Stray Kids’ Lee Know Donates ₩100 Million to Support Nepal Flood Victims
Stray Kids’ Lee Know has once again opened his wallet for a humanitarian cause, this time directing his generosity toward the victims of one of Nepal’s deadliest natural disasters in recent memory.
On August 28, the idol donated ₩100 million — approximately $72,600 — to World Vision Korea, specifically requesting that the funds go toward supporting children and families affected by the catastrophic flooding that struck the Nepal-Tibet border region in late August.
His agency, JYP Entertainment, confirmed the donation on August 30, and the news has since been picked up by major Korean and international outlets including Soompi and The Korea Herald.
What Lee Know’s Donation Will Support
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According to World Vision, the funds from Lee Know’s contribution will go directly toward life-saving aid and livelihood support for flood-affected communities in Nepal.
Specifically, the donation is earmarked for five key areas: food and nutritional assistance, temporary housing, clean water access, sanitation and hygiene support, and broader emergency and livelihood assistance for displaced families.
These categories reflect the most urgent needs on the ground, where entire villages have been swept away and tens of thousands of residents are without stable shelter or reliable access to clean drinking water.
In a statement shared alongside the donation, Lee Know expressed hope that his contribution could offer even a small measure of comfort to those suffering. He said he hoped flood victims, along with everyone working on relief efforts, would be able to return to their peaceful daily lives as quickly as possible. It’s a simple, understated message — consistent with how the idol has approached his charitable work over the years, typically avoiding grand gestures in favor of quiet, direct action through established relief organizations.
The Scale of the Nepal Disaster
To understand why this donation matters, it helps to understand the scale of what happened. On August 26, 2026, a massive glacier collapse near the Langtang Lirung peak triggered a landslide and flash flood along the Nepal-Tibet border. Scientists cited by Reuters and the BBC have pointed to climate change as a likely contributing factor in the glacier’s collapse.
The resulting debris avalanche — estimated by the U.S. Geological Survey to have displaced over 100 million cubic meters of ice, rock, and debris — tore through river valleys in a matter of minutes, one geophysicist describing the resulting flood wave as resembling “liquid concrete.”
The human toll has been staggering. As of August 30, Nepal’s disaster agency reported the death toll had climbed to at least 734, with nearly 2,500 people still missing, including hundreds of foreign nationals. Across the border in China’s Tibet region, at least 16 people were confirmed dead with over 500 more missing.
Rescue operations have been complicated by the formation of barrier lakes near the flood zone, which authorities have been closely monitoring for the risk of a secondary breach that could send another wall of water downstream.
U.S. President Donald Trump reportedly offered assistance to Nepal in the disaster’s immediate aftermath, and South Korea has also dispatched a response team to the flood site to help search for missing nationals.
Against that backdrop, international aid organizations like World Vision have become a critical lifeline, coordinating everything from emergency food distribution to the rebuilding of sanitation infrastructure for displaced communities. Celebrity donations like Lee Know’s, while modest relative to the overall scale of need, help fund these operations directly and often draw additional public attention and donations to the cause.
Part of a Long Pattern of Giving
This isn’t the first time Lee Know has turned to World Vision to make a difference, and longtime fans of Stray Kids will recognize the pattern.
In January 2024, he donated ₩100 million to World Vision’s global food crisis response program, a contribution that made him the youngest-ever member of the organization’s Bob Pierce Honor Club — a group reserved for major donors who have given more than ₩100 million and made a sustained commitment to humanitarian causes.
Fellow Stray Kids member Felix has also joined the Bob Pierce Honor Club through his own donations to UNICEF, and the group’s members reportedly include JYP Entertainment producer Park Jin Young himself, suggesting a broader culture of giving within the agency.
Lee Know’s philanthropic history extends well beyond this single World Vision partnership.
Since 2014, he has personally sponsored four children through the organization, ensuring they receive ongoing support for education, healthcare, and basic necessities. Following the devastating Türkiye-Syria earthquakes in February 2023, he contributed to emergency relief donations aimed at helping rebuild affected communities.
And earlier this year, in April, Lee Know joined his Stray Kids bandmates in a collective donation of ₩800 million — split evenly between Hope Bridge Korea Disaster Relief Association and World Vision — to support wildfire relief efforts in South Korea’s Gyeongnam and Gyeongbuk regions.
His generosity hasn’t been limited to global disaster relief, either. On his birthday last October, Lee Know donated a combined ₩200 million, split between Samsung Medical Center — to help cover surgery and transplant costs for patients with severe illnesses — and Nabiya Saranghae, an organization dedicated to rescuing and caring for stray and abandoned cats.
Taken together, this recent Nepal donation fits into a well-established, years-long pattern rather than a one-off gesture prompted by media attention.
Fan and Public Reaction
As with previous donations, the news of Lee Know’s contribution has spread quickly across fan communities and social media, with many praising the idol for his consistency and lack of self-promotion around his charitable acts.
Stray Kids’ global fanbase, known as STAY, has a long history of organizing its own charity drives and donation campaigns in the group’s honor, and similar grassroots efforts have followed past announcements involving Lee Know and his bandmates.
Korean entertainment outlets have also noted that Lee Know’s giving tends to be need-driven rather than calendar-driven — timed to unfolding crises like the Nepal floods rather than confined to birthdays or anniversaries, even though he has made birthday donations in the past as well.
In Conclusion :
For now, attention in Nepal remains focused on the ongoing search-and-rescue effort, with barrier lakes near the disaster site still being closely monitored and thousands of families displaced or awaiting news of missing loved ones.
Aid organizations like World Vision have indicated that the coming weeks will be critical for stabilizing access to food, clean water, and shelter for survivors — the exact areas Lee Know’s donation was designed to support.
As recovery efforts continue, further waves of both institutional aid and individual contributions, including from other public figures, are expected to follow.
How to Help: Where to Donate to Nepal Flood Relief
If Lee Know’s donation has inspired you to contribute, here are established humanitarian organizations currently responding on the ground in Nepal:
- World Vision — the same organization Lee Know donated to, distributing food, safe drinking water, and emergency shelter kits.
- Nepal Red Cross Society / IFRC — delivering clean water, shelter, first aid, and emergency supplies through the world’s largest humanitarian network.
- UNICEF USA — focused on children and families, providing emergency health services, nutrition, safe water, and child protection.
- GlobalGiving Nepal Flood Relief Fund — flexible funding for local organizations covering search and rescue, medical care, shelter, food, and clean water.
- World Central Kitchen — providing meals to displaced and affected communities through local restaurant partners.
Tip: Give directly through an organization’s official website rather than through unsolicited links, social media posts, or crowdfunding pages you can’t independently verify.
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