Park Bom gives interview clarifying the circumstances around her drug scandal

Article: [Exclusive Interview] Park Bom, "I'm emotionally sick, not addicted to drugs"

Source: Sports Kyunghyang via Nate

1. [+1,998, -204] Then why did you hide them as jellies when you carried them in?

2. [+1,691, -211] What a joke...

3. [+1,566, -199] Do the drugs cure your sick heart?

4. [+154, -10] Then why did you hide them as jellies? If they were for medical purposes, why did you hide them when you brought them in? I'm also the same age as you and have tried a multitude of drugs to treat my anxiety, depression, and insomnia so I just don't understand why you did that. If you were really sick, you needed to have declared your drugs and received them fairly in the face of the law.

5. [+146, -8] Regardless of whether you have mental issues or not, the fact that you hid your drugs as jellies when you knew they were classified as drugs in our country and had them delivered to your grandmother's house means that you knew that what you were doing was illegal.

6. [+134, -9] First of all, Korea is not America. If you think that what you were doing was innocent, why did you hide them as jellies??? And another fact is that another person under the same circumstances as you was punished by law. What we're curious about is the background in which such an unfair result came about...

7. [+110, -7] If those drugs were for your mental illness and you were bringing them in for treatment, your parents should've known... Why would they ask you if you really did drugs?

8. [+91, -6] From Park Bom's perspective, it makes sense. She needed the drugs for treatment but they were illegal in Korea so she had no option but to hide them as jellies. She could've just said that from the start but instead she gave an interview in the past saying, "I had no idea that amphetamine was illegal to import." Then why exactly did you hide them as jellies?

9. [+64, -5] I would've understood if she tried to bring them in without hiding them as jellies. She obviously did that because she knew the whole thing was illegal. Her logic is so hypocritical.

10. [+50, -2] If those drugs are legally used as treatment in America, then you should've stayed in America to get treated. You knew that those drugs were prohibited in Korea and yet you still ignored Korean law. Shouldn't you have checked if your pills were legal to bring in in the first place? It makes no sense that they were mixed with jellies, and more importantly, they're illegal in Korea. Knowing that, you should've either found another drug or not brought them in at all. Why are you insistent on it being okay in America when it's not here? It makes no sense, you know that right?

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Source: Naver

1. [+2,402, -265] With so many sex criminals crawling out and continuing their careers just fine, why not Park Bom? Why?

2. [+1,733, -104] You can look up any drug smuggling case and realize what's going on. In most cases, the criminals use burner phones and send the drugs to a third party where it can't be traced back to them. Rarely do they send it to a family member or pick it up themselves. As for Park Bom's case, she had them sent to her grandma's, which was then picked up by her mother, who then brought it to Park Bom. In what crazy world would a person have their own mother pick up their drugs for them? In what crazy world would a parent purchase drugs for their own child? With her situation, it makes more sense that there was no criminal intent to smuggle drugs in... unless you're going to accuse her entire family of being a mafia?

3. [+1,476, -71] She's being ridiculed and hated on for years over something she never did... She just wanted to hide her mental illness which is why she never went into specifics, and I feel so bad for her. I hope this interview gets spread far and wide and her misunderstandings are resolved.

4. [+811, -29] No matter how many times we explain what happened, no one wants to listen. They just automatically accuse, "You did drugs, right? So you're a druggie?" What can she do in such a horrible situation? I feel really bad for her

5. [+768, -53] I feel bad for her... it must be so hard. Find strength.

6. [+200, -3] She never tried the drugs out of curiosity, they were something she's been taking since middle and high school for several years... Even if she didn't know, what she did was still a crime but why is she still being hated on it year after year?? She got all that hate after 2NE1 disbanded and she took enough time off to reflect. Will people not be satisfied until another life is lost? Please just leave her alone

7. [+193, -6] It was wrong of her to bring in a drug that's illegal in Korea. However, it does seem that her case was blown out of proportion when she was just trying to hide her mental illness since she is an idol and all and the media made it seem like she was smuggling cocaine as jellies through her mom.... Since there is a treatment for her illness in America, I hope she gets what she needs and pursues her dreams after she becomes healthy.

8. [+189, -8] 'PD Notebook' made it sound like Park Bom smuggled in 82 amphetamine pills while the Samsung employee smuggled in 29 and got jail time but that was false. Even if you combined all of the adderall pills that Park Bom brought in, it wouldn't even amount to one amphetamine pill ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ they never even fact checked that

9. [+163, -10] Everyone kept accusing her of drugs when all she did was take medicine for ADHD... Imagine how hard it would've been for her as an idol to say "I'm mentally sick, I'm taking drugs for it"... My heart breaks for her...

10. [+147, -5] The Samsung employee who smuggled in 29 pills of amphetamine didn't have it prescribed to him whereas Park Bom did. Until when is the media going to act like she was involved in some top secret police scandal where the non-celebrity was punished and the celebrity got off free? In reality, there have been a lot of cases where non-celebrities got their charges dropped for smuggling drugs once they can prove that it was for treatment purposes, but that amounts to 1% of all the smuggling cases. Park Bom's was an unprecedented case which is why there was an unprecedented result. Why are none of the clarifications being brought to light?

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