K-Pop Star T.O.P Faces Dishonorable Discharge from the ROK Military
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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I don’t care who you are and where you are from, If you take drugs you are a dam fool.
Seems like there’s an easy to exploit loophole to get out of the ROK Army. Fire up a fatty, and your draftee time is over.
Oh, I’m from Colorado. They legalized ganja for both Medicinal and Recreational. My property value went way up, the state is flush with money, and the place never turned into the Mad Max Wastelands we were threatened with.
While benzos and smack and meth are all bad news, it would appear the concerns about the leafy green were exaggerated. A LOT.
His career will be fine, he will just start signing at the soon to be coming anti-American rallies.