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The lovely IU has stepped up to aid Korea's youth with her very own 'IU Scholarship'!

A netizen who recently graduated from IU's alma mater, Dong Duk Women's High School, recently uploaded photos of the singer in the high school newspaper for her generosity!

The 'IU Scholarship' will be an annual scholarship funded by the singer each year beginning in 2016, and will consist of 5,000,000 KR₩ (approximately $4300) awarded to 4 students from underprivileged families. In addition to the newly established 'IU Scholarship', the singer also donated an amount of 10,000,000 KR₩ (approximately $8600) to go toward school improvement funds.

What an incredibly kind deed!

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Starship Entertainment artist Yoo Seung Woo recently held a commemorative concert for his latest album release where he revealed the artist he most wants to collaborate with.

Held on February 2nd at 11am at the M Academy concert hall in Apgujeong-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Yoo Seung Woo was asked which artist he’d like to collaborate with.

He replied that in the past, he has mentioned wanting to collaborate with IU and it still hasn’t changed. However, he also names female group The Barbarettes as another artist to work with.

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Yoo Seung Woo dropped his mini-album Pit-A-Pat along with the...
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TV personality and restaurateur Hong Suk Chun has shared the secret of his role in IU and Jang Ki Ha’s relationship!

On January 18’s episode of “Heard It Through the Grapevine Show,” Hong Suk Chun confesses that he knew that the couple was dating before it was publicly confirmed.

He says, “One day, I got a call from Jang Ki Ha, who told me he had a friend who he wanted to eat with, but said they wanted it to be a quiet event. IU came that day.”

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“We didn’t allow any other customers at the restaurant that day so that just the two of them could privately eat together,” Hong...
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The cast of SBS’s upcoming drama “Moon Lovers” is slowly gathering together.

First off, on December 28, actor Ji Soo confirmed that he had accepted a part in the drama. The actor recently garnered attention for his roles in dramas such as “Sassy Go Go” and “Angry Mom.”

It was also reported that singer-actor IU is in talks with the production team for a role in “Moon Lovers.” A representative from IU’s company commented that “It’s true that IU has received an offer for ‘Moon Lovers.’ She’s currently considering the part and nothing is confirmed yet.”

Currently, actors...
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Ever since IU came back with 'Chat-Shire,' it seems like nothing but controversy after controversy has surrounded the new release.

Recently, another issue has come to light, this time involving the inspiration behind 'Chat-Shire's album cover.

An artist by the name of Jessica HJ Lee uploaded a blog post titled 'link,' claiming that the artwork for 'Chat-Shire' was just too similar to her original art to be overlooked as mere inspirations but rather, a direct, intentional copy of her work.

Lee even showed a side-by-side comparison of certain parts of her art to parts of the album artwork for...
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IU and Loen Entertainment were reported to be starting a second round of complaints against malicious netizens, and it seems that a serious IU fan wants to help out.

On November 20, an IU fan made a post on her gallery with a data dump of gathered evidence. Along with the data, the fan wrote, "I'm leaving a bomb. I heard that Loen will be going into a second round of charges." The data contained a long list of malicious comments on news articles. In total, the fan shared a collection of 36,829 malicious comments from a total of 176,384 comments left on 3,796 Naver new articles.

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The end-of-the-year music award shows are some of the most look forward to events for fans as they can not only see their bias awarded for their hard work from the past year but interaction between artists are experienced at an all time high.

So it was extremely shocking when LOEN Tree‘s top artist and soloist IU announced that she would be boycotting all music award shows this year despite having experienced success in her latest album release, CHAT-SHIRE, achieving an all-kill for her title track “Twenty Three.”

However, since the release of the album, she has undergone several controversies...
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Veteran singer Yoon Jong Shin speaks up in regards to IU's latest controversy on her highly sensationalized track, "Zeze," and her overall 'Lolita' concept that existed since the beginning of her career.

On November 7, Yoon Jong Shin wrote on his Twitter, "The marvelous feeling I get when someone reads my songs or writing and comes up with a totally different feeling or impression of it is yet another pleasure following a creation."

He added ,"That is neither a misunderstanding nor mis-translation. It is simply the freedom of imagination. We can't control what people are thinking. Nor their expressions....
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On November 3rd, a famous Korean media site, Daily Sports reported that IU sampled Britney Spears’s song without permission from the artist.

The song under question is ‘Twenty Three’ and it is currently accused of sampling ‘Gimme more’ using sounds such as ‘Ah Oh’ from the famous pop artists song from 2007.

The accusation was started by Britney Spears’s fans. A fan of Britney Spears uploaded on an online community saying, “I am positive that the voice singing ‘keep on rocking’ in IU’s song is Britney Spears. Britney’s fans are not complaining only about the ‘Ah Oh’...
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Composer-turned-singer Yoo Jae Hwan talked about dieting on the September 30th broadcast of MBC FM radio show “Jung Joon Young’s Sim Sim Ta Pa.” He was a guest on the show along with musical actor Kim Ho Young.

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“I tried dieting five times just this year,” Yoo Jae Hwan said. “I felt that as a composer, my songs wouldn’t come out if my brain wasn’t fed.” He went on to talk about how he would eat when stressed because of the psychological pressure, but also drink and eat when he was happy.

Kim Ho Young said, “If IU said it’d be good to lose weight, I think you’d lose weight really fast.” Yoo Jae Hwan agreed quickly, making a 180-degree turn from his previous statement. DJ Jung Joon Young commented, “It seems you can’t help being a man.”

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IU and Lee Hyun Woo′s latest spread for Unionbay has been released.

IU and Lee Hyun Woo are seen donning couple looks from the brand′s fall collection for the street style-inspired spread.

A rep from Unionbay stated, "IU and Lee Hyun Woo shot the fall spread after successfully completing their respective drama Producers and film Northern Limit Line, and they gave off a more mature feel. That feel is captured in the spread, creating a new kind of chemistry."

All of the behind-the-scenes action from the photo shoot and an interview with the stars can be found on Unionbay′s Facebook.

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