Rain Opens Up About How Park Jin Young Footed His Sick Mother’s Hospital Bills Before She Passed Away
On the latest episode of SBS’s “My Ugly Duckling,” Rain reflected on the the most fateful moments of his life thus far. The singer appeared as a special MC on the January 3 broadcast of the reality show, where host Shin Dong Yup asked him to name what he considered the three most life-changing opportunities he had received. Rain responded by immediately bringing up his mentor Park Jin Young , who discovered Rain 20 years ago and debuted him as JYP Entertainment’s first new male artist in 2002. (Although he made his solo debut with the stage name Rain under Park Jin Young’s wing in 2002, Rain first debuted under a different agency as a member of the boy group Fanclub in 1998. The group, which was not well-known to the public, disbanded within just two years.) “The first [big] opportunity of my life was meeting [Park] Jin Young,” said Rain. “I think everyone knows this, but my family experienced a lot of hardship. Back in about 1997 or 1998, I did...