Stan/Fan culture in a nutshell
Us, K-pop fans love celebrating the small and big achievements. That’s why when there’s a milestone or a birthday of a group/member that we love, we will be lining up outside café’s door’s, getting ready to have a fun day filled with multiple activities like; Drinking tasty drinks, ordering sweets, trading our idol’s photocards with each other and lastly enjoying our freebies that we give each other!
Connecting
Gathering to enjoy the event together gives us (fans) a great opportunity to connect with each other and also express our love together for the groups we love. The limited edition freebies and actual cupsleeve are one of my favourite parts because I collect them and whenever I look at them I get reminded of a precious memory of the day 😊
My involvement
Since I’m a member of the K-ea team, I usually get the fun opportunity to take part/plan the promotional activities for the cupsleeve events. Since joining K-ea I have had to learn many popular dances which was always fun. Not having to do it alone was also comforting, because I’m not a great dancer. However, the TikTok’s and reels that we make always end up making me smile. My favourite part is serving the Bubble Tea after serving while dancing Hahaha
K-ea Family
Since almost everyone who works in K-ea is a K-pop fan, it’s usually pretty easy to know what we will be celebrating months ahead. One of my favourite cupsleeve events that we did recently was for Ateez. One of my favourite groups alongside BTS. There were so many good vibes and energy during that event.
Freebies
Freebies are free (usually) fan-made merchandise and collectables that you get to keep from such an event. I especially love this because K-pop fans are so talented and put so much passion & effort in the gifts they make. It reminds me of when we held a cupsleeve event for Jungkook’s birthday and one of the co-hosts made a whole beautiful cake of him. Jimin’s cookies were delicious during his birthday cupsleeve celebration. All of these makes it so much more unique.
So..
I’m very happy to be event a small part in making someone’s day during such an event, Cupsleeve events bring us all together and let us forget about our daily boring responsibilities even for just a couple of hours 😊
