IU and Lee Jong-Suk Breakup Confirmed: Here’s What Actually Happened

IU and Lee Jong-suk have confirmed their breakup. On July 10, 2026, IU’s agency EDAM Entertainment and Lee Jong-suk’s agency Ace Factory both released statements confirming, “it is true that they broke up,” adding that the two will remain good colleagues. The split ends a four-year relationship that the couple confirmed publicly in December 2022, though they’d known each other since 2012 as co-hosts of SBS’s “Inkigayo.” Neither agency gave an official reason for the breakup. IU is currently preparing a new album and a solo concert at Goyang Stadium this September, while Lee Jong-suk is set to star in Disney’s upcoming series “The Remarried Empress.”