Drugs in South Korea: A Silent Crisis

In 2014, pop star Park Bom, of the group 2NE1 [http://www.ygfamily.com/artist/main.asp?LANGDIV=K&ATYPE=2&ARTIDX=4] made headlines [http://www.dispatch.co.kr/104267] with her alleged drug usage back in October 2010. The singer had ordered 82 amphetamine pills labelled ‘gummy bears’ from the U.S. and dispatched them to her grandmother’s address in the port city of Incheon near Seoul. The police verified that she had taken only 4 of the pills, the singer pleaded for leniency based on her prior us