Via a reader tip comes news of the next big K-Pop hit. Hopefully this doesn’t become the biggest thing to come from the Trump-Kim summit:
One of South Korea’s biggest stars has taken on the peninsula’s biggest news story in years: the historic summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
In a new video from Lee Seung-hyun, better known as Big Bang’s Seungri, the K-Pop star invades a meeting of the world leaders and sits down alongside not-really-look-a-likes of Trump and Kim.At one point, “Kim” performs a choreographed dance and drinks champagne arm-in-arm with “Trump” as the chorus pumps “where are you from?” [CNN]
It will be interesting to see if this drug arrest and possible dishonorable discharge from the ROK military will effect his K-Pop career:
T.O.P of K-pop boy band BIGBANG was officially suspended from mandatory military service on Friday after being indicted for smoking marijuana on multiple occasions.
T.O.P, whose real name is Choi Seung-hyun, is accused of smoking the banned substance four times with a trainee female singer, 21, at his home in Yongsan-gu, Seoul last October.
Choi, who began his military service as a policeman in February, was indicted without detention Monday. He was admitted to Ewha Womans University Medical Center in Yangcheon-gu, Seoul the next day suffering from an apparent overdose of benzodiazepine. He became unconscious. [Korea Times]
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South Korean rapper T.O.P, a member of the South Korean boy band Big Bang, is being moved on a wheelchair from Ewha Womans University Medical Center in western Seoul to another hospital for recovery on June 9, 2017. He was treated at the hospital’s emergency room after he fell into a coma due to a drug overdose on June 6. (Yonhap)
