June 8, 2026
SEOUL – Singer and actress IU has been targeted by online comments urging her to support protesters over election disruptions, in what some describe as coordinated online trolling.
Her social media account has recently been flooded with comments requesting that she prepay coffee and snacks for demonstrators who have gathered to protest against ballot paper shortage incident during the June 3 local elections.
Some users cited IU’s previous actions, when she provided prepaid food and drinks for attendees of a rally calling for former President Yoon Suk Yeol’s impeachment.
Her recent posts have been inundated with hundreds of similar requests, which some observers say amount to harassment.
IU’s agency has not issued an official statement on the matter.