Am I shocked? No. Am I surprised? Yes!
I'm sure he knew the consequences of his actions but assumed he wouldn't get found out. Now he will have to pay the price. I give him credit for admitting it though.
My question is who else has their name on the list? Was JJH the biggest fish to be caught and that's why we are hearing about him first or are we in for more surprises?
I guess time will tell.

239 Anon yay i agree with your comments :)! His drug use shouldn't diminish him as an actor.He has so much potential, why deprive ourselves of talent? Its a shame an unrelated personal decision endangered his whole acting career >_<! Drug use or not, he was a good actor, and that should be enough for him to act.

i've spent nearly one and a half hour reading all the comment

@Belezza, i totally enjoyed your obligatory letter, KDrama drinking habbit is very disturbing and kids, please don't try to imitate them...

i always lived in a happy, secluded and priveledge/protected life, i don't smoke, drink, use drugs. i don't live in SK nor do i live in NAmerica, so i'm not going to start talking about different culture and such or even dared talking about the drug itself.
well my point is i hope JJH learn from his mistakes and people would give him a second chance (for 6 or more years), and for the anticipating news... well we'll just have to wait who are the names they're going to bring out...

@momo,

admittedly i haven't read up an all the comments here, so i really have no idea what people are saying, but to address your comments regarding E..

there's no way, no how that prolonged use of any medication esp those not prescribed by a medical personnel have no side effects.... whatever the medication or drugs use, there will always be side effect. even a simple painkiller can cause harm, be it physically or psychologically.

unfortunately, E's psychotropic effects cause a tendency for those who use it frequently to get addicted. the drug may not be chemically addictive but the effects it has is.
(btw, i am in the medical profession)
just to share information....

Dear Jo Ji-hoon..
Though I don't understand why you choose to use drugs....I wish you've got the lesson and more wise to deal with your life.....sorry Sarah, I use your blog to write my sympathi to JJH..Tx

ommggg this is not goooddd!!!! :(

I love how in the US if a celebrity is caught doing drugs, we're all like "idiot. what a dumb.ass" but we'll still catch their next movie or buy their new album.
and in south korea, it's like, "omfg i am so disappointed. I'm not his/her fan anymore."

personally, I think that someone's personal life should be separate from their work life even though that's near impossible in the entertainment world. but seriously, if you didn't know Joo JiHoon did drugs, you would still watch his dramas and movies right? so just because you know he does drugs you won't watch his work? it's absurd.

@179 Samsooki

Well said! My sentiments exactly!

Not to wax preachy here, but I say "love the sinner hate the sin"!

Sincerely hope that JJH stop doing drugs, get help, learn from this and come back an even better actor. We look forward to more great works from him. This is NOT the end.

what a sad way to end his career, it was going so good.
i mean i still like him as an actor but its a shame he had to
use drugs, tsk tsk.

I had a feeling JJH was on drugs.

from popseoul: "Joo Ji-hoon was questioned by police as to his motivations to taking drugs. The model/actor explained that the drugs were to enhance his experience when listening to music and dancing. However, the police found that he and his accomplices were not sorry for possession of drugs."

so much for being stressed and pressured by work.
completely have no sympathy for drug users who have to face the law on their 'life choices'.

^^ popseoul is very sloppy with facts and i have not see anything saying about police calling them "not sorry" in any news (i read korean sites). until they name their information sources, i don't believe anything they write because you never know when something is true and when they're trying to make things up to be sensational. If JJH said that for sure it would be all over the news.

^ http://popseoul.com/2009/04/27/joo-ji-hoon-is-not-sorry/
i just saw it here, and thought i'll post it here, since the discussion on this topic seems to be the most lengthy on this blog.

Keep us updated on this case JB...thanks!

ok, i think mookie and salt have misunderstood what i said. i said E and K are not chemically addictive. i did not rule out the fact that a person may become emotionally dependent on it based on their lifestyle, personality and personal choices. i also never said that it's totally "safe" to use these substances recreationally. from my personal experience, i know a ton of people who have tried E once or twice (or even 3 or 4 times) and never gotten addicted or had their life go down the tube. so i really don't believe that just because JJH may have tried it a few times, that yes he will probably become addicted, and eventually his body will become destroyed. all that baloney about "gateway drugs" and how doing this will lead to other worse things is exactly just that, baloney. i'm not here to compromise with your opinions, mookie. and it's the internet. people abuse this method of communication and spread much worse garbage than the things i've said. and even if we were face to face, i would defend my opinion till i'm blue in the face. but i get it. you come from a totally opposite position than me. i've never worked with drug addicts or psych patients with drug dependencies. that type of profession may gain you some insight, but i also believe it has hindered your ability to see beyond your total life and death perception of drugs. but that's just me. i know way more people who have experimented with drugs and live perfectly 'straight-edged' lives now with families and good jobs than addicts who have destroyed their lives because they dabbled a few times. that is where i'm coming from.

anyway, i don't want to discuss anymore about whether drugs are bad or not as bad as people think. my whole argument in the first place was that i don't think JJH should be so harshly criticized and scapegoated by the public for something that doesn't harm anyone (if he just used it and didn't traffick) but himself and in such small doses (if true), does not affect his acting in any way. he is an actor. and i say once again, what he does with his life is his business. this whole damn world is so concerned with other people's business, what they're doing behind their bedroom doors, what they're doing to their own bodies. if they actually took the time to look at their own issues, they wouldn't be so damn worried about other people.

"However, the police found that he and his accomplices were not sorry for possession of drugs"

The thing is, I'm not sure what that really means. Assuming Popseoul actually reported this correctly (hahahaha), it doesn't actually state that Joo Ji Hoon was "not sorry" about it. It says the POLICE believed they weren't sorry about it. (And why would law enforcement make excuses for JJH anyway?) And is it Joo Ji Hoon? Is it Yoon? Is it Yeh (not YEH)? They're lumped together as one response in this case.

It's just not human nature. You've been caught with drugs, you're being interrogated, you're extremely terrified that you'll never be able to go home. You're not going to be unrepentant. Unless you're Biggie Smalls. Then, you're just Notorious.

also as an aside, popseoul really sucks. most of their articles are either blatant copies of other blogs or total BS. that whole article was uncited and i wouldn't be surprised if they just pulled that out of their butt to get more traffic to their blog. what total garbage.

@251 mookie & @257 salt
Thank you both. You have said a lot of what I wanted to say and more.

My dad was a smoker for 40+ years until a massive heart attack and he then quit cold turkey. I remember asking him 5 years after he quit whether he misses his cigarettes. This was his answer : No, he did not miss his cigarettes but he missed those feelings he gets while smoking. I have never smoked but I thought my dad's answer was quite profound.

Get this everyone, a lot of Asian countries have very strict laws on drugs trafficking and/or abuse. Do you know the reason why? Law and policy makers know and understand that effects of drug use, dealing, trafficking will have adverse social, health and indirectly political repercussions. This is my up close and personal experience with the effects of a drug. My grand-aunt committed suicide because she couldn't deal with her son's initial stealing and later turned into death threats just to feed his addiction to get the next high. And you know what? My uncle is still taking drugs. He's been in and out of rehab more than a gaziilion times.
And his family still lives in fear of him and for him.

I have a few questions for everyone here :
1. Smell of cigarettes is ok but has anyone been turned on by a smokers' breath?
2. Does a smoker know what his/her own breath smells like?
3. Drinking is fun. Is vomitting or having a hangover fun? Is driving under the influence killing yourself and/or others fun?

I used to travel to Korea on business. I drank with my korean colleagues (all males by the way) after work. I know it as Soju but they called it industrial alcohol. I recall that someone was always the designated driver and not a DROP of alcohol passed through his lips. NO, I don't remember being piggybacked. Oh wait...Hyun Bin did.............IN MY DREAMS. zzzz...kekeke...zzzzz

@momo,

nope I have not misunderstood what's coming out of u.

Lucky for your friends, but do u know how many patients I've dealt with that r hooked? who just started out 'trying it out once or twice' and later got onto devastating addictions of multiple drugs?!?!?!? that is exactly what is frightening about what u r saying. Just coz u knew of 10, 20 peeps who r 'fine' after taking a couple illicit pills doesnt make it alright for u to make such outrageous conclusions.

AND again, the X or K or meth out there, it'll never be safe..... unless u made it yourself in your own lab, u cant tell what's in it and in the process of making ANY drugs there can be dangerous byproducts produced and mixed in, eg for X u can easily get another dose of Amphetamine (an upper) in one single pill. I bet u may feel like u're getting a bargain if u r a druggie. <_<

Again, once again word of advice for you and your friends: even if a substance that is not chemically addictive DOES NOT mean it's not addictive or have no abuse potential and u won't develop a dependence.

Wow, I'm really not surprised to see so much misinformation on this website.

1. You can't get physically addicted to Ecstasy

2. A lot of you seem to be sharing personal stories, but they're personal stories that are essentially non-sequitors. All drugs are not equal, and if you're addicted to ecstasy or marijuana then you've got a lot of other problems in your life.

3. As much as you can say that "Korea has it's own drug laws, people should know better"...well, at the same time, I believe that many laws are inimical to the human spirit and drugs laws are one of them. Think about it; drug laws, any drug laws, are essentially a governmental organization telling you what you can and can not put into your body.

If governments actually gave a shit about you, they'd outlaw alcohol and cigarettes because not only do those harm one person, the cause massive amounts of monetary and property damage to society at large. The crack wars of the nineties have NOTHING on the damage that alcohol and cigarretes have caused.

I'm not saying these guys are heroes or anything, but some of you need to get the fuck off your high-horses. Seriously, "I've never done blah blah blah"...who the hell cares? Have you ever drunk alcohol? Congrats, you've taken a drug far worse for your body than Ecstasy.

It was a shock and sad news; still couldn't believe what I had just digested. Simply no words could describe how heavy feelings what would happen thereafter. Let's hope for the best for JJH.

mookie, fair enough. we'll agree to disagree. however, can i just say, your argument that X and K are never safe because we don't know where it came from is not really because those drugs are bad but the illegal trafficking industry. some government officials and anti-prohibitioners believe that if drugs were sold legally and thus controlled, this would not be a problem in the first place:

"Often illegal drugs are purchased in the underground market, there is no care for hygiene, and drugs may be cut with other substances or sold under different guises to increase supply, sale, potential profit, or user addiction potential. This can be dangerous as even though numerous illegal drugs have very low toxicity levels (low potential for overdose) and low addiction potential their safety status can be altered dramatically if they contain other chemicals of which the buyer is unaware. This can increase the potential for unexpected effects, overdoses, and drug dependence. For instance, tablets sold as MDMA have commonly been found to contain methamphetamine as the primary active ingredient or include methamphetamine in addition to other drugs.[23] Methamphetamine has much higher comparative addictive potential than MDMA, and a higher risk of overdose as demonstrated by its LD50s."

anyway, just sayin'.

jdog, thanks for saying in one post what i've been trying to say for the past handful of posts.

@momo,

think... there is no freaken way government AND drug companies r going to produce legal X/K/meth. Can u think of Johnson&Johnson taking that up.

don't just say...think.

Also, and I will just throw this out there, but a huge, legal pharmaceutical company, Baxter, shipped vaccines a few years ago that were infected with the AIDs virus to ORPHANS.

Don't come on here talking about the efficacy of illegal drugs when legal drug companies are fucking ruthless.

eeer..I don´t know what to say..I´m speechless.

mookie, i've been trying to have an open-minded discussion with you trying to see things from your perspective. i find it really rude how condescending you're being and your total unwillingness to see things from a different angle. there's no debating with people like you. i give up. continue to point the finger and see the world from your black and white frames.

oh and fyi, there's no way the government would produce X and E? you may be right. but that has not stopped them from funding drug trafficking in the past. US government agencies and government officials have been caught trafficking drugs to finance US-supported terrorist actions in events such as the Iran-Contra Affair, and Manuel Noriega. so yeah, don't be so damn sure.

@mookie:

Dude...in the late 1800's and early 1900's, pretty much every drug manufacturer that was around WAS producing cocaine and heroin.

People were prescribing cocaine for everything. Coca-cola actually started as a Red Bull-esque "energy drink" made from cocaine.

Educate yourself.

@dog, u r talking about early 1800s and 1900s right, dog?!

please educate yourself about the drug war that is going on NOW.

I'm not saying drug co/gov r saints (very contrary), but it's just NOT profitable for them and feasible for the gov to execute the measures WHEN there is already a thriving underground market that can most prob supply it cheaper and in loads already. and it'll be a hellish PR storm for the drug companies IF they decide to produce these stuff that have abuse potentials FAR outweighing their medicinal use (and ie FUNDING for research for what the drug is indicated for fr say NIH)

so yes, again THINK before babbling.

Alright, Mookie is just trolling. I'm outta here.

you are smart. we are stupid. only you think before speaking. we only babble.

god, people like you really make me laugh.

And thanks for bringing up Coke (and heroin) Back then we didn't know fully about it's dangerous side effects, AND after it's brought to light with more research and such, do u see mass produced Coke with coke?!?!?

Back then there were limited knowledge of the science and pharmacology, now we know better. That's why all substances are weighed by their abuse potential/'harm' against their medicinal value.... there are many legal drugs that r very strictly controlled but still labeled with medicinal uses....and then there r some that just have abuse potentials under certain standards and hence the term 'illicit drug'.

IT's exactly the same logic as we can't be sure we know everything about these newer drugs such as X/K/meth, AND for u guys to just throwout statemts left and right saying it's 'safe' and it's a 'meh' drug unlike whatever...it's irresponsible.

Good u finally r getting sth momo, and not that I'm intending to make u laugh coz this is no joke. but yeah enjoy urself!

When you use drugs it can destroy anything you have in one snap....

And also we are also aware that some people and even the celebrity are doing this things, so its not new to me anyway. But its kind of shock to me when Joo Ji hoo also included..... truly disappointed.

anyway nobody's perfect (role model)

PEOPLE!RELAX... i believe this story is just a rumor until proven! there is no proof of ji hoon USING drugs! i have seen one video about this in youtube, but! i did not HEAR his voice or even SEEN his face! and the guy in the video!doesn't look like joo ji hoon at all! and in fact! there is only a guy and a girl in the video. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2962hSqzpM- this is the url] have faith in him! i know, he wont do this! and besides, USING drug TWICE isn't a big deal after all! GUYS, come on! PLEASE! stop this issue! its getting worse! it will hurt him more! and will pull his career down! let's just HELP him, PRAY for him to recover whenever this is true. HOPING FOR YOU COOPERATION! TNX. :) [i have loved him for almost five year already...i'm so sad to hear this RUMOR.]

@Asarako

No. Drugs do not destroy everything you have in "one snap". That's such a childish thing to say.

Do alcohol or cigarettes destroy you in "one snap"?

Korea's drug laws (and America's for that matter) are disgustingly immature.

@ Mookie

Ok, this is my last attempt because you are either stubbornly wrong or just trolling.

EVERYONE knew the addictive side effects of Cocaine and Heroin in those days. Why do you think Britain forced China to start importing opium? They could have just as well forced China to import tea or cookies.

But they specifically used opium because they knew the effects.

Drugs were NOT outlawed because of their addictiveness. They were outlawed through a combination of racism and industrial greed (hemp makes thousands of products and opium was frequently used as a cheap painkiller)

who said it was safe? how many times must you put words in people's mouths? also, X and K and meth are NOT the same drugs and don't equate their danger level. and what makes you think people know better than before? perfectly legal substances are some of the most dangerous substances in the world. why don't you try and tell me what the medicinal value of nicotine is.

i take back what i said. you don't make me laugh. people like you depress me. it fully makes me sad to know that the world is still full of narrow-minded people like you. i don't know why i even tried to have a civil conversation with you. i should have known that you would have resorted to condescension and holier-than-thou insults sooner than later.

I've stated this before but I still don't understand the comparisons people are trying to draw between alcohol consumption and illegal drug use. Engaging in recreational / social drinking is a completely different matter to using those drugs "recreationally". How to compare ?

@stilldollxx

Uh, Stilldoll...are alcohol and nicotine *not* chemicals that alter the way that the brain behaves?

They are.

Thus, they are drugs. Just because they are societally acceptable makes no difference at all. Not only that, but alcohol and tobacco have been proven to be far more destructive than "hard" drugs when ALL things are taken into account (think about cancer caused from smoking...missed work, hospital fees, family counseling, home-care, grief-counseling, etc).

Wow. Most people don't know much about cigarettes and alcohol. Those two on their own kill more people a year than crack or heroin put together. Cigarettes kill about 390,000 people a year. Alcohol kill about 80,000 people a year. Crack kills about 2,000 a year and heroin kills about 2,300 people a year. Here's the website that I pulled the numbers from. Here are couple more websites about cigarettes. There are plenty more websites that gives you guys more information.

http://www.druglibrary.org/Schaffer/library/basicfax3.htm
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/PED/content/PED_10_2X_Cigarette_Smoking_and_Cancer.asp
http://www.fda.gov/Fdac/features/1997/797_smoke.html

People who think cigarettes or any other nicotine drug isn't as bad as illegal drugs really need to educate themselves better. I know more people who died from nicotine and alcohol compared to illegal drugs. Not that it's a shit load of people. I just know one person who died of drug overdose. 6 people from drinking and driving. 2 from nicotine caused cancers.

I just can't believe that there are people that look at using drugs as a normal thing or not a big deal just because there are others who also are doing it or must have use it.

Illegal drugs in whatever form and in whatever reason why somebody using it is not good. Do not be just be outraged that it's gonna kill someone's career but be concern why he resorted in doing it and the impact of what he has done to the his fans who adores him.

It is not even the question of how many times he used it, just the fact that he used it would mean that he is troubled or his values are screwed up in some way.

If laws in Korea are harsher than the US when it comes to drugs, I think JJH already knew that since he is a korean and thus he is not stupid to think he'll just get away with it the way those Hollywood actors.

I think it was a blessing that he was caught because what if he gets addicted to it, assuming that he's not yet. At least, he's been stopped. The downside is that his life will never be the same again. He knew that it was illegal and so he also is aware that if he's caught then there is repercussion.

I hope this could be a wake up call for others who are thinking of using it or is using it. I am not a fan of him but it is sad to see someone who just lost his career because whether you like it or not, his acting career is definitely over unless the Korean public is very forgiving.

Basically, do not do drugs. It is harmful!

Yoon Seol-hee's eyes are FUCKIN' HUGE!

She looks like a creepy cartoon come to life.

I still hit it, though. Even though she's a rat-bastard cartoon face.

@ Stilldollxx (Wakeshima Kanon fan?)

The comparison is that both alcohol and tobacco are as addictive and harmful as many of the illegal drugs people use. Tobacco and Alcohol use can result in death and have acctually been attributed in to over 20% of deaths in the USA. Think Liver failure, Cancer of various varieties (though most often lung cancer is associated here). Tuberculosis, Emphysema, traffic accidents caused by drunk driving....etc

All are used for basically the same purposes.
1.) achievement of a pleasant mood 2) avoidance of an unpleasant mood 3.) acceptance among peers 4.) celebration/ group celebration/ feeling of communal experience 5) insight and creativity.

Also stop and consider the fact that massive treatment and social programs exist due to both types of abuses. Alcoholics Anonymous, Mothers against Drunk Driving, AL-ANON and Alateen, Nicotine patches, gum, inhalers...massive campaigns to stop smoking like TheTRUTH.com and state and local stop smoking hotlines and programs

The main difference is truly is social acceptance. While we have deemed tobacco and alcohol to be risks we are willing to take, we have not come to the same conclusion for other narcotics.

I'm not trying to champion legalization here...as I don't really think it the forum, but I just wanted to show you the similarities.

i've never been his fans but feel sorry for him.. but he is an adult.. i think he must know the consequences of what he done
DRUGS!!.. yuckss!!... hell no..

The actress seems sells drugs because wanna pay her plastic surgery i think.. she looks like plastic surgery product

I am so sad. I loved him. There goes his acting/modeling career. My bestfriend
will be pulling her hair when she finds out about this.

oh my god, jo ji hoon, this is shocking, i guess youre not my prince anymore =(
and holy crap more celebrities, i wonder who.....

was wondering how many comments will there be with this news... by 2 days, over 300 comments made.. i wonder which is news in dramabans is the most commented,... hmmm ..