[Rain interview] Yodelling for Asia

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He's a yodelling Asian popstar, but that's ok. Jens Balzer interviews Jung Ji-Hoon, alias Rain
They call him the Asian Justin Timberlake: Jung Ji-hoon alias Rain, born 1982 in a suburb of Seoul, is Asia's prince of pop - one of the first stars ever to achieve international fame across the culturally splintered region. He fills concert halls in South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Malaysia, China and the Philippines alike – his four albums have sold multi-millions of copies. He is also a well-known TV actor, playing in popular pan-Asian soaps like "Sang Doo! Let's go to school" and "Full House". He introduced his first film role in the Competition section of this year's Berlinale film festival in Berlin: in Park Chan-wook's "I am a Cyborg, but that's ok", Jung plays an inmate of a psychiatric clinic.

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