Golden Child: 2018 Season's Greetings Review

I am so happy that Golden Child is releasing a calendar set for 2018 despite only debuting on August 28th. Golden Child even held a V Live entitled Golden Child's Golden Shopping, where they acted as a home shopping channel to model and perform their own unboxing of their calendar set. Sadly with the sudden news of Jaeseok leaving Golden Child and the entertainment industry as of January 6th, this is the last official merchandise with Jaeseok included as OT11.

Golden Child's 2018 Season's Greetings set was released on December 18th. I ordered this item from Kpoptown for just under $63 USD on December 21st and it was shipped on the 28th. My package arrived on January 10th. It came in a makeshift box created by 2 cardboard boxes with packaging tape on every inch of the box to make it waterproof. There was 1 layer of bubblewrap inside. Kpoptown labelled this package as a gift rather than merchandise. I discussed more of my experience ordering this item originally from Ktown4u and why I switched to Kpoptown here. 

The packaging of Golden Child's season's greetings is nothing like I have seen before. They call this a coin bank packaging, where the top has a slit for you to drop in loose change. It is a cardboard cylinder with a matte green paper label to decorate the exterior. The playful white designs are embossed with a glossy finish. This tube is 6.25 inches in diameter and 18.875 inches in height.

The back has Woollim's holographic sticker.

This is the underside of the top lid. There is a clear tape to cover of the coin slit. There is also a 1 inch dent, which you can see on the top left area.

There is a similar dent on the bottom lid, on the bottom left. Other than these 2 dents, the coin bank packaging is pretty sturdy and protected the goods well.

Here is the inside packaging. Each item is packaged in a clear wrap and there are 2 pieces of bubblewrap inside.

This season's greetings set comes with a wall calendar, a desk calendar, a set of photocards, and a slogan towel.

Here are the contents inside the coin bank packaging. The left is the wall calendar, the top right is the slogan towel, and the bottom right is the desk calendar. I only saw these and freaked out that I was jipped of the photocards, however they're combined inside the desk calendar.

The wall calendar is spiral-bound at the top with a wire for you to hang it. It is so huge! It is 16.625" by 23.5". I was worried that the wall calendar would be curled up, but it is actually pretty straight coming out of the tube. It is a bit curled especially at the bottom, but it isn't too noticeable once you hang it on the wall. However if you choose to hang the calendar facing the backside, then the curled end becomes more noticeable, which you can see in my photos below.

Here is the back of the wall calendar. There is an outer translucent cover with the dark red outlines in both the front and the back. The following green pages have the white text and white outlines; these 2 pages are made of higher quality waterproof paper.

Including the green pages, there are a total of 14 pages double-sided, or 28 pages total. Above is the first page after the green page. There are 2 photoshoots used for this season's greetings. I call the above the colorful photoshoot, and the other one the neutral photoshoot.

There is 1 member per month for January through November, and each month fits on 1 double-sided page. The first page for each month uses a photo from the colorful photoshoot, while the backside uses a photo from the neutral photoshoot. Seungmin looks so adorable!

Here is the backside of May.

I love the details they put into this photoshoot. Jaehyun's socks are labelled "left" and "right"!

The days of each month are spewed in a line at the bottom of each page. The calendar highlights Korea's national holidays. Sundays are circled in green. Special Golden Child holidays, such as birthdays and the group's first anniversary, are filled in pink.

December contains OT11. While this photo looks similar to the first one, it's not. I verify that all photos in this entire season's greetings are used only once.

This is the backside of December. Donghyun is so cute sitting on that toy car! I wish they had used a larger photo for this page, as there's so much white space wasted.

This is the backside of the last page of the calendar. It displays national holidays for China, the US, Japan, and Thailand.

There is also a disclaimer at the bottom in both Korean and English, claiming that these holidays may not be completely accurate. I only point this out because of the typo^^

The desk calendar comes with a matching paper holder, with dimensions 3" by 4.25" by 0.5".

Here are the contents of this paper holder. From left to right, there is a green title card, 12 monthly calendar cards, and 11 photocards.

The contents can be taken out and interchanged from the top of the paper holder. It's the perfect width for the 24 cards to fit.

The backside of the paper holder comes with a foldable stand.

It took me awhile to figure out the stand...but the key is to first fold the 2 vertical flaps, then fold down the 1 horizontal flap so that it locks into the 2 vertical flaps.

This is how the desk calendar looks like after completing the foldable stand. It creates a nice angle to view the calendar.

Here are the 13 desk calendar cards. The green card has a glossy, waterproof finish while the 12 monthly calendar cards have a matte finish. These calendar cards have circles and color codes for various dates, just like the wall calendar. The individual member photos are from the colorful photoshoot while the group photo is from the neutral photoshoot. I like that the designated member for each month for the wall calendar is different than the member for the desk calendar, except for Daeyeol who has November for both calendars.

Here is the backside of the desk calendar cards. The individual member photos are from the neutral photoshoot while the group photo is from the colorful photoshoot.

January is Jibeom's month^^ Here you can see the desk calendar is a much more practical design for the calendar functionality. Of course, who actually buys a Season's Greetings set for the actual calendar functionality anyways...

This set also includes a set of 11 festive photocards, one per member. The front side has a photo of each member dressed in Santa attire for the holiday season. The cards are the same dimensions as the desk calendar cards. The cards came in this order, left to right and top to bottom from Y to Donghyun.

The backside of the photocards has a printed autograph and message. These cards have a smooth, glossy finish that makes the cards waterproof, which you can see with the light reflecting off of the cards.

Lastly, there is also a slogan towel made of microfiber with dimensions 2' 7" by 7.75". One side has "Golden Child" printed on it using their signature font. The background has the playful designs matching the exterior packaging.

The other side of the slogan towel has a cute group image of OT11 from the neutral photoshoot.

Overall, I love this season's greetings. Though I am much more a fan of desk calendars than wall calendars, I love the youthful and playful concept of this season's greetings that matches so well with Golden Child.