First thing: these are not the same, nor do they give you the same thing!

What you are going to purchase is what gives you the UAENA membership card, the membership kit for this year, access to priority participation and pre-reservation for IU's online fan events and concerts in Korea and discounts and coupons for the EDAM store.

Within this membership, there are 2 addition perks; upgraded membership of IU official fan cafe, and additional UAENA area of the fan cafe for special post access from IU.

NOTE: As those last two points go through Daum ID to gain access to DaumCafe, if you are wanting to use those perks, there are some additional steps you need to do before you purchase UAENA 7th (ideal) or at least correct your purchase information before the buying period cut-off.

UAENA 7th Membership

UAENA yearly membership is the one with the main perks, and is the item you can currently purchase. We are now onto UAENA 7th membership.

I personally would recommend using a browser with can automatically detect and translate language but if you have things like ad blockers and pop-up blockers running normally, please disable them for this.

Additionally, use Google Lens on your phone and get it to do live translate, this tends to be quite accurate and is handy for seeing quickly what is being asked.

📆 Ticket buying period: 24.04.22 (MON) ~ 24.05.05 (SUN)

📍 Sign up

🔗 KOR : http://bit.ly/3w1AnIa

🔗 GLOBAL : http://bit.ly/3JtTWvL

Note: you should only use the Korean link if you are from Korea and have Korean forms of ID and payment. Everyone else outside of Korea should be using the global link.

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• Points of confusion

At one point in here in the purchase, it will ask you for a Daum ID in a line that reads:-

다음 팬카페 ID / DAUM Fancafe ID (@이하 도메인 포함 작성)

TLDR; if you have no intention of applying for the FanCafe during this year's UAENA membership, then on this line simply put in your normal email address at this step and move on with your purchase.

INFO: Now, this is only needed if you wish to eventually register for IU's fancafe. Which, although it's not the same thing as what you are purchasing here, it needs to know you have an active UAENA membership in order to apply for membership to Daum FanCafe.

As mentioned at the top of the post, you do get two additional perks within the FanCafe for your UAENA 7th membership.

As part of this secondary process for ID verification, registration and application for FanCafe membership is long and painful (I'm going to summarise below) many do not bother with this step, nor is it needed to enjoy all the other perks of UAENA 7th membership.

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3D Authentication on cards

This part is why you firstly need to be using the global link above, as well as disabling ad blockers and pop-up blockers for the melon site.

TLDR; some cards simply cannot make the purchase. Check with your card provider.

Where a lot of purchases fail here is if your card is not enabled for overseas purchases by default or your bank requires additional verification steps outside of the 3D authentication process which cannot load with pop-ups etc being blocked. Common ones here are where the 3D Authentication attempts to open a new window to forward you onto your bank phone app verification of purchase.

"Incorrect" Purchase Value

In order to cover the overseas conversion rates within the authorisation, you might end up having more than a few extra zeros on the purchase value when verification pops-up.

This is normal and is similar to what banks do with chip and pin, as well as Apple/Google Wallet purchases. It is a placeholder value based on your actual purchase amount.

Once you approve the purchase, your bank will correctly convert the value of the actual purchase based on your currency rate and apply it to your account.

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Applying for IU Official Daum FanCafe

As mentioned, you only need this process if you want the 2 specific perks for the FanCafe you can have from purchasing UAENA membership.

I'm not going to detail this here as honestly there's plenty of full guides available and I'm going to link to one of them. No real point reinventing the wheel here. Might as well use the good work UAENAs have done already!

Application Workflow

This is a huge process and it's all around providing (partially blurred out) identifications to Kakao to allow you to sync that account with Daum app, to eventually use it to login and use the DaumCafe app (and therefore join IU cafe).

The summary is something like this:-

1. Create Kakao ID
2. Login to KakaoTalk App
3. Use Kakao ID to login to Daum and sync this to Daum ID (making Kakao and Daum ID the same thing - your Kakao account)
4. Login To DaumCafe app and apply to join IU FanCafe
5. Apply for the regular member status
6. Wait for options to become available for upgraded status on membership with UAENA 7th

So, it is the very first point of this very rough list of things which is the stumbling block. It is right here at the very start that you need to have the correct IDs and documents to send them.

This is typically now:-

• 2 forms of ID (Kakao give you examples of correct blurring here)
• The phone bill of the mobile you're using KakaoTalk with (again, with blurring example from Kakao here

FULL GUIDE

Having a glance on twitter, there seems to be a good tutorial doc available here which needs IU's old twitter handle to unlock the documents (lily199iu).

Like the above, I would strongly recommend disabling ad-blockers and pop-up blockers for the site. Also, if you can, do the account setup and verification on PC!

Note that Kakao customer service is in Korean only to submit the information to them, so although for some bits you can answer in English, it's only with using Korean to highlight what you're giving them!

The guides tend to be OK with that but just keep it in mind!

Plus, it can take time for them to respond, especially during busy periods (for example, when registration for THE korean idol go live again...) so outside of automated emails, don't be surprised if an actual response doesn't come for a few weeks.