2026 KOOM Consumer Brand Day

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โ€‹๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ K-Brands Have the Attention. What Comes Next?

โ€‹K-Beauty and K-Food have no shortage of attention in the U.S. Consumers know the products, show up to pop-ups, and share what they like.

โ€‹The harder part comes after that.

โ€‹How do you get onto U.S. shelves? Who are the right buyers and distributors for your brand? And what do U.S. investors actually want to see?

โ€‹KOOM FESTIVAL brought more than 13,000 visitors together in New York and showed just how strong the demand for Korean consumer brands has become. This time, weโ€™re focusing on what comes next: distribution, partnerships, and investment.

โ€‹2026 KOOM Consumer Brand Day brings K-Beauty and F&B brands together with U.S. retailers, distributors, investors, and market-entry experts.

โ€‹Selected brands will pitch directly to U.S. investors, followed by topic-based group meetings and 1-on-1 business matching with potential partners.

โ€‹If youโ€™re thinking beyond getting your product noticed โ€” and starting to ask who will sell it, distribute it, invest in it, or grow with you in the U.S. โ€” this is for you.

โ€‹๐Ÿ’ก Who Should Attend

  • โ€‹K-Beauty and F&B brands preparing to enter or expand in the U.S.

  • โ€‹Founders looking to meet U.S. retail buyers and distributors

  • โ€‹Consumer brands preparing to raise from U.S. investors

  • โ€‹Retailers, distributors, investors, and industry partners looking for emerging Korean consumer brands

โ€‹๐ŸŽค Investor Panel

โ€‹Jooyoung Kim ยท Signite Partners
One of Koreaโ€™s first VCs to come from a professional design background, Jooyoung began her career as a fashion designer at Shinsegae International. She now invests in companies reshaping lifestyle and consumer experiences at Signite Partners.

โ€‹Shaun Noh ยท Goodthings
Co-founder and CEO of London-based venture builder Goodthings, Shaun specializes in startup investment, global scaling, and financial strategy. A former startup CFO and C-suite executive, he has led more than $100M in fundraising and brings hands-on experience in global e-commerce and market expansion.

โ€‹Grace Kim ยท Sazze Partners
Grace is an Investor at Silicon Valley-based Sazze Partners, investing in early-stage consumer and consumer-tech startups founded by Koreans. Before VC, she spent six years at AWS in New York working across partnership strategy and operations.

โ€‹โœจ Industry Leaders

โ€‹Allison Slater Ray ยท Breakthru Beauty
Co-founder of Breakthru Beauty, Allison brings over 25 years of experience across beauty, retail, wellness, and e-commerce. She previously led marketing at Sephora for more than a decade and served as SVP of Marketing at IT Cosmetics during a pivotal stage of its growth, helping position the brand ahead of its $1.2B acquisition by Lโ€™Orรฉal. She also served as President of Korean beauty incubator MBX.

โ€‹๐Ÿ›๏ธ Featured Brands

โ€‹CHร‰RIEXX
An emerging Korean color cosmetics brand recognized for its distinctive visual identity and signature Bullet lipstick collection. CHร‰RIEXX was selected as one of the final brands in Amazon Accelerator 2025 from approximately 200 applicants, demonstrating its potential as one of the next K-Beauty brands to watch in the global market.

โ€‹And many more promising K-brands are currently preparing to join, with additional brands to be announced soon.

โ€‹๐ŸŽค Program

โ€‹5:00โ€“5:30 PM | Registration & Opening Networking

โ€‹5:30โ€“5:40 PM | Opening & Guest Introduction

โ€‹5:40โ€“6:20 PM | Live IR Pitching
Selected consumer brands ยท 5-minute English Pitch + Investor Q&A

โ€‹6:20โ€“6:40 PM | Break

โ€‹6:40โ€“7:30 PM | Topic-Based Group Meetings
Logistics ยท Compliance ยท Distribution ยท Branding & Localization ยท Marketing ยท Investment

โ€‹7:30โ€“8:10 PM | 1-on-1 Blind Business Matching

โ€‹8:10โ€“9:30 PM | Free Networking & 1-on-1 Meetings

โ€‹The program schedule and session details are subject to change.

โ€‹๐Ÿ“ Event Details

โ€‹๐Ÿ“… Thursday, October 15, 2026 ยท 5:00โ€“9:30 PM EDT
๐Ÿ“ 1155 6th Ave, 22nd Floor, New York, NY 10036, USA

โ€‹โš ๏ธ A valid passport is required to enter the venue. Please bring your passport on the day of the event.


โ€‹โ€‹๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท K-๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ์˜ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ง„์ถœ, ์ด์ œ โ€˜๋ฐ”์ด๋Ÿดโ€™ ๋‹ค์Œ์„ ์ค€๋น„ํ•  ๋•Œ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค

โ€‹K-Beauty์™€ K-Food์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์†Œ๋น„์ž์˜ ๊ด€์‹ฌ์€ ๋” ์ด์ƒ ๋‚ฏ์„  ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ข‹์€ ์ œํ’ˆ์„ ๋“ค๊ณ  ๋‰ด์š•์— ์˜ค๋ฉด ์†Œ๋น„์ž๋“ค์ด ๋จผ์ € ์•Œ์•„๋ณด๊ณ , ํŒ์—… ์•ž์— ์ค„์ด ์ƒ๊ธฐ๊ณ , SNS์—์„œ ํ™”์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋˜๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€‹๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๋ฐ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ๊ฐ€ ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ํ‚ค์šฐ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋ฌธ์ œ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€‹ํ˜„์ง€ ์œ ํ†ต๋ง์— ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€๋ ค๋ฉด ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋‚˜์•ผ ํ• ๊นŒ์š”?
์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์ œํ’ˆ๊ณผ ๋งž๋Š” ๋ฐ”์ด์–ด์™€ ๋””์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆฌ๋ทฐํ„ฐ๋Š” ์–ด๋””์— ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”?
๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์‹œ์žฅ์„ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ํ‚ค์›Œ๊ฐˆ ํˆฌ์ž์ž์—๊ฒŒ๋Š” ๋ฌด์—‡์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค˜์•ผ ํ• ๊นŒ์š”?

โ€‹์ง€๋‚œ KOOM FESTIVAL์€ ๋‰ด์š•์—์„œ 13,000๋ช… ์ด์ƒ์˜ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ๊ฐ์„ ๋ชจ์œผ๋ฉฐ K-๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์†Œ๋น„์ž ๋ฐ˜์‘์„ ํ™•์ธํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฒˆ์—๋Š” ๊ทธ ๊ด€์‹ฌ์„ ์œ ํ†ต, ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์‹ญ, ํˆฌ์ž๋ผ๋Š” ๋‹ค์Œ ๋‹จ๊ณ„๋กœ ์ด์–ด๊ฐ‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€‹2026 KOOM Consumer Brand Day์—๋Š” K-BeautyยทF&B ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ์™€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ํ˜„์ง€ ๋ฆฌํ…Œ์ผ๋Ÿฌ, ๋””์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆฌ๋ทฐํ„ฐ, ํˆฌ์ž์ž ๋ฐ ์‹œ์žฅ ์ง„์ถœ ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€๋“ค์ด ํ•œ์ž๋ฆฌ์— ๋ชจ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€‹์„ ์ •๋œ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ์˜ ์˜๋ฌธ IR Pitching์„ ์‹œ์ž‘์œผ๋กœ, ๊ด€์‹ฌ ๋ถ„์•ผ๋ณ„ ๊ทธ๋ฃน ๋ฏธํŒ…๊ณผ 1:1 Business Matching์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•  ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ๋ฅผ ์ง์ ‘ ๋งŒ๋‚  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€‹์ข‹์€ ์ œํ’ˆ์„ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์— ์†Œ๊ฐœํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ์„œ ๊ทธ์น˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ , ๋ˆ„๊ฐ€ ์ด ์ œํ’ˆ์„ ํŒ”์•„์ค„์ง€, ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์‹œ์žฅ์„ ํ‚ค์šธ์ง€ ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด ์ด๋ฒˆ ์ž๋ฆฌ์— ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•˜์„ธ์š”.

โ€‹๐Ÿ’ก ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๋ถ„๊ป˜ ์ถ”์ฒœํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค

  • โ€‹๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์‹œ์žฅ ์ง„์ถœ์„ ์ค€๋น„ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ํ™•์žฅ ์ค‘์ธ K-Beauty ยท F&B ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ

  • โ€‹๋ฏธ๊ตญ ํ˜„์ง€ ๋ฐ”์ด์–ด ๋ฐ ๋””์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆฌ๋ทฐํ„ฐ์™€์˜ ์ ‘์ ์„ ์ฐพ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ

  • โ€‹๋ฏธ๊ตญ ํˆฌ์ž์ž๋ฅผ ๋Œ€์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ํˆฌ์ž ์œ ์น˜๋ฅผ ์ค€๋น„ํ•˜๋Š” ์†Œ๋น„์žฌ ๊ธฐ์—…

  • โ€‹์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด K-Beauty ยท K-Food ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ๋ฅผ ์ฐพ๋Š” ๋ฆฌํ…Œ์ผ๋Ÿฌ, ๋””์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆฌ๋ทฐํ„ฐ, ํˆฌ์ž์ž ๋ฐ ์—…๊ณ„ ๊ด€๊ณ„์ž

โ€‹๐ŸŽค Investor Panel

โ€‹๊น€์ฃผ์˜ ยท Signite Partners
๊ตญ๋‚ด 1ํ˜ธ ๋””์ž์ด๋„ˆ ์ถœ์‹  VC๋กœ, ์‹ ์„ธ๊ณ„์ธํ„ฐ๋‚ด์…”๋‚  ํŒจ์…˜๋””์ž์ด๋„ˆ๋กœ ์ปค๋ฆฌ์–ด๋ฅผ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜„์žฌ ์‹œ๊ทธ๋‚˜์ดํŠธํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์Šค์—์„œ ์†Œ๋น„์ž ๊ฒฝํ—˜๊ณผ ๋ผ์ดํ”„์Šคํƒ€์ผ์„ ํ˜์‹ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ธฐ์—…์„ ๋ฐœ๊ตดํ•˜๊ณ  ํˆฌ์žํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€‹๋…ธ์„ํ›ˆ ยท Goodthings
๋Ÿฐ๋˜ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ๋ฒค์ฒ˜ ๋นŒ๋” Goodthings์˜ ๊ณต๋™์ฐฝ์—…์ž์ด์ž CEO๋กœ, ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ์Šคํƒ€ํŠธ์—… ํˆฌ์ž์™€ ์Šค์ผ€์ผ์—…, ์žฌ๋ฌด ์ „๋žต์„ ์ „๋ฌธ์œผ๋กœ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์Šคํƒ€ํŠธ์—… CFO ๋ฐ C-Suite๋กœ ๋ˆ„์  1์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ด์ƒ์˜ ํˆฌ์ž ์œ ์น˜๋ฅผ ์ด๋Œ์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ์ด์ปค๋จธ์Šค ์‚ฌ์—… ๊ฒฝํ—˜๋„ ๋ณด์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€‹Grace Kim ยท Sazze Partners
์‹ค๋ฆฌ์ฝ˜๋ฐธ๋ฆฌ VC Sazze Partners์—์„œ ํ•œ๊ตญ์ธ ์ฐฝ์—…์ž๊ฐ€ ์„ค๋ฆฝํ•œ ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ConsumerยทConsumer Tech ์Šคํƒ€ํŠธ์—…์— ํˆฌ์žํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ „์—๋Š” AWS ๋‰ด์š•์—์„œ 6๋…„๊ฐ„ ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์‹ญ ์ „๋žต ๋ฐ ์šด์˜ ์—…๋ฌด๋ฅผ ๋‹ด๋‹นํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€‹โœจ Industry Leaders

โ€‹Allison Slater Ray ยท Breakthru Beauty
Breakthru Beauty ๊ณต๋™์ฐฝ์—…์ž๋กœ, ๋ทฐํ‹ฐยท๋ฆฌํ…Œ์ผยท์›ฐ๋‹ˆ์Šคยท์ด์ปค๋จธ์Šค ๋ถ„์•ผ์—์„œ 25๋…„ ์ด์ƒ์˜ ๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ์„ ๋ณด์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Sephora์—์„œ 10๋…„ ์ด์ƒ ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ…์„ ์ด๋Œ์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, IT Cosmetics์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์‹œ๊ธฐ์— ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ์ด๊ด„(SVP)์„ ๋งก์•„ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ์˜ ํฌ์ง€์…”๋‹๊ณผ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ์ฃผ๋„ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ดํ›„ Lโ€™Orรฉal์˜ 12์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ธ์ˆ˜๋กœ ์ด์–ด์ง€๋Š” ๊ณผ์ •์— ๊ธฐ์—ฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•œ๊ตญ ๋ทฐํ‹ฐ ์ธํ๋ฒ ์ดํ„ฐ MBX์˜ President๋ฅผ ์—ญ์ž„ํ•˜๊ธฐ๋„ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€‹๐Ÿ›๏ธ ์ฐธ์—ฌ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ

โ€‹CHร‰RIEXX
๋…์ฐฝ์ ์ธ ๋น„์ฃผ์–ผ ์•„์ด๋ดํ‹ฐํ‹ฐ์™€ The Bullet ๋ฆฝ ์ปฌ๋ ‰์…˜์œผ๋กœ ์ฃผ๋ชฉ๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ ์ƒ‰์กฐ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Amazon Accelerator 2025์—์„œ ์•ฝ 200๊ฐœ ์ง€์› ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ์ค‘ ํŒŒ์ด๋„ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ๋ผ์ธ์—…์— ์„ ์ •๋˜๋Š” ๋“ฑ, ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€‹์ด์™ธ์—๋„ ๋‹ค์ˆ˜์˜ ์œ ๋ง K-๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ๋“ค์ด ์ฐธ์—ฌ๋ฅผ ์ค€๋น„ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ์ฐธ์—ฌ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ๋Š” ์ˆœ์ฐจ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ณต๊ฐœ๋  ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€‹๐ŸŽค ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ

โ€‹17:00โ€“17:30 | Registration & Opening Networking

โ€‹17:30โ€“17:40 | Opening & Guest Introduction

โ€‹17:40โ€“18:20 | Live IR Pitching
์„ ์ • ๊ธฐ์—… 5๋ถ„ ์˜๋ฌธ Pitch + Investor Q&A

โ€‹18:20โ€“18:40 | Break

โ€‹18:40โ€“19:30 | Topic-Based Group Meetings
Logistics ยท Compliance ยท Distribution ยท Branding & Localization ยท Marketing ยท Investment

โ€‹19:30โ€“20:10 | 1:1 Blind Business Matching

โ€‹20:10โ€“21:30 | Free Networking & 1:1 Meetings

โ€‹์ƒ๊ธฐ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ ์ผ์ • ๋ฐ ์„ธ๋ถ€ ๋‚ด์šฉ์€ ์šด์˜ ์ƒํ™ฉ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๋ณ€๊ฒฝ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€‹๐Ÿ“ ํ–‰์‚ฌ ์ •๋ณด

โ€‹๐Ÿ“… 2026. 10. 15. Thu ยท 17:00โ€“21:30 EDT
๐Ÿ“ 1155 6th Ave, 22nd Floor, New York, NY 10036, USA

โ€‹โš ๏ธ ํ–‰์‚ฌ์žฅ ์ถœ์ž…์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ์—ฌ๊ถŒ ์ง€์ฐธ์ด ํ•„์ˆ˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ–‰์‚ฌ ๋‹น์ผ ๋ฐ˜๋“œ์‹œ ์œ ํšจํ•œ ์—ฌ๊ถŒ์„ ์ง€์ฐธํ•ด์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.

Location
1155 6th Ave
New York, NY 10036, USA