Rain/Bi's Career Is Crashing

Here are the behind the scene stories that lead up to It’s Raining World Tour’s demise. It was reported that Korean Air decided to discontinue their sponsorship for Rain and his entourage when the contract ended in May. Star M asked Korean Air to extend their sponsorship since they postponed their US concerts, but KA refused since Rain faced many legal battles at the time of negotiations and they weren’t getting the expected return from the sponsorship.

JYP commented that he regrets not teaching Rain English before he debuted, since that’s Rain’s biggest weakness. When Rain made headlines with the Times 100 list last year, he received many requests from tv shows. But when they found out that Rain needed a translator, they all backed away. In addition, according to JYP, it was Rain’s decision to leave JYP. JYP knew that if he asked Rain to stay that he would’ve, but he couldn’t since Rain said that he wanted to make it alone. And let’s not forget about the mediocre concert performances in Hong Kong and Sydney and the cancelled concerts in Canada and all of US.

Now the blame game has started. V2B is blaming Star M for not helping them to obtain the permits and guiding them up setting up the stage while Star M & Rain are blaming the local promoters. I’m sure that this will be all sorted out after dozens of lawsuits, but it seems like there were enough red lights during the last couple of months to warn Rain and his entourage that something was going wrong way before the LA concert was cancelled. So this entire fiasco was preventable, but can Rain make his US crossover a success after he caused himself this much damage?