{"id":147706,"date":"2025-08-29T13:35:28","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T20:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=147706"},"modified":"2025-08-29T13:35:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T20:35:28","slug":"iu-becomes-the-minister-of-culture-sports-and-tourism-award-recipient-award-at-2025-k-expo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/iu-becomes-the-minister-of-culture-sports-and-tourism-award-recipient-award-at-2025-k-expo\/","title":{"rendered":"IU becomes the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism award recipient  Award at 2025 K-Expo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>IU<\/strong> became the talk of the town for all the right reasons after her appearance at the<em> \u201c7th Newsis Hallyu Expo&#8217; (<strong>2025 K-Expo<\/strong>),&#8221;<\/em> which was held at the Crystal Ballroom of Lotte Hotel in Sogong-dong, Seoul. The idol has received her flowers for being awarded a special recognition.<\/p>\n<p>The Hallyu Expo aims to promote the sustainability of the Korea Wave and enhance the competitiveness in the cultural industry. This year, <strong>IU became the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism award recipient for all of her contributions to the South Korean entertainment industry<\/strong> for her work in Netflix\u2019s series, <em>\u201cWhen Life Gives You Tangerines.\u201d<\/em> The idol delivered a heartwarming speech:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yD1odHkkjD4&amp;ab_channel=%EA%B3%A0%EA%B5%AC%EB%B0%94\" title=\"\uc81c7\ud68c \ub274\uc2dc\uc2a4 \ud55c\ub958\uc5d1\uc2a4\ud3ec \uc544\uc774\uc720 IU CUT \ubaa8\uc74c (\ubb38\ud654\uccb4\uc721\uad00\uad11\ubd80\uc7a5\uad00\uc0c1 \uc218\uc0c1)\" width=\"1240\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yD1odHkkjD4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>\u201cI am honored and delighted to receive the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Award. I will continue to<strong> contribute<\/strong> to culture and work to ensure more people can experience and enjoy K-culture.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p>There\u2019s no doubt that IU is having a phenomenal year with the smash series, <em>\u201cWhen Life Gives You Tangerines,\u201d<\/em> and her solo musical projects. Congratulations to the idol for this<strong> incredible honor<\/strong> for her contributions to the Kpop and K Drama scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IU became the talk of the town for all the right reasons after her appearance at the \u201c7th Newsis Hallyu Expo&#8217; (2025 K-Expo),&#8221; which was held at the Crystal Ballroom of Lotte Hotel in Sogong-dong, Seoul. The idol has received her flowers for being awarded a special recognition. The Hallyu Expo aims to promote the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3102,"featured_media":147707,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,16,7],"tags":[1466],"class_list":{"0":"post-147706","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-kpop","9":"category-news","10":"tag-iu"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}