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IU Biography: The Singer of Her Ages

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IU on the Blue Dragon Series Awards red carpet
IU on the red carpet at the Blue Dragon Series Awards, July 18, 2025
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IU Biography: The Singer of Her Ages At twenty, twenty-three, twenty-five, twenty-eight and into her thirties, IU has turned each age into a song: the story of IU. Topics: Solo, .

Profile

Item Details
Stage name IU
Real name Lee Ji-eun
Born May 16, 1993
Agency EDAM Entertainment
Debut September 18, 2008
Main fields Singer, songwriter, actor

Summary

IU is a solo singer and actor who debuted at sixteen and became widely known with “Good Day.” At twenty, at twenty-three, at twenty-five, at twenty-eight, and on through the end of her twenties and into her thirties, she has left behind songs she wrote herself about what each of those ages felt like. She grew from someone who sang songs into someone who writes them and makes her own albums, and through dramas and films she has also stood at the Cannes Film Festival and on awards stages. Her career is a chronicle of one person growing older, recorded in song.

Chapter 1. Debut at Sixteen (2008–2009)

Ages in this article follow the Korean way of counting that IU herself uses in her songs and interviews, which usually runs one or two years ahead of international age.

Before her debut, IU failed auditions at a number of agencies, including JYP Entertainment.[1][2] After about a year of training at LOEN Entertainment, she debuted on September 18, 2008, with “Lost Child.”[3][4][5] She was sixteen.

Her stage name, IU, carries the meaning that “I” and “you” become one through music.[3] Her debut album, Lost and Found, was chosen that November by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism as an “Outstanding New Album of the Month.”[3] The songs on her first album were not yet her own writing. In April 2009 she released her first studio album, Growing Up, with the title track “Boo.”[6][7] It would be a few more years before she began singing about her own age in her own words.

Chapter 2. The Spring of Twenty (2010–2012)

In December 2010, eighteen-year-old IU released “Good Day.”[8] The passage near the end of the song, where her voice climbs up in three steps, became a talking point, and the phrase “three-step high note” spread online. She admitted, “Honestly, after the first broadcast the phrase ‘three-step high note’ appeared online, and it put pressure on me.”[8] The following year, “Good Day” won Best Song at the Melon Music Awards and Best Vocal Performance (Solo) at MAMA.[9][10][11][12]

Her acting began in this period as well. In the KBS2 drama Dream High, which premiered on January 3, 2011, she played Kim Pil-sook, and the drama opened with a nationwide rating of 10.7% for its first episode.[13][14]

“You and I,” the title track of her second studio album Last Fantasy, released on November 29, 2011, held No. 1 on KBS2’s Music Bank for five consecutive weeks, from December 9, 2011, to January 6 of the following year.[15][16][17] It was also her first song to reach No. 1 on the Billboard K-pop Hot 100, the chart compiled by Billboard in the United States.[18]

Then, on May 11, 2012, IU released the single Spring of a Twenty Year Old. Her agency introduced it as an album about the work, love and sense of self she was feeling as she turned twenty.[19][20] It was her first release to carry her own age in its name. Given how often ages appear in her songs after this, the album can be seen as the first scene of “a singer of her ages.”

Chapter 3. Twenty-Three (2013–2016)

In the KBS2 weekend drama You’re the Best, Lee Soon-shin, which premiered on March 9, 2013, she played the title role, her first lead in a drama.[21][22] On October 8 of the same year, she released her third studio album, Modern Times. The title track was “The Red Shoes,” and she composed two of the album’s songs and wrote the lyrics for four.[23][24] “Friday,” from the same album, became her fourth No. 1 on the Billboard K-pop Hot 100, tying the chart’s record for the most No. 1s.[18] On November 13, 2014, she received the grand prize “Artist of the Year” at the Melon Music Awards.[25][26]

On May 16, 2014, her birthday, she released A Flower Bookmark, a remake album of older songs.[27][28] In the KBS2 entertainment drama The Producers, which premiered on May 15, 2015, she played top singer Cindy.[29][30]

On October 23 that year, IU released the mini album CHAT-SHIRE. It was the first album she produced herself, and its title track was “Twenty-Three.”[31][32] On the day of release she held a “Chat Show” for 100 invited audience members who, like her, were twenty-three, and explained that she had likened the number 23 to flower petals and filled the album with the questions she had been turning over at that age.[33][34] Years later she emphasized again that she had released “Twenty-Three” when she was actually twenty-three.[35]

The album also brought controversy. On November 3, allegations emerged that a bonus track had sampled a song by the American singer Britney Spears without permission. Her agency, LOEN, said the sound was a voice sample the composer had purchased and owned, that it had contacted Britney Spears’s side to confirm the source, and that it would go through the clearance process.[36][37] On November 5, the publisher Dongnyok, which had published the Korean edition of the novel My Sweet Orange Tree, issued an official statement about the track “Zeze.” It said that Zeze is an abused five-year-old child and that it regretted his being interpreted as a sexual object.[38][39] The next day, IU posted an apology on her official Facebook page. While stating that she had never intended to sexualize a child, she apologized for her immaturity as a lyricist and for failing to check the source of the sample carefully.[40][41] At twenty-three, when she released the first album she made herself, she also went through taking responsibility as its maker.

In the SBS drama Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo, which premiered on August 29, 2016, she played Hae-soo.[42][43]

Chapter 4. The Palette of Twenty-Five (2017–2019)

On March 24, 2017, IU first released “Through the Night,” for which she wrote the lyrics.[44] On April 21 she followed with her fourth studio album, Palette.[45] G-DRAGON featured on the title track “Palette”; she said she had asked him for advice while working on the song and then asked him to feature.[46][47] If “Twenty-Three” was a song swinging between extremes, “Palette” was a song about who she had become after that.[35][46] She explained, “I felt that, having turned twenty-five, I had become able to point out clearly at least what I like, so I tried writing it into lyrics.”[45]

Palette swept the year-end awards. On December 1 she won Best Female Artist at MAMA, and on December 2 she won three awards at the Melon Music Awards, including Album of the Year.[48][49][50][51] On January 10, 2018, “Through the Night” won the grand prize in the digital category at the Golden Disc Awards, her first Golden Disc grand prize.[52][53] Earlier, on September 22, 2017, she had also released the remake album A Flower Bookmark 2.[54][55]

The weight of her acting changed too. The tvN drama My Mister, broadcast from March 21 to May 17, 2018, ended with its highest rating in its final episode.[56][57] On April 5, 2019, Netflix released Persona, in which four directors each made a short film with her in the lead,[58][59] and the tvN drama Hotel del Luna, which ended on September 1, reached its highest rating with an average of 12% for the final episode.[60][61]

On October 10, 2018, her tenth debut anniversary year, she released the digital single “BBIBBI,” which she wrote and produced. Her agency described it as a song she made with a light heart, setting aside intensity.[62][63] Her tenth-anniversary tour, dlwlrma, which began that same month, went from Busan, Gwangju and Seoul on to Hong Kong, Singapore, Bangkok and Taipei, and all four shows in Korea sold out.[64][65][66][67] On November 18, 2019, she released her fifth mini album, Love poem, and its title track “Blueming” reached No. 1 on the major music charts.[68][69]

Later she looked back and said that she had looked her most beautiful at twenty-five, during the Palette era.[70] In other words, she remembers the age at which she said she had come to know what she likes as her most beautiful time.

Chapter 5. A Farewell to Her Twenties (2020–2021)

On May 6, 2020, IU released the digital single “eight,” produced by and featuring BTS’s SUGA.[71][72] She introduced it this way: “‘eight’ is like a short novel confessing my twenty-eight, using an imaginary person called ‘you’ and various metaphors.”[71] After twenty, twenty-three and twenty-five, another age had become a song. For “eight,” she received the Artist of the Year award for the digital category for May 2020 at the Gaon Chart Music Awards in January 2021, along with the Lyricist of the Year award at the same ceremony.[73][74]

In 2020 she also donated 200 million won to the COVID-19 response,[75][76] and 100 million won ahead of Children’s Day.[77][78]

“Celebrity,” released first on January 27, 2021, held No. 1 on the Gaon Digital Chart and Streaming Chart for six consecutive weeks.[79][80]

On March 25, 2021, she released her fifth studio album, LILAC. The album took “a farewell to my twenties” as its theme, with two title tracks, “LILAC” and “Coin.”[81][82] She took part as lyricist on every track.[80][83] She called the album a greeting to her twenties,[84] and described the title track “LILAC” as “a final greeting to my twenties from the very end of my twenties.”[70] Having debuted at sixteen and spent all of her twenties as a singer, she closed that time with a song.

On October 19 of that year, she released the digital single “strawberry moon,” for which she wrote the lyrics and joined in composing.[85][86] On December 4, at the Melon Music Awards, she won two grand prizes: Artist of the Year and Album of the Year (LILAC).[87][88] Accepting Album of the Year, she said, “‘LILAC’ is the last album of my twenties.”[87] The following January she won the digital grand prize at the Golden Disc Awards for “Celebrity,”[89][90] the Best Digital Song award at the Seoul Music Awards for “LILAC,”[91][92] and five awards at the Gaon Chart Music Awards, including Lyricist of the Year and Album Production of the Year (LILAC).[83][93] The last album of her twenties can thus be seen as having been rounded off at the start of her thirties.

Chapter 6. At Home in Her Thirties (2022–2024)

In May 2022, Broker, the film by director Hirokazu Kore-eda in which IU appeared, was selected for the competition section of the 75th Cannes Film Festival and had its official screening on May 26 (local time).[94][95] On September 17 and 18, she held the concert The Golden Hour: Under the Orange Sun at the Olympic Stadium in Jamsil, Seoul. It was the first solo concert held at that stadium by a Korean female solo singer.[96][97] On April 26, 2023, the film Dream, in which she played a documentary producer, was released.[98][99]

In May 2023, a member of the public filed a complaint alleging that six of IU’s songs were plagiarized, in violation of copyright law. Her agency, EDAM Entertainment, countered that IU had composed only one of the songs in question, and that the parts at issue were not ones IU had worked on. In August that year, investigators dismissed the complaint, finding that no offense had been made out.[100][101]

On January 24, 2024, she released the digital single “Love wins all,” and on February 20, her sixth mini album, The Winning.[102][103][104] She said she had made the album thinking of it as putting a bookmark in her thirties.[103][105][106] And she added, “I think my thirties are an age that really suits me.”[104] Three years after saying goodbye to her twenties, she once again put her feel for a newly reached age into an album.

Her world tour, which began in March that year, continued to encore concerts at Seoul World Cup Stadium on September 21 and 22. They were the first concerts held at the stadium by a female singer, and the September 22 show was her 100th solo concert.[107][108] In December, Billboard in the United States chose her to represent South Korea in its “Global No. 1s” series introducing each country’s leading artist.[109][110]

Chapter 7. Today (2025–2026)

From March 7 to 28, 2025, the Netflix drama When Life Gives You Tangerines was released in four parts.[111][112] The drama reached No. 1 on Netflix’s global non-English TV list,[113] and on July 18, IU won Best Actress at the Blue Dragon Series Awards for her role in it.[114][115] Having started acting with Dream High early in her career, she won a lead acting award.

Her music continued. On May 27 she released the remake album A Flower Bookmark 3,[116][117] and on September 10, without advance notice, the digital single “Bye, Summer,” which she wrote and composed.[118][119] That year she donated 200 million won each for wildfire relief,[120][121] for her debut anniversary,[122][123] and at year’s end.[124][125] On her birthday, May 16, 2026, she donated another 300 million won.[126][127]

In February 2026, EDAM Entertainment said that over the course of 2025 it had taken legal action against 96 people for malicious posts and false claims about IU. In a damages suit related to the 2023 plagiarism claims, the full amount claimed was awarded.[128][129]

On April 10, the MBC drama Perfect Crown (21st Century Grand Prince’s Wife) premiered. It ended on May 16 with its highest rating, 13.8%, in the final episode.[130][131] When criticism arose during the run over the historical accuracy of a coronation scene in episode 11, the production team apologized on May 18 and said it would correct the audio and subtitles of the scene in reruns and on-demand versions.[132][133]

On July 20, her agency announced that concerts and a national tour planned for September, as well as the release of her sixth studio album, had been postponed for the time being.[134][135] Then on September 10, IU released two digital singles with lyrics she wrote, “From This Star” and “Dear my crazy soulmate.”[136][137]

The girl who debuted at sixteen sang of the spring of her age at twenty, made an album with her own hands for the first time at twenty-three, and remembers twenty-five as the time she liked herself best. After confessing twenty-eight as a short novel, she bade farewell to her twenties, and now she says her thirties suit her. IU’s story as “a singer of her ages” continues on toward her next age.

At a Glance

Music

Year Title Release Notes
2008 Lost and Found (“Lost Child”) Debut mini album Ministry of Culture “Outstanding New Album of the Month”
2009 Growing Up (“Boo”) 1st studio album
2010 “Good Day” Mini album title track 2011 MMA Best Song
2011 Last Fantasy (“You and I”) 2nd studio album 5 consecutive weeks at No. 1 on Music Bank
2012 Spring of a Twenty Year Old Single
2013 Modern Times (“The Red Shoes”) 3rd studio album Composed 2 songs, wrote lyrics for 4
2014 A Flower Bookmark Remake mini album
2015 CHAT-SHIRE (“Twenty-Three”) Mini album First self-produced album
2017 Palette (“Palette,” “Through the Night”) 4th studio album Golden Disc digital grand prize
2017 A Flower Bookmark 2 Remake mini album
2018 “BBIBBI” 10th-anniversary digital single Lyrics, production
2019 Love poem (“Blueming”) 5th mini album
2020 “eight” (feat. SUGA) Digital single Gaon Artist of the Year, May 2020
2021 “Celebrity” Digital single 6 consecutive weeks at No. 1 on Gaon
2021 LILAC 5th studio album Lyrics on every track; 2 MMA grand prizes
2021 “strawberry moon” Digital single
2024 “Love wins all” Digital single
2024 The Winning 6th mini album
2025 A Flower Bookmark 3 Remake album
2025 “Bye, Summer” Digital single
2026 “From This Star” / “Dear my crazy soulmate” Digital singles

Screen

Year Title Type Role
2011 Dream High KBS2 drama Kim Pil-sook
2013 You’re the Best, Lee Soon-shin KBS2 drama Lee Soon-shin (first lead)
2015 The Producers KBS2 entertainment drama Cindy
2016 Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo SBS drama Hae-soo
2018 My Mister tvN drama
2019 Persona Netflix, four short films Lead
2019 Hotel del Luna tvN drama
2022 Broker Film Cannes competition
2023 Dream Film Documentary producer
2025 When Life Gives You Tangerines Netflix drama Blue Dragon Series Awards Best Actress
2026 Perfect Crown MBC drama

Records and honors

Year Details
2011 Melon Music Awards Best Song; MAMA Best Vocal Performance (Solo) (“Good Day”)
2013 Fourth No. 1 on the Billboard K-pop Hot 100 (tying the record)
2014 Melon Music Awards Artist of the Year
2017 MAMA Best Female Artist; Melon Music Awards Album of the Year (Palette)
2018 Golden Disc Awards digital grand prize (“Through the Night”)
2021 Melon Music Awards Artist of the Year and Album of the Year (LILAC)
2022 Golden Disc Awards digital grand prize (“Celebrity”); Seoul Music Awards Best Digital Song (“LILAC”)
2022 Solo concert at Jamsil Olympic Stadium (first by a Korean female soloist)
2024 Solo concerts at Seoul World Cup Stadium (first by a female singer); Billboard “Global No. 1s” pick for South Korea
2025 Blue Dragon Series Awards Best Actress (When Life Gives You Tangerines)

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