Korean Fandoms Exchange 2025 Rules & Info

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Hello, and welcome to Korean Fandoms Exchange, the multifandom exchange for all Korean fandoms! Let’s celebrate Korean literature, KDramas, films, RPF, video games, webtoons, mythology, and any other Korean or Korean diaspora fandom!

Quick Links:

2025 Collection | Tag Set | Sign-ups | Evidence post | Fandom Promo Post | DW Comm

Schedule

Nominations Open: September 21, 11:59 PM
Nominations Close: October 4, 11:59 PM
Signups Open: October 5, 11:59 PM
Signups Close: October 12, 11:59 PM
Assignments Out By: October 14, 11:59 PM
Works Due: November 16, 11:59 PM - deadline countdown
Works Revealed: November 23, 11:59 PM -> November 30, 11:59 PM
Creators Revealed: November 30, 11:59 PM -> December 7, 11:59 PM

*all due dates/reveals are in US Pacific Time unless otherwise noted

The Premise

What's special about this exchange? This is a multifandom exchange for all Korean fandoms. This includes literature, KDramas, films, RPF, video games, webtoons, mythology, folklore, history, and any other Korean fandom.

Fandom Eligibility

• Nominated fandoms should be Korean. Generally, this will mean some combination of being created in the Korean language, for a Korean audience, by Korean creators, engaging with Korean culture or history.
• Canons that are adaptations and reimaginings should be Korean. Korean creative adaptations/reimaginings of non-Korean works, if famous/unique in their own right, are eligible. Non-Korean adaptations/reimaginings of Korean source material will not be accepted. So, Oldboy 올드보이 (2003), a Korean film adaptation and reimagining of a Japanese Manga, is eligible; but Oldboy (2013), an American remake of the Korean film that does not involve Korean creators and does not have Korean culture, language, or people as its contents, is not eligible.
• RPF nominations have extra restrictions:
  • Characters nominated for RPF should be adult Koreans or members of Korean groups. They should be known for their activity in the Korean media, sports, culture, history, society, or similar, and must be aged 18+ by modern/international age reckoning as of 2025 January 1.
  • They must be famous in their own right. So, for example, they must not be famous primarily for being related to someone famous, or primarily for being the subject of a harassment campaign.
  • No nominations of modern (alive post-1900) dictators, violent criminals, or war criminals will be accepted.
  • Sufficiently distasteful or offensive RPF nominations may be rejected subject to mod discretion.
• All fandoms in a crossover must be individually eligible.
• If your fandom might be an edge case, please comment on the evidence post or current nomination/clarifications post with the details.
• Our definition of "Korean" is inclusive of Koreans in all countries.

What are the requirements for participating?

You must have an Ao3 account and be at least 18 years old to participate. When you sign up, you are committing to creating a fanfic of 1,000+ words or a complete piece of fanart for your recipient during the creation period.

Nominations:

During the nominations period, you will be able to submit your nominations to the tag set. Each participant can nominate up to 8 fandoms with a maximum of 8 relationships for each fandom. Relationships and characters should be disambiguated by fandom for clarity. Single characters should be nominated as “Solo: Character Name” in the Relationships field. Romantic relationships should be indicated with a / and platonic ones with a &.

Example nominations:

• Fandom: KPop Demon Hunters (2025)
  Relationships: Mira/Rumi/Zoey (KPDH), Jinu & Rumi (KPDH), Solo: Rumi (KPDH)

• Fandom: BLACKPINK (Band)
  Relationships: Jennie Kim/Lalisa Manoban | Lisa (BLACKPINK), Kim Jisoo/Park Chaeyoung | Rosé (BLACKPINK)


• Fandom: 더 게이머 | The Gamer (Webcomic)
  Relationships: Solo: Han Jihan (The Gamer), Han Jihan/Shin Seonil (The Gamer)

Sign-Ups:

Your sign-up must request at least three different fandoms up to a maximum of ten. Fandoms must be unique, i.e. if you have ten requests they must be for ten different fandoms. There are two freeform tags used to specify medium preferences: Medium Opt-In: Fic, and Medium Opt-In: Art. You must select at least one medium, but you can select both if you are happy to receive either art or fic. You must select at least one pairing or ‘Any Relationship’ per request. You may sign up with a maximum of one well-behaved sock; please ensure that your sock is not matchable to your main account.

Please be courteous to other participants. We will not entertain asshole behavior.

DNWs must be listed in the Optional Details text box to be enforced—we cannot enforce DNWs that are only listed in an external letter.

In your sign-up, you should offer at least four unique fandoms. They can be the same fandoms as those you request. Before the end of the sign-up period, please check to make sure that you are matchable. It's fine if no one is offering the fandoms you're requesting (we'll take care of that with a pinch hit if necessary), but you should make sure that your offers are matchable to at least one person so that you have something to create.

Crossovers are considered unique fandoms if they share no fandoms with any other fandoms in your offer or request.

Matching:

This exchange uses OR matching. Your assignment only needs to include one of your recipient’s fandoms and one of their relationships. Recipients can mention additional pairings in their optional details besides those in the tag set, but inclusion of these pairings will not be enforced.

If there is anyone you do not want to be matched to, please contact the mods via Dreamwidth or email at koreanfandomsmod@gmail.com and let us know their username and how you’d like us to handle it if they ask to pick up your pinch hit or write you a treat.

Assignments:

You must complete a story of at least 1,000 words OR 1 finished art piece minimum.

Your assignment should be in a requested fandom and include at least one requested relationship/character. It should also be in one of your recipient's requested mediums (i.e., if your recipient only requested fic, you cannot fill their request with art). You only have to submit one assignment based on one of your recipient's requests, not all of them! You are not required to fill the request that you matched on if another one of their requests catches your eye. For example, it's fine if you match on your recipient's request for Genghis Khan - Miike Snow (Music Video) but decide you'd rather go with their Tetris (Video Games) prompt.

You are not required to follow the recipient’s exact suggestions or prompts, but you should respect your recipient’s DNWs. Please don't submit spitefic, we know it when we see it.

Art pieces should be finished and of a quality that you would be happy to receive yourself. Scanned traditional art should be on unlined paper with a clean background.

The use of LLM or other AI tools to generate works is not allowed.

Please remain anonymous until creator reveals. Please refrain from discussing which work you created, placing your work in a personal series/collection with other, revealed works, or including other identifying information while works are anonymous. You are free to do this after creator reveals!

Treats:

Treats do not need to meet the minimum length requirements, but should feature a requested medium, fandom and relationship (unless the recipient has stated it's fine to do otherwise). Please follow the recipient's DNWs.

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Please feel free to contact the mods via Dreamwidth or email at koreanfandomsmod@gmail.com if you have any questions about your assignment.