Lim Young-woong, 'End of Warm-up, Soaring Again'..Simultaneous Variety and Music Activities 'Declaration'

[Financial News] The warm-up of singer Lim Young-woong is over. He spreads his wings to soar once again. He has declared his intention to catch both variety and music activities. 
According to Lim Young-woong's agency Mulgogi Music, Lim Young-woong will release his second regular album 'I'm Hero 2(IM HERO 2)' next month. It is an album released for the first time in over three years since his first regular album released in May 2022.
The new album is known to include songs from various genres such as ballad, trot, pop, hip-hop, dance, and folk.
On this day, a video titled 'Announcement to Geonhang Nation' was released on Lim Young-woong's official YouTube channel. Lim Young-woong appeared wearing royal attire as 'Geonhang Nation's 1st King Woongjo' and greeted his fan club 'Hero Era' saying, "How have you been? Do you recognize me?"
Through the video, Lim Young-woong says, "What is happiness anyway?" and "Don't hate others, just chat with your loved ones and live like that." He also says, "Then our Hero Era, let's continue to live together in Geonhang Nation with Hero for a hundred years," and shouts, "Let's all play music."
Separately, Lim Young-woong is also preparing to appear in a new SBS variety program. The new SBS variety show 'Island Village Hero' featuring Lim Young-woong has been confirmed to be scheduled as a follow-up to 'Whenever Possible'. 'Island Village Hero' is reported to be a travel variety show where Lim Young-woong stays on an island with his close friends and shares friendship. 
Meanwhile, Lim Young-woong and the country's largest fan club 'Hero Era' are known for practicing donation and volunteer work themselves.
In fact, 'Hero Era' recently donated 156,756,000 won (140,056,000 won in cash, 16,700,000 won in goods) to neighbors in need to celebrate Lim Young-woong's 34th birthday (Woongtan Day, June 16). Over the past five years, 'Hero Era' has donated a total of 1,168,340,000 won or directly volunteered during Lim Young-woong's birthday to add meaning to the day.
Recently, Lim Young-woong also donated 200 million won in the name of the fan club 'Hero Era' to help victims of heavy rain and the local community. Truly, like the singer, like the fans.
'Hero Era' has an internal guideline to participate in sharing as Lim Young-woong, known as the 'Donation Angel', emphasizes donation and volunteer work with difficult neighbors instead of birthday gifts. Since 2021, Lim Young-woong has not received any gifts from fans, only accepting handwritten letters, and is known to encourage fans to practice sharing.

rsunjun@fnnews.com Yoo Sun-jun Reporter