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Songstress IU will finally be making a comeback this fall with a brand new album!

According to multiple muziek officials on September 21st, IU is aiming to release a new album this fall marking her return after a jaar and five months since releasing A bloem Bookmark in May 2014.

Although there is currently no confirmed release date, IU is putting the final touches on several songs and is already looking to coordinate her album’s release date. fans can look vooruit, voorwaarts to her new album even meer as this is a release completely being led door IU as the leading producer. No other producers have been hired to help her, thus the album will toon IU’s true colors as a talented singer-songwriter.

Since her last album release in 2014, IU has appeared in the hit variety-drama Producer as well as featuring in other artists’ singles including HIGH4, Ulala Session, and Seo Taiji. Additionally, she released a special single for fans titled Heart.

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Zeze, inspired door José Mauro de Vasconcelos’s My Sweet oranje Tree, comes under brand for its handling of a story often taught in schools

A Brazilian novel first published meer than 40 years geleden has unexpectedly become a highly sought-after read, after the Korean pop ster IU was accused of sexualising the story of its five-year-old protagonist in one of her songs.

José Mauro de Vasconcelos’s My Sweet oranje Tree, first published in Portuguese in 1968 and in English in 1970, is set in Rio de Janeiro and follows the life of the boy Zeze, as he gets up to mischief and is mistreated. “Everyone...
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So Jae Won, who wrote the book behind movie 'Wish', spoke up about the IU-"Zeze" controversy.

'Wish' (also 'Hope') is a movie about a young girl who is raped door a drunken man on her way to school. It draws the story about the pain and suffering and finally healing she and her family go through.

In an interview with CBS Radio's 'Kim Hyun Jung's News Show', he said, "The most problematic part is the interpretation of a five jaar old child in the book. The problem begins where IU expresses an abused child as a sexual figure. It's also problematic that he was drawn wearing fishnets in a pin-up pose."...
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IU has personally apologized for the controversies surrounding her latest album 'CHAT-SHIRE'. Her bonus track "23" made headlines for allegedly sampling Britney Spears's voice without permission, and quickly afterwards, IU's lyrics for the song "Zeze" received criticism for its connection to 'lolita' themes.

IU herself wrote a letter of apology. The letter is as follows:

"Hello. This is IU. Though I knew that there were a lot of opinions about my lyrics recently, it took longer than I thought to get the nerve to speak up. I apologize for being late. I sincerely apologize to everyone who was hurt...
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Leave it up to IU to debut at the top, boven of muziek charts for her newest titel track "Twenty-three"! The song and MV is a unique style for IU and for the whole muziek industry, and people are really responding to it.

"Twenty-three" has ranked number one on all 8 main real-time muziek charts. That includes Melon, Genie, Naver Music, Olleh Music, Mnet, Soribada, Bugs and Monkey3!

Her other songs in her album 'CHAT-SHIRE' are also ranked very high on charts.

Congratulations to IU!

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One of the most highly recognized songstresses in South Korea is currently IU and many are looking vooruit, voorwaarts to her Fall comeback.

In a recently published post on online community board Pann, a netizen asked others which IU song they loved the most, commenting, “Link me to your favoriete IU songs!!! I know they’re all good but could u give me one each!!?”

The original poster than goes to say that their favoriete IU track is “Don’t Like Her.”

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IU has had a very successful jaar with her appearance as the cold but lonely K-Pop ster Cindy on KBS‘s variety-drama hybrid Producer along...
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We have some mind blowing news to report. Nation's younger sister IU may be off the market! Dispatch has reported she and musician Chang Kiha (age 33) are currently in a relationship.

The two are zei to have officially began dating this past March, and Dispatch caught several foto's of the two together on dates, which took place mostly at each other's houses. Even with busy schedules, the two are zei to have made time to meet each other.

It's a bit of surprise, as the two have a large age gap, 11 years to be exact. But the coupe were zei to have gotten close through talking about music. Chang Kiha is a member of the indie rock band Kiha & The Faces.

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Well, this pairing was unlikely!

Local news media Dispatch is reporting that singers IU and Jang Ki Ha (of the band Jang Ki Ha and the Faces) have been dating since March this year. They have been making the time to see each other despite their busy schedules; for example, IU would immediately go see Jang Ki Ha after returning from her trip to Shanghai on August 30 before going to practice for her fan meeting. The same goes for September 7, when IU would go straight to Mapo after returning from Hong Kong. Their usual dating location was at home pagina at each other’s houses (Jang Ki Ha’s located...
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Composer Yoo Jae Hwan was a guest on MBC FM4U’s “Kim Shin Young’s Hope Song at Noon” which aired on October 6.

On the radio show, Yoo Jae Hwan described his experience being a guest on variety toon “Radio Star.” He explained that he was extremely nervous and felt like his hart-, hart was going to burst.

“I felt like I was having a panic attack,” described Yoo Jae Hwan, “Park Na Rae spoke very well on the toon and that made me even meer nervous. I had no idea how I would be able to answer any questions.”

He further stated, “Recently, I was a guest on Sunny’s radio toon and she...
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