Rain vs. Stephen Colbert Dance-Off
This story isn’t exactly recent, but for those who missed it — myself included — here is the video. This little dance-off took place on May 5, 2008, a conclusion to the Rain-Colbert feud. If you haven’t heard of the feud, keep reading this post.
The feud began last year when Rain defeated Comedy Central’s faux news host, Stephen Colbert, in Time magazine’s online poll of 2007’s most influential person in the world. This resulted in a little back-and-forth smack talking between Colbert and Rain — which included Colbert making his own K-pop video, and Rain responding by telling Colbert to not “quit his day job.”
To settle their battle over world dominance, Colbert challenged Rain to fly to NYC and to appear on the Stephen Colbert’s show, so the two can have a dance-off. Being a good sport, Rain actually flew in, and the rest is history.
Too bad neither of them topped Time’s list this year though. So who was the ultimate winner of 2008? None other than Shigeru Miyamoto, the man behind Mario and the hugely successful Wii console. Rain and Colbert ended up being second and third, respectively, on the list this year — yes, Rain still beat Colbert.
This whole thing has been pretty good publicity for Rain, who is trying to enter the US market, and Korean entertainment in general. It’s a shame People Magazine couldn’t get a right photo of Rain in their recent issue — are people that retarded?
