United Korean Founders (UKF) is a non-profit organization, and this festival is built entirely through 100% donations and the dedication of volunteers. This fall in New York City, KOOM Festival brings together Korean music, culture, food, brands, and inspiring voices of global leaders. More than just a concert, KOOM is a dynamic cultural, business, and lifestyle festival bridging Korean creativity with global passion. (*Korean below)
๐ถ Artist Lineup
A total of 15 artist teams will perform
๐ Artists will be announced leading up to the festival.
๐ฃ Global Speaker Lineup
KOOM will feature around 50 world-class speakersโpioneers, executives, and investors. Here are some of the names already confirmed:
- Hyuk Bin Kwon (Founder & CVO, Smilegate)
- Oh-Hyun Kwon (Former Chairman, Samsung Electronics; Chairman, Orange Planet)
- Seungkyu Lee (Founder, Pinkfong)
- Sung-Joo Kim (Chairwoman & CEO, MCM)
- Heekyung Cho (CEO, Hwayo Group)
- Bongjin Kim (Founder, Woowa Brothers / Baedal Minjok)
- Jun Koo Kim (Founder & Global CEO, Naver Webtoon)
- Sarah Lee & Christine Chang (Co-Founders, Glow Recipe)
- April Koh (Co-Founder & CEO, Spring Health)
- Taeho Kim (COO, HYBE & CEO, BELIFT LAB)
- Junghoon Song (Founder & CEO, Cupbop)
- Alexa von Tobel (Founder & Managing Partner, Inspired Capital)
- Hayley Barna (General Partner, First Round Capital)
๐ Many more global leaders will be unveiled in the coming weeks.
๐ Brand Booths & Experiences
: Sungboon Editor, COSMAX, EssenHerb, Kaja, Anua, Troubless, The Future, Banobagi, BYROE
๐ Additional brand partners will be announced soon.
๐ Food & Beverage Delights
: Okdongsik, Aude, Take 31, Samwoojung, Seoul Salon, Sagwa Tteokbokki, TAC, Dough Club, Joodorak, Protena, Neoldam, Sans Coffee, Hwayo, Nerd Brewery, Super Matcha, Mannadang
๐ Currently 14 F&B brands confirmed, with more to come.
๐ Why KOOM Festival?
A one-of-a-kind gathering of Koreaโs top artists, brands, and entrepreneurs
A hub for global leaders, founders, and creators to connect
A unique fusion of concerts, experiences, food, and brand showcases
And most importantly, many exciting names are still to be announced.
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United Korean Founders(UKF)๋ ๋น์๋ฆฌ ๋จ์ฒด์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ฒ ํ์คํฐ๋ฒ์ 100% ๊ธฐ๋ถ์ ์์๋ด์ฌ์๋ค์ ํ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ง๋ค์ด์ง๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. 2025๋
๊ฐ์, ๋ด์ ํ๋ณตํ์์ ํ๊ตญ์ ์์
, ๋ฌธํ, ์์, ๋ธ๋๋, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ ์ฐฝ์
๊ฐ๋ค์ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ์ธ๊ณ์ ๋ง๋ฉ๋๋ค. KOOM Festival์ ๋จ์ํ ๊ณต์ฐ์ด ์๋๋ผ, ํ๊ตญ์ ์ฐฝ์์ฑ๊ณผ ๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ ์ด์ ์ ์ฐ๊ฒฐํ๋ ๋ฌธํยท๋น์ฆ๋์คยท๋ผ์ดํ์คํ์ผ ํ์คํฐ๋ฒ์
๋๋ค.
๐ถ ์ํฐ์คํธ ๋ผ์ธ์
์ด 15๊ฐ ํ์ด ๋ฌด๋๋ฅผ ๋น๋
๋๋ค.
COMING SOON!
๐ฃ ๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ ์คํผ์ปค ๋ผ์ธ์
์ธ๊ณ ๋ฌด๋์์ ํ์ฝํ๋ ์ฐฝ์
๊ฐ, ๊ธฐ์
๊ฐ, ํฌ์์๋ค์ด ํจ๊ปํฉ๋๋ค. ํ์ฌ ์ฝ 50๋ช
์ ์คํผ์ปค ์ค ์ผ๋ถ๋ง ๊ณต๊ฐ๋์์ต๋๋ค:
- ๊ถํ๋น (์ค๋ง์ผ๊ฒ์ดํธ ์ฐฝ์
์, CVO)
- ๊ถ์คํ (ๅ ์ผ์ฑ์ ์ ํ์ฅ, ์ค๋ ์งํ๋๋ ์ด์ฌ์ฅ)
- ์ด์น๊ท (ํํฌํ ์ฐฝ์
์)
- ๊น์ฑ์ฃผ (MCM ํ์ฅ/CEO)
- ์กฐํฌ๊ฒฝ (ํ์๊ทธ๋ฃน CEO)
- ๊น๋ด์ง (๋ฐฐ๋ฌ์๋ฏผ์กฑ ์ฐฝ์
์)
- ๊น์ค๊ตฌ (๋ค์ด๋ฒ์นํฐ ์ฐฝ์
์ & ๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ CEO)
- ์ฌ๋ผ ๋ฆฌ & ํฌ๋ฆฌ์คํด ์ฅ (Glow Recipe ๊ณต๋ ์ฐฝ์
์)
- ์์ดํ๋ฆด ์ฝ (Spring Health ๊ณต๋ ์ฐฝ์
์ & CEO)
- ๊นํํธ (HYBE COO & BELIFT LAB CEO)
- ์ก์ ํ (Cupbop ์ฐฝ์
์ & CEO)
- ์๋ ์ฌ ๋ณธ ํ ๋ฒจ (Inspired Capital ์ฐฝ์
์ & ๋ํ)
- ํค์ผ๋ฆฌ ๋ฐ๋ฅด๋ (First Round Capital General Partner)
๐ ์ด ์ธ์๋ ๋ค์์ ๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ ๋ฆฌ๋๋ค์ด ์์ฐจ์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ณต๊ฐ ์์ ์
๋๋ค.
๐ ๋ธ๋๋ ๋ถ์ค & ์ฒดํ
: ์ฑ๋ถ์๋ํฐ, ์ฝ์ค๋งฅ์ค, ์์ผํ๋ธ, Kaja, Anua, Troubless, ๋ํจ์ฒ, ๋ฐ๋
ธ๋ฐ๊ธฐ, BYROE
๐ ์ฌ๊ธฐ์ ๋ํด, ์ถ๊ฐ ๋ธ๋๋ ํํธ๋๋ ๊ณง ๋ฐํ๋ฉ๋๋ค.
๐ ํธ๋ & ๋๋งํฌ ํ์คํฐ๋ฒ
: ์ฅ๋์, ์ค๋๋ , Take 31, ์ผ์ฐ์ , ์์ธ์ด๋กฑ, ์ฌ๊ณผ๋ก๋ณถ์ด, ํํฌ, ๋์ฐํด๋ฝ, ์ฃผ๋๋ฝ, ํ๋กํฐ๋, ๋๋ด, ์ฐ์ค์ปคํผ, ํ์, ๋๋๋ธ๋ฃจ์ด๋ฆฌ, ์ํผ๋ง์ฐจ, ๋ง๋๋น
๐ ํ์ฌ๊น์ง 14๊ฐ F&B ๋ธ๋๋ ํ์ , ์์ผ๋ก ๋ ๋ง์ K-ํธ๋ & ๋๋งํฌ ํํธ๋๊ฐ ๊ณต๊ฐ๋ฉ๋๋ค.
๐ ์ KOOM Festival ์ธ๊ฐ?
ํ๊ตญ์ ๋ฌธํ, ์ํฐ์คํธ, ๋ธ๋๋, ์ฐฝ์
๊ฐ๊ฐ ํ์๋ฆฌ์
๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ ๋ฆฌ๋, ์ฐฝ์
๊ฐ, ์ํฐ์คํธ๊ฐ ์ด์ฐ๋ฌ์ง๋ ๋คํธ์ํน ํ๋ธ
๊ณต์ฐ, ์ฒดํ, ์์, ๋ธ๋๋ ์ ์๊ฐ ์ตํฉ๋ ์ ์ผ๋ฌด์ดํ ์ถ์
๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ , ์์ง ๊ณต๊ฐ๋์ง ์์ ์๋ง์ ๋ผ์ธ์
์ด ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค.