Social Affairs
Actress ordered to pay advertiser over drug use
Jan. 22, 2015
A Seoul court ruled Thursday that actress Lee Seung-yeon must compensate her former advertising agency, which filed a complaint after she was accused of taking the psychotropic drug propofol. Lee was sentenced to eight months in prison, with two years suspended, in November 2013 for abusing the drug at least 320 times over six years. The Seoul Central District Court ordered Lee to pay 100 million won ($92,000) to her former advertiser Tong Yang Group, which filed for financial compensation from