For anyone who just had a birthday party, how was it going?
I’m sure that no matter how epic yours was, it’s definitely nothing compared to these
birthday celebrations some fandoms made for their idols.
To some fans, idols’ birthdays are more important than their own birthdays. It’s
like Christmas to them. Everything would be planned for months and very well-prepared.
Of all birthday celebrations fans ever made for idols, I have collected 6 ones that are
the biggest ever in Kpop history, and I’m gonna show you how epic they were.
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1. V ARMY is always one of the fandoms famous for
the massiveness in every project they organize. Recently, V’s fansites surprised many people
with the monumental project carried out to celebrate his birthday.
In addition to charitable donations, ARMY also surprised many people by hiring giant
billboards to celebrate V's birthday. Specifically, on December 12, 2019, V's biggest
fansite in China called KIM TAE HYUNG bar revealed the 12th part of the VIONYUS project
called Life is Beauty to celebrate his birthday. This time, ARMY helped V become the first
Kpop idol ever to be shown on the digital sail screen in Gae Aulenti Square in Milan.
The reason ARMY chose this place to hold the birthday project is because V always has a
passion for art and photography. So, Milan is a perfect place because this is Italy's
2nd most popular city and is famous for highly sophisticated architecture, fashion and art.
There was another outstanding project in the chain of activities to celebrate the 24th
birthday of V – The Purple V Zone. Specifically, China Baidu Vbar contacted the local government
of Seoul to cooperate to create a purple zone for V at Seoul Christmas Festival 2019, knowing
that purple is V’s favorite color.
And yet, this fanbase continued to make the Kpop community overwhelmed by their enthusiasm
and meticulousness when choosing one of the Seven Wonders of the World – The Great Wall
as a place to hold the celebration. This spectacular event is called Starry Starry Night.
The "Starry Starry Night" was a light show featuring 200 drones and 100 Kongming lanterns
released. The drones arranged in sparkling images of V, his name in Chinese and Korean,
a birthday cake with the number 25, and a Capricorn constellation which is V’s zodiac
sign.
Were you there to witness this one-of-a-kind light show? If you were, many people are very
jealous right now.
2. Jungkook September 1, 2020 was the 24-year-old birthday
(in Korean age) of Jeon Jungkook - who is called the "golden maknae" of not only BTS
but also of the whole Kpop world. Jungkook's fandom in particular and BTS’
fandom in general from all over the world, have had an extremely spectacular birthday
celebration for him. The plan was prepared several months ago with huge donations.
You will be shocked to know that the plan included hundreds of small projects which
were elaborated and prepared separately. Most of them are projects that promote Jungkook’s
image, and there were also a large number of charity projects under the name of Jungkook.
Before and during Jungkook’s birthday, in many cities of Korea, China, Japan, Thailand,
Italy, etc. His image appeared everywhere, from the subway station, highways, buildings,
giant wheel in Dalian city, China. More impressively, an epic fireworks display
was held at Haeundae Beach in Busan, the homecity of Jungkook.
Fandom in America even took things to the next level when designing a word display in
the sky of New York city called “Love Letter In The Sky”.
Thanks to this project, Jungkook became the first Korean artist ever to celebrate his
birthday using Skytyping technology. Specifically, there were 5 planes flying in the New York
sky, making the best wishes to Jungkook with the witness of the Statue of Liberty and a
lot of New Yorkers. So, congratulations to anyone who was in New
York during the display, you guys were so lucky.
But, when you thought things couldn’t get any more epic, there was more. In London,
a giant 3D image of Jungkook's name was projected near the Tower Bridge; and in Paris, Jungkook's
happy birthday picture was shown at the Eiffel Tower.
Meanwhile in Singapore, through WWF, Jungkook’s fans adopted a dwarf rabbit and donated a
lot of rabbit food and supplies to Bunny Wonderland. The reason their activities were related to
rabbits is because rabbit is Jungkook’s spirit animal, since he’s famous for his
lovely rabbit teeth. This fandom also donates a lot of supplies
for an elementary school, providing food for 44,600 people in need, donating to 384 elderly
people in nursing homes, all under the name of Jungkook. Wow, that’s what fans can do
for their idols.
3. Jaemin At this point, we can say idols’ birthday
projects are a measure of fandoms’ potential and affordability. Recently, on Jaemin's birthday
August 13, 2020, his fans made many people drop their jaws because of the incomparable
idea they got for their idol’s birthday. This can be considered the most impressive
idol birthday project in Kpop so far. On July 18, Jaemin's Chinese fansite, JAEMINbar,
shared the "Stay Gold" project they were going to do for Jaemin in August. Accordingly, on
Jaemin's birthday, a satellite with a birthday wish to the male idol would be orbiting the
Earth within 90 minutes. In addition, there was a Morse code that conveyed
Jaemin's happy birthday message being displayed in the sky of Seoul for about 2 minutes and
could be seen by anyone in Seoul. It seems like NCTzens are very fond of astronomy
when earlier, they even bought and named a star after NCT to celebrate the group’s
debut day. So, after the JAEMINbar's project, a fever was created within the NCT fandom,
quickly stirred up almost all online forums in Korea. Netizens everywhere have expressed
their admiration for NCTzen's investment on idols, and praised them for how smart and
creative they are.
4. Sehun Up to now, EXO-Ls are always famous in the
KPOP fan community for their unique ideas for celebrating idols’ birthdays.
The "huge" projects that Sehun’s fan sites performed on the 27th birthday of EXO's maknae
made many KPOP fans jealous of the enormous investment.
In the past, do you remember Sehun's 26th birthday project from Ohsehunbar? This fansite
had rented a plane to bring Sehun’s image around the world. This time, Ohsehunbar took
it further, they turned a whole amusement park in the “Sehuniverse park”, with Sehun
himself as the main theme. All of his images and videos were featured all over the park,
including entrance ticket designs, ferris wheel, giant LED screen up to 46m in diameter
and 22 cable cars decorated inside and out, all related to Sehun’s image.
This makes Sehun became the first Kpop idol ever to have a theme park.
Previously, this fansite had a lot of other activities to celebrate Sehun's birthday such
as placing ads in the subway, getting Sehun to appear in The New York Times, etc.
Indeed, Chinese fans have never let people down in their willingness to spend money on
idols. Projects made by Chinese fans are always praised and appreciated by K-netizens for
their meticulousness, extraordinary and great investment.
5. Jimin On Jimin's 24th birthday, his fanbase has
carried out a global birthday project with the goal of turning October into "Jimin's
month". Fate – Jimin’s fansite announced to feature
a birthday promotion video of the male idol at Times Square, New York for 7 days from
October 9 to October 15. Meanwhile in Philippines, his fans planned
to operate more than 50 aerial cameras with the soundtrack of Jimin’s solo song Serendipity
and his self-composed song Promise at Eton Centris Walk located in the capital Manila
on October 11. Fandom Jimin Bar China also planned to hold
a large-scale event by sending a video promoting Jimin's birthday to all CGV cinemas - Korea's
largest entertainment chain - across the country. The video was shown on about 800 large screens
in 167 cinemas from October 7 to October 13. This was the first time an artist's birthday
video was played on the big screen before the movie was shown.
In addition, a subway named "Jimin’s birthday train" was decorated with the image of the
male idol that would operate from October 3 to November 2. Not over yet, fans also provided
special Jimin theme boarding passes to 250,000 passengers of Eastar Jet's international flights
in October and November. Notably, Jimin’s fans from all over the
world also carried out many philanthropy activities like growing forests, building schools, helping
cancer patients and children in need, and even adopting an emperor penguin, which is
Jimin’s spirit animal.
6. Jin While other idols got their literal big birthday
celebrations, Jin had a… figurative big one.
Despite taking on the visual position in the group, Jin doesn't seem to pay much attention
to fulfilling his role well, instead, he always makes fans laugh their lungs out thanks to
his fun personality and gifted humor. So when celebrating Jin’s birthday, ARMY
and Big Hit are determined not to disappoint him.
The admin of BTS' official Twitter account had done some serious editing work, using
only Jin’s face wearing a pair of round glasses, duplicating it multiple times and
then set his work as the profile pic and cover photo, making fans startled a bit when visiting
the page. After being influenced with such a genius
idea, ARMY also proved their editing skills. Jin is really savage, and so are his fans.
Who isn’t happy to have a fan base that cares about their idols in such a unique way?
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