K-pop star Rain and actress Kim Tae-hee to ring modest wedding bells
Rain, one of South Korea’s biggest stars, and his fiancée, an actress with a massive following in the region, plan a low-key ceremony to take place on Thursday
South Korean pop icon Rain announced his engagement to top actress Kim Tae-hee in a handwritten letter to fans on 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 on Tuesday.
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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.
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.