

Seungri, who was under investigation without detention, later joined the military and was tried by the military court. Eventually, Seungri left the group in March 2019 and retired from the music industry.


Seungri was indicted on nine charges, including prostitution, prostitution mediation, sexual violence punishment law, aggravated punishment of certain economic crimes, business embezzlement, food sanitation law, habitual gambling, foreign exchange trading law, and special assault instigation. The member who caused the biggest incident to cover up other members’ controversy was their youngest member, Seungri. Daesung stated that he had no idea that there was such unauthorized business happening in his building, and the police cleared him of the charges. As he was serving as a compulsory police officer at the time, T.O.P was judged to be unfit for police service and continued his remaining service as a social service agent at the Yongsan-gu Office.ĭaesung was hit by controversy due to allegations from illegal businesses including prostitution and drug distribution at his building in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, which he purchased for about 31 billion won in 2017. The court sentenced T.O.P to 10 months in prison and a two-year suspended sentence. T.O.P was indicted the following year on charges of smoking cannabis twice with idol trainee A at home in 2016 and smoking e-cigarette juice containing marijuana twice. In response, G-Dragon explained, “I mistook it for cigarettes and smoked it,” and was later suspended from prosecution. G-Dragon was questioned by prosecutors in 2011 for smoking cannabis at a club in Japan. Except for Taeyang, the members have all been embroiled in, or caused, various controversies. However, the situation of BIGBANG in 2022 is not very pleasant. In addition to group activities, unit activities such as GD&TOP and GD X Taeyang, as well as solo activities of the members were also very popular. BIGBANG debuted on August 19th, 2006 at the YG Family’s 10th-anniversary concert.īIGBANG, who have been successful with every song they released including “Last Farewell,” “Haru Haru” and “Fantastic Baby” led by their debut song “Lie,” has grown into being a representative group of K-pop. However, they have yet to remove the label of “criminal idol” and is receiving unfavorable attention.īIGBANG, a group of YG Entertainment, celebrated their 16th anniversary on August 19th. BIGBANG have reached their 16th debut anniversary.
