Drug abusing TV star to leave Korea
Lee Yoon-ji / Korea Times file
The Korean Immigration Office has ordered TV personality Lee Yoon-ji, better known by her stage name Amy, who has been found guilty of drug abuse, to leave the country before Dec. 31.
Lee, 34, reportedly will leave for Guam, a U.S. territory, on Dec. 30, according to media reports Tuesday.
She originally planned to depart for China but the immigration office ordered that the Korean-American star must go to the country of her citizenship.
On Nov. 25, a Seoul High Court appeals court dismissed Lee’s suit against the head of the office in 2014.
She was fined 5 million won ($4,300) in September last year after it was confirmed she bought Zolpidem, a common prescription sleeping drug, without prescription.
Lee, better known by her stage name Amy, debuted as a TV actress in 2008. / Courtesy of Naver blog
The office had also ordered her to leave the country before March 27 this year.
The departure order came after Lee broke her conditions after she was sentenced eight months’ jail, suspended for two years, for abusing the psychotropic drug Propofol in November 2012.
The star had promised the office she would leave the country if she broke drug laws again.
Lee reportedly said she had“no idea what to do in the U.S.” because she had spent more of her life in Korea than in the U.S.
Lee made her debut as a TV actress in 2008.