K-pop star Rain to ring modest wedding bells | Inquirer Entertainment

K-pop star Rain to ring modest wedding bells

/ 11:52 PM January 17, 2017

South Korean pop singer Rain  AP

South Korean pop singer Rain AP

South Korean pop icon Rain announced his engagement to top actress Kim Tae-Hee in a handwritten letter to fans Tuesday — but said their wedding would be low-key given the country’s economic and political woes.

“I am going to be a good husband and man as a head of a family,” the 34-year-old said in the letter, posted on his Instagram feed.

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“She has always been by my side through the hard times and the good times,” he said, referring to the actress two years his senior, who has a massive following in Asia.

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The celebrity couple first met while shooting a TV commercial in 2011 and began dating a year later.

Rain, whose real name is Jung Ji-Hoon, is one of the biggest names in the world of K-pop, which commands a huge following in South Korea, across much of Asia and beyond.

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He has also starred in several South Korean TV dramas and Hollywood action pictures including the Wachowski brothers’ “Ninja Assassin” and “Speed Racer”.

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“Regarding the time and the wedding ceremony, we plan to keep it as quiet and holy as possible during the current unstable national mood and economically difficult times,” he said.

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The couple are expected to wed at a Catholic church in Seoul on Thursday with family members in attendance as the bride-to-be is a devout Catholic, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency said citing industry insiders.

The singer was confined to barracks for a week in January 2013 for sneaking out to meet Kim while performing his mandatory military service.

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