{"id":92239,"date":"2023-10-28T08:39:48","date_gmt":"2023-10-28T15:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=92239"},"modified":"2023-10-28T11:39:51","modified_gmt":"2023-10-28T18:39:51","slug":"g-dragon-makes-public-statement-regarding-drug-use-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/g-dragon-makes-public-statement-regarding-drug-use-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"G-Dragon makes public statement regarding drug use allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>K-Pop singer <strong>G-Dragon<\/strong> was booked on October 25th under <strong>drug<\/strong>-related charges for the second time. Since then, many internet users and some media have linked him to the case of Lee Sun Gyun, but the police have clarified, &#8220;<em>This is a separate case that has nothing to do with the actor<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>For its part, the agency YG Entertainment did not want to give opinions and shared, &#8220;<em>Currently, G-Dragon is not an artist belonging to our agency, so it is difficult for us to give an official <strong>answer<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;. Following this, the fans were worried because the Korean singer had not said anything about it.<\/p>\n<p>However, on October 27th, Kwon Ji-yong\u2019s legal representative, lawyer Kim Su Hyun, shared a public statement by her representative and the position he would take in response to the <strong>charges<\/strong> he faces: &#8220;<em>I want to clarify that the news that has spread indiscriminately in the media is not based on facts<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-92262\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/G-Dragon-has-spoken-for-the-first-time-about-his-accusations-of-breaking-the-law.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/G-Dragon-has-spoken-for-the-first-time-about-his-accusations-of-breaking-the-law.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/G-Dragon-has-spoken-for-the-first-time-about-his-accusations-of-breaking-the-law-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/G-Dragon-has-spoken-for-the-first-time-about-his-accusations-of-breaking-the-law-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/G-Dragon-has-spoken-for-the-first-time-about-his-accusations-of-breaking-the-law-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/G-Dragon-has-spoken-for-the-first-time-about-his-accusations-of-breaking-the-law-750x500.jpeg 750w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/G-Dragon-has-spoken-for-the-first-time-about-his-accusations-of-breaking-the-law-1140x760.jpeg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Therefore, she informed fans that &#8220;<em>I would like to convey Kwon Ji Yong&#8217;s position through this medium<\/em>&#8220;, which would be as follows: &#8220;<em>I am Kwon Ji Yong. First of all, I haven&#8217;t used drugs. Furthermore, I would like to make it clear that the recent news about the &#8216;violation of drug control <strong>laws<\/strong>&#8216; is not related to me<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>As a member of the BIGBANG group, he also said that although he is completely <strong>innocent<\/strong>, &#8220;<em>I will actively cooperate with the investigative agencies and seriously follow the investigation<\/em>&#8220;, with the intention of clarifying the situation as soon as possible and that his fanatics are more calm.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theseoulstory\/status\/1717798351280676901\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">G-Dragon releases a statement through his lawyer, denying drug use allegations<\/p>\n<p>He said that he did not take any drugs, but will actively cooperate with the police investigation<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bTxbTKf6ea\">https:\/\/t.co\/bTxbTKf6ea<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gjUnPPwCST\">https:\/\/t.co\/gjUnPPwCST<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/POtKQpbS0q\">pic.twitter.com\/POtKQpbS0q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Seoul Story (@theseoulstory) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theseoulstory\/status\/1717798351280676901?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 27, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, the police responsible for the investigation related to G-Dragon said that &#8220;<em>as this is an ongoing <strong>investigation<\/strong>, specific details cannot be revealed<\/em>&#8220;. It is only to wait and see what direction it takes. It is also important to clarify that he is just under surveillance, but he was not arrested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>K-Pop singer G-Dragon was booked on October 25th under drug-related charges for the second time. Since then, many internet users and some media have linked him to the case of Lee Sun Gyun, but the police have clarified, &#8220;This is a separate case that has nothing to do with the actor&#8220;. For its part, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2817,"featured_media":92263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,16],"tags":[1041],"class_list":{"0":"post-92239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-kpop","9":"tag-g-dragon"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}