People Magazine Mixes Up Koreans, Mistakes "Speed Racer" Star Karl Yune For Pop Star Rain

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First Posted: 05-13-08 07:24 AM   |   Updated: 05-21-08 05:12 AM

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Apparently the editors of People have a bit of a problem differentiating between Asian males. On page 38 of this week's issue, in which an interview with Korean Speed Racer actor Karl Yune is accompanied by text identifying him as Korean pop star Rain.

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Apparently the editors of People have a bit of a problem differentiating between Asian males. On page 38 of this week's issue, in which an interview with Korean Speed Racer actor Karl Yune is accompan...
Apparently the editors of People have a bit of a problem differentiating between Asian males. On page 38 of this week's issue, in which an interview with Korean Speed Racer actor Karl Yune is accompan...
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yeah, well, we all look alike.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:26 PM on 05/14/2008
- the964kid I'm a Fan of the964kid 56 fans permalink
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Welcome to the world of: lack-of-diversity. I haven't been in the People office but I can guess what back ground about 95% of the staff has. I'm surprised this kind of mistake doesn't happen more often...

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:00 PM on 05/13/2008
- DebofMD I'm a Fan of DebofMD 14 fans permalink
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He's a nice-looking guy. People needs to learn to fact-check.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:36 PM on 05/13/2008
- JMEB I'm a Fan of JMEB 3 fans permalink

Hilarious. I googled Rain and they indeed don't look anything alike.

Similar to the actors who play DL & the Haitian on Heroes - they really don't look anything alike except for superficially both being tall black men, but apparently they're confused in magazines, websites, etc. all the time.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:19 AM on 05/13/2008
- the964kid I'm a Fan of the964kid 56 fans permalink
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"Similar to the actors who play DL & the Haitian on Heroes - they really don't look anything alike except for superficially both being tall black men, but apparently they're confused in magazines, websites, etc. all the time."

The look the same to the people who are writing those magazines.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:01 PM on 05/13/2008
- jeffhas I'm a Fan of jeffhas 10 fans permalink

Hey HuffPo... Both Rain and Yune are in Speed Racer... but the pic mix-up is kinda funny.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:24 AM on 05/13/2008
- CJGibson I'm a Fan of CJGibson 3 fans permalink

Yeah. If I had to guess, the interview is actually with Rain. They've just included the wrong picture.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:06 AM on 05/13/2008
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Wow. Sad. The guy from People could have just checked on imdb or wikipedia.
~s~

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:28 AM on 05/13/2008
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