A Bit of History with Rain

I apologize for the age of this minor controversy, but it relates to my post about Time magazine and their top100 this year. You see, a couple of years ago, Rain, the famous Korean pop singer, better known to Americans as Ninja Assassin or "the Asian guy" in Speed Racer, was number one in Time's 2008 most influential people. Stephen Colbert of Comedy Central was playfully enraged, but of course the Korean press and netizens took it seriously as if it were a national insult. Come on people, lighten up. The back an forth made for a good read in the blogosphere back then and I wanted to post it here for you, dear reader.

So here it is, a compilation of what happened in 2008 between Stephen Colbert and Rain...

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