Rain visits the Big Apple

Asian superstar Rain [Rain's official Twitter website]

Asian superstar Rain has left for the Big Apple in the United States to meet with some of the world's most influential people of 2011.

A photograph of Rain posted on his official Twitter account (http://twitter.com/29rain) on Monday showed the singer-actor inside an airplane and donning a pair of dark shades with a comment below saying, "I'm in New York... nice day nice people, everything's perfect. I'm ready!!!!!!"

Rain was recently named one of the 100 most influential people in 2011 by U.S. TIME magazine and was invited to attend the official party for the event.

His first recognition on the poll came in 2006 and has since topped TIME's online survey in 2007, 2008 and 2009 but failed to make it into the actual list.

Rain, whose real name is Jung Ji-hoon, has been considered one of biggest stars in Korea and throughout Asia since the start to his solo singing career in 2002. He has also expanded his career into acting, playing several small screen roles such as "Sang Doo! Let's Go to School" and "Full House."

He then made his Hollywood debut in 2008, through the Wachowski Brothers' action pic "Speed Racer" and landed the lead role in martial arts film "Ninja Assassin" a year later.

He is currently working on action movie tentatively titled "Red Muffler" alongside Sin Se-gyeong and actors Kim Sung-soo and Lee Jong-suk.

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