“Gangnam Style” Singer PSY Is Facing Possible Prison Time

PSY, the South Korean singer behind the 2012 world hit, “Gangnam Model,” is reportedly below police investigation for allegedly utilizing proxies to illegally receive prescribed drugs, in accordance with The New York Put up. Authorities accuse him of getting different individuals choose up prescriptions for Xanax and Stilnox on his behalf for the final three years.

South Korea operates below the Medical Companies Act, which solely permits rapid relations or caregivers to choose up prescriptions for others.

The drama started when somebody tipped off authorities as to what was occurring. Within the time since, police have seized medical data from the hospital administering the prescriptions and arrested the physician for his alleged involvement. For his half, he denied any wrongdoing.

As for PSY, his company, P Nation, put out an announcement revealing that he has been “recognized with a continual sleeping dysfunction” and his use of the medicines was “in accordance together with his medical workforce’s prescription.” The assertion continued: “His use of sleeping treatment has been below medical supervision and throughout the prescribed dosage. There was no proxy prescribing [but] there have been situations during which a 3rd social gathering picked up the sleeping treatment on his behalf.”

PSY additionally put out a separate apology, caught by The Korea Biomedical Evaluation, during which he described his actions as “a transparent mistake and negligence.”

PSY dropped “Gangnam Model” again in 2012. It rapidly turned a viral sensation, peaking at quantity two on the Billboard Scorching 100 in the US. On the time, that marked the highest-charting tune by a South Korean artist. The music video additionally turned the most-viewed on YouTube on the time, surpassing Justin Bieber‘s “Child.” It was finally overtaken by “See You Once more” by Wiz Khalifa in 2017.

PSY’s follow-up to the hit single, “Gentleman,” additionally carried out effectively abroad, reaching quantity 5 on the US Billboard Scorching 100. Within the years since, his music hasn’t reached the identical worldwide degree of success as his earlier work.