SEOUL, Jul. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Popular singer and actor T.O.P. of boy band BIGBANG was given a suspended sentence by a Seoul court on Thursday for smoking marijuana multiple times last year. The Seoul Central District Court found Choi Seung-hyun — his real name — guilty of the use of the illicit drug and [...]
SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Smoking marijuana is no joke in South Korea. Despite its growing medicinal applications and lenient approach (regardless of its legality) towards possession and consumption in more than a few countries, marijuana is treated by the Act on the Control of Narcotics as an equal alongside other, sometimes heavier, substances [...]
SEOUL, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Contrary to his stage name T.O.P, Choi Seung-hyun, member of the popular K-pop boy band BIGBANG, hit the rock bottom of his successful 10-year-plus career this week. He has been indicted on charges of smoking marijuana and his military service that began in February was put on hold pending [...]
SEOUL, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) – The family of T.O.P, a member of South Korean boy band BIGBANG who was hospitalized for an apparent drug overdose, on Wednesday disputed an earlier police account of the singer’s health, claiming he was in much worse condition. “The condition of my son is quite bad. It’s been misreported [...]
UIJEONGBU, South Korea, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) – A total of 132 South Koreans were arrested in a three-month narcotics crackdown spearheaded by the Gyeonggi Bukbu Provincial Police Agency, with 46 individuals indicted and the reported seizure of 39.3 grams of methamphetamine, enough to dose 800 people simultaneously. According to the agency, 116 (87.8 percent) [...]
TORONTO, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Maricann Group Inc. (CSE:MARI) (Maricann or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that Maricann has secured $42,500,000 in non-dilutive financing to further expand production in Germany. The $42,500,000 non-dilutive financing comes from The Green Streaming Finance Company of Canada Inc. a Vancouver-based company that provides non-equity financing solutions for [...]
SEOUL, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Two South Korean rappers have been indicted on charges of smoking marijuana, prosecutors said Wednesday. The Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office said rapper Iron, 24, is suspected of smoking the banned substance three times between December 2014 and March last year. Rapper Kidoh, 24, is also suspected of smoking [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean police have uncovered the largest indoor cultivation of cannabis in Korea. Namdaemun District Police arrested a man in his thirties for growing 46 cannabis plants in his 109 ㎡ apartment space in Yongin, and confiscated the plants as well as 135 grams of end-products, worth a total of [...]