The doljabi takes one minute.
Every guest films it.
The parents have spent weeks on the hanbok, the dol table with its stacked rice cakes and fruit, and the restaurant room that had to be booked in advance. Then the baby is set down in front of the doljabi objects and the whole room goes quiet with phones up. The thread, the money, the pencil, the microphone: the choice takes a minute and thirty people record it from thirty angles. One QR code on the dol table puts all of those in one gallery, and streams the pick to the grandparents in Korea.
The moments guests actually photograph at doljanchi celebrations
Why doljanchi celebrations work better on Picsui
Written for the person hosting this one, and checked against what the product actually does.
Thirty angles on a one-minute moment
The doljabi cannot be repeated. If the parents' phone was pointed at the wrong object when the baby reached for the stethoscope, the version a cousin filmed from the side is the one that survives. Video uploads sit in the same gallery as the photos, so every angle of that minute ends up in one place.
Grandparents in Korea, watching the pick
A Saturday lunch doljanchi in Los Angeles is Sunday morning in Seoul, which is a fine hour for a grandparent to sit in front of a phone. Live Pass streams the doljabi and the speeches on a private link with audio, so they see the choice as it happens rather than reading the result in a message hours later.
A first-year slideshow that keeps growing
Most restaurants used for a dol have a screen, and the parents usually bring a loop of the baby's first twelve months. Put the live gallery on it too and guests' photos from the last hour appear between the ones from the hospital, which is a better story and gets the second half of the room uploading.
No app. No account. One scan.
Guests point their camera at a QR code and are uploading in seconds. Nobody installs anything, nobody creates a login, and the grandparents can do it as easily as the teenagers.
Broadcast it to the people who couldn't come
Live Pass is a standalone $39 one-time add-on: stream up to 90 minutes to 100 viewers on a private link, with audio. Family abroad watch on any phone, no app required.
Live photo wall on any screen
Open the slideshow on a TV, projector or laptop and new uploads appear as they arrive. Grid and collage layouts, transition presets, and a phone remote to control it from across the room.
Private by default, never indexed
The gallery is only reachable by the link or code you share. Guest pages are blocked from search engines and named AI crawlers, and you can close the gallery whenever you choose.
Full-resolution downloads
Download any photo, or the whole event as one archive, at original quality. What guests uploaded is what you keep — no compression, no watermark on paid events.
Video messages, recorded on the spot
A 30-second video toast recorded in the browser, no editing, no re-uploading. The guest who would never write in a book will happily talk to a phone.
How it works
Set up in a minute. Collect for the whole event.
Create the event when the restaurant is booked, and name it with the baby's name and the dol date.
Print the QR code on a small card for the dol table and one for each guest table, next to the rice cakes and the favor boxes.
Ask the emcee to mention the code before the doljabi countdown. Guests upload the video they just took while the baby is still holding the object.
Send the gallery to family in Korea that evening and download the full archive before the 365 days on an Event Pass run out.
Try uploading as a guest.
Scan this with your phone the way a guest at your event would. Choose a sample photo and upload it from your browser, then open the demo gallery to see it land.
- Scan the code with your phone camera — it opens straight in the browser.
- Upload a sample photo. Look for the upload confirmation so you know it reached the host.
Use a sample you are comfortable sharing with Picsui. Please keep personal or sensitive photos out of the demo.
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This is the same kind of code your guests scan at your event.
Getting the most from doljanchi celebrations
Get the code in front of people before the doljabi, not after. Once the baby picks and the room cheers, everyone turns to the buffet, and the videos stay on the phones that took them. Have the emcee, or whoever is running the countdown, hold up the card and say "Scan this, then film" so guests already have the upload page open in one browser tab while they record in the camera. Uploading takes them fifteen seconds while the baby is still being congratulated, and you will get the pick from every seat instead of only the front row.
Give the family formal photo its own moment on the guest page. The parents in hanbok with the baby in front of the dol table is the photo that gets framed, and at a busy restaurant there is often no photographer, only the person the parents handed their phone to. Ask three guests at different tables to take the same shot and upload it; one of them will have everyone's eyes open. Full-resolution originals mean the grandparents can print the one they like at any size without asking for the file.
Send the gallery link to Korea the same day and to the whole guest list within a week, before the group chat fills with compressed forwards. Relatives abroad open the link on a phone without an account, in full quality, with the doljabi videos included. Keep it private and unlisted, which it is by default, and download the complete archive before the hosting period ends so the doljabi video is on a drive of your own alongside the hanbok photos and the growth chart. The object the baby chose becomes a family story told for years; make sure the video that proves it is somewhere you can find.
Common questions about doljanchi celebrations
Can my parents in Korea watch the doljabi live?
Yes. Live Pass is a $39 one-time add-on that streams the event on a private link for up to 90 minutes to as many as 100 viewers, with audio, so they hear the countdown and the cheer. Most doljanchi happen at a weekend lunch, which lands on a weekend morning in Korea, a good time for grandparents to watch. One guest holds a phone from the front of the room. Nobody watching needs an app or an account, only the link you send them.
Guests will film the doljabi anyway. Why do I need this?
Because those videos stay on thirty phones unless someone collects them, and by the time you ask, the good ones have been deleted to make space. A QR code on the dol table gives every guest a place to put their video in the minute after they take it, into one gallery the parents own, at original quality rather than compressed through a chat app. Photos of the hanbok, the dol table and the rice cakes come the same way. What you keep is the whole room's view of the day, not the one phone you handed to a cousin.
Can we show the photos on the restaurant screen during the party?
Yes. Open the slideshow on a laptop or phone connected to the venue's screen and new uploads appear as guests send them, with a phone remote so a family member can control it from their seat. Many families bring a first-year slideshow already; the live gallery can run after it, so the photos from an hour ago appear alongside the hospital pictures. It needs a screen and an HDMI cable from the restaurant, which most rooms that host dol parties already have.
Who can see the photos of our baby?
Only people with the link or the code. The gallery is private by default, never indexed, and guest pages are blocked from search engines and AI crawlers. Family in Korea open it from a message without creating an account. If you want to see each photo before other guests can, turn on host review and uploads wait in your queue. The gallery stays live for 365 days on an Event Pass, and you can download everything at full resolution at any time before then.
How much does it cost for a restaurant dol with seventy guests?
An Event Pass is $29 one time, and it covers the whole party regardless of guest count: unlimited uploads with a 25 GB fair-use bound, video uploads, the live slideshow, full-resolution downloads and 365 days of hosting. There is no per-guest fee and no subscription to cancel afterward, and the price is the same for a small family dol at home. If you want the grandparents in Korea to watch live, Live Pass is a separate $39 one-time add-on.
Does the guest page work in Korean?
Not yet. The guest upload page is available in English, Español, Français, chosen from the guest's phone settings, so Korean-speaking grandparents will see it in English by default. In practice this matters less than it sounds, because the page is a scan and a button to choose photos, and a grandchild at the table shows them once. A line in Korean on the printed card next to the code covers the rest. The host dashboard is in English.
Every photo from doljanchi celebrations, in one place
One-time Event Pass, $29. No subscription, no per-guest fee.
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