150813 iu at Infinity Challenge Song Festival with GD and Park Myungsoo

Dongnyok Publishing has issued an apology to singer iu for the controversy surrounding her song “ZeZe.”

Dongnyok Publishing is the publishing company for “My Sweet laranja Tree” in Korea, and it brought national (and even global) attention to IU’s song on November 5 when it expressed its distaste for the sexualization of the main character in the book, Zeze, in the artist’s song, writing, “Zeze is a five-year-old who is hurt because of the abuse he receives from his family. With his words, ‘Why must children grow up?’ he makes many readers cry.” The company also objected to...