{"id":175789,"date":"2026-09-18T10:07:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T17:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=175789"},"modified":"2026-09-18T10:07:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T17:07:46","slug":"iu-donates-144000-to-four-organizations-ahead-of-her-18th-debut-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/iu-donates-144000-to-four-organizations-ahead-of-her-18th-debut-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"IU donates $144,000 to four organizations ahead of her 18th debut anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>IU<\/strong> has become the talk of the town for all the right reasons after making a generous donation. The idol is once again showing their kindness to the Korean Welfare Services and has warmed the hearts of thousands of K-Netizens as she is also currently celebrating her 18th debut anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>On September 18 KST, <strong>News1 reported that EDAM Entertainment said she gave $36,075 each to Korea Welfare Services<\/strong>, Seoul Rehabilitation Hospital, theHeart-to-Heart Foundation, and Habitat Korea.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-175792\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IU-donates-to-the-Korea-Welfare-Services.jpg\" alt=\"IU donates to the Korea Welfare Services\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IU-donates-to-the-Korea-Welfare-Services.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IU-donates-to-the-Korea-Welfare-Services-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IU-donates-to-the-Korea-Welfare-Services-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IU-donates-to-the-Korea-Welfare-Services-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IU-donates-to-the-Korea-Welfare-Services-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IU-donates-to-the-Korea-Welfare-Services-860x484.jpg 860w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The donations were made under the name IUaena, mixing IU\u2019s name with her fan club, UAENA. This is not the first time that the singer has used the name for <strong>contributions<\/strong> marking her birthday, debut anniversary, and the end of the year, benefiting thousands of people in need.<\/p>\n<p>The funds will help young adults prepare to live independently and cover rehabilitation treatment for children and adolescents. <strong>Other support has included education and psychological care and living expenses for young women leaving care,<\/strong> as well as housing improvements for people recognized for their service to the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IU has become the talk of the town for all the right reasons after making a generous donation. The idol is once again showing their kindness to the Korean Welfare Services and has warmed the hearts of thousands of K-Netizens as she is also currently celebrating her 18th debut anniversary. On September 18 KST, News1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3102,"featured_media":175790,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2264,16],"tags":[1466],"class_list":["post-175789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-entertainment","category-kpop","tag-iu"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175789","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=175789"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175808,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175789\/revisions\/175808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}