{"id":166911,"date":"2026-05-17T11:33:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T18:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=166911"},"modified":"2026-05-17T11:33:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T18:33:33","slug":"iu-donates-300-million-krw-to-support-those-most-in-need-on-her-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/iu-donates-300-million-krw-to-support-those-most-in-need-on-her-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"IU donates 300 million KRW to support those most in need on her birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In recent reports was revealed that <strong>IU<\/strong> donates 300 million KRW, or 200,283 USD, to support those most in need on her birthday, demonstrating once again her generosity with retribution for her success.<\/p>\n<p>On May 16th, the agency behind the idol, <strong>EDAM Entertainment<\/strong>, announced that she recently made a donation under the name <strong>IUAENA<\/strong>, a combination of hers and her fandom name, with the intention to help different charities.<\/p>\n<p>The agency also revealed that the funds are divided into 100 million KRW, which was donated to <strong>Asan Medical Center<\/strong>. Meanwhile, the remainder was distributed in amounts of 50 million KRW to the organizations <strong>Walking With Us, Milk Delivery to Check on the Elderly, the Korean Association of Single Mother Families, and Walk Together<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-166917\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IU-makes-a-significant-donation-on-behalf-of-herself-and-her-fandom.jpg\" alt=\"IU makes a significant donation on behalf of herself and her fandom\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IU-makes-a-significant-donation-on-behalf-of-herself-and-her-fandom.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IU-makes-a-significant-donation-on-behalf-of-herself-and-her-fandom-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IU-makes-a-significant-donation-on-behalf-of-herself-and-her-fandom-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IU-makes-a-significant-donation-on-behalf-of-herself-and-her-fandom-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IU-makes-a-significant-donation-on-behalf-of-herself-and-her-fandom-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IU-makes-a-significant-donation-on-behalf-of-herself-and-her-fandom-860x484.jpg 860w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The funds will be used to help <strong>patients<\/strong> facing financial difficulties, provide educational and cultural opportunities for <strong>children and teenagers<\/strong>, assist <strong>elderly<\/strong> individuals living alone, support vulnerable <strong>single-mother households<\/strong>, and provide advanced assistive devices for <strong>people with disabilities<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout her career in the world of entertainment, IU has made many donations to celebrate important occasions like her birthday, debut anniversary, and year-end holidays, spreading positive influence and becoming one of Korea&#8217;s most influential philanthropic celebrities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent reports was revealed that IU donates 300 million KRW, or 200,283 USD, to support those most in need on her birthday, demonstrating once again her generosity with retribution for her success. On May 16th, the agency behind the idol, EDAM Entertainment, announced that she recently made a donation under the name IUAENA, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2817,"featured_media":166916,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[1466],"tmauthors":[3732],"class_list":{"0":"post-166911","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kpop","8":"category-news","9":"tag-iu"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166911","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\/2817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166911"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166918,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166911\/revisions\/166918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166911"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=166911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}