The 29-year-old Korean "Queen of National Song" IU (Lee Ji-eun) celebrated the 14th anniversary of her debut, singing at the Olympic Main Stadium of Seoul's Silkworm Sports Complex on September 17 and 18, attracting more than 80,000 people to the pilgrimage and writing a new record for the first Korean actress to board the venue. In the finale performance, she admitted that her hearing was abnormal more than a year ago, and "there was a problem with her ears", which made fans quite distressed. In fact, she released a documentary DVD in March this year to see the medical process, and the doctor diagnosed it as "open ear and throat disease".
Due to the impact of the epidemic, IU held the "The Golden Hour: Under the Orange Sun" concert for 3 years. She started preparations a year ago, and in March this year released the "Shards Collection: Winter at the Age of 29" DVD to record the practice process, but IU, who has suffered from ear disease, seems to be in poor shape, she said: "My ears have not been very good lately, and the muscles here (the left ear) have loosened, much like yawning." 」
IU further said: "This side (right ear) is very subtle and can be ignored, but (the left ear) is very obvious. If you sing, won't you scream louder? The sounds my ears hear are louder and deafening." She had to plug the left ear with earplugs to improve, but it seemed that the effect was limited, and then went to the hospital for examination, IU, who was sitting in the diagnosis and treatment chair, closed his eyes, clenched his fists, could not recognize the scream, and confessed that "it actually hurts a little", which made fans look very unwilling.
The doctor judged that IU suffered from open ear and throat tunnel disease, "There is no reason for muscle relaxation, does singing bring a lot of stress to the ear?" It may cause the Eustachian tube to open, but if the fat cell layer is very thick, it will not open very well." He also said that it will solve it with traditional outpatient treatment and do not do dangerous surgeries as much as possible. IU is also optimistic, "If I miraculously exert my strength, I should be able to sing in its original state" and "I should be fine at the concert next year".
IU beat the ear disease last weekend to start singing, and on the second day, Encore confessed that "in fact, today's performance is a bit difficult", and slowly said: "I have a problem with my ear, so I prepared for the concert with trepidation, but it was not very serious." I couldn't control the state of my ears about a year ago, thinking, "As long as I do a good job in this performance, my ears will be fine that day."
However, after the first day of the performance, IU's ear disease broke out again, she said: "Last night began to have ear discomfort, until today's rehearsal, the whole day seems to be spent in hell, so the first song maintains the mood of 'I don't know what will happen' on stage." Although I often say, and I really think so, that today's performance is all about everyone." The audience cheered her with thunderous applause.
In addition to ear disease, IU also announced shocking news at its first performance, that the rammer songs "Good Day" and "Palette" would "graduate" and no longer sing these two songs in the future. She explains: "I'm 30 years old (Korean is a false age), I sang Good Day when I was 18 years old, and the lyrics have "I like Oba", but now (offstage) I can't see Oba anymore." 」 "Palette" is a song she composed at the age of 25, "At the age of 30, I greeted the good times as I did then, and now this song is reserved for the 25-year-old Zhien".
IU has a good popularity in the show business circle, and artists who have cooperated have appeared to support her, including girlfriend Liu Renna, Kim So-hyun who has cooperated with "Those Things About the Producer", Lee Joon-ki and Kang Hanna of "Li: Step by Step", Lee Joo Ying of "Baby Transfer Station", and Kang Mei Na of "Druna Hotel". In addition, the well-known IU fan - "Bulletproof Youth League" (BTS) Lao Mo Tuguo did not miss for 2 days, and his teammates J-HOPE, "Tomorrow X Together" (TXT) Xiubin, Song Chengxian, "KARA" Jiang Zhiying and others were also present to support, and the scene was full of stars.