Talk:Fan rice

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I had initially nominated this page for deletion because of its misleading content, but since an unregistered user objected to it, I instead added a notability template. These are the page issues:

1. "Fan rice" isn't a commonly used English name. The page was created in 2012 and at the time, only this Time article used it.
2. "Ssal gibu", which merely means "rice donation" or "donating rice", isn't used to identify the subject of the opening photo, which is instead named "ssal hwahwan" (literally "rice flower wreath"/"flower wreath made of rice").
3. The practice of donating rice wreaths is not (only) a K-pop fans thing, but appears in various spheres of Korean society (anniversaries, weddings, gifts to political figures, etc.). However, Western sources frame it just as a K-pop fan quirk (see the above-mentioned Time article and this 2022 piece by Vice). Even the claim that "The first instance of fan-donated rice was at Shin Hye-sung's concert on 11 August 2007" is a bit weak, because the Korean articles are only talking about the Dreame brand ones.
4. It would be better if the page were moved to "rice wreath" and discussed in general the Korean cultural practice of sending bags of rice instead of flower wreaths to events; the problem is that even searching for "ssal hwahwan" in Korean doesn't yield anything other than links to purchase your own wreaths or articles about this or that rice donation, suggesting that this is not a topic of encyclopedic relevance. Even the five sources that survived after I removed the unreliable and unrelated ones are mostly mere news coverage.

For these reasons I propose to either delete the page or redirect it to the paragraph about fan culture in the Impact and popularity of K-pop page. Chiya^ko92 10:25, 15 December 2025 (UTC)