It's Raining

So we get only 3.5 English channels out here. CNN World, BBC News, CNBC and a channel called OCN which shows American movies half the time. This, of course, leads us to channel-surfing random Korean television. This is a story about this channel-surfing.

So watching Korean Music Videos, Mia and I keep seeing this one guy who reminds us of a Korean version of Usher or Justin Timberlake. The video shows him in the rain in some war torn area wearing army fatigues, a black wife beater and dog tags. He has attractive, though strikingly similar, male and female back-up dancers shaking their things where else but in the background. The culminating moment occurs after his Usher-esque dance solo when he bends over and then lifts up his wife-beater to expose his right nipple (put's Janet Jackson to shame, take that JT).

Through all the boy bands and other Korean pop-stars, Mia and I have a hard time recognizing who's who, but once the trademark nipple appears a lightbulb goes off. How can you forget something as strange as male nipple (and only the right one, like ooooooh ... he just showed me his right nipple, if I scream loud enough maybe he'll show me lefty).

So after seeing him again on this live concert, we decided to figure out who he was. It was difficult, since we can't read Korean. A google search of "korean nipple singer" yielded few leads, however "korean popstar" led us to this guy named Rain, who I had read about earlier on AsianFanatics.net. Could this be the nipple-baring teen heartthrob our curiosity/boredom has led us to?

This article, Jan. 27, 2006 by the International Herald Tribune (NYTimes abroad, I believe), said Rain was going to play Madison Square Garden this past October and take American teenagers by storm (apparently Pokemon and Baliwood have proven America is ready for, shall I say, the Asian "Monsoon" ... and Jeff gets the corny joke award). So basically, to finish up this pointless post, the identity match was confirmed when the article spoke about Rain's trademark "chest baring." So you guys have to let us know if this Rain fellow is topping the charts (or did the "monsoon" turn out to be a "light drizzle" ... ok, Mia has just banned Jeff from making jokes).