IU thinks a lot about death. Rather than being sad, (exchanging)

By Wooju, Lee

Apr 19, 2025

IU thinks a lot about death. Rather than being sad, (exchanging)



'Baek Eun-ha's exchange' IU honestly expressed her thoughts on death.

On the 18th, a video titled 「IU, the first story to be told」 was posted on the YouTube channel 'Baek Eun-ha's exchange'.

IU decided to talk about the keywords from the book. IU's keyword is death. Reporter Baek Eun-ha asked "Have you ever imagined death?" IU said "Yes."," he replied.




IU said "I thought about that a lot since I was young. Rather than feeling vaguely sad about death, what is death? Getting out of breath? Is it simply death? Or is the moment my consciousness ends real death? So what is a ritual? If the body is not me but consciousness, when did the consciousness end and where did it come from and how was it made? Who made this ritual? When I stopped talking about this, my parents always said what I was talking about."

IU thinks a lot about death. Rather than being sad, (exchanging)
IU says, "Even when I was a baby, I looked in the mirror and said, 'What's that? It's weird. What does it mean to be me?' (I thought so.) I'm unfamiliar, but then I'm not? Am I not me by any chance? So I asked my mom what I was before I went to kindergarten"'Doesn't your mother know what it is?' and she said 'I know who my mother is and my father is, but I don't know what I am.' My mom remembers that, too. Even now, the strange question I asked as a child..."

IU, who said she would live with that thought for the rest of her life, said "I think I have no choice but to think about dying all the time because I'm alive, but I can't tell everyone's thoughts because I don't talk about this with everyone. If I say this, there will be people who think differently, so I don't have to bring it up."




In response, reporter Baek Eun-ha "I think it's because I often get the opportunity to experience that the job of an actor is death in the play."Let's say "As an actor, expressing death is the end of your imagination, so I want to do it at least once"He expressed his desire for acting.



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