SNS photo uploaded by BoA after a week of controversy about’Smuggling Zolpidem’

BoA, a singer who was recently investigated by the prosecution for secretly bringing in psychotropic drugs such as zolpidem from abroad, resumed activities by posting a post on the social network service a week after the controversy.

BoA’s 10th regular album’BETTER’ was released on the 24th of the American music media Billboard’s’The 10 Best K-Pop Albums of 2020: Critics’ Picks. I shared it on Instagram.

Billboard released charts such as’The 10 Best K-Pop Albums of the Year Selected by Critics’ on the official website the day before. BoA’s 10th full-length album, released on the 1st, topped the chart.

BoA captured the screen of the billboard homepage on’Instagram Story’, which is automatically deleted after 24 hours, not in the form of a post on this day. Comments are not allowed to be left on Instagram stories.

On the 16th, BoA appeared at the prosecution as a suspect on suspicion of secretly entering Zolpidem. It was caught while trying to bring Zolpidem, etc., prescribed in Japan through an employee of the agency’s Japanese branch office under the name of a domestic employee.

When the fact that BoA attended the prosecution as a suspect was announced on the 17th, SM Entertainment, the agency, released an explanation that “it was not illegally brought in, but was a mistake due to ignorance.” In this regard, BoA has not yet made a position.

The prosecution, who summoned BoA and the agency’s staff, is planning to decide whether to prosecute them by reviewing the details of the crime and the presence of intention.

Reporter Jeong Hye-jeong [email protected]