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Rain, who is currently embroiled in a celebrity soldier controversy, has been given a punishment of one week probation by The Ministry Of National Defense.
The global star has been in the news lately for issues concerning holidays and favorable treatment for celebrities in the military. He’ll be confined to the army base for one week of self-reflection.
The Ministry of Defense stated, “After a decision by the disciplinary committee of his unit, Rain will be confined to his [barracks and the army base] for seven days of [self-reflection and introspection]… He violated regulations by having private meetings while on official duty.”
The problem isn’t that he’s the only one to get this special treatment, it’s actually quite the contrary, as apparently this is the status quo for celebrity soldiers. However, the real issue for Rain is that while the other celebrity soldiers get loosely connected to this scandal, he specifically has become the catalyst for the whole issue, and is now the firebrand and the face of preferential treatment.
Unfair to him? Probably, but judging by the comments on Netizen Buzz and basically everywhere else, this isn’t going away for him anytime soon, because I doubt this slap on the wrist will change minds.
We’ve seen before how public perception can change over time, as Psy is probably now the best example of that, but Rain’s going to have work to do in order to rebuild his image in the mean time.
Reputation? What reputation? He’s a ninja assassin for god’s sake. Nothing can change that.
like one of my favorite movies ever tbh
High five!
It goes downhill from here……….
In order to repair his image, to start with he should become a model soldier. Offer to spend extra time in the military beyond his required duty period to make up for the special time he had off – at least double the time that he was away.
The thing is – I’m not saying it’s not wrong, I just don’t understand this kind of thing – how is it his fault if they gave him preferential treatment?
well i actually DO see your point, however people are too pissed of to even go there. Koreans do not mess around with this issue and it hasn’t been thrown in their faces like this before to this extent.
Quite sure you request to be a part of that celebrity soldier thing. People are mad that he said he was gonna be a normal soldier like everybody else but was fucking around the whole time.
I don’t know how reliable this is… but I’ve heard that your superior can order you to become a celebrity soldier. If this is true then it’s one less reason why people can be angry with him, right?
The difference is he enlisted as a regular soldier, told the public he would be part of a normal division, transferred in secrecy at first, and then took all these days off.
He basically went from ACTUALLY being in the military, which he said he would do, to a “member of the public relations unit”, where his main duty is doing award shows, playing for soldiers, and other crap like that. So his work isn’t shit compared to the average Korean.
If he was forced into being a celebrity soldier, and his superiors would cop to that, surely that would help.
As of now though, that’s not the story.
Rain WAS forced to be an entertainment solider, which you would probably know if you followed Rain news but I’m sure some people don’t until “bad” shit happens.
The deal is that when Rain got into the military, most of the current entertainment soldiers were leaving the military and they needed more. They conscripted Rain, as well as Kim Jae Wook and a few others into that branch, under protest from Rain. The man is not dumb… He knew people would flip the fuck out over it. All of this was documented in many news articles from a little less than a year ago.
He also did not go on 71 days of vacay, which has also been written about but not many people are translating those stories since they’re not as interesting as ones about Rain getting into trouble. Here’s a link to that story, which is pretty much an official being like, “Stop exaggerating, people. You’re pulling a Tablo on this dude.”
http://cloudusa.wordpress.com/2013/01/06/article-defense-ministry-rains-total-vacation-days-are-27-official-army-duties-overnight-44/
I wish people would get the real story before they drag his name through the mud… Damn.
But I don’t vilify him or say anything in the comments about the amount of leave he gets, so I’m not sure what you’re arguing.
The post you linked to doesn’t provide information on his superiors saying that they forced him into the celebrity division, they’re just talking about leave.
Put another way, I’m always for defending celebrities against netizens, but what you provided me isn’t related to what I said.
Quite frankly, I’m not sure what exactly you even disagree with as far as the article is concerned.
I’ve seen a lot on Netizen Buzz comparing Rain to one celeb who volunteered to be a Marine (where you have it the worst) instead of opting to be a celebrity soldier (where you have it the best). So it’s kind of an altered version of all the fuss over celebrities getting into top universities easy– people are mainly angry at these paragons of idoldom taking the unfair advantages offered to them.
Hyun Bin?
Him too, but I was actually thinking of Oh Jong Hyuk.
http://netizenbuzz.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/rain-releases-apology.html
I still don’t give two fucks about this till some good shit actually happens …… Anyways, I’m new here
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Rain hasn’t taken off his shirt yet in response to these charges, so I’m still pretty disinterested too.
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I am sure I will find your avatar very funny as soon as I am drunk.
Welcome amongst the sexually frustrated community on here.
YOU’VE BEEN TAKING TOO MUCH TIME OFF!
TAKE SOME TIME OFF!
It’s like when the police fuck up and they get put on paid suspension.
“So … a vacation?”
He’ll be lucky if his career survives after all of this. I’m waving the bullshit flag the next time I see a celebrity bitch and cry about having to be in the military. All this idiot has done is shown that for celebrities, it’s a glorified, government paid version of summer camp.
But I thought early on after his enlistment he was getting all kinds of praise for his hard work? Maybe I’m wrong?
Also lol don’t judge all celebrities by one of them. ;D
he enlisted as a normal soldier then apparently he changed to celebrity soldier and a lot of people didn’t know about this so they feel betrayed
I remember reading an article from way back that mentioned he injured his back during the time he was in, perhaps that is why he switched/got switched from active duty?
Apparently he wasn’t working hard enough if the netizens are ripping him apart like they are. And considering Rain’s international celebrity status, his screw up is going to give most celebrity soldiers a bad image. Thanks to him, most are now going to be seen as loafers who don’t really do anything except cosplay in a uniform, while chilling in luxury hotels with their girlfriends.
If they want to rectify this, they need to actually do some real work, and get stationed at Camp Bonifas at the DMZ. Up there its no women, no alcohol, no fun, but you are also face to face with North Korea.
Things tend to settle as long as you don’t do something unforgivable like avoid service entirely.
To be honest I’m surprised anyone ever really believed those celebrities soldiers when they whine about how hard they had it in the military, ESPECIALLY when they whine about it. The only time I ever really believe they were a regular (or as regular as you can possibly be as a celebrity) soldier is when they don’t say anything at all about it or they’re genuinely nonchalant about the regularities of being a conscript. Anyone who pointedly makes a big deal about their military service is usually bullshitting it.
Tbh, I feel a bit sorry for him. It’s another scandal where I get it why all of them are so mad, but can’t feel the same because of how different things are in my country.
Well, they are technically at war, and North Korea isn’t getting less crazy, so that could put it in perspective.
It’s not like everything is peaceful where I live, we still have some conflicts here and there where soldiers die, and our military service is mandatory too, but everything else is vastly different. Those who have money usually buy fake health certificates (the most popular way to avoid military service here), and of course most of celebrities don’t serve. One of the possible solutions – to make it official, so those who are rich can pay and be free from their service – at least those money would go to the goverment.
Maybe it could work for Korea too, celebrity soldiers don’t do much fot their country anyway
Not sure I agree with this. Sets a bad precedent that money can buy you out of anything.
Sounds like that’s what Psy tried to get away with and was caught.
His rich family basically set him up with some bullshit exemption from service and then he went out and performed a bunch of concerts. If he had laid low, he would probably have gotten away with it.
I’m sure in Korea you can get out of the mandatory service if you know the system and/or have money.
If only Rain can manage to stay out of the media for the remainder of his service, maybe he could salvage his rep…?
He better hire a speech writer, give handy j’s, or something and come up with a loophole around this bitch, or become ghost until people is on another fuckery story. It doesn’t look good for him right now… Well, at least he didn’t go all MC Mong about this.
I kinda admire Rain in a way; He didn’t give a fuck what anybody else thought and did what he wanted to, which was fuck the hottest woman in Korea. Although on the other hand, he did (kinda) break the law knowingly. But if the military is gonna let him do it, I don’t see why not.
All this for Kim Tae Hee?
I mean, she’s cute but I’ll dump her to save my reputation *shrugs*
man fuck everyone who cries about how unfair it is that Rain is being used as the posterchild for an apparently endemic problem with the military, life isn’t fair and it’s not fair that he got special treatment in the first place so fuck it. fuck them all.
eat the rich
still do him.
Well, he can start rebuilding his reputation by not taking any more leaves….. I blame him and the people who gave him leaves. He still kept asking, knowing he’ll get it (being selfish) and they still kept giving them to him. Welp, it caught up to ya.
He’s a pussy. All that working out, weight lifting building his muscles were really only for show I guess.
Rain’s now officially a cautionary tale: http://netizenbuzz.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/celebrities-awaiting-enlistment.html
I think he’s to big to have a career melt down, prolly have to appear humble for the first 3 months more than anything else..
He just needs a spanking from Kafkaf
And kafkaf needs a spanking from me!
I miss your crazy ass on the chat, you fool!
I wonder how they..get rid of their…you know…….sexual fantasies :o
I personally feel that most of the hate should go to the Korean military, not rain.