Alright, now that I’ve caught up on every part I’ve missed, let’s get to the newest on the DUI case of BTS’s Suga, the place there’s been a major reversal of perspective on what occurred. Whereas I up to date the earlier publish as quickly as I might — the place public sentiment appeared to be getting worse — this warrants a separate replace.
So principally, the preliminary CCTV video from JTBC was actually not Suga in any respect, because it was someone getting into the wrong way of him. Clearly a giant failure on their half to not authenticate that and put it on the market, because it coloured views. Moreover, DongA Ilbo has launched related CCTV footage as Yonhap of him falling over on a scooter, however with clearer video and from a straight-on angle.
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That is important, as a result of the JTBC footage made it appear like he was driving one thing like a moped on the street, whereas this exhibits a smaller scooter that’s much like a seated kickboard.
Moreover, police additionally say he was certainly returning house when this occurred.
In response to police, SUGA’s actions that night have been as follows: round 9PM he had drinks with acquaintances at a restaurant in Hannam-dong, then he went to his personal studio the place he drank once more, after which round 11PM he left the studio on the electrical scooter to move to 9 One Hannam. SUGA was then discovered by police after he fell in entrance of the principle gate of 9 One Hannam. The electrical scooter SUGA was driving is a foldable mannequin that can’t have its seat eliminated with a prime velocity of as much as 30 km/h (18.64 mph) and a motor output of 1.2 kW. It’s reported to be labeled as a “moped” beneath site visitors legal guidelines, and SUGA is topic to felony costs for drunk driving.
Okay, so principally he was certainly drunk and driving one thing that’s an electrical scooter by regulation, in keeping with earlier police statements. Thus, there’s nonetheless a query as to what the authorized end result can be. Nonetheless, by way of notion of the incident, this actually might assist Suga rather a lot. It’s positively not a moped, he wasn’t working it at a excessive velocity, and he did fall over on his personal with out hitting something or anyone.
Clearly that is nonetheless not one thing you need to be doing or encouraging, because it might’ve ended up being worse (and that’s the reason there’s nonetheless authorized to cope with), however this wasn’t the borderline Kim Sae Ron scenario that preliminary media reviews have been portray an image of. Reasonably, it looks like extra the form of factor one can trip out if the serve the remainder of the army time with out additional challenge.