On November 28, the four-day long KAIST Local Area Network (better known as LAN) Cable Escape club cultural festival began. The festival consisted of numerous performances and events organized for the students by the KAIST Undergraduate Club Union.

The various contents of the festival were evenly distributed over the four days. There were performances by clubs on each day and a wide range of events, such as exhibitions and club booths, arranged on designated days. Furthermore, two special events were added to the festival: Club Fuze Lounge Club and a talk concert given by singing group SGWannabe’s Jinho Kim. Overall, the festival was popular among the students, but due to the rain and snow, the number of participants was limited.

This is the first time in five years that the club cultural festival has been organized once again. According to the Undergraduate Club Union, this revival of the festival was an attempt to reverse the currently diminishing role of clubs in events at KAIST. Until several years ago, most of the KAIST cultural events were managed by the Undergraduate Student Council and the Undergraduate Club Union. However, over the years, the responsibilities have shifted away from the student clubs to different organizations. For example, the KAIST Spring Festival, the KAIST-POSTECH Science War, KAIST Arts and Music Festival, and various other events this year were mainly organized by the Student Affairs Team  and non-KAIST organizations such as ENJOYment HOWL. Therefore, in order to partially recover the club-oriented KAIST community and to encourage interaction between clubs and students, the LAN Cable Escape club cultural festival was arranged.

The planning process for the club cultural festival started in July. The planning team was created and various research was done on past club festivals. Also, some of the previous organizers contributed to the festival by providing numerous advice and suggesting some improvements to be made based on their experiences. Furthermore, registrations were taken from clubs that wished to partake in the festival, and in order to increase student participation, stamp books were incorporated into the festival – each booth students visited provided a stamp and students with the entire stamp collection won prizes.