Nam Tae-hyun in ’60 Minutes of Tracking’ / Photo = Courtesy of KBS
Singer Nam Tae-hyun, former member of the group Winner of ’60 Minutes of Tracking’, reveals his feelings about drug addiction.
The KBS liberal arts program ‘Tracking 60 Minutes’, which airs on the 14th, covers the teenage drug problem, which is emerging as a social problem, and reveals an interview with Nam Tae-hyun, who is being treated at a drug addiction treatment and rehabilitation center.
Nam Tae-hyun, a member of the group Winner who debuted in 2014, was at the center of controversy in August of last year when he was accused of using methamphetamine. Nam Tae-hyun, who was sent to the prosecution along with Seo Min-jae, a broadcaster who appeared in ‘Heart Signal 3’, is currently under investigation without detention for drug use.
In the pre-recording, Nam Tae-hyun, who had a hard time responding to the interview of ‘Tracking 60 Minutes’, confessed the story of how he became addicted to drugs. He said that while living in the entertainment industry, he encountered narcotic drugs, such as diet pills, and took sleeping pills for insomnia. It is a drug he started taking after receiving a prescription from a psychiatrist, but it is said that abuse of medical drugs opened the pathway to drugs. The production crew said that it has a lot of implications for the phenomenon that teenagers are now abusing diet pills and ADHD medicine known as a drug that helps them study well.
Nam Tae-hyun in ’60 Minutes of Tracking’ / Photo = Courtesy of KBS
Nam Tae-hyun confessed the hardships of life caused by drug use. After his drug run, all that was left was 500 million in debt and overdue card payments. He had to give up his own house as well as his parents’ house. Nam Tae-hyun will soon be working part-time at a restaurant to pay off his debts. He sold everything he owned except for his favorite guitar. Even during the interview, text messages urging him to pay overdue payments kept coming.
As Nam Tae-hyun’s body and mind were ruined by drugs, people left him one by one. Around the time when he thought, ‘I don’t have the confidence to live anymore’, he knocked on the door of the rehabilitation center with a sense of desperation. Nam Tae-hyun said that he had something he wanted to say to teenagers, and he said with difficulty. He said, “I hope (young people) don’t even have an interest in drugs. It’s an act that destroys life itself.”
