IU performs onstage during the MelOn Music Awards at Olympic Gymnasium on November 14, 2013 in Seoul, South Korea. (Photo : Getty Images/Chung Sung-Jun)
Fans of "Scarlet Heart: Ryeo" lead stars Lee Joon Gi and Lee Ji Eun aka IU donated to Save the Children after the success of their video project Scarlet Heart: Ryeo Was Here. The joint international fan community who called themselves Neoui Stargazers, which means Your Stargazers showed their support to their admired actors through the donation.
The fans of the two South Korean stars have worked with organizing fundraisers for different non-profit charities in Joon Gi's or IU's name. Many donors come from the Soompi community.
Save the Children is an international charity working for the well-being of children all over the world. They reach 185 million children in more than 120 countries through programs in education, health and nutrition, newborn and child survival, protecting children, HIV and AIDS, emergency response, U.S. disaster response as well as hunger and livelihood.
The efforts of Save the Children were recently geared towards Aleppo. Multinational firm Johnson&Johnson matched the donation to the charity, Soompi reported.
For the love and support of Joon Gi and IU's latest drama, the Neoui Stargazers fan community likewise created a widespread project video, Scarlet Heart: Ryeo Was Here. More than 400 fans from 64 countries and 214 cities contributed to the project. The project also got responses from Korean actors Jo Min Ki and Kim San Ho, who played as King Taejo and Crown Prince Wang Mu in the drama.
Founded in November and launched earlier this month following the Scarlet Heart: Ryeo Was Here fan support video project, Neoui Stargazers aim to scatter the dark sky with the bright light of Joon Gi and IU, one at a time. They are united with a single purpose, to spread love in the name of the two Korean stars by helping the less fortunate.
It is not the first time Joon Gi's followers expressed their support of the actor in terms of donations. After his mandatory military enlistment in 2012, his fans from China, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand donated 10 tons of rice to congratulate him in his comeback project "Arang and the Magistrate," AllKPop reported. Ten tons of rice can provide meals to about 86,000 people.
Here is the project video Scarlet Heart: Ryeo Was Here:
