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SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — South Korean pop star T.O.P received Thursday a 10-month suspended jail sentence for smoking marijuana multiple times last year, weeks after being hospitalized for a drugs overdose. The 29-year-old rapper of K-pop boy band Big Bang had admitted in court to smoking marijuana on four occasions in his home in Seoul last October. “As Choi has admitted to the charges, he is found guilty,” Yonhap news agency cited a Seoul […]
SEOUL, South Korea (Reuters) — T.O.P, a member of South Korean boyband Big Bang, arrived at the Seoul Central District Court on Thursday (June 29) for the first hearing of a drug trial. T.O.P, whose real name is Choi Seung-hyun, was indicted without detention on charges of smoking marijuana in October last year, South Korea’s news agency Yonhap said. He could face a maximum five years jail term or an up to 50 million won ($44,503 […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — South Korean pop star T.O.P regained consciousness Friday after spending three days in a critical condition in intensive care following an apparent drugs overdose. The 29-year-old rapper from K-pop boy band Big Bang was found unconscious at a police station where he was undertaking mandatory military service, and rushed to a Seoul hospital on Tuesday. “I’m sorry,” the singer, whose real name is Choi Seung-Hyun, told reporters Friday as he […]
by Mariëtte Le Roux Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) – Physicists on Monday announced an important step towards unravelling one of the Universe’s great mysteries: What happened to all the anti-matter created in the Big Bang? A new technique has allowed them to study the behaviour of a single atom of anti-matter under ultraviolet light, a team wrote in the journal Nature. “Imagine you are the first one to look at something about the Universe […]
Thousands of fans gathered on Saturday (October 17) at Sydney’s Allphones Arena for the first Australian concert of South Korean boy band Big Bang. The Seoul-based group, consisting of five members, T.O.P, Taeyang, G-Dragon, Daesung and Seungri will kickoff the Australian leg of their 2015: MADE tour with two shows in Sydney followed by two in Melbourne. While many of Big Bang’s Australian fans are from a South Korean background, concert go-ers said that language […]
MAY 7 (Reuters) — Popular South Korean boy band Big Bang returns to the music scene after a three-year hiatus with a new single called “Loser”, which explores the stresses of daily life. The track has dominated South Korea’s online music charts since its release on May 1 and has also ranked top on the iTunes Single Charts of Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore and Taiwan – markets where the band has many fans. The quintet […]
