T.O.P will not join BIGBANG
T.O.P of K-pop boy group BIGBANG said Sunday he would not return. Yonhap
By Dong Sun-hwa
Will K-pop act BIGBANG become a trio?
The group's rapper T.O.P announced on his Instagram Sunday that he would not return to the entertainment scene.
“Yes! God! I have no plan to come back (to show business,)” he wrote. “Just see the animal photo.”
His remark came after an online user left a comment on his post with an image of an animal, saying, “Have some time for self-reflection, refrain from doing Instagram and don't come back.”
In July 2017, T.O.P was given a 10-month prison term, suspended for two years, for smoking marijuana several times in 2016. Although he began obligatory military service as a conscripted policeman in February 2017, he was kicked out after the conviction. He then had to serve as a public service worker at Yongsan Ward Office and was discharged in July 2019.
But BIGBANG's agency YG Entertainment has not officially announced the rapper's withdrawal.
The band has four members ― G-Dragon, Taeyang, Daesung and T.O.P. It debuted as a five-piece group in 2006, but Seungri left in March after a nightclub affiliated with him was mired in a sex and drug scandal. G-Dragon, Taeyang and Daesung are in uniform.