] Later that year, he starred in CJ E&M’s web drama The Secret Message alongside Japanese actress Juri Ueno. After debuting as a furniture designer in 2015 in collaboration with Vitra, he was awarded the Visual Culture Award at the Prudential Eye Awards.unreliable source? For his mcw cricket role, he won the Rookie Award at the Asia Star Awards, held during the Busan International Film Festival.unreliable source? While filming a combat scene for the movie, he injured the back of his hand on a glass fragment and was later admitted to the hospital for surgery. T.O.P first became attached to the role because he “felt sympathy for the main character, Lee Myung Hoon.”unreliable source? Released as a digital single, it peaked at number two, and sold over 1.3 million downloads by the end of 2010.
2019: Military service, personal and legal issues with marijuana usage
T.O.P appeared one last time in the final episode, which sees a character briefly hallucinating Thanos. Yim later said that they stopped filming but T.O.P wanted to continue, so they resumed. Hwang explained that he wanted to cast someone who had stopped working due to drug-related issues, and T.O.P had retired from K-pop and left BigBang over a marijuana conviction. After auditioning, he won the role because series creator Hwang Dong-hyuk liked his “serious” approach.
Awards and nominations
While internationally, BigBang is often referred to as a “K-pop” group, T.O.P has expressed distaste with the label noting how “you don’t divide pop music by who’s doing it. We don’t say, for instance, ‘white pop’ when white people make music.” He also notes how his role as a musician influenced his acting to be more emotional. Both his solo releases – “Turn It Up” and “Doom Dada” – are hip hop influenced, with the latter drawing critical acclaim for its “lyrical rhythms that are both inviting and alienating” from Dazed magazine, that declared T.O.P was leading the evolution of K-Pop. Adrienne Stanley of Kpop Starz also praised the rapper for his “speed and accuracy” when delivering bars. After release, his acting was criticized by those in South Korea, particularly that his vocal and facial performance was out of place, with the quality of his rap having mixed reception. The casting of T.O.P received controversy in South Korea, and his face was blurred on the Korean morning show Live This Morning when airing a segment about the series.
- Released as a digital single, it peaked at number two, and sold over 1.3 million downloads by the end of 2010.
- Hwang explained that he wanted to cast someone who had stopped working due to drug-related issues, and T.O.P had retired from K-pop and left BigBang over a marijuana conviction.
- After auditioning, he won the role because series creator Hwang Dong-hyuk liked his “serious” approach.
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- Both his solo releases – “Turn It Up” and “Doom Dada” – are hip hop influenced, with the latter drawing critical acclaim for its “lyrical rhythms that are both inviting and alienating” from Dazed magazine, that declared T.O.P was leading the evolution of K-Pop.
- In 2010, while the group was on hiatus, T.O.P and G-Dragon collaborated to release the album, GD & TOP.
- } Later that year, he starred in CJ E&M’s web drama The Secret Message alongside Japanese actress Juri Ueno.
- Prior to the release of the album, the duo held a worldwide premiere showcase for their album at Times Square in Yeongdeungpo of Seoul, South Korea, which was also broadcast live on YouTube.
- On March 20, 2026, he announced his comeback through his social media and his agency, TOPSPOT PICTURES, released his first full-length album, Another Dimension on various online music sites on April 3.
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- On June 29, at his first trial for the marijuana usage charges at the Seoul Central District Court, T.O.P pleaded guilty, admitting that he did smoke marijuana in four instances in early October 2016 and received two years of probation.
- The following year, T.O.P. portrayed the assassin Vick in the critically acclaimed Korean television drama Iris (2009).
- Following Iris, T.O.P. starred in the suspense film 19-Nineteen along with fellow member Seungri.
- He also believed that his character may prove popular with younger viewers in Korea.
- In April 2007, he was featured with fellow BigBang members Taeyang and G-Dragon on singer Lexy’s single “Super Fly” for her album Rush.
- He would later announce on February 12 that the lead single will be entitled “Studio 54”.
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- The group achieved mainstream success with the release of the song “Lies” (거짓말; Geojitmal) from the extended play Always (2007), which topped several charts upon its release.
