BoA questioned over alleged smuggling of sleeping drug (updated with statement)

[reiichi]

So basically, another Park Bom situation. A drug that's used pretty much everywhere, but that happens to be illegal in Korea for no good reason.

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53 minutes ago, BaebyTae said:

Not again ..... well at least SM and LSM seems to value BoA and will probably support her through this, unlike yg who left Bom on her own 

Well BoA is one of the company's directors, so the company is going to stand by her.

This is such a silly situation really. Zolpidem is far from innocuous sure (it's prescription-only for a reason), but I'm not sure why Korea banned it entirely, when it's so widely used elsewhere.

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1 hour ago, Onetooth said:

i mean, the article does seem to indicate that it was more than just zolpidem. Just that it was the only drug they named. Plus, they tried to do it under another person's name instead of BoA when it was her prescriptions. That's shady when you try to bring in drugs from another country under another person's name.

Er no it's just that Zolpidem is banned in Korea, like a lot of psychoactive drugs that are widely used elsewhere (reminder, Park Bom got in trouble for "smuggling" her ADHD medicine)... The description they give of what BoA used it for (counter jet lag) is pretty spot on, Zolpidem is an hypnotic that makes you fall asleep very quickly even if you were widely awake before taking it.

 

Edit : apparently it's not banned it's just that they didn't follow procedure to import it, which makes the 'scandal' even more ridiculous.

Edited December 17, 2020 by reiichi