International Creative Flea Market with APU students

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By BoRo Dolgorjav (The Fountain staff)
November 20, 2018

“What is Apple, after all? Apple is about people who think 'outside the box,' people who want to use computers to help them change the world” Steve Jobs said.


APU students participated in Creative Flea Market event in Nov.18 in a car park of Teramasu hot spring. This event is to support APU students to turn their ideas into reality.

This is the first event with the Beppu City Office and local onsen Teramasu to create international and creative flea market.

APU Tourism & Hospitality Association (ATHA) has received a request from Beppu City Office at the end of the September to collaborate with their flea market event by inviting some international vendors.



In the Creative Flea Market were 7 vendors from APU, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Vietnam, and Japan. They were around 12 people, staffs and photographers to organize well.

ATHA have postulated this assumption based on the facts that even though Professor Lee Geun Hee has been holding flea market events for several times with a lot of promotions by his Facebook page Beppu Story, it hasn't been very successful.

ATHA Student staff NaYun Sung says “At the end, it turned out to be a slight failure. We learned lots of things from this event”.

As they realized that the Japanese were not familiar with flea market events. Especially, in the Thai massage, there were no customers at all. They assume that Japanese people are not used to getting massaged in public area.  


Although they failed at putting prices for each stuff and they couldn't prepare many gadgets for each vendor since they should have covered all of the expenditure by president’s expense, they want to solve these problems next time to change their ideas into reality.

“In our daily life, we are trying to think ‘outside the box’ to change our own world,” Na Yun Sung said.

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