ium: EX Market

IUM is a leading brand in Social Dating Service industry in Korea. IUM has been researching love relationships and discovered an interesting fact. According to research, most of the respondents answered that they kept them for no reason, however they do not use them either. This meant people who had broken up were stuck with their past.Idea :Ex-Market, where we sell off Gifts from Exes. IUM planned Ex-Market where people can get rid of old memories by selling off gifts from Exes to others. Sellers wrote down prices and their stories on tags,
and hung the products with red thread, a representative of past relationships.
When the shoppers appeared, sellers cut the thread and sold the products off.
And then, sellers were completely able to break off relations with the past.
At the end, we had a special ceremony. People burnt the letters and pictures
that still remained. The tags were used as tickets for the exclusive club party.
Agency:Daehong Seoul


Results: x-Market offered a new cultural trend to the broken up lovers. People who broke up were able to completely break off relationship with the past. And they had second chances to start new relationships. Ex-Market became a big issue on online media. Of course, IUM’s users increased dramatically..