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[Talk of town]Sending some Rain to wash away oil

The number of volunteers flocking to Taean, South Chungcheong to clean the area's oil-ravaged coasts exceeded 1,150,000 as of Monday.

Pop star Rain is among the helping hands. Despite his busy performance schedule, he headed for the damaged coast immediately upon arrival from the United States last Wednesday.

Media from both near and far covered Rain's volunteer work. The Hong Kong-based Oriental Daily News and Taiwan's Taipei Daily even ran the news on its front page.

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By Lee Eun-joo


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How did Kim Tae-hee – Song Hye-kyo – Soo-ae became best dressers? (2008/01/17)

Not only stars become best friends to each other. A stylist maintains much closer relationship to a star than their manager and is solely responsible for their management. Therefore they are an inseparable assistance and a strong supporter and a best friend.

If a certain star made a sudden escape from disgraceful "worst dress" to honourable "Best dresser" category, there must be a well-matched stylist behind them.

Actor Lee Young-ae often says that she shared "10-years-old friendship" with Ma Yong-hee, her stylist. Hereupon once can see a relationship between a star and their stylist is beyond what is shared between colleagues.

A program called "Trend Report, Feel – Season II" (directed by PD Lee Sun-young/ 11pm on Tuesday) from Mnet, investigated the inseparable relationship between a star and their stylist and analysed their fashion sense and changes in styles.

The latest fashion star, Kim Tae-hee, who had been wearing tube-top mini-dresses in recent film festivals, was helped by a top stylist, Han Hye-yoen, who had been responsible for fashion styles of many top stars including Kim Jeong-eun and Rain. Thanks to her, Kim Tae-hee received praises that "Her new style had maximised Kim Tae-hee's attractiveness" and was chosen as the "best dresser" and became a new "fashionist star".

Stylist Choi Hye-ryeon , who is known as Daniel Henney's stylist succeeded in achieving an ideal proportion for Song Hye-kyo to minimise her weakness of short height, when she became her stylist. Previously Song Hye-kyo maintained old styles that acted against her young age. Stylist Choi is now emphasising a chic look in her by dressing her in mini-look using dress as well as shirts. Eventually she succeeded in putting Song Hye-kyo's name on the best dresser list.

Soo-ae, whose nickname is "Dre-Soo-ae" for being chosen as a best dresser every time she appears in official events, is getting a helping hand from Stylist Jung Yoon-ki. He is known as "Soo-ae's red carpet exclusive stylist" as well as "Korea's first male stylist ever". He is talented in maximising Soo-ae's gracefulness and elegance. Thus he is an inseparable assistance for Soo-ae. Stylist Jung Yoon-ki was also responsible for Ko Hyeon-jeong's dress who made a comeback in 10 years with the drama "Spring Days"; and the style of Kim Hye-soo, who is the star of the Blue Dragon film festival. In particular, he often works with many female stars who are largely popular with male audiences.

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"Goodbye Jeon Ji-hyeon", Song Hye-kyo became the next main model for Laneige (2008/01/17)

Top star, Song Hye-kyo became the face of Laneige in 2008 after the 'CF Queen', Jeon Ji-hyeon.

The 'No.1 Beauty' Jeon Ji-hyeon brought a rapid success to Laneige when she worked as their main model for last 4 years from January 2004. As the main model for 'Laneige' (Open the link), Jeon Ji-hyeon brought out various aspects of her beauty from purity to sexy while appealed to the audience with her friendly image. She maximised the image of "The woman to be followed".

Laneige released a new make-up set called 'Snow Crystal' last year to promote a reformation. Its spokesman said, "In order to change our present image and to successfully launch a new marketing scheme as a "Young Premium Brand" we decided to change our main model".

The experts explained that if the "Perfect body" Jeon Ji-hyeon attracted the consumers with her mystic atmosphere, the attractive point for "Doll-faced" Song Hye-kyo is her milky-white skin and enchanting eyes, the best features for a beauty model. In addition, "Recently, Song Hye-kyo looks more sophisticated and chic, closely matching with the image the Laneige wishes to promote. She will attract many Asian women who wish to be like her".

Meanwhile, Song Hye-kyo completed the first set of photo shoots at a certain studio in Seoul Kang-nam. She was praised by many for bring out various facial expressions suitable for the product at every possible angles.


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Rain Donates to Taean Cleanup (2008/01/17)

By Kwon Mee-yoo
Staff Reporter

Korean top singer and actor Rain participated in volunteer work and donated 300 million won towards the Taean oil spill cleanup.

Rain visited Taean, South Chungcheong Province, to help clean up after one of the worst oil spill disasters with staff from his agency on Wednesday. Despite the freezing weather, Rain worked hard to remove oil from the beach.

After volunteering at the scene, he donated 300 million won for the clean-up efforts in Taean on Thursday.

The singer-actor recently came back to Korea from Los Angeles where he had been shooting his first Hollywood movie "Speed Racer", the latest work of the Wachowski brothers. The volunteer work was his first public appearance this year.

J Tune Entertainment, Rain's management agency, said that Rain originally wanted to keep his volunteer work a secret. However, the number of volunteers coming to Taean is on the decrease and the provincial government asked him to publicize his work to encourage more people to help Taean.

According to the South Chungcheong provincial government, approximately 1.1 million volunteers visited Taean after the country's largest-ever oil spill about a month ago.

Rain recently signed a one-year contract with Samsung Electronics for modeling for Samsung Anycall's advertising campaign for the Beijing Olympics. His Hollywood debut, "Speed Racer" will be released in May.
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Rain helps cleanup at a beach in Taean, South Chungcheong Province, Wednesday. / Yonhap

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