IU: In My Eyes

Yong Yee Chong
4 min readMar 25, 2021

This is my personal, big why appreciating IU as a person.

Source: https://www.soompi.com/article/1461010wpp/iu-describes-her-approach-to-new-album-lilac-names-the-happiest-moments-in-her-life-and-more

How I came across was IU was purely by chance. It was my choice though that I paid closer attention to the (nation) little sister’s work in My Mister. It was surreal for me to dig deeper into Korean pop culture through her eyes. I surprised myself for loving her work as an artist and most of the time as a human being. Perhaps if I first collided with her music when I was younger…

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Yong Yee Chong

I am a sport scholar who writes about personal stories and intersectional identity.