JYP will be hitting the stage with his“Naughty Party: Heartless Tour” around the nation. Special guests are Joo, 2PM and 2AM.
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[12-09] [sports] Koyoto Baekga has determined to have brain tumor


Korean to Chin translated by Cloud China
Chin to Eng translated by Cuckoo@NYhttp://sports.donga.com/enter/3/02/20091209/24686620/1&top=1

Accordingly, member of group band Koyote, Baekga (28 years old) [a very closed friend of Rain] has been determined to have brain tumor.

On the 9th, the agent of Baekga said "because of a small accident, a fist-sized tumor has been found in his brain when treatement was received in hospital". "Although Baekga is tortured by headache, also he has collapsed condition suddenly when he worked alone, but it should be caused by fatigue."

"Concrete results or whether the surgery is necessary, details have to be waited until accurate test results came out" "he himself and his friends are very surprised with this determination."

In addition, Baekga wrote on his own CY blog on the 9th "I will get stronger. I can only say thank you to people around me", " "sincere thanks to the people around."

Baekga has began his military duties since October 15th, he was currently working in Seoul Central District Court as a public welfare officer.

The current situation is: a fist-sized tumor has to be monitored carefully. Right now, it can't be treated with drugs, major surgery has decided to operate. In present, more tests have to take.




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[10-Dec-09][emcperth]Rain turns this movie into one of best ninja films of all time  

source: http://www.emcperth.ca/20091210/ ... a+films+of+all+time

MOVIE: Ninja Assassin

STARRING: Rain, Naomi Harris, Ben Miles, Rick Yune, and Sho Kosugi

DIRECTOR: James McTeigue

RATING: R

EMC Lifestyle - It seems like it's been forever since there's been a really good ninja movie. Sure there have been some spectacular martial arts films, but no ninja movies like those from the 1970s and '80s. I can only hope Ninja Assassin will herald a new age for this genre.

They exist only in myths yet the mention of their name sparks fear.

They are unstoppable assassins who move in the shadows. They are ninja.

Taken from the streets as a young boy, and given a new name by the Ozuna Clan, Raizo (Rain) was told the clan was his only family. He was trained in the deadliest martial arts.

He was taught to ignore pain, and to turn his emotions off. As he grew older he became one of their deadliest ninjas.

Raizo never forgot the clan's painful lessons. One of the most painful lessons Raizo learned was on the day his only friend was executed by the clan for trying to escape.

This one memory would burn inside of Raizo for the rest of his life. It's what gave him the strength to eventually betray his clan and escape their grasp. Raizo then went into hiding until he could extract his revenge.

Mikka Cotte (Naomi Harris) is a Europol researcher who has stumbled onto an interesting money trail.

A number of governments and other organizations have been paying a mysterious group a hundred pounds of gold to kill people. It's the exact price the mythological ninja clans would require for taking a man's life. Mikka follows the money and uncovers the existence of the Ozuna Clan. As she discovers their existence they learn of hers.

The Ozuna move to silence Mikka, but Raizo is there to save her.

They escape for the moment, but Raizo knows it won't last. Raizo and Mikka have to find a way to bring down one of the oldest and deadliest ninja clans in the world, because the Ozuna won't stop until they're both dead.

The martial art fight scenes in Ninja Assassin are mind blowing. Fists, feet, swords, ninja stars, and more than a few body parts fly across the screen.

It was everything you could possibly want in a ninja flick and so much more. What surprised me though was the amount of story and character development. I was expecting mindless action, and I certainly got my fill, but there was a decent attempt at a story as well.

Rain was awesome.

I was thoroughly impressed with his martial arts and athleticism, and he wasn't a half bad actor for an action hero. Naomi Harris as the damsel in distress runs scared with the best of them, and I loved Sho Kosugi who plays the leader of the Ozuna Clan.

He was a truly terrifying and evil villain.

Ninja Assassin is destined to be ranked among the best ninja movies of all time.

Mark Haskins' column is a regular feature of the EMC.

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09-12-10 Rain in Seoul Snow Jam Ads

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09-12-10 Candid pics of Rain & good friend BaekGa

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The evil curse of 2009 strikes yet again with only a few weeks left 'till the new year as Koyote's rapper BaekGa (Baek Sung Hyun) has been diagnosed with a brain tumor after receiving a standard MRI scan. He was involved in a small car accident and was feeling dizzy, so the doctors recommended an MRI Scan and found the tumor.

On the 9th, BaekGa revealed this unfortunate news via his mini-homepage and thanked those who were supporting him. However, he also revealed some of the personal things he went through when he and his family found out as he wrote, "Maybe it's because I hated to see the men I love crying around me, but I cursed and yet you all still ignored me and continued to cry. I then went into a bathroom stall and locked myself and as I covered my mouth with my scarf, tears began to pour out like crazy," he continued, "After crying for a while I came out and as I looked in the mirror a laugh came out. My heart hurt so much but I felt so good. My older and younger brother had dashed over here and spent the whole night up and that made me laugh with gratitude."

He then sent a personal thanks to his brothers as he said, "I feel grateful that I have someone by my side, which is why I've decided to stay strong. Even without saying it I'm sure you know that I'm very thankful. I truly thank you."

This is quite the downer especially after news about his fellowKoyote member being discharged have been revealed. BaekGa and Shin Ji had been holding down the fort for the past two years as Kim Jong Min served his military duties. Koyote is well known for its members coming and going but BaekGa has been the longest running rapper in the group and hopefully he can stay even longer. Hope things turns around for BaekGa, and wish him luck in his treatment process.

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