There was a character birthday celebration prompt in the keyword mission so

today I’m celebrating Ho-young’s birthday, aka my ult fave and my main in MapleStory.

MapleStory doesn’t really give each character an official fixed birthday in the lore so

I decided to treat July 18, 2019, the day Ho-young was released, as Ho-young’s birthday

I was really thinking hard about what would be fun to do for a Ho-young birthday event

and since these days people do birthday cafes and subway birthday ads a lot for celeb birthday projects

I made some with Gemini.

Ho-young Birthday Event

[Ho-young Birthday Cafe]

The Ho-young birthday cafe opening on July 18, 2026

When you order from the cafe menu, they give out Ho-young cup sleeves, photo cards, and more for free, and this time the birthday cafe is doing something extra fun by selling 3 Ho-young collab menu items too, so please give them a try.

Also, if you leave a review of the Ho-young birthday cafe with a proof shot through the hashtag event

they’ll be giving out limited-edition Ho-young goods by raffle, so please join in lots.

[Ho-young Subway Birthday Ad]

A Ho-young birthday ad put up at a subway station for Ho-young’s birthday

They say you can see it if you go to OOO Station, so if you’re interested definitely go check it out.

The Gift I Want to Give

Since Ho-young likes gukbap, I’d want to buy him every kind of gukbap there is.

He’s officially a gukbap lover after all hehe