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A comfort-focused underwear brand that treats bra-free wear as a choice, not a rule.
KRW 3.5B current-year target · KRW 22M crowdfunding from ~700 backers
“We surveyed 500 to 600 people” before turning a shared discomfort into the first product and campaign story.
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Founder Min Yuna started Re:move during university after experiencing the freedom of trying nipple covers and wanting to make that option available to other women. The transcript identifies the company as Choi’s One and the consumer brand as Re:move. Yuna said the business recorded KRW 2.2 billion in annual revenue last year and was targeting KRW 3.5 billion this year. She also described a KRW 22 million crowdfunding campaign with about 700 backers, and said the company had remained profitable without outside investment. Early product development meant learning materials and manufacturing from scratch: she visited roughly 30 to 50 factories over two months and consulted a silicone specialists’ association. Before crowdfunding, she surveyed roughly 500 to 600 people and used the findings in the product and campaign story. Yuna said marketing spend was about 10% of revenue, compared with a 30% level she described as common among peers. These are founder-reported figures, not audited accounts.
Re:move sells comfort products that let customers choose when to wear a bra, including nipple covers. Its positioning is framed around choice and comfort rather than telling every customer to go braless.
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Data credibility: Founder interview. Revenue, profitability, marketing-spend share, survey size, crowdfunding, and retail sell-through are founder-reported and unaudited. The KRW 3.5 billion figure is explicitly a target, not realized revenue.
The business earns revenue by selling its own consumer products through ecommerce and retail, with an early crowdfunding campaign helping introduce the product and fund demand validation.
This is a product and operations business, so its cost structure centers on inventory, staffing, marketing, and fulfillment rather than software infrastructure. The founder called product orders, labor, and marketing the three major cash-flow demands.
Copy the customer-research discipline. Re:move’s founder said she surveyed roughly 500 to 600 people before using customer pain points to shape the product and crowdfunding message.
Manufacturing quality is the largest product risk: inconsistent material, adhesive performance, comfort, or skin response can damage trust and trigger returns. Inventory risk is also high because cash is committed before final demand is known, and retail growth may require larger production runs or less favorable margins. The category can become crowded as comfort and body-choice conversations enter mainstream retail, so the brand must keep differentiating through product performance and customer trust. Marketing efficiency can deteriorate if the company relies on social attention without repeat purchase or retailer sell-through. Measure defects, returns, repeat orders, and contribution by product and channel. Avoid overstating health or body claims, and provide clear care and safety guidance. A growth target should be treated as a plan until completed sales and cash collections support it.
The business earns revenue by selling its own consumer products through ecommerce and retail, with an early crowdfunding campaign helping introduce the product and fund demand validation. The founder cited KRW 2.2 billion in annual revenue for the previous year and a KRW 3.5 billion goal for the current year; the latter is a target, not a realized result. She also said Re:move had sold through at Olive Young, a Korean retailer, over several years. Physical goods require disciplined gross-margin management across manufacturing, packaging, shipping, returns, and wholesale terms. Keep crowdfunding promises conservative and make delivery timing explicit. For repeat growth, offer complementary products only when they solve an adjacent comfort need, and monitor reorder rate, returns, and contribution margin by channel. A profitable brand can reinvest gradually, but cash tied up in inventory remains a central constraint.
This is a product and operations business, so its cost structure centers on inventory, staffing, marketing, and fulfillment rather than software infrastructure. The founder called product orders, labor, and marketing the three major cash-flow demands. She said marketing was around 10% of revenue and that the company had not operated at a loss or taken investment. Those are founder statements, not independently audited margins. Early product development relied on the founder’s own research and factory visits, plus specialist advice, rather than hiring a large team upfront. For a comparable launch, model unit economics at several order sizes: landed product cost, packaging, payment fees, shipping subsidy, returns, wholesale discounts, and taxes. Keep purchase orders small until sell-through is clear. Track cash conversion by cohort because profitable accounting periods can still create a cash squeeze when inventory is paid for months before sale.
Copy the customer-research discipline. Re:move’s founder said she surveyed roughly 500 to 600 people before using customer pain points to shape the product and crowdfunding message. Also copy the willingness to learn manufacturing directly: repeated factory visits can surface constraints that a mood board cannot. Change the launch plan by validating willingness to pay with a preorder or small batch before committing to broad distribution. Build an evidence library around comfort, use cases, care, and fit, with permission from customers. Keep the brand promise inclusive and avoid implying that one choice fits every body or situation. Retail sell-through can expand reach, but direct customer feedback should remain a core input so the brand does not lose its connection to the original problem. Add adjacent products only when interviews and repeat orders show a genuine need.
Manufacturing quality is the largest product risk: inconsistent material, adhesive performance, comfort, or skin response can damage trust and trigger returns. Inventory risk is also high because cash is committed before final demand is known, and retail growth may require larger production runs or less favorable margins. The category can become crowded as comfort and body-choice conversations enter mainstream retail, so the brand must keep differentiating through product performance and customer trust. Marketing efficiency can deteriorate if the company relies on social attention without repeat purchase or retailer sell-through. Measure defects, returns, repeat orders, and contribution by product and channel. Avoid overstating health or body claims, and provide clear care and safety guidance. A growth target should be treated as a plan until completed sales and cash collections support it.
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