This can't be the California vacation he envisioned.
A representative for the 41-year-old R&B singer Bobby Kim claimed the star does not remember an incident aboard a flight bound for San Francisco on Wednesday where he allegedly grabbed a stewardess's waist, blaming the incident on "six glasses of wine" in a phone call on Friday to a reporter from Korea's Yonhap news agency.
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According to the representative, who reportedly works for Kim's record label Oscar Entertainment, the singer had been drinking after discovering that he would be seated in coach allegedly due to a clerical error from his airline Korean Air.
"He was upset and drank wine," the rep said. "He does not clearly remember the mistakes he made afterwards."
Kim's alleged bad behavior began roughly five hours into the flight, which departed from the South Korean city of Incheon. At this time he allegedly began shouting and grabbing the stewardess, according to the UK publication the Daily Mail.
The singer, who was born in Seoul before his family immigrated to the U.S. when he was two, was escorted off the plane at 10:13 a.m. on Wednesday in San Francisco by the F.B.I., according to the Korea Times.
Flying to California for a vacation and a visit with his sister, Kim, who is reportedly still in San Francisco at this time, will allegedly face questioning from South Korean authorities when he returns.
A performer with a resume spanning work in the rap, reggae, R&B and soul genres, Kim was nominated for an Mnet Asian Music Award in 2007 in the category of Best R&B Performance for his song "Bluebird" and again in 2009 in the category of Best Ballad for the single "Today More Than Yesterday."
Daily Mail reader PS of Toronto, Canada believes this is proof booze shouldn't be allowed on flights.
"Yet another case for banning alcohol on all flights everywhere," PS wrote on Friday.
"You're contributing to the creation of a dangerous situation in a confined tube hurling hundreds of miles an hour thousands of feet in the air and risking innocent lives. Bars cut people off, why can't airlines? And if you need a drink that badly that you can't refrain for a few hours, you've got issues. Stay home."
Korea Times reader Makadamia believes the airline is equally at fault.
"Apparently Korean Air apologized for their mistake but did not correct it," Makadamia wrote on Friday.
"Guess he ordered wine to cool off, got drunk and voila--escorted off the plane for sexual harassment. Obviously what Bobby Kim did was wrong, but what Korean Air did and how they managed the situation was wrong."
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