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Height5'4"

IU

Korean:아이유

Hometown SEOUL
South Korea

Full name	Lee Ji-eun
Native name	이지은
Birthday	May 16, 1993
Blood type	A

Introduction to IU

Lee Ji Eun (이지은), better known by her stage name IU (아이유), is a South Korean singer, songwriter and actress. Her stage name is derived from the phrase "I and You", symbolizing that people can become one through music. IU debuted on "Mnet M! Countdown" on September 18th, 2008, with her debut single "Lost Child". However, she did not gain mainstream popularity until December 2010 in which she acquired immense fame from her hit song 'Good Day', earning herself the title of "Nation's Little Sister". Throughout the years she has built a formidable reputation as the "Music Queen/Goddess" with her consistent top-charting success, along with her heavy involvement in composing, lyric writing, and the production of her albums. To this day she remains the best-selling female solo on music streaming services and is one of the most influential celebrities in South Korea.

Age

Record Labels

FAVE Entertainment (left: Jan 1, 2018), Kakao M (left: Jan 1, 2020)

Debut

Sep 18, 2008

Height

5'4" (162 cm)

Weight

99.2 lbs (45 kg)

Debut to 1st Win

647 days

Star Sign

Taurus

Language(s)

Korean, English, Chinese, Japanese

Training Period

2007-2008

Education

Dongduk Women’s High School

Kpopping Rank

8th

Nickname(s)

Nation's Little Sister

Fandom

Uaena

Fandom Color(s)

Lime Green

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IU's Discography

Eight

2020 May

1 tracks

Love Poem

2019 November

6 tracks

Bbibbi

2018

1 tracks

Can't Love You Anymore

2017

1 tracks

Palette

2017

10 tracks

Autumn Morning

2017

1 tracks

Through the Night

2017

1 tracks

A Flower Bookmark, pt. 2

2017

6 tracks

CHAT-SHIRE

2015

7 tracks

Heart

2015

1 tracks

Not Spring, Love or Cherry Blossoms

2014

2 tracks

SOGYEOKDONG

2014

1 tracks

A Flower Bookmark

2014

7 tracks

Modern Times Epilogue

2013

15 tracks

Modern Times

2013

13 tracks

Monday Afternoon

2013

2 tracks

Last Fantasy

2011

13 tracks

First Love

2010

2 tracks

Real

2010

7 tracks

Nitpicking

2010

2 tracks

Growing up

2009

14 tracks

IU...I'm

2009

7 tracks

IU's 58 Music Show Wins
( Most song wins, Total wins )

May 31, 2020 Inkigayo Eight 3rd May 24, 2020 Inkigayo Eight 2nd May 17, 2020 Inkigayo Eight 1st Dec 21, 2019 Music Core Blueming 5th Dec 20, 2019 Music Bank Blueming 4th Dec 15, 2019 Inkigayo Blueming 3rd Dec 08, 2019 Inkigayo Blueming 2nd Dec 01, 2019 Inkigayo Blueming 1st Nov 29, 2019 Music Bank Love Poem 4th Nov 23, 2019 Music Core Love Poem 3rd Nov 17, 2019 Inkigayo Love Poem 2nd Nov 16, 2019 Music Core Love Poem 1st Nov 04, 2018 Inkigayo Bbibbi 7th Nov 03, 2018 Music Core Bbibbi 6th Oct 28, 2018 Inkigayo Bbibbi 5th Oct 27, 2018 Music Core Bbibbi 4th Oct 21, 2018 Inkigayo Bbibbi 3rd Oct 20, 2018 Music Core Bbibbi 2nd Oct 19, 2018 Music Bank Bbibbi 1st May 19, 2017 Music Bank Palette 10th

Fun Facts About IU

1.	In 2018 IU provided ₩20,000,000 ($18,000 USD) in financial aid to five college students, helping cover their room and board	7
2.	in 2015 and later in 2018 IU has made two seperate donations of ₩100,000,000 (roughly $90,000 USD) to the Green Umbrella Children's Fund	5
3.	Starcraft 2's Void ray is nicknamed the IU ray because during its charge up is in sync with IU's 3 high notes in "Good Day"	4
4.	IU is an ambassador for South Korea's National Police Agency in their anti-bullying campaigns. She was made an honorary member of the police force in 2013	4
5.	IU has been nominated for more than 100 awards, winning over fifty of them	4
6.	IU is best friends with Suzy, Jiyeon and actress Yoon In Na	4
7.	IU established a scholarship at her high school alma-mater in 2016 and regularly donates there. The scholarship is dubbed the "IU Scholarship" designed to help graduates from underdeveloped families.	3
8.	IU failed an audition at JYP but got into Leon Entertainment. Later JYP said that he was going to fire whoever let IU go	3
9.	Her company gave her name, IU which has the meaning ‘You’ and ‘I’ will become one through music.	3
10.	IU said that in the past she struggled with bulimia	3

11.	After IU’s contract with Kakao M expired, she agreed to renew the contract but with one condition, that is to keep the IU team by her side and increase their salaries all together	2
12.	In 2012 IU was identified as one of the most influential people in South Korea by Forbes Korea Power Celebrity list, since then she has been mentioned five more times	2
13.	IU's family suffered from financial difficulties so she would stay with her brother, cousin, and grandmother in one home. However that home was infested with cockroaches	2
14.	When IU was part of Good Entertainment she was supposed to debut as "5 girls" together with G.NA, After School's Uee, Wonder Girl's Yubin, 4minute's Gayoon and Secret's Hyosung	2
15.	IU's fan club name is Uaena, where each syllable has a different meaning: "U" is "You" from English, "ae" is Sino-Korean for "love", and "na" is Korean for "me".	2
16.	IU said on her fancafe that male fans are 건빵 (geonbbang or biscuits) because that’s her favorite snack and female fans are 별사탕 (byeolsatang or star candy) because IU used to have very few female fans, just like the rare star candies when you buy a pack of biscuits. Also, antis are milk.	2
17.	IU's instagram dlwlrma is just typing 이지금 using a korean keyboard but in English mode. IU’s real name is ‘이지은 (Lee Ji Eun)’. ‘Eun’ can mean ‘silver’ as well and she mentioned during the Palette Epilogue film screening that her friends used to call her ‘이지금은통 (Lee Ji Gold Silver Bronze)’ when she was young, so that’s how she came up with the name ‘이지금 (Lee Ji Gold)’ for her instagram. ‘이지금’ also has a double meaning of ‘right now’, so it was used as the song title for one of her tracks on the Palette album.	2